A hotel booking engine is basically the shopping cart and checkout flow for your hotel's website. The guest learns about you on your website and when they click 'book now' that's where your booking engine comes in trying to convert as quickly as possible and upsell guests to spend more while they're booking. It's where transactions happen and having the right system in place could literally make or break your hotel's profitability so it's important to choose wirely.
That's why we by surveyed 4059 hoteliers across 127 countries to create this in-depth guide and help you find the best fit booking engine for your business. Inside you’ll find everything you need to know including product rankings, feature comparisons, price benchmarking, integration interoperability and more.
Hotel Booking Engine Shortlist
Here are 10 of top Hotel Booking Engines that are covered in this in-depth guide:
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Mews’s Booking Engine product suite also includes:
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Oracle Hospitality’s Booking Engine product suite also includes:
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2023 WINNER
Cloudbeds’s Booking Engine product suite also includes:
93 Ht Score
2023 FINALIST
RoomRaccoon’s Booking Engine product suite also includes:
72 Ht Score
NightsBridge’s Booking Engine product suite also includes:
WebBookingPro’s Booking Engine product suite also includes:
98 Ht Score
SHR Group’s Booking Engine product suite also includes:
Busy Rooms’s Booking Engine product suite also includes:
vioma GmbH’s Booking Engine product suite also includes:
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GauVendi’s Booking Engine product suite also includes:
Radiant1’s Booking Engine product suite also includes:
MiceRate’s Booking Engine product suite also includes:
93 Ht Score
2023 FINALIST
Net Affinity’s Booking Engine product suite also includes:
75 Ht Score
BookingWhizz’s Booking Engine product suite also includes:
Selfbook’s Booking Engine product suite also includes:
Most booking engines and hotel reservation software today are commission-free and run on a subscription (SaaS) model. After all, you shouldn't have to pay a commission on bookings through your direct channel; however, some smaller properties like guesthouses and vacation rentals opt for this model to offset expenses slow months.
Implementation timelines depend on the provider you decide to work with. A Cloud based online booking system can be set up very quickly, so the implementation time is often determined by how much resources the hotel can allocate to the project. Other tasks that often need to be completed during the set up phase:
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