Every property you publish on Stayoa gets its own free address. It is the public web address of that property's booking page and works from day one — no domain purchase, no DNS setup, no certificate to install.
Address Format
Your address follows the schema your-property.stayoa.app.
You pick the first part (your-property) yourself, per property — it is the same value as that property's URL slug. If your plan lets you publish more than one property, each property gets its own separate address; addresses are not shared across your account.
SSL encryption is set up automatically for every property address. Guests always reach your booking site over a secure connection.
Changing a Property's Address
Open the property
Go to Properties, open the property you want to rename, and switch to the Overview tab.
Enter the new slug
In Basic Info, edit the URL Slug field. Only this part is yours to choose — .stayoa.app is added automatically.
Save
Save the change. If the name is still free and follows the naming rules, it takes effect — the property is reachable under the new address right away, with HTTPS already in place.
If the name is already in use by another property, or contains characters that are not allowed, saving fails with a message explaining why. Nothing changes until a valid name is saved, so you can simply try another one.
Naming Rules
- Lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens only — no spaces, no umlauts or accents, no dots, no underscores, no capital letters
- Keep it short — up to 100 characters
- Must be unique — every property address can only exist once across all of Stayoa, so a name already used by another property is unavailable — even one of your own other properties
- Some names are reserved — general-purpose names such as
www,app,api,admin,dashboard,docs,blog,support,helporstatusare held back by Stayoa and cannot be chosen
Good choices: your property or business name, written out plainly — for example villa-bellavista, chalet-arosa or haus-seeblick.
Your property's address ends up in emails, on invoices, in your social profiles and in conversations with guests. A short, readable name that matches your property name is easier to remember and to spell than an abbreviation.
What Happens to Old Links
Changing a property's address replaces its old one — it does not keep it alongside the new one.
- The old address stops working. Anything pointing at it — bookmarks, links in older emails, a link in your social media bio, a QR code on printed material, a listing on a partner site — will no longer reach that property's booking page.
- The old name becomes available again. Once you release it, another property — yours or another host's — can claim it, so you cannot count on getting it back later.
- Existing bookings are not affected. Bookings, payments and guest data stay exactly as they are. Only the web address changes.
Choose each property's address carefully at the start and change it as rarely as possible. If you do change it, plan to update every place you have published the old address — website links, social profiles, email signature, printed material and any partner listings.
Your Own Domain
If you would rather use an address you own — such as www.your-property.com — you can connect a custom domain to a property in addition to its free Stayoa address. See the Custom Domain Setup guide for the setup.