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Bookable

A booking system for apartments and hotels

Take bookings directly — with no sales commission. Calendar, online payments, synchronisation with Booking.com and Airbnb and your property's website, all in one system.

No commission on bookingsBooking.com and AirbnbOnline paymentsThe property's website
System rezerwacyjny Bookable — kokpit i aplikacja mobilna
0%

commission on bookings that come in directly through your own booking page.

at least 15%

is the commission you pay on every booking that comes through Booking.com.

2 channels

syncing dates with Booking.com and Airbnb protects you from overbooking.

Online bookings for hotels, apartments and guest houses

Online booking has become an indispensable part of the hotel, apartment and guest house business. Modern reservation systems have made running accommodation far more intuitive and efficient.

What should a good hotel website include? How do you manage apartment bookings efficiently? What are the benefits of a modern hotel reservation system? You will find the answers below — along with the Bookable online booking system.

Booking calendar

Why choose Bookable?

All apartments in one system

You can add all your properties to the online booking system — rooms, hotels, apartments and guest houses. Your entire offer sits in one place.

Booking calendar

Quick access to the online booking calendar for your accommodation is the basis of running it well. Change prices, availability and booking conditions straight from the calendar.

Online payment for bookings

Take payments online from people booking so dates are blocked immediately and instant reservations can be handled. Bookable is integrated with the most popular payment gateways.

Booking management

Every booking — by phone and online — sits in one place. Handle reservations and talk to guests quickly.

Built-in e-mail and SMS

Mass and individual SMS and e-mail communication with your guests, straight from the online booking system.

An accommodation booking website

Bookable is not only an online booking system but also the website of your hotel, apartment or guest house.

Powiadomienie o nowej rezerwacji w Bookable
Guest communication

Built-in e-mail and SMS — the booking is confirmed immediately

Mass and individual SMS and e-mail communication with guests runs from inside the booking system. A confirmation SMS gives all the details of the stay and keeps the guest in touch.

✓SMS confirmations and reminders about the stay
✓Phone and online bookings in one place
✓Online payment that blocks the dates immediately

What does a booking from an intermediary cost you?

Bookable does not replace the popular booking channels — it wins back the share of guests you can serve directly.

Booking.com and Airbnb

Every booking that comes through Booking.com costs you at least 15% in commission. Type your property's name into Google — the first results will very likely be intermediaries' paid adverts pointing at your own property.

Your own booking page in Bookable

Instant booking, paid up front, with no intermediary's commission — and the dates sync with Booking.com and Airbnb, so overbooking is not a risk. Think how much you save if even 10% of bookings come in directly.

Reviews of Bookable

Małgorzata Socha, właścicielka CityBrejk.pl
★★★★★

"We use the Bookable apartment reservation system at CityBrejk.pl. More and more of our bookings come in directly, with no commission going to intermediaries. The system is intuitive and easy to use, syncs calendars with the other channels (Booking.com and Airbnb) and takes payments online."

Małgorzata Socha
owner, CityBrejk.pl
CityBrejk.pl

Not sure how to roll out a booking system in your property?

4B Systems experts will help you roll out and adapt the online booking system and the website of your hotel, guest house or apartment. Book a consultation to see how the rollout works.

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Rolling out the booking system — frequently asked questions

Elements on the home page

A good hotel website should give clear information about the accommodation on offer and local attractions, along with photographs of the property. It should also carry a button leading to an intuitive online booking system that encourages guests to use it.

A clear booking form

To make booking easy for prospective guests, the reservation form should be clear and intuitive. Dates, room type and any additional services must be presented plainly.

Adding a booking calendar

A booking calendar is an essential tool: it shows room availability over any chosen period. Prospective guests can easily check whether rooms are free on their dates and book online.

Avoiding overbooking

Avoiding overbooking - a situation where more rooms are booked than are available - comes down to managing reservations well. Dedicated tools help here, such as a channel manager, which synchronises room availability across different booking platforms. In Bookable we solved overbooking by synchronising free and occupied dates for a given property between the popular booking platforms (Booking.com and AirBnB among others) and your own booking page.

How a channel manager works in a booking system

A channel manager is a tool for managing your accommodation offer across different booking portals such as Booking.com or Airbnb. It helps you avoid conflicts over room availability and keeps the offer consistent on every platform.

The advantages of online booking

Modern hotel reservation systems bring a number of benefits: an automated booking process, quick reports on reservations and availability, and integration with online payments. All of this makes handling bookings much easier and the accommodation offer more attractive.

Managing bookings from inside the system

A modern hotel reservation system makes it possible to manage bookings efficiently, change room availability, set prices and generate occupancy reports with charts. That gives you full control over the booking process and a better-run property.

Reports on bookings and availability

Hotel reservation systems generate detailed reports on bookings and availability, so occupancy can be analysed continuously and decisions about pricing and promotion made with the facts to hand.

Promoting your accommodation offer through the booking system

Used well, a booking system promotes your accommodation effectively by presenting attractive stay packages, discounts and extra services. That encourages prospective guests to book, which in turn raises occupancy.

An SMS confirming the booking

A confirmation SMS is an important way of communicating with guests: it confirms the booking, provides the details of the stay and keeps you in touch — all of which improves the guest experience.

Handling bookings through Booking.com and Airbnb

Booking.com and Airbnb are popular booking channels that reach a wide pool of prospective guests. Integrating with them through your booking system means reservations are handled efficiently, the offer stays under control and prices can be adjusted to demand.

Booking online is easy and convenient. Intuitive booking forms let guests pick their preferred dates and room type and pay online, which speeds the whole process up considerably. Offering instant, prepaid online booking will noticeably increase your direct revenue.

Our booking system for apartments, hotels and guesthouses, Bookable, does not replace this popular reservation channel. It is worth looking closely, though, at what a booking acquired through AirBnb actually costs you. Every reservation that reaches you through AirBnb carries a commission you have to pay the intermediary. Part of your potential clientele - people you could win directly - goes through the middleman instead. Have you ever asked yourself what percentage of your guests come back to your properties through that same AirBnb platform?

Booking.com is the largest reservation portal in the world and it runs marketing campaigns on your behalf. For every booking it brings you, you pay at least 15% commission. Do you know how many of those bookings could have come to you directly, with no middleman to pay? Run an experiment: type the name of your property and your town into Google. Look at what comes up first. Most likely it will be paid Booking.com or AirBnb ads leading to your property (and sometimes not even that). Have you ever worked out how much commission you would save if just 10% of your bookings came from your own online booking page?