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Hospitality

Hotel and resort websites

Every booking through an aggregator costs you fifteen to twenty five percent. A direct booking engine is the fastest margin you will find.

Directbooking engineRoom andrate plansPackagesand eventsChannelmanager syncBest ratepromiseGalleryand rooms

Hotels spend years building a reputation and then hand a quarter of each booking to a platform that borrowed it. The guest often searched your hotel by name, found the aggregator ranking above your own site, and booked there because it was easier.

Winning that booking back is not about undercutting anyone. It is about being at least as easy. Live availability, a rate that is visibly the best available, and a booking that finishes in three screens rather than seven.

A channel manager is the piece that makes this safe. Without one, a room sold on your site and on two platforms in the same minute becomes an overbooking, and that costs more than the commission ever did.

What we build

The modules that matter in hotels & hospitality.

Not every project needs all of these. This is the menu, and the first conversation is usually about which two or three of them would change your week.

  • Direct booking engine

    Date and occupancy search, live rates, room selection and payment, finished in one flow without leaving your domain.

  • Channel manager sync

    Two way connection with the aggregators so inventory drops everywhere the moment a room sells anywhere.

  • Room and rate plans

    Seasonal pricing, weekday and weekend rates, meal inclusions, and minimum stay rules on peak dates.

  • Best rate promise

    Your direct price shown next to what the aggregators charge, with the difference stated plainly.

  • Packages and events

    Honeymoon, conference and wedding enquiries handled with their own forms, since those are quote led rather than instant bookings.

  • Gallery and rooms

    Real photographs of each room type, loaded progressively so the page appears before the whole gallery has arrived.

What usually goes wrong

The four mistakes we see most often here.

These are not hypothetical. Each one is something we have been called in to fix on a site somebody else built.

  • A booking widget from a third party that adds three seconds to every page, whether or not the visitor books.

  • Rates on the site that are higher than the aggregator, which trains guests never to book direct again.

  • No mobile flow, when most leisure bookings now start on a phone.

  • Stock photographs of rooms, which guests recognise instantly and read as a warning.

Questions

About hotels & hospitality projects.

Can we connect our existing channel manager?

Most of the common ones expose an API and we have worked with several. If yours does not, we can still take direct bookings and update inventory on a schedule, with a buffer held back to prevent overbooking.

How do we get guests to book direct?

Be cheaper and be easier. A small direct discount, a perk the platforms cannot match such as a late checkout, and a booking flow that does not take longer than theirs. Then say so clearly on the room page.

Do you handle multi property groups?

Yes. One site with property switching, shared brand pages and separate booking inventory per property, plus a group level view of enquiries and bookings.