The STRYK Booking Engine sells your real rooms, rates and extras with live availability from the PMS. Guests see the total price before booking, pay online, and the booking appears in the calendar immediately.
More direct business with STRYK
The hotel booking page, clear rates and PMS availability create a simple path from website visit to stay.
In short
STRYK is hotel software with its own booking engine for hotels that want to win more guests directly instead of through portals. Guests book on your website with live availability, your own rates and extras, pay online, and the booking appears in the calendar instantly. Direct bookings paid online carry a platform fee of 1.9% instead of the usual portal commission.
Guests should be able to book a stay on your website, not just browse rooms. In the STRYK booking engine they choose dates, an available room, a rate and the extras you offer. Prices and conditions appear alongside the choices.
The confirmed booking appears in the STRYK calendar with the guest, dates and charges. Reception opens the same details and checks payments received and outstanding balances with the booking. Online payments through the integrated payment service depend on the payment methods you have set up.
Your booking page and confirmed portal connections use your property's availability. We confirm which portals you can use after mapping and a connection test. Changes reach connected portals once synchronisation succeeds.
For a room at €140 per night over three nights, a portal can quickly take €70 to €100 in commission. Over a year and hundreds of bookings that is often more than a seasonal employee costs. Even so, the portal share stays high because the direct route is neither easier nor cheaper for the guest.
Many hotel websites only offer an enquiry form or a booking page that is not connected to the calendar. The guest waits for a reply, the team checks availability, writes an offer and types up the booking. Meanwhile the guest has long since booked on the portal.
When city tax, breakfast or final cleaning only appear at the end, or the cancellation terms are missing, guests drop off. Anyone who books direct wants at least as much clarity as on the portal, and ideally a reason why booking direct is better.
If you manage website and portals separately, you often hold rooms back on your own site so nothing is sold twice. Those are exactly the rooms the direct booker then cannot get. Your own website becomes a second-class channel, even though it is the cheapest one.
Every booking through an OTA costs commission. Many guests would happily book direct, but drop off if the booking page is fiddly, the price only adds up at the end or availability isn’t current.
Large images, clear room descriptions and clearly stated inclusions make choosing easier, on a smartphone too.
Rate, cancellation terms and extras are clear before the guest books. No surprises at the last step.
Room, rate, guest, payment and extras are complete in the PMS, with no retyping.
This is how a booking runs when website, portals and front desk all work on the same rooms.
Your booking page runs on its own address or as a widget on your existing website. Rooms, photos and texts come from your room categories in STRYK and do not need to be maintained twice. The guest chooses dates and number of guests and immediately sees which rooms are free, on a smartphone too.
Alongside your standard rates you show rates that are only available on your website, for example with breakfast or flexible cancellation. You give the portals a different price through a channel mark-up. The guest can add promo codes for regular guests and extras such as parking, late arrival or wellness directly.
Before booking, the guest sees the total price including city tax and the cancellation terms. They pay online through the integrated payment service, a deposit or the full amount, depending on the rate. The balance is collected automatically at the cancellation deadline; with a free cancellation the online payment is refunded automatically.
The guest receives a confirmation with a PDF and a calendar file. In the PMS the booking is in the calendar with room, rate, extras and payment status. On connected portals the room is no longer available once synchronisation has succeeded. The front desk has nothing to retype.
Automations send information or the link to online check-in before arrival, if you use the module. After departure a review request can follow. Anyone who has booked direct once has a profile in your guest records and, with a promo code or gift voucher, is more likely to book direct again next time.
The booking page runs on a STRYK subdomain or your own domain. Alternatively, you embed a widget in your existing website. Templates and your branding make sure the page looks like your hotel.
The booking page sells the same rooms as the front desk and the portals. STRYK prevents double bookings within STRYK, and for portals once synchronisation has succeeded, so you do not need to hold rooms back on your own site.
Website-only rates, derived rates with breakfast or half board, and mark-ups for the portals make the direct route visibly more attractive. You maintain pricing rules and the rate calendar in one place for all channels.
Guests redeem codes for regulars, newsletters or partnerships and dedicated rates for corporate clients directly on your booking page. That way you reward returning guests instead of paying commission to the portal for them.
The booking page offers breakfast, parking, pets, late arrival or wellness packages to match the stay. The booked extras then appear on the stay and the invoice, with no follow-up work at the front desk.
Guests pay online through your payment account when they book, a deposit or the full amount. The balance is collected automatically at the cancellation deadline, and free cancellations are refunded automatically. Which payment methods are available depends on your payment account.
Sell vouchers online with payment through the integrated payment service or at the front desk. The guest receives a PDF with a QR code, and vouchers can also be redeemed in part. A voucher usually brings the next stay straight to you.
Through the channel manager, connected portals such as Booking.com, Expedia or Airbnb receive availability and rates, and their bookings arrive in STRYK. Connect Booking.com, Expedia, Airbnb and other channels to STRYK. Manage rates and availability centrally and handle OTA reservations in the calendar.
Maintain rooms, prices and extras once and sell directly online.
Direct bookers see only free rooms and a price that holds right up to completion.
Before you sell, you see how every price is made up.
At 3 pm you welcome guests instead of typing up forms and IDs.
Most properties launch the booking page alongside their existing website and switch it on after a test run.
During the 14-day trial you set up rooms, rates and extras and see your booking page with real prices. You maintain photos and texts in the room categories, and the page takes them from there. Changes only become visible once you publish them.
We transfer existing bookings and guests with a test run so that availability is right from the start. You connect your payment account and decide which rates require a deposit or prepayment. Then you make a test booking yourself.
You link to the booking page from your website or embed the widget. The portals confirmed for your property after mapping and a connection test are connected through the channel manager, so all channels sell the same rooms. From then on the reports show how your direct share develops.
The booking engine is included in the price: a €59 base price plus €6 per room per month, net plus VAT on annual billing (12 months, renewing for a further 12 months each time); monthly billing costs 20% more. Direct bookings paid online also carry a platform fee of 1.9%. On top of that come the fees of your payment provider. For a €420 booking that is €7.98 in platform fee, instead of around €60 to €100 in portal commission.
No. The 1.9% only applies to direct bookings paid online through the booking page. Bookings your front desk takes by phone or email and bookings through portals are not affected. These bookings are covered by the base price and the per-room price.
Yes. You can link to the booking page on its own address, use your own domain or embed a widget directly in your website. Your web agency does not need to build its own booking system. Rooms, photos and texts come from STRYK and are maintained only there.
Website, front desk and portals sell the same rooms from one calendar. Every booking goes through overbooking protection and immediately reduces availability in STRYK, and on the portals once synchronisation has succeeded. So you do not need to hold rooms back on your own website.
Technically, yes: you can create website-only rates and give the portals a different price through a channel mark-up. Whether and how far you use this depends on your contracts with the portals. Many properties also rely on perks rather than discounts, such as breakfast, parking or flexible cancellation for direct bookings only.
That depends on the cancellation policy of the booked rate. If the guest cancels free of charge, STRYK refunds the online payment automatically through the integrated payment service. If a cancellation fee applies, it is settled in the finance area. If no balance has been collected yet, the scheduled collection ends with the cancellation.
14 days free. All core apps included. No setup fee.
