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.
Hostaway vs OwnerRez: which one can hold your dates while the guest pays
OwnerRez can hold a guest's dates on your calendar while the card clears and Hostaway documents no way to do it, which decides the choice for any small hotel, inn or serviced-apartment group planning to take bookings on its own website.
Little Hotelier vs Lodgify: which one fits your small hotel, inn or serviced apartments
Lodgify if your first problem is having no booking page of your own, Little Hotelier if your first problem is keeping the platforms in step. Prices, the pooled inventory question, and a verdict by property size.
Cloudbeds vs ThinkReservations: which one a small hotel or inn can build on
Both systems now let your own website create the booking, so the choice turns on the guest's card and on how you get the key. What that means for a small hotel, inn or serviced apartment group at 8 to 25 units.
Direct booking website examples: the five things every one of them has to do
A direct booking website has to take the dates, price the stay honestly, hold the unit, take the money and confirm it in writing. Most of the sites in the example galleries stop after the second step, and this is the test that shows you where yours stops.
How to charge a Booking.com virtual credit card, and when you cannot
You charge a Booking.com virtual credit card on or after the activation date Booking.com set on it, and not a day sooner, on your own Stripe account included. Here is when that date falls, what each route to collecting the money costs, and what a refund takes back.
Vacation rental invoice template: one payment, three units
A group booking paid as one charge becomes one invoice: one accommodation line per unit, one pooled tax line, and one row per reservation in your own records carrying only its own leg total.
Stripe vs Lodgify Payments: which should take your direct bookings
Lodgify Payments charges 2.90% plus $0.30 on a domestic US card, and Lodgify's 1% transaction fee applies even when you connect your own Stripe account. The fee table, what breaks, and the verdict by property profile.
Can you build a direct booking site on Hostfully? What its API lets you do
Hostfully can hold a room for 24 hours while your guest pays and then mark it booked, which is the safest shape a direct booking checkout can have. What it leaves you to build is a nightly reconcile job, because a missed booking message is never sent twice.
Hostfully vs Guesty: which one wins for a small operator
Guesty is the better system to build your own booking site on, and Hostfully is the cheaper one to take direct money through. The published prices, the fee lines, the webhook and availability gaps, and what we found when we moved between them.
Can you build a direct booking site on Lodgify? What its API lets you do
Lodgify's API creates a real booking from your own site and signs every webhook with a secret unique to that endpoint. It will not hold the unit while the guest pays, and Lodgify does not say in readable text which plan includes API access.
Mews Payments: fees, safety, and whether to keep Stripe
Mews Payments is the card processing built into Mews: legitimate, safe for card data, and the sensible choice for a small property with no technical staff. Mews publishes no rate, and its new e-money license covers Europe only.
Airbnb transaction history: find, download and read it
Your Airbnb transaction history is in the Earnings dashboard under Paid, and Get report downloads it as a CSV. Here is how to find it, download it, print past receipts, tell it apart from the Earnings Summary and tax documents, and match it to your payouts.