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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.
Bed and breakfast direct booking: how a small B&B gets more of them
Direct bookings at a bed and breakfast come from people who already have your name. What it takes to catch them: a booking page that holds the date and takes a card, a clear read of what your Booking.com contract lets you charge, a deposit guests will finish, and somebody asking at checkout.
Channel manager comparison: 31 systems priced for a 12 unit property
Nineteen of these 31 channel managers already sit inside a property system you may be paying for. What each publishes, what twelve units actually costs, and which of them you can price without a sales call.
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.
What is a hotel channel manager? How to check the one you own
A hotel channel manager keeps one set of rates and open dates in front of every site you sell on. What happens when a booking comes in, what mapping means, what it costs, and how to test the one already inside your property system in an afternoon.