Software for bed and breakfasts
Bed and breakfast software: calendar, breakfast rate and invoice
Whether a guest booked with or without breakfast is recorded in STRYK in the booking's rate and later on the invoice. Your holiday stand-in will find their way around it too.
- Breakfast as a service in the rate
- Own booking page in the core price
- Try it for 14 days with your own rates
In short
Bed and breakfast software is a booking and invoicing program for properties with a few rooms where breakfast is included in the price. STRYK runs in the browser and combines the booking calendar, rates with breakfast, the Booking Engine, tourist tax and invoices. The cost is a base fee plus an amount per room each month. Your holiday stand-in gets their own login at no extra charge.
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What costs a bed and breakfast time and margin
In properties with three to twelve rooms, the host usually does everything personally, from breakfast to the invoice. Time and margin are lost mainly in these places.
- Today
At 9 pm someone emails about the weekend, a portal sends an enquiry, and a regular guest phones. Every channel has its own note. On Sunday you find out that the room in the attic has been assigned twice.
With STRYKPhone, website and connected portals write into the same booking calendar. Once the attic room is assigned, STRYK no longer accepts a second booking for it; for portals this applies after successful synchronisation. The new booking appears with a notice, without you reloading the page.
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The evening before, you do not know exactly how many people breakfast is for tomorrow. Whether a room was booked with or without breakfast is in an email from three weeks ago.
With STRYKBreakfast is a service included in the rate. Guests who book the breakfast rate have it in the booking and on the invoice. The number for tomorrow follows from the bookings for the next day and their rates.
Read more - Today
The portal keeps a commission on every booking, and with three rooms that adds up quickly. Your own website brings enquiries, but no bookings, as long as the guest first has to write.
With STRYKThe Booking Engine takes direct bookings on your website, with price and availability straight from STRYK. No revenue commission applies in the core price. With online payment through STRYK, a 1.9% platform fee plus the payment provider's charges are added. You keep paying portal commissions to the portals.
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A summer day at a B&B with seven rooms
A day in a B&B with seven rooms, where the host serves breakfast in the morning and a helper takes over reception in the afternoon.
Day view before breakfast
You open the booking calendar in the day view. The rooms show their status, and you see which guests leave today and which stay on. Then you set the tables.
Departure with a finished invoice
The couple in room 3 check out. The invoice comes from the booking, with breakfast and tourist tax as separate items. After check-out, room 3 shows as free for cleaning in the housekeeping plan.
Rooms for cleaning
The housekeeping plan shows which rooms are free today and by when they should be ready. You assign the cleaning and set each room to ready for arrival once it has been checked.
Direct booking through the website
A family books two nights in the family room on your site. The Booking Engine shows the price and tourist tax in advance, and the booking appears in the booking calendar without you typing anything.
Handover to the helper
The helper logs in with their own access and has the reception role. They see the afternoon's arrivals and enter a walk-in directly in the calendar, without touching your settings.
What a bed and breakfast uses in STRYK
What is needed every day between the breakfast room and reception. The other functions are on the feature pages.
Rates with breakfast
A rate combines price, services, cancellation terms and payment. You set up one rate with and one without breakfast, and guests choose when they book.
Read moreBooking Engine on your own address
The booking page runs on an address under staystryk.com or on your own domain, with six design templates. Prices and availability come directly from STRYK, and the tourist tax is included in the price.
Read moreBooking calendar with overbooking protection
The calendar shows day, week and month views. You enter multi-room bookings and walk-ins directly in the calendar.
Read moreInvoice and tourist tax
The invoice comes from the booking and, once issued, can only be corrected by a cancellation or a credit note. You set up the tourist tax (Ortstaxe in Austria) once in the settings, and your municipality sets the amount.
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A bed and breakfast run on paper or with STRYK
The table compares everyday work with a paper chart, a portal extranet and an invoice template against one program.
| Task | Paper, email and extranet | With STRYK |
|---|---|---|
| Accept an enquiry | Phone, email and portal leave separate notes. | Reception, website and portals write into one booking calendar. |
| Handle breakfast | The breakfast request is in an email or on a note. | Breakfast is part of the booked rate and shows in the booking and on the invoice. |
| Direct booking | Guests ask by email and wait for a reply. | Guests book on your website, and the booking lands in the calendar. |
| Holiday stand-in | The stand-in needs a verbal briefing. | The stand-in gets their own login with roles and permissions. |
| Invoice on departure day | Word template, tourist tax worked out in your head. | Invoice from the booking, tourist tax as a separate item. |
| Track changes | Nobody knows who changed the calendar. | The activity log shows who moved the booking for the attic room. |
One price that grows with your property
With six rooms, the base fee makes up a larger share of the sum than in a hotel. The price card on this page shows the amount. The breakfast rate and the booking page cost nothing extra.
Pricing in detail€59 base fee + €6 per room or unit per month
Example with 6 rooms€95per month
- 14-day free trial
- No setup fee
- Personal onboarding
Net prices, annual billing. 20% off the base fee in the first contract year.
Switching from the paper chart to STRYK
You install nothing. You can plan the switch so that it falls into a quiet week between two arrivals.
Send an enquiry with the number of rooms
You give the number of rooms, your breakfast prices and the way bookings come in today. Then someone from STRYK calls you before your trial access starts.
Set up rooms and rates
You create rooms and categories and build your two breakfast rates. You bring existing bookings as CSV or XLSX.
Check the test import
Before a booking is saved, a trial run shows what would be imported. The error report names, for example, a booking that still lacks the breakfast rate.
Set a cut-off date and connect the website
From a day in the quiet week, new bookings go only into the booking calendar. You connect the Booking Engine on your website; connecting your own domain is guided step by step in STRYK.
Frequently asked questions
How do I show breakfast in the price?
Through rates. A rate combines price, services such as breakfast, cancellation terms and payment. You set up one rate with and one without breakfast, and the guest chooses in the Booking Engine.
Is software worth it for three rooms?
That depends on what your costs are today. The price is a base fee plus a fixed amount per room, with no setup fee and no revenue commission in the core price. Only with online payment through STRYK do a 1.9% platform fee and the payment provider's charges apply. Compare that with what portal commissions and the time spent on invoices cost you.
How do I get more direct bookings?
With a booking page where guests see price and availability straight away, instead of having to write an email first. The STRYK Booking Engine is included in the core price and runs on your own address. How many guests book there depends on your website, your prices and your regulars.
How do I hand the B&B over to a holiday stand-in?
Give them their own login, for example with the reception role. They see arrivals, the booking calendar and the housekeeping plan, but they cannot change rates or settings. After your holiday, the activity log shows what they booked or changed.
Can I give regulars a discount code for direct bookings?
Yes. You create a discount with a code and link it to conditions such as channel, weekdays or length of stay. You send the code to regulars with the confirmation, so that they book directly on your site next time.
What does online payment cost in a bed and breakfast?
With integrated online payment, a platform fee of 1.9% applies to the amount processed online, in addition to your payment provider's charges. Payment runs through your online payment account, and the available payment methods depend on its activation. Without online payment, no fee applies.
How do I keep track of guest registration when I run the B&B on my own?
In Austria, through the deadline monitor: STRYK shows the 24-hour deadline from check-in for each stay and warns when it gets close. Guests enter their registration data online in advance, and it is exported as CSV and for municipal portals (MBS). The registration itself remains your duty as host.
Try your breakfast rates for 14 days
Tell us the number of rooms and your two breakfast rates. During the 14-day trial you set up these rates and take bookings on your new booking page yourself.