Accommodation Booking Software for a Guest House?

[Scarletpimpofnel]

The initial message was deleted from this topic on 18 August 2024 at 21:46

[Redarress]

Do you have a website in place for your B & B ?

If you do it would make sense to include that into the site so prospective customers can book their stay.

There are a number of ways to get you the functionality your are looking for.

[Scarletpimpofnel]

No there is no website. I was wondering if there are booking and web site packages available that can be customised and rented for a fee per month? tia

[Redarress]

You could try Booking.com as I think you can sign up free of charge. But I suspect as with all of the big on-line Hotel/booking sites their fees will be a hit to your bottom line so please read their T & C’s and costs carefully.
Theoretically they should drive clients to you.

You could get a website created with booking functionality and pay for decent Google ranking which should over s period of time drive traffic to your establishment. It’s unlikely to be instant traffic unless your located in a less touristy place where competition for accommodation is limited

[CrutyRammers]

Freetobook.com provides a pretty decent online booking and calendar. It's free but you can pay for various integrations with other systems for payment etc.

[Redarress]

CrutyRammers said:

Freetobook.com provides a pretty decent online booking and calendar. It's free but you can pay for various integrations with other systems for payment etc.

Just had a quick look at this. It looks like a possible solution to the OP's question.
Have to admit its not one I knew of.

You still need your own website so you can add the Freetobook booking button to it . Not sure you can set up a payment gateway FOC though ?

Edited by Redarress on Friday 4th November 14:30

[Freakuk]

Redarress said:

You could try Booking.com as I think you can sign up free of charge. But I suspect as with all of the big on-line Hotel/booking sites their fees will be a hit to your bottom line so please read their T & C’s and costs carefully.
Theoretically they should drive clients to you.

You could get a website created with booking functionality and pay for decent Google ranking which should over s period of time drive traffic to your establishment. It’s unlikely to be instant traffic unless your located in a less touristy place where competition for accommodation is limited

I think Booking.com take around 30% and you don't get any money until after the stay has completed, even though Booking.com may take the cash up front.

[CrutyRammers]

Redarress said:

CrutyRammers said:

Freetobook.com provides a pretty decent online booking and calendar. It's free but you can pay for various integrations with other systems for payment etc.

Just had a quick look at this. It looks like a possible solution to the OP's question.
Have to admit its not one I knew of.

You still need your own website so you can add the Freetobook booking button to it . Not sure you can set up a payment gateway FOC though ?

Edited by Redarress on Friday 4th November 14:30

Hmmm not sure...I payed them for stripe integration which works really well, it was about a hundred quid but a one off, so didn't seem too bad. You can send out payment links and it all integrates nicely with the booking record to show what's paid etc.

You're probably right that you do need the button though, there may not be a customer-facing front end.

[Scarletpimpofnel]

Thanks for your suggestions so far. I'd appreciate more from anyone. Ideally fully integrated web site/payment/booking as off the shelf so I just need to add photos and prices etc.

Thanks.

[alfabeat]

If you go down the route of having your own website built, then Redarress, who commented above, recently did our website with shop/payment for a very fair price and excellent turnaround times.

[Sy1441]

I'd speak to Alex who runs Freetobook.com

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This is exactly the sort of thing we do using his service.