Booking systems that beat the commission

Hotels, guesthouses, clinics, and service businesses lose 15–18% of every OTA booking. We build the booking engine on your own site — availability, payments, and confirmations — so your repeat guests book you directly.

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Direct bookings, zero commission

A booking flow on your own domain — repeat guests and social traffic stop paying the 15–18% OTA tax on every stay.

Real-time availability

Availability checked at confirmation time, not page-load time. No double-bookings, no awkward phone calls.

Payments your market uses

Stripe for international cards; TBC and Bank of Georgia checkout for Georgian businesses. Deposits, full prepay, or pay-on-arrival.

An admin your staff can run

Calendar view, manual blocks, pricing and seasons, guest notes — manageable by the front desk, not just by developers.

Confirmations that arrive

Instant email confirmations with calendar invites, reminders before arrival, and notifications to your team — the same plumbing this site's own /book page runs on.

Multilingual by default

English plus your market's languages — because the guest booking at 2am is rarely browsing in yours.

Systems like this, in production

A real-time client portal and a high-conversion lead-gen site with live quote estimates — the same machinery a booking engine runs on.

Minrenovering renovation company and client portal
2025/ Sweden

Minrenovering

Stockholm's most transparent renovation company — and the real-time client portal that made that reputation possible.

Next.jsClient portalAuth● live — minrenovering.se
Dzida Moving website
2024/ United States

Dzida Moving

The calmest face of moving in Greater Boston — a high-conversion site that turns anxious homeowners into booked jobs.

Next.jsSSRGoogle Maps API● live — dzidamoving.com

Run your own numbers: OTA commissions vs your own booking engine — the actual math

Booking system questions, answered

What owners ask us before they commit — answered the way we'd answer on a call.

Why build a booking system instead of just using Booking.com?

You shouldn't leave the OTAs — they're your discovery channel. But every guest who books through them costs you 15–18% commission, including returning guests who would happily book direct. A booking engine on your own site shifts that mix: repeat guests, Google Maps traffic, and Instagram followers book commission-free. For most properties the site pays for itself out of one season's saved commissions.

What does a booking system cost?

Booking builds are Projects in our pricing — from $8,000, billed per milestone. That buys availability and rates, the booking flow, online payments, confirmation emails, and an admin calendar. Channel-manager sync, multi-property support, and dynamic pricing extend the scope — quoted in writing first.

Does it handle payments and deposits?

Yes — card payments, deposits, or pay-on-arrival, depending on your policy. We wire Stripe for international cards, and for businesses in Georgia we integrate TBC and Bank of Georgia checkout directly.

Will it double-book?

No. Availability is re-checked at the moment of confirmation, not just when the page loaded — the same race-safe pattern we use in every production system. If two guests race for the last slot, exactly one wins and the other is offered the next option.

Is this only for hotels?

No — the same machinery runs clinic appointments, salon bookings, tour departures, equipment rental, and consultations. If your business sells time or capacity, this is the system that sells it while you sleep.

Tell us what you're building.

One short call. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right team, what it'll take to ship, and what it won't cost to find out.

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