Create Your Own Website with Cloudbeds' AI-Powered Builder Overview

Introduction

Cloudbeds Websites is an AI-powered website builder designed for hospitality businesses. It lets you create, customize, and manage your property's website while connecting your website with Cloudbeds and the Cloudbeds Booking Engine.

With the create-your-own option, you can prepare your property's logo and content and use AI-powered tools to help create and manage your website. Cloudbeds also provides guidance during the website setup process, including a kick-off call and information about the next steps and timeline.

The AI-powered Website Builder can use information from your Cloudbeds PMS to help create your website. After the initial website is generated, you can customize its content, design, pages, and other settings in the Website Editor before publishing.

This article explains who the create-your-own option is for, how to start your subscription, how Cloudbeds uses your property information to generate the first version of your website, and how to access the Website Editor when the draft is ready.

Table of contents

• Who the create-your-own website option is for
• What you can do with the create-your-own Website Builder
• Start your create-your-own website
• Generate your website with AI

Who the create-your-own website option is for

Cloudbeds Websites supports hospitality businesses of different sizes, from independent properties to hotel groups and multi-property businesses. The create-your-own Website Builder is especially useful for properties that want to manage the website-building process directly.

The create-your-own option is a good fit for properties that:

• Want to create and manage their website themselves while maintaining control over the content and design.
• Need a professional, hospitality-focused website that can be launched efficiently.
• Want the flexibility to start from a professionally designed experience and customize it to their property's brand.
• Want AI-powered tools to help create, update, and optimize website content.
• Want their website connected to Cloudbeds and the Cloudbeds Booking Engine to support direct bookings.

What you can do with the create-your-own Website Builder

The create-your-own Website Builder uses your Cloudbeds property information as a starting point so you do not have to build every page from scratch. It is designed for hospitality websites and works with the Cloudbeds Booking Engine to support direct bookings.

• Generate an initial website with AI: Cloudbeds uses your property profile to create the first version of your website.
• Start without a professional setup fee: You can begin building and exploring the editor without an upfront professional design service fee.
• Use a 14-day free trial: You can create and edit the generated site for 14 days before your first subscription invoice is generated.
• Reuse property information: Core property details are pulled from Cloudbeds PMS to help build the website.
• Continue editing with AI tools: In the Website Editor, you can refine text, create pages, and work with available SEO tools.

Start your create-your-own website

Start from the Websites area in Cloudbeds Digital Marketing. You will review the subscription details and Terms of Service before Cloudbeds begins generating your website.

1. Log in to Cloudbeds PMS.
2. From the Main Menu , go to Digital Marketing
3. Select the Websites tab and click Get started.
4. Review the subscription details and accept the Terms of Service.
5. Click Build my website.

The example below shows where to start the Websites setup and select the create-your-own path.

Generate your website with AI

After you start the create-your-own website, Cloudbeds uses information already stored in your property profile to prepare the website content. You can review the generated descriptions before creating the site, then monitor the generation status until the draft is ready.

Step 1: Review the property information used by AI

Cloudbeds uses available property information to build the website foundation, including:

• Property name and contact information: Used for areas such as headers, footers, and contact pages.
• Property description: Used to help generate homepage and property overview content.
• Location and address: Used in location and contact information.
• Amenities: Used to help organize property features.
• Accommodation details: Used to help create room or accommodation content.
• Property and accommodation images: Available media from your property profile and accommodation settings is imported into the Website Editor's Media Manager.

Step 2: Review and refine the AI-generated descriptions

After you select Build with AI, the Build your website drawer shows AI-generated property and location descriptions. Review the text and edit it as needed so it matches your property's brand before you click Create website.

The example below shows the generated property and location descriptions before website creation.

Step 3: Monitor website generation

After you confirm the details, Cloudbeds generates the initial multi-page website. You can monitor progress from the Websites area through the status sequence Generate assets, In development, and Review and publish.

The status panel below shows a website while it is being generated.

Step 4: Open the Website Editor when your website is ready

You do not need to remain on the page while Cloudbeds generates the website. When the draft is ready, you receive a dashboard notification and an email stating Your website is ready!

The notification confirms that the AI-built site is ready for review.

From the Websites area, click Edit my website to open the Website Editor and continue customizing your content, design, pages, and other settings.

The example below shows the Edit my website button after the generated website is ready.

Next Operational Step

After your initial website is generated, use the Quick Start Checklist to Create Your Own Website to review your content, images, Booking Engine connection, SEO, and publishing readiness in the Website Editor.