Win the direct booking. Keep the revenue.
Hotelia is a 0% commission direct booking engine built specifically for independent and boutique hotels. Modern guest experience. Built by hospitality.
Salida, Colorado
The Cedar House
Built for the hotels OTAs forgot
Most booking platforms were retrofitted from enterprise chains or vacation rentals. Hotelia was designed from day one for independent operators who run the property themselves and want to own the guest relationship.
Commission on every booking
You pay a flat monthly subscription. Every dollar a guest pays goes straight to your Stripe account. No revenue share. No per booking fees. No surprises.
Rooms is our sweet spot
We are built for independent and boutique hotels. That means every feature assumes you know your guests, run your property hands on, and care about hospitality.
Platform for the whole property
Booking engine, payments, guest comms, and property management in one place. No stitched together stack. No reconciling between systems.
Every detail, built to convert
The booking engine is the page where a guest decides to pay you or pay an OTA. Hotelia treats it as the most important page on your website, with the design and features to match.
Sell the experience, not the upsell
The strongest add ons anticipate what a guest wants before they ask. A welcome bottle. An early arrival. A local experience. In Hotelia, you build your own, personalize them to the property, and choose how each is taxed.
- Fully customizable copy, pricing, and images
- Per add on tax control built in
- Personalize by season, room type, or guest profile
- Live in the booking flow, not as a front desk afterthought
Add ons
Payments that respect the guest
Hotelia uses authorization holds to secure deposits, not charge and refund cycles. The guest's card is verified, not drained. The booking flow feels modern, trustworthy, and clean from the first click to checkout.
- Authorization holds for deposits
- Operator is the merchant of record through Stripe Connect
- Funds settle directly to your account
- You own the guest data and the payment relationship
Reservation deposit
A welcome that feels effortless
Guests receive a secure PIN before they arrive. They walk straight to their room. The front desk gets to focus on hospitality. The arrival becomes the first chapter of the stay instead of friction at the start of it.
- Secure, time bound PIN per reservation
- Pre arrival check in flow built in
- Smart lock integrations coming soon
- Front desk dashboard for guest tracking
Your room PIN
The Cedar Suite
Active from 3pm on Jun 12 through 11am Jun 14
A guest experience designed for direct
Mobile first. Fast loading. Transparent pricing. No surprise fees at checkout. The booking flow is designed to make booking direct feel as easy as booking on an OTA, with all the trust signals that win the booking.
- Mobile first booking flow
- Real time availability and pricing
- Transparent fee breakdown
- Branded experience that matches your property
Booking total
Both have their place. Only one is yours.
OTAs are discovery engines. They put your property in front of travelers who would never find you otherwise. But once a guest is on your website, every booking should run through you, not a marketplace taking 15 to 30 percent.
| Hotelia | OTA bookings | |
|---|---|---|
| Commission per booking | 0% | 15 to 30% |
| Who holds the guest data | You | The OTA |
| Brand experience | Yours, top to bottom | Marketplace listing |
| Payment flow | Straight to your Stripe | OTA holds, pays out later |
| Direct guest relationship | Yes | No |
| Refund and cancellation control | Your policy | OTA policy |
| Loyalty and repeat bookings | Earned and kept | Earned, then handed back |
Live in days, not months
Hotelia was built so independent operators can go live without a six month implementation timeline or a consultant on retainer. Three steps, then you are taking direct bookings.
Connect Stripe in minutes
Hotelia uses Stripe Connect, so you become the merchant of record. Funds settle directly to your account from day one. No middleman holding your money.
Add your rooms and add ons
Set up your room types, rates, photos, and the add ons that make your property special. Tax rules, policies, and seasonal pricing are all built in.
Drop the widget on your website
Embed Hotelia's booking widget anywhere on your existing site. Your brand, your domain, your booking flow. No redirect to a third party checkout.
Designed by someone who actually ran the property
Hotelia was built by a former Marriott operator who watched commissions eat margin that never came back. The booking engine is the page where independent hotels lose direct revenue every day, and most platforms treat it like an afterthought.
Every feature in Hotelia exists because it solves a problem hotel operators actually have. Not because it looked good in a roadmap deck.
The booking engine is the single most important page on a hotel's website. It is where a guest decides whether they give their money to the property or to a marketplace. We built Hotelia to make sure independent operators win that decision every time.
One flat subscription. The rest is yours.
Most platforms quietly take a percentage of every booking. Hotelia charges a flat monthly subscription. The bigger your direct channel grows, the more you keep.
What you keep on a $1,000 booking
Why a flat fee wins
- Predictable monthly cost regardless of volume
- No penalty for growing your direct channel
- No revenue share with the booking platform
- Funds settle to your Stripe account, not ours
- Pricing transparency. No fees.
Questions independent operators ask
Your direct channel, finally working for you.
Book a 15 minute walkthrough. See the booking engine, the property dashboard, and what your direct channel could look like with Hotelia behind it.
No credit card required. No sales pressure. Just a real look at the product.
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