Direct Bookings: Add a Booking Widget to Your Website
Every booking through Airbnb costs you 15% in host fees. On Booking.com, it's 15-18%. For a €1,000 booking, that's €150-180 gone to the platform. Multiply that across hundreds of bookings per year, and you're looking at tens of thousands in commissions. What if even 20% of those bookings came direct?
Xentra's Booking Widget lets you accept direct reservations from your own website - keeping the full revenue while giving guests a better rate.
How the Booking Widget Works
Embed a customizable booking widget on your website. Guests select dates, choose a property, and book directly. The widget shows real-time availability synced from your calendar, applies your pricing rules, and creates the booking in Xentra automatically.
The Win-Win Pricing Strategy
Since direct bookings have zero commission, you can offer guests a 10-15% discount compared to OTA prices - and still earn more per booking. Guests get a better deal, you keep more revenue. Everyone wins.
Xentra's source-specific pricing makes this easy: set your OTA rate as the base, then configure a direct booking discount. The widget automatically shows the discounted price.
Real-Life Example: Building a Direct Channel
You run a boutique apartment brand in Vienna with a beautiful website. You add the Xentra booking widget to your site. In the first month:
- 15% of new bookings come through your website
- Guests see prices 10% lower than on Airbnb
- You save €2,400 in commissions on those bookings
- Repeat guests bookmark your site instead of searching OTAs
- Your channel mix KPIs show a healthier distribution
Full Integration with Xentra
Widget bookings flow into the same system as OTA bookings - same calendar, same unified inbox, same online check-in, same accounting. No separate tools needed.
Key Benefits
- Eliminate OTA commissions on direct bookings - keep 100% of revenue
- Offer guests better prices while still earning more
- Real-time availability prevents double-bookings
- Branded experience on your own website builds your brand, not Airbnb's
- Repeat guests book directly, reducing your OTA dependence over time
"Direct bookings give guests a better price and hosts higher margins. The booking widget makes it possible with zero friction."
Start building your direct booking channel. Try Xentra free and embed the booking widget on your website today.
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