Direct-Booking Calculator
See exactly what you hand the booking platforms in fees every year — and how much you would keep by shifting even a fraction of your nights to direct bookings.
The OTAs earn their fee — they bring you demand. But once a guest has stayed once, paying a platform to reach them again is money you do not have to spend. This shows what your current fees add up to, and what a direct channel would keep in your pocket.
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How the math works
Gross bookings are your average nightly rate times the nights you book in a year. The platform fee is what your main channel charges the host. The savings table assumes that when a booking comes to you direct, you still pay roughly 3% in card processing — so the amount you keep is the platform host fee minus that 3%, applied to the share of nights you move direct.
Two honest caveats. First, if you are on the Airbnb split fee (about 3% to the host), most of the cost actually sits on the guest side as a service fee — direct booking lets you drop the guest price or keep that margin yourself, which this simple model does not count. Second, a direct channel is not free: it takes a website, a little marketing, and the effort of turning one-time guests into repeat ones. That is the work we do — but it is real work, not a switch you flip.
See how we build direct-booking sites that actually convert repeat guests.
