booking-engine
Which vacation rental website builder to buy, and what it costs
A builder is the right buy for almost every property of 8 to 25 units, and four are worth your time: Lodgify from $14 a month, OwnerRez at $40 for the first property, Hostaway's Pro site at $49 plus 0.5%, and Guesty at $9 plus 1% up to three listings. Paying for a build wins in one narrow case, when your pricing turns on a rule no builder will accept.
What a direct booking website needs, what it costs, and how to test yours
A direct booking website is your own site with a booking engine inside it, so a guest books and pays you with no commission on top. What the four parts cost, where fifteen systems put the guest's card, and a twenty minute test you can run tonight with your own card.
Bed and breakfast software: fourteen systems, their published prices, and which suits ten rooms
Fourteen systems a ten room B&B would really run, each with the price its own page publishes and who it fits, including the B&B and inn specialists. Then the four jobs the software has to do, the demo script that proves them, and the one job the box usually drops.
Small hotel booking software: what fifteen systems cost and how to choose between them
Fifteen systems a small hotel would really shortlist, with every price the vendor publishes, plus what a quote does and does not cover: the property system, the channel manager and the booking engine on your own site. Then four things to make a demo prove before you sign.
How to get more direct hotel bookings at a small hotel or B&B
More direct hotel bookings come out of four pieces of work: a site that can take dates and a card, a Google Business Profile filled in properly, reasons to come to you that have nothing to do with the rate, and the guests who already stayed. Then the arithmetic that says how deep your direct rate can go, and what sixteen booking systems publish about price.