Mews: a booking engine that opens right on your page

Mews says it’s built for all kinds of hospitality businesses, from boutique and independent hotels and hostels to serviced apartments and hotel groups.

1. 01

   The Booking Engine Widget

   A script on your pages that opens the booking engine as an overlay on your own site. You can set the dates from your own search before it opens. Check that your Mews plan includes the widget.

2. 02

   The standalone booking engine

   A link to your booking engine on app.mews.com, with deep links to fill in the search. Mews doesn’t support putting it in your own iframe.

3. 03

   The Booking Engine API

   For a fully custom booking flow. Mews offers it on its Enterprise subscription.

With the widget, guests book in an overlay on your own page, and Mews sends them to a secure payment page to pay. The standalone booking engine lives on app.mews.com.

Mews documents mewsStart and mewsEnd (YYYY-MM-DD), mewsAdultCount, mewsChildCount, mewsVoucherCode, mewsRoom to open a specific room, mewsRoute to open a specific step, plus language and currency.

API. The Booking Engine API is for custom front ends on the Enterprise subscription. The Connector API is for Mews partners.

Payments. Mews’s built-in payments, with Apple Pay and Google Pay in the booking engine.

Mews lists connections to big travel sites and vacation rental sites.

Big travel sites

• Booking.com
• Expedia

Vacation rental sites

• Airbnb

Mews Channel Manager is powered by SiteMinder, and Mews says it reaches more than 400 channels. Its help center names Booking.com, Expedia and Airbnb’s hotel connection.

Use the widget so guests book over your own pages, and wire your own date search into it so the dates carry through. Link each room page to its room with mewsRoom, and use voucher deep links in your emails.

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.