Feature · Direct booking
The platforms found your guests. Stop paying them for the repeats.
Every platform booking hands over 15–20% and keeps the guest's contact details. Direct booking is how second visits, referrals and 'found you on Instagram' bookings become commission-free.
What it does for the ledger
The arithmetic first: at £700 a week and 15% commission, every direct booking keeps £105. If a website moves twenty bookings a year off the platforms, it has paid for itself — that's the entire business case, and you can check it against your own occupancy.
The engine shows live availability, takes a deposit or full payment online, and syncs calendars with the platforms so double-booking isn't your new hobby. Guests get instant confirmation; you get their email address for next season.
The platforms keep their role — reaching strangers. Direct booking converts everyone who already knows you, which over the years becomes most of your best guests.
See it working
The holiday-let demo arrives with showroom wave two, availability calendar and deposit flow included. Meanwhile the current demos show the standard of build, and the commercial thinking is written up on the holiday-lets page.
Where this fits your trade
Wondering whether your business needs it? That’s a five-minute conversation, not a sales call.