Christian
I own MINT @Naschmarkt in Vienna with Maxine, and I run Ekamoira, the agency Fullstreak came out of. Almost every booking we took arrived through the platforms, so we built the site that takes the booking, the plumbing that keeps one calendar, and the pages Google and the AI assistants quote. MINT ran it first. Fullstreak is that work, made repeatable for operators like you.
Tracking AI assistant referrals to your own website
Google Analytics has put assistant visits in a channel of their own since May 2026, and your server log has kept the same record for years. Here is the ninety day check, the referrers and crawler names to look for, and the four ways the number gets misread.
AI for hotel booking: how five assistants handle your property
Five assistants answer most where-to-stay questions in the US and Canada, and each one takes its property names from travel companies it has signed agreements with. Here is the source each uses, which can take money, and the single lever an independent property has on each.
How to rank in ChatGPT: what actually gets a property quoted
ChatGPT has no ranked list of results and you cannot buy your way in. What OpenAI, Google and Microsoft actually publish for a site owner, the five things that belong on the page, and the five practices Google names as safe to ignore.
Direct booking website cost: what small operators pay
Between zero and about $3,500 a year in software, plus 2.9% and 30 cents a payment. The published builder prices, what a build really costs in developer weeks, and how much business has to move direct before any of it pays for itself.
Is a direct booking website worth it for a small hotel?
For most properties at 8 to 25 rooms a direct booking website is worth it, and for four specific kinds of property it is not. Here is how to tell which one you are, the arithmetic that decides it with two worked examples, what the US and Canadian parity rules do to your discount, and the free work worth doing while you wait.
Best PMS for small hotels: twelve systems priced for 8 to 25 rooms
Five of the twelve systems on this list publish a price you can read without a sales call. The rest quote you. Here is what each one costs at 8 to 25 rooms, the second bill hiding behind the subscription, the six questions that decide a demo, and the case for keeping the system you already pay for.
Cabin booking software: thirteen systems, their published prices, and which suits a cabin
Thirteen systems a cabin or lodge owner would really run, each with the price its own page publishes and who it suits. Then the seven things cabins need that a hotel system never thinks about: seasonal minimum stays, deposit and balance schedules, off season closing, check-in with no signal, cleaning routes, damage deposits and whole property bookings.
Mews API: how to build a direct booking page
The developer's read on the Mews API, and the owner's. Two references at docs.mews.com, a public demo environment to build against, certification before a production key, an access token per building, and a reservation state that holds the room while the guest pays.
Lodgify vs OwnerRez: what twelve units cost on each, and which to buy
OwnerRez publishes a sliding scale you can add up yourself, which comes to $141 a month at twelve units, while Lodgify's $14 to $77 plans are all priced for a single property. Here is what each really costs at your unit count, who pays extra for the website, and how the two count identical units that sell as one type.
Hostaway vs Lodgify: the prices, and which one fits a small property
Lodgify's four plans are $14, $26, $42 and $62 a month on annual billing, all of them priced for a single property, and Hostaway puts no figure on its site at all. Here is what each really costs at 8 to 25 units, the booking fee only one of them charges, and how to test the sync and support complaints yourself.
Bed and breakfast channel manager: ten systems and their prices
Nine of the ten channel managers worth a small B&B's time arrive inside a property system, so the first job is finding out which one you already pay for. The ten systems with each vendor's published price, what changes between five rooms and fifteen, and the two hour check that tells you whether yours is working.
Cloudbeds API: how to build a direct booking checkout
Cloudbeds will write a real booking into the property system from your own page, and it will not take a cent of the money. There is no hold on the room either, so a refused card leaves a booking your own code has to cancel. What that build involves, and what the platform costs.