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End-to-end booking engines for hotels, guesthouses and rentals: guest-facing booking flow, operator back office and channel manager integration.
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Liepāja · Sea view suite
2 nights · direct
€240
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Learn MoreMost hospitality sites sold as booking-ready are a brochure with a widget bolted onto the side. The guest reads your story on your domain, then gets handed to a third-party page that looks nothing like it, loads slowly, and quietly reintroduces every reason they were going to book on an OTA instead. That handoff is where direct revenue leaks.
A template gives you pages, a theme and an embedded widget. It works, in the sense that a reservation eventually arrives. What it cannot do is control the moment of decision: it does not know your minimum-stay rules, it cannot hold a room while a guest hesitates, it cannot price a midweek shoulder-season night differently from a July weekend, and it cannot tell you which channel actually earned the booking.
A platform owns availability, rates and the reservation record. The search, the room comparison, the extras, the payment and the confirmation all happen on your domain, in your typography, under your rules. Rates and inventory sync both ways with the channels you sell on, so the calendar a guest sees is the calendar your front desk sees. And because the data is yours, you can finally answer the question every owner asks and few can: what did each channel actually cost us this year?
The distinction matters commercially. A template site competes with your OTA listing on presentation. A platform competes on price, terms and speed — the three things you control and the OTA does not.
Scope is where hospitality projects go wrong, usually because nobody said out loud what was excluded. Here is the honest boundary around each of the five services above.
Included
The guest-facing search and booking flow, the availability and rate engine, an operator back office for reservations, rates and restrictions, payment capture through your acquirer or Stripe, confirmation and pre-arrival email, two-way channel sync, and migration of the reservations you hold today.
Not included
We are not a payment provider, a PMS replacement or a revenue-management algorithm. If you need dynamic pricing, we integrate a tool that does it rather than pretending to invent one. OTA account management and rate-parity policing stay with your team.
Included
A technical audit and the fixes that follow it, destination- and property-level keyword mapping, on-page rewrites, structured data for hotels, rooms and reviews, Google Business Profile work, and a monthly report written in plain language.
Not included
Guaranteed rankings, bought links, or content written to hit a word count. If a query is already owned by the OTAs and three metasearch aggregators, we will say so and spend the effort on a query you can win.
Included
A content calendar you approve before anything publishes, written copy and designed visuals, scheduling and daily engagement, paid campaigns on Meta platforms, and reporting that ends at click-throughs to your booking page rather than at follower counts.
Not included
Influencer contracts, on-site photo and video production (we direct a shoot or arrange a local photographer, billed separately), and review responses sent in your name — replies to guests should sound like the property, so we draft and you send.
Included
A mapped inventory of your repeatable processes, a prioritised shortlist, and built automations for the ones that survive it — arrival documents, housekeeping lists, invoice routing, channel-to-accounting handoffs, recurring reports — plus documentation your team can follow without us.
Not included
Replacing staff, or automating a process that is broken. If a step exists only because two systems disagree, the fix is the integration, not a script that copies the disagreement faster.
Included
A cross-platform application for Windows, macOS and Linux, offline-capable where the operation demands it, code-signed installers with silent auto-updates, migration from spreadsheets or legacy exports, and parallel running until your team trusts it.
Not included
Native mobile apps, and desktop software built for a job the browser does better. Most front-desk work belongs on the web, and we will say so before you pay for an installer.
Almost no property starts from nothing. You have a PMS or a channel manager, an accountant who wants a particular export, and a decade of habits built around them. Replacing that stack is rarely the right advice; connecting to it almost always is. In practice, integration means one of four situations.
These expose proper APIs, and that changes the shape of the project. The PMS stays the system of record for reservations, housekeeping and folios; the platform we build becomes the direct-booking front end that writes into it. Room types, rates and restrictions are read from the PMS, so there is exactly one place to change a price. Direct bookings land in the same inbox and the same reports as every other channel — which is what makes your direct share measurable rather than anecdotal.
Here the channel manager already holds the truth about availability across the OTAs, and the direct site must not fight it. We integrate so that a direct booking decrements inventory everywhere within seconds, and an OTA booking closes the direct calendar just as fast. The failure mode to avoid is the double booking on a full weekend, so this layer gets the most testing time in any build.
Vacation-rental operators usually have the sync problem solved and the presentation problem wide open: listings look like listings, and the brand exists only on the OTA's terms. The work here is a direct site that holds multiple properties cleanly, handles deposits, cleaning fees and long-stay discounts correctly, and pushes a confirmed booking back into the operations tool so the cleaning schedule still builds itself.
This is more common than the software vendors admit, and it is not a problem — it is a clean slate. We build the reservation record into the platform itself, keep the operator back office deliberately small, and leave the door open to add a PMS later without a rebuild. Success here is simple to measure: the person who used to retype bookings stops retyping bookings.
A booking platform for a single independent property runs about twelve weeks from kickoff to live bookings. A marketing site alone is four to six. Multi-property groups and unusual integrations stretch the middle, not the ends. These are the phases you will actually feel.
We map your current booking flow, channel mix, rate rules and reporting needs, and write them down. Nothing is built yet, and this is the phase that decides whether the rest goes well.
You review the booking flow as wireframes and the visual design as real screens. We design the availability and rate model underneath at the same time, because a booking flow the data cannot support is only a drawing.
The engine first — availability, rates, restrictions, reservations — then the guest-facing flow on top. You get a testable build every two weeks and can book a fake stay on it from week six.
Channel sync, payments and email go in and get hammered: overlapping bookings, failed cards, timezone edges, the last room on a sold-out night. Most of the schedule risk in the whole project lives here.
Existing reservations move across, your team is trained on the back office, and we run the old and new systems in parallel over the first bookings before the domain switches.
Two things stretch a timeline in practice, and neither of them is code: waiting on content and photography, and waiting on credentials from a third party. Both are avoidable if they start in week one.
This is a solo studio, which means you deal directly with the person doing the work and decisions take a day rather than a fortnight. It also means the project moves at the speed of your answers. Five things are genuinely yours.
Someone who can approve a booking flow and a price without convening the family. Design by committee is the most expensive thing that can happen to a small project.
Cancellation windows, deposits, minimum stays, children and pet rules, seasonal closures, city tax. Every one of these becomes logic in the system. Vague answers become bugs on a fully booked weekend.
We write and edit, but nobody can invent what your rooms look like or why guests come back. Budget for a proper shoot if the current images are phone photos from 2019 — it moves conversion more than any code we write.
Domain and DNS, the PMS or channel manager account, the payment provider, Google Business Profile, analytics. Requesting these late is the single most common reason a launch date slips.
Before launch, the people who will use the back office every day need to try to break it. An hour from your front desk is worth a week of our assumptions.
If OTA commission is the thing keeping you up at night, start with the booking platform; everything else compounds on top of a direct channel that actually converts. If you already take direct bookings but nobody finds you, start with search — a platform with no traffic is an expensive calendar. If the pressure is on your team rather than your revenue, start with automation and win the hours back first.
Not sure which of those you are? Send the property name and one honest sentence about what is not working. You will get a straight answer — including when the answer is that you do not need us yet.
Whether you need a complete booking platform, channel integrations, or a custom digital solution, our team is ready to help. Let's discuss your project and find the best path forward.
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