Casa Paulina 1919
Stone holiday house near Vodnjan, Istria
A quiet, editorial site for a restored 1919 stone house: aerial film, olive-garden photography and a calendar guests can read at a glance.
Visit casa-paulina-1919.com For small and mid-sized hotels
A hotel website that brings in direct bookings
A made-to-measure site connected to your channel manager, PMS and booking engine, with payments into your own Stripe account. You pay once for the build, and we agree the monthly fee on a call.
What the hotel gets
The booking platforms stay for new guests. Your site is where guests who already search for you by name book.
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More direct bookings
A guest who found you on Google, or who is coming back for a second year, books on your site with no platform commission.
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Your brand, not a platform listing
Your photos, rooms, restaurant and surroundings, with no neighbouring hotels or other offers under yours.
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Rooms and rates from your system
The site shows what is in your PMS or channel manager, so nothing gets entered twice.
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In your guests’ languages
English, German, Italian, Croatian, Slovenian and more, each with its own URLs for Google.
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Fast on phones
Built for phones first, with easy date and room selection.
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Group and event enquiries
Weddings, groups and business travel arrive as a structured enquiry, not an email with no dates.
Less platform commission on every direct booking
On a platform booking, part of the room rate goes to the platform. When the same guest books on your site there is no platform commission; you pay Stripe’s payment fee and our monthly fee.
See what commission costs you in the calculator on the direct bookings page.
Integrations: channel manager, PMS and booking engine
We connect to your channel manager and PMS, so the site works alongside the systems your front desk already uses. We are not official or certified partners of the companies listed; we connect through the links, widgets and APIs your system offers.
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Channel manager
Availability, rates and bookings from the platforms stay in your channel manager, and the site sells from the same inventory. We connect to, for example, Phobs, Rentlio, SiteMinder, Cloudbeds, D-EDGE, RateGain, HotelRunner and Octorate.
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PMS
A booking from the site goes into your PMS like any other. We connect to systems such as Mews, Oracle OPERA Cloud, Protel, apaleo, Cloudbeds, RoomRaccoon, Clock PMS+ and Rentlio.
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Booking engine
If you already have a booking engine, we connect the site to it: with a deep link carrying the chosen dates, an embedded widget or the API, depending on what your system offers.
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Guest registration
The site can collect the guest details the authorities require (in Croatia, eVisitor) and pass them to your PMS. Check-in and check-out registration itself is still done by your PMS or front desk.
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Invoices
We pass the payment details to your PMS or invoicing software, which issues the invoice and, where the law requires it, reports it to the tax authority (in Croatia, fiscalization, which since 2026 also covers card payments).
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Payments through Stripe
Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay and SEPA payments into your own Stripe account, with a deposit or a card pre-authorisation before arrival. Card details never pass through our servers.
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Google
Google Business Profile, Google Hotel Center and Free Booking Links through your channel manager, plus Google Analytics 4 with cookie consent.
Don’t see your system? Get in touch and we will check how we can connect.
Guests pay you, into your own Stripe account
Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or SEPA payment, with a deposit or a card pre-authorisation before arrival. The money goes into your Stripe account; we never hold it.
A card payment costs from 1.5% + €0.25, a SEPA payment €0.35 (Stripe’s pricing, November 2026).
When the money arrives
A guest pays and the money goes into your own Stripe account. Nobody holds it until the guest arrives or leaves.
- In your Stripe account
- visible straight away
- In your bank account
- usually 3 business days
Example with €1,840. Direct booking: the guest pays and, after payment processing, the money is in your account, usually in 3 business days. Through a platform: the platform holds the money, only starts the payout after the guest arrives or leaves, so the money lands months after the booking.
The first payout to a new Stripe account is a one-off that takes longer, about 7 to 14 days.
Card payments reach your bank in about 3 business days. SEPA Direct Debit payments take a few business days to clear. Sources: payout rules of Stripe and the major platforms, November 2026.
Sites that already work this way
A stone house near Vodnjan and Pool Bar Villa: made-to-measure sites with the same admin behind them. Each looks like its own property, not a template.
Pool Bar Villa
Villa with pool bar near Vodnjan, Istria
Saturday-to-Saturday weeks, a live season strip in the hero and last-minute deals, in five languages for guests from across Europe.
Visit pool-bar-villa.comHow it works
We design and build your site. A monthly fee keeps everything running.
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A call
We talk about your place, your guests and how you take bookings today. You show us what you like.
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Design
We design your site around your photographs and your voice, then refine it with you until it feels like yours.
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Launch
We connect your domain, import your bookings and show you the admin. From then on we keep it running.
Questions
How much does a hotel website cost?
You pay once for design and build at the start, then a monthly fee. On top of that you pay for the domain and Stripe’s payment fees. The amount depends on the number of rooms, languages and systems we connect, so we agree it on a short call and send you a quote.
Can you connect the site to our channel manager and PMS?
Usually, yes. We connect to the common channel managers and PMSs, for example Phobs, Rentlio, SiteMinder, Mews and Oracle OPERA Cloud. How depends on the system: a deep link into your booking engine, an embedded widget or the API. We are not official partners of these companies; we connect through what your system offers.
We have a booking engine. Do we need a new one?
Not necessarily. If you are happy with your booking engine, we connect the site to it. If you want booking to look like part of the site and your system has an open API, we can do that too. We explain the difference here.
Do you register guests with the authorities?
Not directly. The site can collect the guest details the registration requires (in Croatia, eVisitor) and pass them to your PMS; registration and deregistration itself is still done by your PMS or front desk, as before.
How does a guest pay, and who issues the invoice?
The guest pays by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or SEPA into your Stripe account. You can take a deposit or just pre-authorise the card and charge at check-out. We pass the payment to your PMS or invoicing software, which issues the invoice and reports it to the tax authority where required. More on the payments and payouts page.
Do we have to leave the booking platforms?
No. The platforms bring new guests and stay in your channel manager. The site is there so guests who already search for you by name book direct. We never contact platform guests on your behalf.
Which hotels is this for?
Small and mid-sized hotels, roughly 10 to 80 rooms, and guesthouses. For boutique and business hotels with special requirements, see boutique hotel websites. For villas and apartments we have separate pages: villa websites and holiday apartment websites.
Who maintains the site?
We do. The monthly fee covers hosting, security updates, monitoring the connections to your systems and small changes through the year.
Price on request
Ask for a quote for your hotel.
The price depends on the number of rooms, languages and systems we connect. After a short call we send you a quote with a one-off build price and a monthly fee.
Tell us a little about your hotel and the systems you use.
Leave a few details and we will arrange a short call.
Thank you.
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