Every booking through an OTA costs you 15–20%.
Take a property doing $4,000 a month through Booking.com and Agoda. At 15–20%, that's $600–800 a month in commission, over $8,000 a year, much of it paid on guests who would have booked you directly. Our booking platform build costs $600 once, plus $20 a month: for that property, one month of commission.
commission on direct bookings
bookings while you sleep
one-time build, about one month of OTA fees
Clear scope. Clear price.
Prices in USD with LKR equivalents, fixed before we start. No hourly surprises.
Direct Booking Site
A fast site that takes enquiries and booking requests directly, so the guests who'd have found you anyway stop costing you commission.
- Up to ~6 pages, mobile-first & sub-second fast
- Direct enquiry + booking request flow
- WhatsApp & email integration
- Photo gallery, rooms, rates & reviews
- Google-ready SEO for 'hotels in <your town>'
- You can update rates & photos yourself
Booking & Payments Platform
A booking engine with live availability and online payment. Confirmed, paid reservations arrive on your own site at any hour, with no commission.
- Everything in Direct Booking Site
- Live availability calendar & instant booking
- Online payments (PayHere / onepay / cards)
- Automated confirmations & reminders
- Owner dashboard: bookings, guests, rates
- Multi-currency display for foreign guests
Tour & Activity Platforms
For tour operators, dive shops and experience hosts: itinerary builders, multi-day bookings, group payments and the custom logic your business actually runs on.
- Itinerary & package builder
- Multi-day / multi-guest bookings
- Deposits, balances & group payments
- Operator & guide dashboards
- Integrations (maps, calendars, messaging)
- Built on our own framework, no licence fees
Not sure which fits? Start with a free mockup and we'll recommend a scope for your property and budget.
Your own booking engine: paid, confirmed, commission-free.
Live availability, instant confirmation, and online payment on your own domain. Guests get the booking experience they know from the big platforms; you pay nothing per reservation.
What every build includes
The pieces a Sri Lankan hospitality business needs to win direct guests and keep them.
Commission-Free Direct Bookings
The booking platforms take 15–20% of every reservation. Your own site takes 0%. The difference stays in your pocket, booking after booking.
Online Payments, Local & Global
Accept LKR and international cards through PayHere, onepay or Stripe. Bookings arrive confirmed and paid, without a phone call.
WhatsApp & Instant Enquiry
One tap opens WhatsApp, the channel most Sri Lankan bookings already happen on, and every enquiry also lands in your inbox.
Works Alongside the OTAs
Keep your Booking.com and Airbnb listings. The direct channel runs beside them; it's cheaper for guests and commission-free for you.
Built for Tourists
Multi-currency display, pages that load fast on a hotel-lobby 4G connection, and support for the languages your guests speak.
Found on Google
Technical SEO so travellers searching for a place to stay in your town find your site alongside the aggregators, not below them.
Click through a real booking flow.
A hotel booking demo you can try end to end, and a production app serving Sri Lanka today.
Tamarind Bay
A boutique beachfront hotel with the complete direct-booking flow: availability, room choice, payment. This is the standard we build to. Click through it yourself.
Open the demo Shipped & livetrains.lk
A real-time Sri Lanka railway map and journey planner with a live backend we built and operate ourselves. Passengers use it every day.
Visit the appFrom first call to first direct booking.
You see your site at step two, before you've spent a rupee.
Conversation
A short call about your property, your guests, and how you take bookings today. No jargon.
Free Mockup
We build a tailored preview of your own booking site before you've paid anything. You judge the real thing, not a proposal document.
Build
We engineer the site on our own framework: booking, payments, dashboard, the lot. You review at every step.
Launch & Support
We go live on your domain, train you on the dashboard, and stay on hand for fixes and changes. The site is yours.
Questions owners ask
What property owners want settled before they say yes.
No, keep them. They send you guests you'd never reach otherwise. But many guests who book through them would book you directly if they could, and on those reservations you're paying 15–20% for nothing. Your own site captures those bookings commission-free, running right alongside the platforms.
Yes. With the Booking & Payments Platform, guests pay with local cards and bank options through PayHere or onepay, and with international cards through Stripe. Reservations arrive confirmed and paid, with no phone tag and no bank-transfer screenshots.
Yes. You get a dashboard to update rates, photos and availability and to see your bookings. Anything you don't want to touch, we handle. No website knowledge needed.
The Care Plan covers hosting and maintenance: $10 a month on the starter tier, $20 on the platform tier, and from $50 for custom builds. There is never a per-booking commission. Compare that with the OTA maths above: a property paying $600 a month in commission covers the $600 platform build with one month of fees.
You'll see it first. We build a free, tailored mockup of your property's site before you commit to anything. For the standard we build to, click through our live demo, Tamarind Bay.
See your hotel's booking site, free.
Tell us about your property and we'll build a free, tailored mockup of your own direct-booking site. Decide once you've seen it.
Already an IASoft customer? Please open a support ticket through your client dashboard instead — you'll get faster replies and priority support.