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Hospitality & Vacation Rentals

Direct Booking EngineCalendar SyncZero Commission

Plateformes de réservation directe pour locations de vacances

Vos commissions OTA vous coûtent 2 000–8 000 € par propriété, chaque année

Per-Booking Fees

You keep every dollar

80%+

Direct Booking Rate

Post-launch target

95+

Lighthouse Score

Mobile-first performance

<2s

Time to Interactive

Edge-deployed globally

What A Direct Booking Platform Actually Does — And What It Stops Costing You

Your guest lands on your branded site, browses your property gallery, checks real-time availability, and books—no Airbnb tab open, no VRBO redirect. A direct booking platform runs live calendar sync across every channel, processes payments, fires automated guest messages, and handles dynamic pricing. You keep the revenue, the email address, and the repeat booking. Airbnb and VRBO stop extracting 15–20% on every transaction. For a modest portfolio pulling $120K annually, that's $18K–$24K you're handing to platforms that own your guest data, control your visibility, and change the algorithm whenever they want. A direct platform breaks that dependency.

Où les projets échouent

Airbnb and VRBO take 15-20% of everything On a modest portfolio, that's $15K-$50K+ gone every year—money that could've gone toward marketing, renovations, or just staying in your pocket.

OTA algorithm changes can wreck your visibility with zero warning One policy update, and bookings drop 40-60%. You've got no recourse and no negotiating power. It's their platform, their rules.

You don't own your guest data When someone rebooks through Airbnb, they generate a new commission instead of becoming a customer you actually have a relationship with. That guest might stay with you five times and you'd never know their email address.

Generic OTA listings make every property look identical So you compete on price. That erodes margins and pulls in discount hunters instead of the guests who actually come back.

Manual calendar management across multiple platforms causes double-bookings One overlap destroys guest trust and triggers OTA penalties that can suppress your listing for weeks. It's a painful, avoidable problem.

Contact forms and email-based booking kill conversions fast 72% of travelers abandon inquiries that don't offer instant confirmation—and they go right back to Airbnb.

Conformité

Real-Time Calendar Sync

Bidirectional iCal and API sync across Airbnb, VRBO, Booking.com, and your branded site. Double-bookings become technically impossible, not just unlikely.

Integrated Payment Processing

Stripe-powered checkout with deposits, split payments, damage deposits, and automatic refunds. PCI-compliant, no separate merchant account required.

Dynamic Pricing Engine

Automated rate adjustments based on seasonality, lead time, local events, and occupancy targets. You get OTA-level pricing intelligence without the commissions attached.

Guest Data Ownership

Every booking captures guest contact info directly into your own database. Build email lists, run retention campaigns, and turn one-time visitors into repeat direct bookers who never touch an OTA again.

Multi-Property Dashboard

Manage availability, pricing, messaging, and analytics across your whole portfolio from one admin interface. Works for one property or 100+ without adding complexity.

Secure Guest Portal

Guests access check-in instructions, house rules, local guides, and messaging through authenticated accounts. Less support overhead, better arrival experience.

Ce que nous construisons

Build a mobile-first property site with live availability, instant booking confirmation, and your brand—not a clone of every other listing

Your guests book on a site you control—photography, messaging, upsells, and confirmation flows that reflect your hospitality standards, not platform constraints

Integrate Google Vacation Rentals structured data so your properties surface directly in search results where 72% of mobile travel bookings start

Your properties rank in Google's native vacation rental module, capturing intent before travelers ever open an OTA app or comparison site

Automate pre-arrival, check-in, mid-stay, and post-checkout messaging sequences that trigger on booking status—set once, runs forever

Your guest communication fires automatically based on reservation events—no manual email threads, no missed check-in instructions, no post-stay silence

Deploy a post-stay review system that builds social proof on your platform instead of feeding Airbnb's trust engine

Your 5-star reviews accumulate on your domain, creating a moat of social proof that compounds with every stay instead of subsidizing Airbnb's marketplace credibility

Sync a channel manager that keeps OTA listings active for discovery while steering pricing advantages and repeat guests to your direct site

Your OTA presence stays live for visibility while your direct site captures repeat guests and price-sensitive bookings without commission drag—it's not either/or, it's strategic distribution

Track booking source, ADR, occupancy, RevPAR, and commission savings in real-time dashboards that show exactly what you're reclaiming

Your revenue dashboard surfaces exactly how much you're saving per booking, which channels convert best, and where occupancy gaps actually exist—data you own, not data Airbnb rations

Notre processus

Portfolio & Revenue Audit

We start by digging into your current OTA performance, commission costs, booking patterns, and guest demographics. That data shapes the direct booking strategy and shows exactly where your highest-value conversion opportunities are hiding.

Week 1

Platform Architecture & Design

Property page templates, booking flow wireframes, payment integration architecture, and calendar sync infrastructure—all mapped out before we write a line of code. You sign off on every design decision first.

Weeks 2-3

Development & Integration

We build your booking engine, connect payment processing, configure calendar sync with your existing OTA listings, and implement dynamic pricing rules. Every property imports automatically. No manual data entry.

Weeks 4-6

Testing & Migration

Full end-to-end testing of the booking flow, calendar sync across all channels, payment processing, and load testing under peak-season traffic. All of this happens before launch, not after something breaks.

Week 7

Launch & Guest Acquisition

Go live with Google Vacation Rentals integration, email campaign templates for past guests, and a clear OTA-to-direct conversion strategy. Includes 30 days of post-launch support and optimization.

Week 8+

Next.jsSupabaseStripeVercelGoogle Calendar APIiCal SyncMapboxCloudinary

Questions fréquentes

Combien puis-je économiser en passant aux réservations directes?

La plupart des OTA prélèvent 15-20% par réservation. Sur 100 000 € de chiffre d'affaires annuel, cela représente 15 000–20 000 € de commissions—perdues. Une plateforme de réservation directe élimine complètement ce coût. Vos frais continus sont le traitement des paiements (généralement 2,9% + 0,30 € par transaction) et l'hébergement. La plupart des clients récupèrent leur investissement en plateforme dans les 3 à 6 mois suivant le lancement.

Dois-je supprimer mes annonces de Airbnb et VRBO?

Ne supprimez pas complètement les annonces OTA—ce n'est pas la bonne stratégie. Utilisez-les pour la découverte et votre site direct pour la conversion et la rétention. Gardez vos annonces OTA actives pour atteindre de nouveaux voyageurs, mais offrez des avantages tarifaires légers sur votre site de marque. Une fois qu'une personne réserve directement, le marketing par email les empêche de retourner sur Airbnb pour une nouvelle réservation.

Comment fonctionne la synchronisation des calendriers sur plusieurs plateformes?

Nous utilisons la synchronisation iCal bidirectionnelle et les intégrations API qui mettent à jour la disponibilité en temps réel sur Airbnb, VRBO, Booking.com et votre site direct. Quand une réservation arrive sur l'un des canaux, tous les autres calendriers bloquent ces dates en quelques secondes. Aucune gestion manuelle, aucune lacune.

Puis-je accepter les paiements directement sans compte marchand?

Oui. Stripe s'intègre directement dans votre moteur de réservation et gère la conformité PCI prête à l'emploi. Il prend en charge les cartes de crédit, Apple Pay et Google Pay. Vous pouvez configurer les acomptes, les paiements fractionnés, les dépôts de garantie avec logique de remboursement automatique, et le traitement des frais d'annulation—aucun compte marchand distinct nécessaire.

Combien de temps faut-il pour construire une plateforme de réservation directe?

Une construction typique prend 6 à 8 semaines du lancement au déploiement. Les sites mono-propriété avec des flux de réservation simples peuvent être livrés en 4 à 5 semaines. Les portefeuilles multi-propriétés avec gestion de canaux, tarification dynamique et portails invités prennent généralement les 8 semaines complètes. Chaque engagement inclut 30 jours de support post-lancement.

Mon site de réservation directe apparaîtra-t-il dans les résultats de recherche Google?

Nous construisons avec les données structurées Google Vacation Rentals dès le départ. Vos propriétés apparaissent directement dans les résultats de recherche de voyage de Google avec prix, disponibilité et liens de réservation—pas d'OTA intermédiaire. Associez cela à un bon SEO technique et des scores Lighthouse 95+, et votre site concurrence pour la visibilité organique là où 72% des réservations de voyage mobiles commencent réellement.

Direct Booking Platforms from $8,000

Fixed-fee. 30-day post-launch support. Zero per-booking commissions, ever.

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