Storefront overview
The storefront is your public, customer-facing booking website: where guests search your properties, open listing pages, and book. It is a separate site from the admin console — guests never see the console, and you rarely open the storefront to work.
Two ways to run a storefront
Section titled “Two ways to run a storefront”Under Settings → Storefront → Storefront mode you choose how your public site is served:
- Built-in storefront — Reynt hosts and renders the whole site for you. Booking links, listing links, and your website URL are derived automatically from your storefront domain. This is the default, and everything in this section applies to it.
- Custom website — you run your own site and only use Reynt as the booking engine. You set the storefront URLs manually, and build the front end yourself against the headless SDK (a typed API client for a fully custom storefront). Content, appearance, and CMS settings in the console don’t apply in this mode.
The rest of these pages assume the built-in storefront.
What guests can do
Section titled “What guests can do”- Search your properties by destination (a place), stay dates, and party size (adults, children, pets). See Search and maps.
- Browse the map of results and open a listing detail page with photos, description, amenities, availability, location, and pricing.
- Book — the checkout follows the booking flow set for each listing. See Booking lifecycle.
- Save properties to a wishlist.
- Read your blog and any custom pages you publish (About, FAQ, local guides, terms).
- Contact you through a built-in contact/inquiry form that lands in your inbox.
Content comes from three places
Section titled “Content comes from three places”- Listings you manage under Listings — surfaced as searchable listing pages.
- CMS pages, sections, slots, and navigation managed under Storefront → Website — your landing page, marketing pages, fixed content areas, and the header/footer menus. See Custom pages and CMS and Navigation.
- Storefront settings — branding, theme, navigation, SEO, and contact details under Storefront → Appearance, and the technical setup plus legal pages under Settings → Storefront.
Content changes go live within about a minute — there is no deploy step.
Multiple languages
Section titled “Multiple languages”The storefront is multilingual. Pages, blog posts, menu labels, and section content are all edited per language, and the storefront serves locale-prefixed URLs with the right SEO tags. See Multilingual content.
Before you go live
Section titled “Before you go live”New storefronts start as a draft and return a maintenance page until you publish them under Settings → Storefront → Publish storefront. Reynt blocks the toggle until the essentials are in place:
- Imprint (Impressum) — legally required; the site stays offline until set.
- Privacy policy (Datenschutzerklärung) — legally required; the site stays offline until set.
- A notification email — otherwise new bookings and inquiries aren’t emailed to you.
- A payment method — otherwise bookings publish with no payment obligation.
Set the imprint and privacy pages under Settings → Storefront → Legal pages, right above the publish switch (see Domains and SEO), and see Publishing and visibility for getting listings live.
Checkout
Section titled “Checkout”Under Storefront → Website → Checkout you decide what the booking form asks a guest for.
- Require a phone number — on by default. Turn it off if you never call your guests: the field stays on the form, marked optional, and one less required field means fewer abandoned bookings. Keep it on if you rely on the phone for key handover or late arrivals.
The setting applies to your own website too — bookings there go through the same API, which enforces the same rule.
Small catalog mode
Section titled “Small catalog mode”If you run only a handful of properties (roughly one to five), set Catalog Layout to the simple layout under Storefront → Website → Properties. The storefront then hides search filters, the map, sort, and pagination, and shows your properties as a clean centered card grid with just date and guest availability filters. The homepage shows a featured-property showcase instead of the full search hero.