People start the application and never finish it.
Every extra question is a place to stop. We look at what yours asks, and what can wait until the first call.
For colivings
A coliving website where people finish the application.
People find your coliving, get a feel for the house, and apply on your own pages. We build the site and the application as one flow.
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The usual trouble
Three things coliving owners notice in the application.
The form feels like another place.
A form on another page, with another look, can feel like a different website. We build the application as part of yours.
I answer the same questions in every message.
What people ask before they apply belongs on the page: the rooms, the rhythm of the house, the cost, the dates. Then the application only asks what you need to decide.
The teardown
From application to room: where it can leave your hands.
A coliving that fills rooms through Cloudbeds or Mews meets the same steps as a hotel, even when people apply first. Step 1 is yours. Steps 2 to 5 only happen in some cases, and each one is marked with when.
Rooms in Cloudbeds or Mews cost something too. The booking fee calculator puts a year of platform fees next to your own site.
Booking teardown
When it happens, and who controls it
An application, from the first click to the room
- 1
Every applicantA person finds your coliving, reads about the house and the rooms, and starts the application on your page.
Your page - 2
Rooms on Cloudbeds, basic embedsThey start on your page and continue in Cloudbeds’ hosted page.1
Hosted page - 3
Rooms on Cloudbeds, full on-site embedThe booking stays on your site. Cloudbeds’ terms, updated as of March 26, 2026:
Paid embedA 1% commission applies to the total value of reservations where the Embed Suite is identified as the originating booking source.
1,2 - 4
Rooms on Mews, widgetThe resident pays on the Mews domain and is sent back to a confirmation screen.3
Mews payment page - 5
Rooms on Mews, custom pagesMews says its API for custom pages is only available to customers with an Enterprise subscription, and it labels the API a Beta test version.4,5
Enterprise plan
Your application and your house pages are yours. Payment follows what your system allows.
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Your application, on your site.
We build the application as part of your site, and connect it to the tool you already use to handle applicants. Applicants stay in your tool.
- The rooms, the house and the application are designed as one flow.
- You decide the questions, the words and the order. How you choose your residents stays yours.
- Applications land where you already work: a form tool, your CRM or your booking system. We check what fits on the call.
- If you run rooms in Cloudbeds or Mews, we can build on those too.
Proof
Two sites we built, and what changed.
Kalart · Rural coliving, Catalunya
4 to 18
Room applications a month.
Eagle’s Nest Atitlán · Retreat center, Guatemala
98%
Stay booking value up, September 2026 vs September 2025.
Measured in their booking system. Ads, prices and the season play a part too.
Kalart’s numbers are room applications, not bookings.
A few more questions
Do my tools keep running?
Yes. Whatever you use to handle applications, a form tool, a CRM or a booking system, keeps running. We build the pages people see, and connect them to it.
Do residents pay on my own pages?
We do not promise a fully native payment step. With Mews, payment stays on a Mews payment page, with a link back to your site.6 With Cloudbeds, the route depends on your setup: Cloudbeds describes one for your own payment page and another for properties on Cloudbeds Payments.7,8 We check which one fits your account on the call. If rooms and payment sit elsewhere, the application can still land in the tool you use today.
Does Mews need a particular plan?
Yes. Mews says its API for custom pages is only available to customers with an Enterprise subscription, and Mews Support has to register your application first.4,9 Mews labels the API a Beta test version.5 Those steps are in Mews’ hands, so the thirty business days count from the day they are done.
Will you change how I choose my residents?
No. How you decide who moves in is yours. We make the application shorter and clearer for the people who apply.
What does it cost, and how long does it take?
Most of the price is only paid if it works: a part up front, a part at launch, and the last part 90 days after launch, only if your website got more applications than in the same 90 days last year. We go through the numbers on the call. Your site is live within thirty business days. The connection to your tools is set up first, and if a tool needs to approve it, the thirty business days count from that approval.
Can I see it first?
Yes. We design your homepage for free and show it to you on a call. You decide after.
Do you build for retreats too?
Yes. If your house also hosts retreats, read about websites for retreats.
Where the facts about other companies come from
Every fact about another company on this page was read on that company’s own pages on 30 October 2026. Companies change their pages, so check before you decide.
How we build, what it costs and our results are ours, not theirs.
- 1Cloudbeds help: Embeds tab (updated 4 Jun 2026)Basic and premium embeds, and which ones keep the guest on your site.
- 2Cloudbeds: Premium Embed Suite terms (updated as of March 26, 2026)The 1% commission on bookings that come through the premium embed.
- 3Mews docs: Google Analytics cross-domain trackingPayment on a separate Mews domain, and what that does to your analytics.
- 4Mews docs: Ways to integrateThe three ways in (standalone page, widget, API), and who can use the API.
- 5Mews docs: the API for custom booking pagesWhat the API does, and that Mews labels it Beta.
- 6Mews docs: API on-session paymentsHow payment works through the API: a Mews payment page and a return link.
- 7Cloudbeds developers: Payment by redirectionTaking payment on your own page and recording it in Cloudbeds.
- 8Cloudbeds developers: Payment processing (Payment SDK)The embeddable card form for properties on Cloudbeds Payments.
- 9Mews docs: API authenticationRegistration of your application by Mews Support.
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