Book direct
For the innkeepers, in one picture

Guests book on your site, Cloudbeds does the rest as it does today

Brass boxes are new. Dashed boxes are what the inn already runs and keeps.

A guest books direct

🔎GuestFinds the inn on Google, Instagram or a friend's tip.
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🏡New site newRooms, views, dogs, parking, check-in: answered, with live prices.
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📅Cloudbeds booking engine keptAlready paid for, now styled like the site and linked from every page.
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✉️Welcome email newDirections, door code by text on the day, the Gorge list.

The same room can't be sold twice

📅Cloudbeds calendar keptThe booking lands in the calendar the innkeepers use now.
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🔁Channel manager keptCloses the room on Booking.com and Expedia within a minute.
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📱Innkeepers' phoneThe usual Cloudbeds alert. Nothing new to learn.
Why it pays for itself
15%commission on every guest who reaches the inn's own site today and is sent on to Booking.com
$57commission on one two-night $380 stay, kept by the inn when the guest books direct
~$8,500a year if 150 of those stays book direct (an example, not a promise)

Concept by Biz59 for a sample inn (Wren Hollow Inn is not a real business). Photos: rawpixel, CC0.