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Octorate (Booking Engine)
4.8 (36 REVIEWS)
HT Score
79 out of 100
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Octorate (Booking Engine)
Ranked 10 (out of 151) in Booking Engine
Commission-free direct bookings with PCI-DSS Level 1 security, 10 languages, and Smart Offer. Powered by the platform trusted by all 5 major OTAs for 10+ years.
97% recommended by 52 hotels
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Hoteliers say
Octorate is praised as a highly comprehensive booking and hospitality platform that helps hotels and vacation rentals centralize reservations, channel management, payments, accounting, and website/booking-engine setup, often reducing manual work and supporting direct revenue growth. Reviewers consistently credit Octorate’s onboarding and support team for fast issue resolution and successful implementations, while noting a few gaps such as mobile upsell visibility, limited integrations, and some UI/email customization constraints.
What Types of Hotels Octorate is Popular For
Size
43 | X-Small (1-9 room)
9 | Small (10-49 room)
Country
39 | Italy
3 | Morocco
3 | Spain
2 | France
1 | Guadeloupe
1 | Belgium
1 | Colombia
1 | Ecuador
1 | Mexico
Type
20 | Bed & Breakfast & Inns
7 | Vacation Rentals & Villas
6 | City Center Hotels
5 | Boutique Hotels
4 | Airport/Conference Hotels
4 | Hostels
4 | Luxury Hotels
3 | Extended Stay & Serviced Apartments
2 | Resorts
1 | Limited Service & Budget Hotels
Region
45 | Europe
3 | Africa
2 | South America
1 | North America
1 | Central America
Category
37 | Property Management Systems
36 | Booking Engine
29 | Channel Managers
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What is Octorate?
Founded in 2012 | Headquarters in Roma (Italy) | 50 employees
Octorate (Evo) is a comprehensive, cloud-based all-in-one hospitality management platform designed to streamline operations for hotels, B&Bs, hostels, resorts, vacation rentals, and property management companies. The platform's Booking Engine enables commission-free direct reservations with real-time availability, secure payment processing, and multilingual support. It includes features like Smart Offer, a Multi Booking Engine for ancillary services, and an OTA-style portal for easy property management. With seamless integration with Octorate's Channel Manager, PMS, and other tools, businesses can efficiently manage bookings from a single login, enhancing operational efficiency and revenue potential.
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Octorate's Provided Description:
"Octorate's Booking Engine enables commission-free direct reservations from any website, with real-time availability, secure PCI-DSS Level 1 payment processing, multilingual support in 10 languages, and mobile-optimized checkout. Compatible with Stripe, Nexi, PayPal, and SysPay. The Booking Engine includes Smart Offer (personalized quotes and options with expiration dates), a Multi Booking Engine for selling ancillary services like bike rentals and parking, GA4 enhanced e-commerce tracking, and an OTA-style multi-property booking portal for agencies and property managers. Combined with the AI-Powered Website Builder (OctoSite), properties can create a professional, SEO-optimized website and start receiving direct bookings in minutes. Octorate is one of the very few hospitality technology companies in the world to hold Premier/Preferred Connectivity Partner certifications simultaneously from Booking.com, Airbnb, Expedia, Google Hotel Ads, and Agoda. This distinction has been maintained for over 10 consecutive years. Part of a comprehensive, cloud-based all-in-one platform, the Booking Engine integrates natively with Octorate's Channel Manager, PMS, Payment Manager, Web Concierge with AI Assistant, Self Check-in, Rate Checker, Dynamic Pricing integrations, and Metasearch connections. All from a single login. Processing over 500,000 bookings per month across 100+ countries, Octorate serves hotels, B&Bs, hostels, resorts, vacation rentals, and property management companies. Founded in 2012 in Rome, part of the Dylog Buffetti Group. Monthly plans, no lock-in, no commissions."
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Capabilities
Commission-free direct bookings from your website
Commission-free direct bookings from your website
Receive direct reservations with zero commissions. Real-time availability, PCI-DSS Level 1 secure payments via Stripe, Nexi, PayPal, and SysPay. Mobile-optimized checkout available in 10 languages. Reduce OTA dependency and keep full control over the guest relationship.
Smart Offer and personalized guest quotes
Smart Offer and personalized guest quotes
Send personalized booking offers to guests with customizable expiration dates. Choose between Options (reduces availability immediately) or Quotes (holds availability until confirmed). Turn guest inquiries into confirmed reservations with a streamlined, professional quoting workflow.
Multi Booking Engine for ancillary revenue
Multi Booking Engine for ancillary revenue
Sell more than just rooms. The Multi Booking Engine lets you offer bike rentals, parking spaces, tours, and other services directly through your website. Upload photos, descriptions, and prices. Automatic inventory management ensures availability is always updated.
AI-Powered Website Builder included
AI-Powered Website Builder included
Create a professional, SEO-optimized, responsive website in minutes with OctoSite. Multiple modern templates, 9 languages, custom domain, natively integrated Booking Engine, and social media connectivity. Advanced OctoSite adds AI-powered content optimization and real-time analytics.
GA4 tracking and conversion optimization
GA4 tracking and conversion optimization
Built-in GA4 enhanced e-commerce tracking for every booking funnel step. Compatible with WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, and all major CMS platforms. Customizable design, colors, and branding. Create your own OTA-style multi-property portal for agencies and property managers.
Features
Merchandising & Packages
4/5 features
Upselling & Cross Selling
4/5 features
Conversion
4/5 features
Payments
4/5 features
Transactional Emails
4/5 features
Group Bookings
4/5 features
Reporting & Analytics
4/5 features
Tax & Compliance
4/5 features
Q4 '26 Booking Engine Survey Insights
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SiteMinder is the top alternative to Octorate among mid-sized hotels on HotelTechReport. Reviewers highlight SiteMinder's real-time synchronization with PMS systems, which eliminates double bookings and manual data entry, enhancing operational efficiency. This seamless process allows staff to focus more on guest service and less on administrative tasks.
Bed & Breakfast & Inns
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SiteMinder is the top alternative to Octorate among bed and breakfast properties on HotelTechReport. Users appreciate SiteMinder's ability to provide real-time inventory and rate updates, effectively reducing the risk of overbookings and ensuring accurate information across all connected OTAs.
City Center Hotels
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SiteMinder is the top alternative to Octorate among city center hotels on HotelTechReport. Users highlight its strong integration, which provides real-time inventory updates and minimizes overbookings, allowing hoteliers to focus on maximizing revenue and enhancing guest experience.
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SiteMinder is the top alternative to Octorate among mid-sized hotels on HotelTechReport. Reviewers highlight SiteMinder's real-time synchronization with PMS systems, which eliminates double bookings and manual data entry, enhancing operational efficiency. This seamless process allows staff to focus more on guest service and less on administrative tasks.
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Profitroom is the top alternative to Octorate among European hotels on HotelTechReport. Reviewers highlight Profitroom's ability to significantly increase direct bookings, noting that it provides a "fast and intuitive" booking engine while allowing for easy upselling and cross-promotion opportunities.
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Profitroom is the top alternative to Octorate among European hotels on HotelTechReport. Reviewers highlight Profitroom's ability to significantly increase direct bookings, noting that it provides a "fast and intuitive" booking engine while allowing for easy upselling and cross-promotion opportunities.
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Octorate Reviews Summary
Ease of Use
4.5/5
Customer Support
4.8/5
ROI
4.6/5
Implementation
4.6/5
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This vendor's trending score is rising, Octorate (Booking Engine) is the #9 most trending product in the Booking Engine category (out of 151) and the #391 most trending product overall in the global hotel tech ecosystem. HTR assesses vendor's real time activity in the market to give buyers a sense of whether a product is gaining momentum
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9
All-in-one property management, but setup is repetitive
Owner from 25-49 room Boutique in Rota (Spain)
Verified
7 days ago
I like the wide variety of uses and features it offers, I can manage all my properties from a single platform; create invoices for apartment owners in the case of direct management; the housekeeping with the workers.....
Spain
Spain
Owner
Small Hotel
10
Unbeatable quality-price ratio — graphics feel a bit old-fashioned
Property manager from 5 to 9 room Vacation Rentals & Villa in Marino (Italy)
Verified
7 days ago
Perfect software, an unbeatable quality-price ratio! I evaluated several software but only Octorate gave me the certainty of quality in exchange for an economical cost. Octorate provides a tutor, in my case Ettore was fantastic in support during the first month of startup.
Italy
Italy
Property manager
X-Small Hotel
10
Clear, practical onboarding that builds real autonomy
Administrator from 5 to 9 room in VIMERCATE (Italy)
Verified
9 days ago
Thanks to the onboarding with Vincenzo, I am increasingly appreciating the value of Octorate, not only for its numerous features but especially for the flexibility and depth of the configurations it offers. The training, clear and concrete, is allowing me to better understand fundamental technical aspects such as managing derived rates base...
Italy
Italy
Administrator
X-Small Hotel
9
Deep customization and nightly pricing visibility — AI integrations cost extra
Revenue manager from 5 to 9 room Bed & Breakfast & Inn in Roma (Italy)
Verified
10 days ago
Certainly the fact that it is possible to customize many aspects of our experience on this software. For example, it is possible to customize emails, so the templates we send. It is possible to customize the advice, that is the link that guests receive to complete the registration, and many other aspects. This thanks to the option that Octo...
Italy
Italy
Revenue manager
X-Small Hotel
10
Complete and valuable tool — training could be more spread out
Property Manager from 5 to 9 room in Roma (Italy)
Verified
17 days ago
I had the pleasure of being assisted by Vincenzo during my onboarding process with Octorate and I can only consider myself satisfied with the experience.
Thanks to his professionalism, availability, and ability to explain even the most technical aspects clearly and practically, I managed to gain greater familiarity with the platform and fu...
Italy
Italy
Property Manager
X-Small Hotel
10
Easy to use with fast service — calendar jumps back too often
Owner from 5 to 9 room Boutique in Orvieto (Italy)
Verified
17 days ago
Excellent and fast service, apart from the fact that the booking system works very well. It is easy to use even if I probably do not use all the features.
Italy
Italy
Owner
X-Small Hotel
9
Portal connections and management in one place — with room for better payment policies
Owner from 5 to 9 room Bed & Breakfast & Inn in Innamorata (Italy)
Verified
18 days ago
I really like the connection with the portals and how it functions as a management system. I also really appreciate the integration with Claude and the internal booking portal.
Italy
Italy
Owner
X-Small Hotel
10
Helpful support makes a complex extranet manageable
Reservations from 25-49 room Bed & Breakfast & Inn in Florence (Italy)
Verified
18 days ago
The availability and expertise of technical support. The ability to follow the requests sent to the technical department both on the bot and via email. Andrea really good, in half an hour he showed me how to create/modify and make the rate plans of my hotel more accessible.
Italy
Italy
Reservations
Small Hotel
10
Management system that works well and quick support
Titolare from 5 to 9 room Bed & Breakfast & Inn in Laino Castello (Italy)
Verified
19 days ago
I am very satisfied, the management system works well and for any problem, customer service is always supportive and quick.
Italy
Italy
Titolare
X-Small Hotel
10
Simple, intuitive property management with patient guidance
Owner from 5 to 9 room Bed & Breakfast & Inn in Santa Teresa Gallura (Italy)
Verified
19 days ago
Thanks to Ettore and his explanations, managing the system becomes very simple and intuitive, octorate has simplified my management of the property.
Italy
Italy
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