Put your cottage in front of the right people

Where this is up to

Straight answer: the directory is not live. There is no search, no booking engine and no traffic to promise you. What there is, is a domain people type in, a site being built properly, and a list of owners being gathered before launch.

So this page is not a sales pitch with a price at the end. It is a register of interest. We come back to you with what listing would involve — what it costs, what we'd need from you, what you'd get — and you decide then, with the details in front of you.

What we're setting out to do

• Send enquiries to you, not to a call centre. The intention is that a guest reaches the owner directly. Nobody's enquiry gets sold to three agencies.
• Independent places first. Cottages, cabins, crofts, steadings and the odd tower — run by the people who own them, not by chains.
• Real descriptions. Including the single-track road, the hill you have to climb with the shopping, and the fact that the Wi-Fi is honest about what it does.
• All of Scotland. Islands and quiet glens get the same footing as the famous names.

Those are intentions for a site in development, not a service you can buy today. We would rather write that plainly than dress it up.

What we'd need from you eventually

Nothing yet. When it is time: photographs you own, a description, what the place sleeps, how you take bookings, and the certificates a Scottish let needs — short-term let licence number, gas safety, electrical check and insurance. Every local authority in Scotland licenses short-term lets, so that number is not optional for anyone.