Take direct bookings without the phone tag
A guest who is ready to pay should not have to ring three times and hope the dates are still free. The booking can land on your own site, with an email to them and an email to you.
The problem
Most of the money and the mistakes sit in the gap between a phone call and a platform that takes a cut.
- OTA commission on guests who already knew the house, or who were sent by a friend
- Missed calls while you are at breakfast, on a changeover, or out on the water
- Two people told the same dates are free, because the diary and the website disagree
What it does
The guest books the dates that are actually open. You hear about it without checking a third inbox.
- Payment taken online, into the account the business already uses
- A confirmation email to the guest, and a booking notice to the owner
- An availability calendar the website and the diary share
- Overlap detection when two bookings claim the same night
Who it's for
- B&Bs that still take a lot of the week by phone
- Guesthouses with a handful of rooms and a paper diary
- Holiday-home managers looking after other people's houses
- Activity providers selling sessions, not bedrooms
Already running in Dingle
Two local stays use a direct booking path we built. The longer write-up is the Experience Dingle case study.
- Experience Dingle case study
Holiday homes across the peninsula, with owner invoices and overlap checks.
- O'Neills Bed & Breakfast
A John Street B&B. Rooms, breakfast and a booking path for the house itself.
Pricing
Pricing is a monthly minimum plus a percentage of bookings taken through the system. We quote both figures for the property before anything is built.
Bring one real week of bookings.
We will show where a direct booking would have landed, and what the calendar has to refuse.