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Hotel booking engine

Hotel booking engine for direct bookings on your website

Turn the Book now button on your hotel website into a complete reservation flow: live rooms and rates, promo codes, extras, secure payment and an instant voucher, all on your own domain and in your own brand.

  • Book direct on your domain
  • Live rooms and rates
  • Promo codes and offers
  • Online payment and vouchers

Direct bookings

A hotel booking engine that keeps guests on your website

Guests who find your hotel on search, social or an OTA often visit your website before they book. A booking engine lets them finish there: pick dates, compare room types, add extras, pay and receive confirmation without being sent to a third-party site. You keep the guest relationship, the data and the margin that would otherwise go to commission.

  1. Load your properties, room types, photos and policies
  2. Set rates by day and season, plus direct-only offers
  3. Point your website's Book now buttons to the engine
  4. Take card payment online or let guests pay at the hotel
  5. Confirm instantly and email the voucher and invoice
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Hotel
Azure Bay Resort, Antalya
Check-in
14 Jun
Check-out
18 Jun
Guests
1 room, 2 adults, 1 child
Promo code
SUMMERDIRECT

Guest journey

From Book now to confirmed stay in a few steps

A short, mobile-friendly flow that guests complete without calling or emailing your front desk.

  1. Click

    The guest presses Book now on your hotel website.

  2. Search

    Dates, guests and promo code return live rooms and prices.

  3. Choose

    Room, board and extras are selected with the total shown.

  4. Pay

    Card, deposit or pay at hotel, according to your rules.

  5. Confirm

    Instant confirmation, voucher and invoice by email.

  6. Manage

    Changes, cancellations and refunds handled in your admin.

Availability

Keep the engine's rooms in step with every channel

Direct bookings draw from the same inventory you sell elsewhere, so a room is never sold twice.

  • Your room inventory

    Allotments, stop-sell and the availability calendar close dates as rooms sell.

  • Channel manager sync

    Connect a channel manager so rates and availability match your OTA listings.

  • Partner hotel APIs

    Groups and agencies can add wholesaler rooms, such as Hotelbeds, beside their own.

Hotel suppliers you can connect:

  • Agoda
  • Amadeus
  • Booking.com
  • Hotelbeds
  • Hotelston
  • RateHawk
  • Stuba
  • TBO Holidays
  • Travelport
  • Wanderbeds
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Hotel admin

Control rates, offers and bookings from one admin

Revenue and front-office teams manage the direct channel without a developer.

  • Rates and seasons

    Weekday, weekend, season and event prices per room type and board.

  • Stay rules

    Minimum stay, closed-to-arrival dates and cancellation policies per rate.

  • Multi-property

    Several hotels on one booking site, each with its own rooms, taxes and policies.

  • Guest records

    Contact details, booking history and requests kept for repeat stays and marketing.

  • Vouchers and invoices

    Sent in your brand on every confirmation, with taxes shown clearly.

  • Direct sales reports

    Bookings, revenue, promo code use and cancellations, ready to export.

Compare

OTA listings alone vs your own booking engine

OTAs bring reach. A booking engine gives you a direct channel next to them. This is what it adds.

AreaOTA listings onlyPHPTRAVELS booking engine
CommissionOTA listings onlyPaid on each booking, at the rate the OTA setsPHPTRAVELS booking engineNo per-booking commission; one-time licence
BrandingOTA listings onlyYour hotel shown inside the OTA's designPHPTRAVELS booking engineYour domain, logo, colours and content
Guest dataOTA listings onlyContact details often limited or maskedPHPTRAVELS booking engineFull guest record in your own database
OffersOTA listings onlyPromotions follow the OTA's programmesPHPTRAVELS booking engineYour own promo codes and direct-only deals
PaymentOTA listings onlyCollection and payout terms set by the OTAPHPTRAVELS booking engineYour gateways, deposits and pay-at-hotel rules
ExtrasOTA listings onlyUsually room onlyPHPTRAVELS booking engineTransfers, tours and packages added to the stay

Use cases

Who uses a direct hotel booking engine

  • Independent hotels and resorts

    Add real-time booking to your website and grow the share of guests who book direct.

  • Hotel groups

    One booking site for every property, with a property picker and shared guest accounts.

  • Apartments and villas

    Serviced apartments, villas and guesthouses taking bookings and deposits online.

Why PHPTRAVELS

A booking engine you own outright

  • Source code included

    Self-hosted under a commercial licence, so your developers can change any step of the flow.

  • One-time licence

    Startup, Agency or Enterprise, paid once, with no fee per booking.

  • 24 languages

    Guests book in their language and currency, including right-to-left scripts.

  • Room to grow

    Tours, transfers, flights and a B2B agent portal run in the same installation.

FAQ

Hotel booking engine questions

What hotels and hotel groups ask before adding direct booking to their website.

Talk to sales

A hotel booking engine is the reservation system behind the Book now button on a hotel website. Guests choose dates, see live rooms and rates, pay and receive confirmation directly from the hotel, without going through an OTA.

Run the engine on your domain or a subdomain such as book.yourhotel.com and link your website's Book now buttons to it. Because the source code is included, your developers can also build a search form into any page of your current site.

The booking engine sells rooms on your own website. A channel manager distributes rates and availability to OTAs, and a PMS runs front-desk operations. They work together; PHPTRAVELS can connect to a channel manager so all channels share the same inventory.

Most hotels keep OTAs for reach. The booking engine adds a direct channel next to them, so guests who already know your hotel can book with you, on your terms and without commission.

No. PHPTRAVELS is a one-time licence: Startup, Agency or Enterprise. Your own payment gateway fees still apply.

Yes. Each property has its own rooms, rates, taxes and policies, and guests choose the hotel in the booking form or arrive on its page directly.

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