Direct bookings, lost-basket recovery, and getting more from your rental website.
When a guest who almost booked comes back, The Booking Widget applies your discount automatically at checkout. No codes to type, no manual follow-up.
The Booking Widget gives you a visual editor for the basics and full custom CSS for everything else, so your booking flow looks like part of your site, not a bolted-on iframe.
The Lost Basket feature shows you every guest who started a booking but never finished, with their dates and listing, so you can win them back.
The Booking Widget shows full real-time stats for every listing, so you can see which properties convert, where guests drop off, and exactly what to fix.
No property management system? You can still take direct bookings today. Set prices and availability by hand in The Booking Widget, and connect a PMS whenever you are ready.
You don't need a website to start taking direct bookings. Here is the simplest way to get set up and capture your first booking without OTA commissions.
The Booking Widget isn't a Smoobu replacement. It syncs with Smoobu and gives you the same data through a far more capable booking experience, with analytics and win-back emails.
The Booking Widget partners with Smoobu. Connect with just your API key and your prices, min-stay, and availability sync automatically, Smoobu stays the source of truth.
AI assistants recommend rental sites that are readable, structured, and trustworthy to machines. Here is the practical playbook to become one of them.
A good direct booking site typically converts 2–4% of visitors. Here are the funnel benchmarks, where bookings leak, and how to push your rate higher.
Most OTAs take somewhere between 3% and 25% of a booking. Here is what Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo typically charge, and what you actually keep.
A fair buyer's guide to direct booking widgets for short-term rentals: what to look for, how the main categories compare, and how to choose the right one.
Most guests who start a booking leave because of avoidable friction, not price. Here are the 7 friction points that cost you reservations and how to fix each one.
A direct booking button is a small embed that connects your website to live availability. Here is how to add one in six practical steps.
A short, well-timed sequence of reminder emails recovers a meaningful share of abandoned bookings. Here are five copy-paste templates and the timing to send them.
A lost basket is a guest who started a booking but left before paying. Here is what causes them, why most rental sites never see them, and how to recover them.
Most guests who start a booking never finish it. Here is how lost-basket capture turns those near-misses into confirmed reservations.
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