# The Booking Widget

> A drop-in direct-booking widget for short-term and vacation rental hosts. 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.

## 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 property management system (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](https://thebookingwidget.com/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](https://thebookingwidget.com/features/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](https://thebookingwidget.com/features/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](https://thebookingwidget.com/features/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?](https://thebookingwidget.com/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?](https://thebookingwidget.com/solutions/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. [Pricing](https://thebookingwidget.com/pricing)

## Guides
- [Comeback Offer: Automatic Win-Back Discounts for Guests Who Almost Booked](https://thebookingwidget.com/blog/comeback-offer-automatic-winback-discounts)
- [Custom CSS: How to Brand Your Booking Widget So It Looks Native](https://thebookingwidget.com/blog/custom-css-brand-your-booking-widget)
- [Lost Basket Capture: Know Exactly Who Is Trying to Book](https://thebookingwidget.com/blog/lost-basket-capture-know-who-is-booking)
- [Per-Property Analytics: See Which Listings Actually Convert](https://thebookingwidget.com/blog/per-property-analytics-short-term-rentals)
- [How to Take Direct Bookings When You Do Not Have a PMS Yet](https://thebookingwidget.com/blog/take-direct-bookings-without-a-pms)
- [How to Take Direct Bookings When You Don't Have a Website Yet](https://thebookingwidget.com/blog/take-direct-bookings-without-a-website)
- [The Booking Widget: Smoobu's Booking Engine on Steroids](https://thebookingwidget.com/blog/smoobu-booking-engine-on-steroids)
- [Sync Your Smoobu Account With a Better Direct Booking Website](https://thebookingwidget.com/blog/smoobu-sync-better-booking-website)
- [How to Get Your Booking Site Recommended by ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity](https://thebookingwidget.com/blog/get-recommended-by-ai-chatgpt-perplexity)
- [Direct Booking Conversion Benchmarks for Short-Term Rentals (2026)](https://thebookingwidget.com/blog/direct-booking-conversion-benchmarks)
- [How Much Do OTAs Really Take? Airbnb vs Booking.com vs Vrbo (2026)](https://thebookingwidget.com/blog/ota-commission-airbnb-booking-vrbo)
- [The Best Direct Booking Widgets for Short-Term Rentals (2026)](https://thebookingwidget.com/blog/best-direct-booking-widgets-short-term-rentals)
- [Why Guests Abandon Bookings: 7 Friction Points (and How to Fix Each)](https://thebookingwidget.com/blog/why-guests-abandon-bookings)
- [How to Add a Direct Booking Button to Your Website (Step by Step)](https://thebookingwidget.com/blog/add-direct-booking-button-to-website)
- [5 Abandoned Booking Email Templates That Recover Reservations](https://thebookingwidget.com/blog/abandoned-booking-email-templates)
- [What Is a Lost Basket in Short-Term Rentals? (And How to Recover It)](https://thebookingwidget.com/blog/what-is-a-lost-basket-short-term-rentals)
- [How to Recover the Direct Bookings You're Losing Every Week](https://thebookingwidget.com/blog/recover-lost-bookings-short-term-rentals)

## More
- [Summary for AI](https://thebookingwidget.com/for-ai)
- [Blog](https://thebookingwidget.com/blog)

## Contact
- Email: contact@thebookingwidget.com
- Website: https://thebookingwidget.com
- Operated by Lebooker LLC