Booking Engine · 1 min read
How to take commission-free direct bookings
What OTA commissions really cost you
If a guest pays 5,000 for a night and the OTA takes 20%, you lose 1,000 on that single booking. Across a full season, that adds up to a serious amount of money.
Guests who already know your property often search for you by name. If they can book on your own site, you keep the full amount.
Adding a booking engine
A booking engine is a secure booking form on your website that takes payments and availability directly. It syncs with the same calendar as your OTAs, so there is no risk of double-booking.
ByteBeds gives you a mobile-first booking engine with secure payments and no commission. You can even run promo codes and offers for your own website that the OTAs never see.