03Direct booking & payments
The cheapest room you will ever sell is the one you sell yourself.
A booking engine that shows real availability and real prices from the same calendar your staff use, takes the card, and writes the reservation straight onto the chart.
- 0%
- commission taken by us on direct bookings
- 30
- minutes before an unpaid booking releases the room
- 3DS
- and SCA handled by the payment provider
ReplacesA “check availability” email address and a card machine at the desk three weeks later.
What it does
Nights, priced honestly
The guest sees a strip of nights with the price of each one, not a single blended figure. When a Saturday costs more, they can see that it does, which stops the argument at check-out.
Your domain, your name
The booking pages, the confirmation email and the receipt carry your hotel. Nothing in the guest’s inbox mentions us.
Your Stripe account
You connect your own Stripe keys, so payments settle directly to your bank. We never hold your money and we never see a card number.
Unpaid bookings expire
A booking that never completes payment is hidden from your staff, and after thirty minutes it is cancelled and the room returns to sale. Nobody has to sweep up abandoned baskets.
Late payment handled honestly
If a payment arrives after the room has gone back on sale, the system does not quietly confirm it and create an overbooking. It flags the booking for a person to decide.
Rules the guest can read
Minimum stay, cancellation deadlines and what happens if they cancel are shown before payment, in the same words your rate plan uses.
Why an unpaid booking is not a booking
A reservation that has not been paid for occupies a room without committing anyone to it. If those bookings sit in your list looking real, your team plans around rooms that are not sold and turns away guests who would have paid. So until payment completes, the booking is invisible to staff, absent from your reports, and on a thirty-minute clock.
- Availability comes from the same source the front desk sees — no separate web inventory
- If no payment provider is configured, online sales are simply off rather than half-working
- Card data goes browser-to-Stripe; it never touches our servers
- Every payment attempt is logged against the booking, successful or not
Want to see this module on your own property?
A demo takes about forty minutes and we load your rooms and rates first.