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A booking engine is software embedded into your hotel website that allows guests to check availability, compare rates, and complete reservations in real time.
For guests, it shows available rooms and prices and lets them book and pay directly on the hotel website. For hoteliers, it enables direct online sales under your own brand, helping you avoid agency commissions and apply pricing, payment, and promotional strategies that are not available on OTAs.
A channel manager distributes your rates and availability across OTAs like Booking.com, Expedia, and Airbnb.
A booking engine enables guests to book rooms directly on your hotel website. When connected to a channel manager or PMS, it uses the same availability and pricing data to keep website sales accurate.
Together, they help hotels balance direct sales and OTA distribution while maximizing revenue.
A booking engine integrates with your PMS through secure API connections. This ensures real-time synchronization of availability, rates, and reservations, reducing manual work and preventing overbookings.
You can check if your PMS is integrated on our list of supported PMS integrations.
The booking engine integrates with over 50 payment gateways, including major international providers as well as local acquiring systems and banks.
You can check the list of integrated payment systems or speak with an Exely representative in your region to choose the best option.
Yes. The booking engine is fully responsive and adapts to all screen sizes.
The booking flow, widgets, pop-ups, calendars, and payment steps are optimized for smartphones and tablets.
Yes. Booking Engine supports 40 languages and 50 currencies.
When a guest opens the website, the system automatically selects the language and currency based on the user's location. Guests can also change the language or currency manually at any time.
Yes. Booking Engine includes analytics and reporting dashboards for both website performance and bookings.
Website analytics help you track traffic sources, visitor behavior, and engagement. Booking reports help you analyze reservations, revenue, demand, pickup, and booking trends.
A booking engine helps reduce OTA commissions by increasing the share of direct bookings on your website, not by changing the commissions charged by OTAs.
By allocating availability to the website and improving conversion with built-in tools, hotels sell more rooms directly. Since booking engine fees are lower than OTA commissions, this leads to higher margins and helps increase direct revenue over time.
Yes. The booking engine can be added to your existing website without rebuilding it.
It can be integrated using embedded widgets, iframe integration, or booking page links. Your website only needs standard HTTPS/SSL support.
Yes. Booking Engine matches your hotel's brand colors. It blends seamlessly into your website, so guests experience it as a natural part of your hotel brand.