List your Business
Free
- No fees, no commission, ever
- Searchable local directory placement
Pricing
Priced for locals. Built to perform.
Flat, honest rates — no commissions, no pay-per-lead games, no ad auctions. We keep prices aggressive on purpose: the point of Cape Cod Certified is to put more money in the pockets of the people who actually live and work here.
- For locals & regulars
- Built to be found
- Business listings verified in person
- Lodging reviewed by our team
Which plan is right for you?
Pick the one that matches how you use the Cape. Every plan is one flat yearly rate, and business listings are free.
- Founding rate
Cape Cod Passport
$25/yr
Live like a local. Plan your trip and save everything you want to do on the Cape.
- Save favorite spots on an interactive map
- Build your own photo album
- Collect guides as you go
- Direct access to vetted contractors
- Founding rate
List your Lodging
$250/yr
Commission-free bookings. Travelers find you directly.
- No Airbnb cut, no OTA fees
- Travelers searching Cape Cod stays find you directly
Realtor & Partner Placements
From$350one-time seat
Realtors, agencies and local lenders: be the local name on the town pages and guides buyers are already reading.
- 2 featured agencies and 4 local agents per town page
- 1 premium and 6 standard sponsors per buyer guide
- Never an auction. One price in every town.
Certified Contractor
From$1,200/yr
- Homeowners reach out to you directly
- No pay-per-lead bidding
- Sponsor a guide for $900/yr once certified
What do booking commissions cost you?
Booking platforms take 12–15.5% of every stay, every year. One mid-season week pays our entire annual fee — everything after that stays in your pocket. Move the slider to your yearly booking revenue.
$60,000
Vrbo · 12%$7,200
Airbnb · 15.5%$9,300
With us$250
You keep $6,950–$9,050 more a year on a flat listing.
Why we price this way
Why don’t we take a commission?
The big platforms take a cut of the Cape. We don’t.
No commissions, ever
Booking sites take a cut of every lodging stay: 15.5% on Airbnb for most hosts. Lead platforms charge contractors for every homeowner introduction — then sell the same lead to their competitors. Every dollar of that comes out of Cape pockets. We charge one flat rate and stay out of the transaction.
Locals-first economics
Our rates are deliberately aggressive — a fraction of what one season of commissions or lead fees costs — because the mission is a Cape where local businesses keep their margins. Business listings are free, forever, and the paid tiers fund the platform so the directory never has to charge the corner shop.
Founding rates, locked
Early members lock their founding rate for life while their membership stays active. Prices rise for newcomers as the platform grows — never for the people who backed it first.
How each model works
How does each plan work?
Five verticals. Each built to be found — on Google and in AI search.
Every membership is backed by the same machine: hundreds of in-person-verified listings and locally-researched guides, structured so search engines and AI assistants can read them. When you join, your page plugs into that authority — it doesn’t start from zero.
Business Listings — free, forever
List your Business
How it works
If you run a real Cape Cod business, your listing is free. We photograph in person, we ask your permission before anything goes live, and you appear in the town directory locals and visitors browse.
Why it's priced this way
A local guide that charges small shops rent isn't a local guide. The paid tiers above fund the platform so the directory itself never has to.
Why it performs
Every listing is structured data on a town page that already ranks — so 'best coffee in Chatham' searches (and the AI assistants answering them) can find you without you spending a dollar.
Free, forever
Claim your listingFor locals & regulars
Cape Cod Passport
How it works
One flat $25 a year to plan your trip and live like a local. You get a member's view of the Cape: an interactive map you can pin, a photo album that grows with every trip, the full guide library, and a direct line to the same vetted contractors our homeowners use.
Why it's priced this way
Every other travel platform monetizes you with ads and affiliate steering. The Passport flips that — you pay a coffee-run price once a year, and nothing you see is pay-to-rank.
Why it performs
Your saved spots and guides live on the same pages that rank in Google and get cited by AI assistants — so the Cape knowledge you collect is always current, not a stale screenshot.
$25 / yr
Get your PassportLodging — for inns, B&Bs, cottages & rental homes
List your Lodging
How it works
A flat $250 a year — a founding rate locked for life while you stay active. Your property gets a full listing with real photography, and travelers book with you directly. We never sit in the middle of the transaction.
Why it's priced this way
Airbnb takes 15.5% of every stay from most hosts, and Vrbo's pay-per-booking plan takes 12% — every year, forever. One mid-season week pays our entire annual fee — everything after that stays in your pocket. That's the point.
Why it performs
Your listing lives inside the town pages and travel guides people actually use to plan Cape trips — pages that already rank on Google and get quoted by AI travel answers. Demand flows to you without buying ads.
$250 / yr
List your propertyRealtor & Partner Placements — for agencies, agents & lenders
Realtor & Partner Placements
How it works
Every agent starts with a one-time $350 seat: a permanent page with your name, agency, license and the towns you serve, reviewed by our team before it goes live. From there, each town page holds 2 featured agencies ($4,800/yr, for agencies with an office in town) and 4 agent spots ($1,200/yr, for agents who live there). Each buyer and owner guide holds 1 premium sponsor ($2,100/yr, introduced with an opening card) and 6 standard sponsors ($900/yr). Banks and lenders sponsor a package of towns or guides from $1,800/yr, arranged directly with our team.
Why it's priced this way
You're not bidding in an ad auction against national brands. Every page holds a small, fixed number of local names, and the price is the same in every town. A guide's premium sponsor keeps the top spot; the other names rotate within their tier, so nobody in a tier sits permanently on top. Founding members keep their rate at renewal.
Why it performs
Your spot sits on the town pages and guides people read while they plan a move to the Cape. The pages are built so search engines and AI assistants can read them, and your spot stays up for the full year you paid for, with no ad budget to keep topping up.
Certified Contractor — for the building trades
Certified Contractor
How it works
From $1,200 a year. We verify your Massachusetts HIC/CSL credentials — that's what 'Certified' means here — and homeowners contact you directly from our contractor guides and directory. No bidding, no shared leads. Once certified, sponsor any hiring guide directly for a flat $900/yr.
Why it's priced this way
Pay-per-lead platforms sell the same homeowner to five contractors and charge each of you for the introduction. We charge one flat rate and send the homeowner straight to you. Two real jobs a year and the math is settled.
Why it performs
We publish town-by-town hiring guides for every trade — hundreds of pages built from real local review data. They rank for the exact searches Cape homeowners make, and your name rides inside them.
From $1,200 / yr
Get CertifiedFounding rates
How do you get started?
Keep more of what you earn on the Cape. Pick your path — founding rates are limited to early members and locked for life while you’re active.