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The Booking Widget, in brief

The Booking Widget is a drop-in direct-booking widget for short-term and vacation rental hosts. It is free to use, with a flat 4% per booking charged only when you make a sale. Guests book on your own website, you keep the guest data, and you avoid high OTA commissions.

Machine-readable: llms.txt · sitemap.xml

What it does

• Turns your own website into a direct-booking channel with a fast, embeddable widget.
• Captures booking intent, so you can recover guests who almost booked.
• Syncs availability and pricing from your PMS, or works with prices you set manually.
• Sends payments straight to your own Stripe account.
• Runs in every major language and currency, matched to each guest.

Features

• Lost Basket: We capture a guest's details and booking intent the moment they start, so the ones who never reach checkout aren't gone. Follow up and win them back.
• Comeback Offer: When a guest who almost booked comes back, greet them with a discount you set, applied automatically at checkout. No codes, no friction.
• Custom CSS: A visual editor for the basics and full custom CSS for everything else, so the widget looks like a native part of your site, not a bolted-on iframe.
• Per-property analytics: Full stats for every property, lost baskets, booking intent, conversion, revenue, and occupancy, in real time. Plus connect your own Google Analytics.

Solutions

• No website?: No problem. Tell us about your rentals and we'll help you get a direct-booking setup live, no website required to start.
• No PMS?: You can still take direct bookings with The Booking Widget. Pick whichever works for you.

Pricing

Free to use. A flat 4% per booking, only when you make a sale. No setup fees, no monthly fees. Payouts go to your own Stripe. See pricing.

• Unlimited listings
• Lost basket capture
• Comeback Offer auto-discounts
• Per-property analytics + Google Analytics
• PMS availability & pricing sync
• Custom CSS & visual editor
• Direct payments to your own Stripe

Guides

• Comeback Offer: Automatic Win-Back Discounts for Guests Who Almost Booked
• Custom CSS: How to Brand Your Booking Widget So It Looks Native
• Lost Basket Capture: Know Exactly Who Is Trying to Book
• Per-Property Analytics: See Which Listings Actually Convert
• How to Take Direct Bookings When You Do Not Have a PMS Yet
• How to Take Direct Bookings When You Don't Have a Website Yet
• The Booking Widget: Smoobu's Booking Engine on Steroids
• Sync Your Smoobu Account With a Better Direct Booking Website
• How to Get Your Booking Site Recommended by ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity
• Direct Booking Conversion Benchmarks for Short-Term Rentals (2026)
• How Much Do OTAs Really Take? Airbnb vs Booking.com vs Vrbo (2026)
• The Best Direct Booking Widgets for Short-Term Rentals (2026)
• Why Guests Abandon Bookings: 7 Friction Points (and How to Fix Each)
• How to Add a Direct Booking Button to Your Website (Step by Step)
• 5 Abandoned Booking Email Templates That Recover Reservations
• What Is a Lost Basket in Short-Term Rentals? (And How to Recover It)
• How to Recover the Direct Bookings You're Losing Every Week

Contact

Email contact@thebookingwidget.com. Website thebookingwidget.com. Operated by Lebooker LLC.