Exclusive-use venue software
Booking software for houses that sell the whole place at once.
Country houses, estates and castles that take one group at a time: a wedding, a retreat, a family reunion. Steward sells the whole house on your own domain, with a live price, and blocks every room on every channel the moment the deposit lands.
In short
Steward is direct-booking software for exclusive-use venues: country houses, estates and castles in Ireland and the UK that hire the whole property to one group. It prices exclusive use live on your own website, sends quotes guests pay a deposit on, takes every room off sale on Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo when a whole-house booking is paid, and runs Google Ads to bring the bookings in.
Exclusive-use venue software
What changes for country houses & estates.
Priced as a house, not a room grid
Exclusive-use fees, rate ladders by group size, minimum nights, weekday and Sunday rules, and add-ons from the catalogue. The guest builds the stay and sees the total.
Exclusive-use logic in the calendar
A paid whole-house deposit takes every room off sale, including the dates you have on Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo through iCal. A single-room stay never blocks the house.
Every occasion on one system
Weddings, corporate retreats, hen parties, big birthdays and family gatherings, each with its own booking journey, deposit rule and follow-up.
Demand you would otherwise rent
Guests search for castle, country house and exclusive-use venues every day. We run Google Ads to your own pages and trace every click to the deposit.
Live on Steward
See it working at Ballinderry Park.
Live pages, not mockups. Click through and build a stay.
From the Ballinderry tables
At Ballinderry Park, an exclusive-use Georgian estate in County Galway, 92% of enquiries now come direct through the house's own website.
The tools that do it
What country houses & estates run on.
A venue booking website that sells the estate, not a room grid with your logo on it.
Every Steward site is built around the enquiry: landing pages for the searches your guests already make, and configurators that let a couple, a team or a hen party build their stay and see the price before they've spoken to anyone.
More about Website & configuratorsYour inventory and your rates, in one editable place.
Buildings, rooms, beds and the order they fill in. Rate ladders by group size, exclusive-use fees, weekday and Sunday rules, seasons and peak periods, deposit rules. And a pricing studio that sets nightly rates by rule.
More about Listings & pricingEvery room, every channel, one calendar.
A rooms-by-dates grid with your own bookings, Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo on it. Exclusive-use logic blocks the whole estate the moment a wedding deposit lands. Manual blocks are recorded locally first, then pushed.
More about Calendar & channelsVenue quotes in minutes, with a deposit link that holds the date.
Build a wedding, retreat or group-stay quote from your own rooms, catalogue and rules. Send it as a page the guest can accept and pay on. Watch when it's opened. The date is held the moment the deposit lands.
More about QuotesEvery booking becomes a page the whole party can see.
The organiser shares a link. Guests join, choose rooms or pods, tell you their dietary needs, book the hot tub, add experiences and see the itinerary. You get the headcount without a spreadsheet.
More about Events & guest hub
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Questions
Country houses & estates, answered.
- What is an exclusive-use venue?
- An exclusive-use venue hires the whole property to one group for the duration of the booking: the house, the grounds and usually the bedrooms. Country houses, estates and castles often work this way for weddings, retreats and group stays.
- How do I stop double bookings when I also list on Airbnb or Booking.com?
- Steward's calendar is the source of truth. It imports and exports iCal calendars with the marketplaces, and a paid exclusive-use deposit takes every room off sale everywhere.
- Can I keep my existing website?
- Yes. Steward can run the booking pages on your existing domain alongside your site, so your address, your search rankings and your brand stay as they are.
- How should I price exclusive use?
- Most houses use a base fee for the whole property, a guest count it includes, and a per-person or per-night rate above that, with weekday and season rules. Our guide to pricing exclusive use walks through the options.
- Does Steward work for castles?
- Yes. Steward is built for any property sold to one group at a time, whatever it is called. Temple House in County Sligo, with the ruins of a 13th-century Knights Templar castle on the estate, runs its bookings on Steward.
See how country houses & estates would run on your estate.
Sign up, connect Stripe, point the domain, choose your split. We build the pages, we pay for the traffic, and you see both versions of your site side by side. 15% on bookings we bring you, 8% on your own traffic, nothing else.