Hotel booking engine for direct bookings on your own site
A room sold through a channel costs a slice of the rate every time. A room sold on your own site costs the monthly fee and nothing else. A hotel booking engine is worth having the moment the direct share is big enough to notice, and it is usually bigger than the owner expects once the site can actually take a booking.
Quay House
Check-in from 15:00
Room board
Room fitted
Deposit rule
No-show risk
Reminders
01
Room types, rates and the rules around them
Rooms are described once, with the rules that decide whether a stay is possible: type, occupancy, minimum stay, and the arrival and departure days that work for your housekeeping.
- Room types with occupancy, bed configuration and their own rates
- Minimum stay by season and by day of week
- Closed to arrival and closed to departure rules
- Seasonal opening windows for a property that shuts in winter
- Rooms taken out of service for maintenance without deleting them
- Same board for the restaurant and the treatment room if you run those too
02
The engine runs on your domain, not on ours
The booking page answers on your own address, in your own styling, with your photographs. A guest who found you through a channel and then searched your name books direct, which is the cheapest booking a hotel ever takes.
- Booking engine on your own domain, in your own brand
- One snippet on your existing site, whatever it was built with
- Booking link for your Google profile and your Instagram bio
- Guest record kept by the property, not shared with a marketplace
03
Prepayment where the rate calls for it
- Deposit or full prepayment on non-refundable rates
- Card hold on flexible rates, released on your schedule
- Cancellation windows by rate and by season
- The policy shown to the guest before booking and repeated in the confirmation
04
Confirmation, pre-arrival and the questions you answer every day
The confirmation goes out immediately with the rate, the dates and the policy. The pre-arrival message carries directions, parking, check-in times and what happens if the guest arrives late, which is most of the email a small property answers by hand.
- Confirmation immediately after booking
- Pre-arrival message with directions, parking and check-in detail
- Reminder with one tap to confirm or cancel
- Your wording and your sender name
05
Bed and breakfast software without a full property system
A guest house with six rooms does not need a property management system with a night audit in it. Bed and breakfast software at that size means one thing: the rooms are bookable from the website, the calendar is right, and the confirmation goes out by itself. That is what this is.
Take direct bookings from your own website
Create your account, describe your rooms and rates, and put the engine on your site.