Little Hotelier: a Book Now button or a booking engine on your page

Little Hotelier says it’s built for B&Bs, boutique hotels, guesthouses, motels, inns, lodges and other small properties.

1. 01

   The embedded booking engine

   Runs inside your own site, keeps your branding through the whole booking and switches to full screen on phones. Submit your domain to Little Hotelier for approval first.

2. 02

   Book Now and date selection widgets

   A Book Now button, or a date picker where guests enter check-in, check-out and guests before the booking page opens. Custom widgets can set things like a default number of nights or a language.

3. 03

   Plain links

   Link straight to your booking page, a promo code or a specific rate plan.

The hosted booking page lives on direct-book.com (Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas) or book-directonline.com (Asia and the Pacific), at an address with your property’s channel code. With the embedded engine, guests book on your own domain instead.

Little Hotelier documents promotion_code for promo code links, plus ratePlanId and room_type to open a specific rate or room. Dates and guests come from its date selection widget.

API. Properties on Direct Booking can use the Direct Booking API for live pricing, availability, rooms and rates in a custom booking experience. Little Hotelier says it’s best suited to properties with a developer.

Payments. Little Hotelier Pay, available in 31 countries and territories.

Little Hotelier lists connections to big travel sites, vacation rental sites and Google.

Big travel sites

• Booking.com
• Expedia
• Agoda
• Hotels.com
• Tripadvisor
• Hostelworld
• Trip.com

Vacation rental sites

• Airbnb

Google

• Google

Little Hotelier says its channel manager reaches more than 450 channels. Google Hotel Ads is an add-on on the Basics plan and included on Pro.

If you can get your domain approved, embed the booking engine on your own site and keep guests there from search to confirmation. If not, put the date selection widget on your homepage and room pages, and use promo code links in your emails and social posts.

Either way, your own pages are what Google and AI tools read and recommend, so that's where the work pays off. I build direct booking websites around the booking software you already have, and I can move a site out of your booking software, redirecting every old page so your rankings carry over.