Your own booking engine. Keep the commission you hand over on every room night.
The big platforms are good at finding you guests. They are expensive at keeping them. Once a guest knows your name, every booking that still goes through an aggregator is margin you gave away — often 15 to 30 percent of the room rate. A direct channel of your own changes that arithmetic.
What renting your distribution really costs
Aggregators are worth paying for discovery. The problem starts when they are also the only way an already-convinced guest can book you.
Commission on guests who already knew you
A guest who searched your resort by name and still booked through a platform costs you a double-digit slice of the rate for nothing.
You do not own the guest
No email address, no history, no way to invite them back next year. The relationship belongs to the platform, not to you.
You compete on price, not on character
In a list of thumbnails, a boutique property with real character looks like every other room at that price point.
What your property gets
A direct channel that stands on its own, plus the local search presence that feeds it guests without an intermediary.
A booking engine you own
Room types, rates, minimum stays, seasons and inventory — all yours. No per-booking commission, ever.
Deposits and full prepayment
Take card payments from international guests and GCash from domestic ones, with your own cancellation terms attached to each rate.
Pages in your guests' languages
Korean, Chinese, German, French — published as real indexed pages, so you rank in the language your guests actually search in.
A site that sells the place
Full-width photography, honest room descriptions and what is actually around you. The things a thumbnail in a list can never show.
Owning your own name on Google
We make sure that when somebody searches your property by name, your site and your Google profile are what they land on first.
Reviews requested and answered
Post-stay review requests and a written reply to every review. It compounds into ranking and into the rate you can charge.
The case for a direct channel
is what the big booking platforms take from every room night they sell for you
Cloudbeds, OTA commission ratesinternational visitors arrived in the Philippines in 2025
Philippine Department of Tourism, 2025 arrivalsof travellers name search engines as their top trip-planning resource
Expedia Group Traveler Value Index, 2025of travellers booked their tours and attraction tickets at least three days ahead in 2025
Arival & Phocuswright, Travel Experiences 2026How guests find a property like yours
Two kinds of search matter: people who already know your name, and people shopping the destination. You need to win both.
From first search to first booking
The same four steps for every business we take on. No project meetings, no six-week discovery phase.
- 01
Free audit
We look up your business the way a customer would, then send you a written report of what we found and what it is costing you.
- 02
Five-day build
Send your logo, photos, services and prices. Your site and booking pages are live in five business days.
- 03
Profile and reviews
We claim and correct your Google Business Profile, then keep it fresh with posts, photos, hours and review replies.
- 04
Monthly report
One page each month: how many people found you, how many called or booked, and what we changed.
Questions we get from this industry
Do we have to leave the big booking platforms?
No, and we would not advise it. Keep them for discovery. The goal is to stop paying commission on the guests who already know your name — those are the bookings that should come to you directly.
How do we avoid double-booking a room across channels?
You either keep a fixed allocation for direct bookings, or connect your existing channel manager. We set this up with you during the build.
Is there a commission on direct bookings?
No. You pay your monthly plan and the payment processor's card fee. Nothing per booking, whatever the room rate is.
Can we run seasonal rates and minimum stays?
Yes — seasons, weekend rates, minimum-night rules, and different cancellation terms per rate plan.
Can we sell add-ons like transfers, dive packages or tours?
Yes. Add-ons attach to the booking, which is a straightforward way to lift the value of every stay.
Markets where resorts & hotels need this most
Every market prices, searches and books differently. Pick yours to see what the competition actually looks like there.