payments
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Guesty vs Hostaway: which is better for a small lodging business
Guesty publishes a starting price and Hostaway quotes every account, so an 8 to 25 unit property cannot compare them without two sales calls. Here is what each one costs, what its support covers, what happens when a guest's card fails, and which sort of property should buy which.
Guesty API documentation, and what a direct booking page costs to build
Guesty has two APIs, and the narrow one is built for a direct booking site: your checkout requests a reservation quote, Guesty guarantees that price for 24 hours, and the quote becomes a booking. Nothing it publishes says the dates are held while the guest pays.
Cloudbeds Payments pricing vs your own Stripe account
Cloudbeds publishes no processing rate for Cloudbeds Payments, and Stripe publishes 2.9% plus 30 cents. What each does with a failed card, where the payout fee falls, who holds the guest's card and the record of a charge, and the verdict by property size.