The homestay is ready for guests - prices are up and the photos work. But the website can't take a booking by itself. Every enquiry depends on a guest copying a phone number by hand, and many won't bother.
The page is welcoming and the location is clear. One detail hurts: the big heading at the top reads "Cam eron Highlands". A stray invisible character inside the word splits it in two - on the very first thing every guest reads. Small fix, big difference in how looked-after the place feels.
There is no way to book online. The rates page asks guests to call, SMS or WhatsApp - but the number is plain text. On a phone, the guest has to copy 0129831400, open WhatsApp, start a new chat and type out their dates from nothing. Every extra step loses people, and the ones who give up never tell you they tried.
After that, the guest is asked to bank-in a RM100 deposit per unit and send proof manually. More steps, more drop-off.
The better way: the guest picks their unit and dates on the site itself, taps one button, and WhatsApp opens with everything already written out. One tap to send, and the booking lands with you complete.
The site adjusts to phone screens properly - this part is fine, and it matters because most guests will find you on a phone.
The bottom of every page carries "Powered by Weebly" branding and a link to make a free website. Guests can tell the site cost nothing, and fair or not, some read that as "small operation" right before deciding whether to bank-in a deposit to a stranger. Your own domain without the free-plan branding removes that doubt.
Your Agoda listing is live and doing its job - but Agoda owns that customer and takes a cut of every booking. The website should be the place guests book direct: no commission, their details in your WhatsApp, and a list of past guests you can message again next school holiday. Right now the site captures none of that - there is no booking form and no clickable WhatsApp button anywhere on it.
A button on every page that opens WhatsApp with the guest's unit and dates already typed in. No copying numbers, no empty chats.
Remove the invisible character so "Cameron Highlands" reads as one word. A two-minute fix on the first thing guests see.
Your own domain, your prices, unit and date selection on the page - so guests who find you direct never need Agoda, and you keep the commission.
The site works as one sales page. Every step a guest takes, from first photo to confirmed booking:
Photos and packages do the convincing - nothing else to figure out.
The guest looks around and decides they like the homestay.
Prices and what's included, clear up front.
A couple of taps, no forms yet.
Just name, email and phone number - nothing more.
WhatsApp opens with everything already written out: unit, dates, their details.
The booking lands in your WhatsApp, ready to process.
No copied numbers, no lost messages, no commission on your own guests. That is the setup Stegg builds.