Mooring

How Mooring avoids the headaches of your shared holiday home

Who asked first, checking with everyone in the group, always reminding guests of the checklist. Mooring is a private booking app built to solve these challenges and keep everything organised for everyone.

Where a shared calendar falls short

  • The bookings live in a group chat, or a message, or a note, or was it in the diary?

    Households forget who booked the weekend, the house is double booked and one person has to keep track of it all.

    What Mooring does

    Every request and every decision is a dated record on the stay itself, with the note that went either way attached to it. Nobody has to remember, and nobody has to be believed.

  • One person ends up managing it all on their own

    They field every request, they hold every date in their head, and they are the only one who can answer. It works for a while, but suddenly they're calling around, checking messages and ultimately forgetting who's in the house and when.

    What Mooring does

    On the paid plans, co-owners manage the home beside you, on the same calendar in Mooring, with the same ability to answer. No stay waits on one person's phone.

  • A calendar entry shows the house as taken, when it could be shared

    Something is on the calendar and it looks like the house is taken. Others avoid booking, assuming it is not available.

    What Mooring does

    Every booking in Mooring asks if the guests are happy to share the place or if they'd prefer it to themselves. No more wondering or asking around.

  • Guests forget the little tasks needed for every stay

    The curtains remain open, the floor isn't cleaned and the bins weren't put out. No one's sure of what to do when they arrive and depart.

    What Mooring does

    On the paid plans, an owner writes an arrival and a departure checklist once and every guest gets it, so the bins get taken out and everything's locked up on the way out.

  • The same questions at the start of every stay

    The wifi password, the bin day, the door code, the trick with the back door. All of it needs to be passed on every time.

    What Mooring does

    The guest handbook is attached to the house. It unlocks when a stay is confirmed, so a door code is only ever readable by someone who has actually been invited in.

Setting it up takes an evening

  1. 01

    Add the home

    Where it is, how many it sleeps, and a nightly rate if there is one. It is never listed anywhere and never appears in a search: it exists only for the people you invite.

  2. 02

    Invite the households

    An open invitation for the ones who stay regularly, a one-time one for the friend just staying for a night. Unlimited on every plan, and revocable at any time.

  3. 03

    Block out what is taken

    The week to paint the walls or the weekends you want yourself. Everyone invited sees the same calendar so no one's asking for the days you've reserved.

  4. 04

    Answer requests, and write the handbook

    Approve or decline with a note either way. Write the handbook once, and it's there for every stay.

What a guest sees

  • They accept an invitation

    A link and an email address. There is no password to set and nothing to download.

  • They ask for dates

    The calendar shows what's free, so nobody asks for the nights that are already taken.

  • They hear back

    Approved or declined, with your note attached, rather than buried in a group chat.

  • They arrive knowing what to do

    The next stay sits at the top of their screen with days to go, the guest handbook underneath it and, on the paid plans, the checklists for their stay.

What Mooring does not do

  • It does not take payment. Guests see what they are expected to pay, and it is settled between the two of you, in the money jar or by transfer. Mooring charges no booking fee and never touches the money.
  • It does not list your home. There is no marketplace, no public profile and no search. The only way in is an invitation from somebody who manages it.
  • It does not sell your data. See the terms for what that means in full.

Longer reads on the same problems are in the guides, and what each plan includes is on the plans page.

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