Software for private rooms
Private room rental software: bookings, guest registration and invoices
For hosts who let three to five rooms alongside a job or a farm: guests enter their own registration details, the tourist tax is calculated for you, and all that is left at the kitchen table in the evening is checking.
- Guests enter registration details before arrival
- Tourist tax for children and season set up once
- 14 days to try it alongside your work
In short
Private room rental software connects the booking calendar, guest registration, tourist tax and invoicing for a few rooms in one program. STRYK runs in the browser and charges a base fee plus a fixed amount per room and month, net of VAT. With four rooms, the base fee makes up the larger part. There is no setup fee, and your partner gets their own login at no extra cost.
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What letting rooms costs you in spare time
If you let three to five rooms alongside a job or farm work, you do the admin in the evening at the kitchen table. Guest registration, the tourist tax and double bookings are what tends to get left there.
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You fill in the registration form by hand after arrival, often not until the next morning. You only find out whether the registration went in on time when the form happens to turn up again.
With STRYKGuests enter their registration details online before arrival, and you check them at check-in. In Austria STRYK shows the 24-hour deadline from check-in for each stay and warns when it is close or has passed.
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At departure someone goes looking for the note with the tourist tax rate. Children pay less, you count the nights on your fingers, and the invoice is written from memory.
With STRYKYou enter the amount and calculation method once, including the rules for children, season and length of stay. STRYK adds the tax to the price, the booking and the invoice. Your municipality sets the amount; STRYK does not check it against the local regulation.
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Enquiries come in by phone, by message and through a portal. The kitchen calendar only shows what you have written in, and one room gets promised twice.
With STRYKPhone, your booking page and connected portals all write into one calendar. Once a room is taken, no other channel can accept it in STRYK; for portals this applies after a successful sync. New bookings appear without reloading and with a notice, even if you have only just got home from work.
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Friday to Sunday in a house with four rooms
An example: a couple rents out four private rooms in their house. Both work away from home during the week.
A look at Friday before work
At the kitchen table you open the calendar in the browser. Two rooms check out today, one stays on, and one is taken in the afternoon. Who prepares which room after work is clear without searching through slips of paper.
A request during the lunch break
A couple phone to ask about two nights in October. In the price calculator you see the price and tourist tax for those dates without creating a booking. Then you create the booking, and STRYK suggests a suitable free room.
Guests arriving from Hamburg
The guests entered their registration details online the day before, with ID details and signature. You check them at the kitchen table and show the two of them to their room.
A booking through your own website
While you are cooking, a reservation for July arrives through your booking page. It appears in the calendar without anyone copying it over, and when the phone rings the next day, the room is already taken.
Departure and invoice
The couple in room 2 check out. The invoice is created from the booking, with the tourist tax on its own line, and the PDF goes to the guests by email. In the calendar, room 2 then shows as dirty until you release it after cleaning.
What you really need for a few rooms
A few rooms need little, but that little has to work. The housekeeping plan, gift vouchers and reports are included too, in case you need them later.
Calendar with room status
The booking calendar shows a day, week or month. You create, change and cancel bookings and record walk-ins. Several rooms can be grouped into one booking, for example for a family taking two rooms.
Read moreGuest registration
Guests fill in their registration details online in advance. For Austria, STRYK exports the registration records as CSV and for municipal portals (MBS). For other countries, you still handle the registration yourself.
Read moreTourist tax (Ortstaxe)
You set the amount, calculation method and exceptions for children, season and length of stay once, under Settings → Hotel. After that the tax appears in the price on your booking page and on every invoice.
Read moreInvoice and booking page
The invoice is created from the booking and cannot be changed once issued. On your own booking page guests book direct, with no portal commission, and the page costs nothing extra.
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Private rooms with a kitchen calendar or with STRYK
Five tasks that keep coming up on the side when you rent out rooms.
| Task | Kitchen calendar and paper form | With STRYK |
|---|---|---|
| Record occupancy | Kitchen calendar, notes on your phone and the portal extranet have to be matched up by hand. | One calendar for every booking channel. A room that is taken cannot be promised a second time. |
| Register guests | Paper registration form filled in by hand after arrival. | Registration details arrive online beforehand. In Austria, STRYK shows the deadline for each stay and exports as CSV or for municipal portals. |
| Calculate tourist tax | Nights and children are worked out in your head at departure. | Once set up, the tax appears in the price, the booking and the invoice. |
| Prepare rooms | Agreed by shouting across the house or a note on the door. | Housekeeping plan with a status for each room. Whoever cleans can see which rooms are due today. |
| Issue invoices | A Word or Excel template; later corrections overwrite the original. | Invoice from the booking. Once issued, you change it only through a cancellation or a credit note. |
One price that grows with your property
For four rooms the base fee counts for most; the amount per room is added four times. The price card on this page shows the total. If you take no online payments through STRYK, no platform fee applies either.
Pricing in detail€59 base fee + €6 per room or unit per month
Example with 4 rooms€83per month
- 14-day free trial
- No setup fee
- Personal onboarding
Net prices, annual billing. 20% off the base fee in the first contract year.
From paper to software in four steps
There is nothing to install. The setup is designed for small houses with a few rooms.
Name your rooms and booking routes
You tell us how many rooms you have and how bookings come in today, for example by phone and through a portal. A short call confirms whether STRYK suits your few rooms, and then you get your trial access.
Set up rooms
You add your rooms one by one or in a batch, with capacity and description. With four rooms the list is short.
Import existing bookings
If your guests and future bookings are in a spreadsheet, you import them as CSV or XLSX. A dry run shows beforehand what would be imported. If you only have a paper calendar, just enter the few bookings directly.
Set up tourist tax
You enter the amount set by your municipality. From then on it appears in every price. You find the amount that applies in your municipality's regulation.
Frequently asked questions
Do I really need software as a private host?
No, it is not required. It pays off once bookings come in through more than one channel, or once guest registration and tourist tax regularly eat into your time. With a single room and only a few guests a year, a calendar is often enough. Within the 14-day trial you can see whether it reduces the work for your house.
How do I handle guest registration with STRYK?
Guests enter their registration details online before arrival, and you check them when they arrive. In Austria, STRYK shows the 24-hour deadline for each stay and exports registration records as CSV or for municipal portals (MBS). You submit the registration itself by the route your municipality prescribes.
What does STRYK cost for four rooms?
A base fee plus a fixed amount per room and month, net of VAT. The price card on this page works through exactly this example with four rooms, billed annually and monthly. Annual billing runs for 12 months and renews for another 12 months; billed monthly, the price is 20% higher. Users and support cost nothing extra.
Do I have to check STRYK every day?
No. New bookings appear with a notice, and the daily plan can arrive as a PDF by email at a fixed time each morning. Invitations and reminders for online check-in go to guests automatically.
How do guests get in if we work during the day?
You arrange that yourself, for example with a key box. STRYK can send your directions to guests as a message before arrival if you set up an automation with a template. STRYK is not connected to door locks.
Can I issue invoices without VAT?
That depends on your tax situation, not on the software, for example whether the small business exemption applies to you. Clarify this with your accountant before you issue the first invoice. During the trial you can then check together whether the VAT display and invoice wording fit your case. On request, your accountant receives a monthly journal.
Can my partner work with their own login?
Yes, the number of users is not limited and costs nothing extra. Your partner gets their own login and can create bookings while you are at work. Later, the activity log shows who created which booking.
Work out the price for your private rooms
Send a request with your number of rooms and the channels guests book through today. Then try it for 14 days and see whether your evenings at the kitchen table get freer.