Can I use Cabyn and Hipcamp at the same time?

Yes, and that's how most hosts use it. Hipcamp keeps finding you new campers. Cabyn handles the people you would have hosted anyway — the friends, family, and regulars who were already texting you to ask about a weekend. The two calendars stay separate, so a friend's stay never quietly eats a date you meant to list.

Should I move my existing Hipcamp guests over to Cabyn?

No — and Cabyn isn't built for it. Guests who found you through Hipcamp should keep booking through Hipcamp. Taking them off-platform is against the terms you agreed to, and it isn't what this is for. Cabyn is for the people who were never going to book through a marketplace in the first place.

Does Cabyn take a cut of what my guests give me?

No. There is no platform fee and no processing cut, because the money never passes through Cabyn at all. Guests contribute directly to your PayPal or Venmo and 100% of it is yours. You can also switch contributions off entirely and let people stay for free.

Will my property show up on Google?

No. Guest pages are invite-only and excluded from search engines. Someone who isn't on your guest list can't find the page, and can't open it if they're sent the link.

What does it actually cost?

One property — up to three spots and 25 guests — is free. Premium removes those limits for $10/month, and it's only billed in months when someone actually stays, so a seasonal property pays nothing through the off-season. Months when a guest from your trust network takes their first stay with you are waived entirely.

The Hipcamp alternative for friends and family

Hipcamp is built to introduce your land to strangers. It is very good at that. It is the wrong shape entirely for the people you would have hosted anyway — the cousin who wants the last weekend in June, the friends who come up every August. Putting them through a public marketplace means a listing you don't want, a fee on money that was never really a transaction, and a calendar you have to block by hand every time someone asks. Cabyn is the other half of that calendar.

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Cabyn vs. Hipcamp, side by side

Feature	Hipcamp	Cabyn
Who can find it	A public listing, indexed by search engines	Invite-only. The page never appears in search results
Who books	Campers who discover you on the marketplace	Only the people you invite
Fee on guest money	A service fee comes out of every booking	None. The money never passes through Cabyn
How guests contribute	The platform collects it and pays you out later	Straight to your PayPal or Venmo — or not at all, if you'd rather
Cost to you	Free to list; you pay per booking	Free for one property. Premium is $10/month, billed only in months when someone actually stays
Friends-and-family dates	You block them by hand on the calendar you sell on	They book themselves, on a private calendar of their own
Guest permissions	Every camper is treated the same	Guest levels: family books instantly, the extended network waits for your approval
Getting set up	Build a listing and wait to be found	Start from scratch, or let Premium import an existing listing URL — photos, amenities, and description

Your friends were never going to be Hipcamp guests

This is the thread that comes up in every host group: friends and family keep asking to stay, and you don't want to make them book through the platform. So you block the dates manually, you keep the arrangement in your head, and twice a year you get it wrong. They were never going to be marketplace bookings — they're people you'd have hosted regardless. Cabyn gives exactly those people their own private booking page, so their weekends land on a calendar instead of in your inbox.

Zero fees, because the money isn't Cabyn's business

Guests can contribute toward the stay — a suggested amount, a set one, or nothing at all, entirely your call. When they do, it goes directly to your PayPal or Venmo. Cabyn takes no cut, because Cabyn never handles it. That's also why hosting friends here doesn't have the strange feeling of a marketplace fee sitting between you and someone you've known for twenty years.

Nothing about your land goes public

There is no listing to find. Guest pages are invite-only and excluded from search engines, so your property doesn't turn up on Google, and someone who isn't on your guest list can't open the page even if they end up with the link. If you'd rather not hand out the exact address until you've approved a stay, you can hold it back until you do.

Import the listing you already wrote

You've already done the work of describing the place once. On Premium, paste the URL of your existing listing and Cabyn pulls across the photos, the amenities, and the description, so setting up the private version takes a couple of minutes rather than an evening. On the free plan you fill the same form in by hand — the property ends up identical either way.

Keep Hipcamp for what Hipcamp is good at

Cabyn is not a replacement for a marketplace and it would make a bad one. It has no discovery, no search, and no audience — by design, because a property on Cabyn is not supposed to be findable. If what you want is income from people who don't know you, Hipcamp is the right tool and Cabyn is not competing with it.

You want to be discovered by campers who have never heard of you. Cabyn has no public marketplace and never will.
You rely on Hipcamp's booking protections and host coverage. Cabyn never touches your guests' money, so it offers nothing comparable.
Your land is a business first. Cabyn is built for the friends-and-family side of the calendar, not the commercial side.

Common questions

Can I use Cabyn and Hipcamp at the same time?: Yes, and that's how most hosts use it. Hipcamp keeps finding you new campers. Cabyn handles the people you would have hosted anyway — the friends, family, and regulars who were already texting you to ask about a weekend. The two calendars stay separate, so a friend's stay never quietly eats a date you meant to list.
Should I move my existing Hipcamp guests over to Cabyn?: No — and Cabyn isn't built for it. Guests who found you through Hipcamp should keep booking through Hipcamp. Taking them off-platform is against the terms you agreed to, and it isn't what this is for. Cabyn is for the people who were never going to book through a marketplace in the first place.
Does Cabyn take a cut of what my guests give me?: No. There is no platform fee and no processing cut, because the money never passes through Cabyn at all. Guests contribute directly to your PayPal or Venmo and 100% of it is yours. You can also switch contributions off entirely and let people stay for free.
Will my property show up on Google?: No. Guest pages are invite-only and excluded from search engines. Someone who isn't on your guest list can't find the page, and can't open it if they're sent the link.
What does it actually cost?: One property — up to three spots and 25 guests — is free. Premium removes those limits for $10/month, and it's only billed in months when someone actually stays, so a seasonal property pays nothing through the off-season. Months when a guest from your trust network takes their first stay with you are waived entirely.

Share your property with people you trust

No public listing. No strangers. Guests can contribute via PayPal or Venmo and 100% of it goes to you — Cabyn never takes a cut. Free for one property.