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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.
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 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.