Nokumo's direct booking engine puts your property on Google Hotels, captures the booking on your own site, and settles payment through Nokumo Pay — with zero OTA commission on every direct reservation.
Nokumo's direct booking engine is a commission-free booking widget for hotels, apartments, and vacation rentals — a conversion layer on your own website, not a reservation system. It renders Google-indexable booking pages, takes payment through Nokumo Pay, confirms instantly, and writes every reservation straight into the Nokumo PMS in real time.
Nokumo's SEO-optimised booking pages are indexed by Google and built for conversion. A guest searching for a hotel in Dubrovnik can find your property, check availability, and confirm a booking — without ever seeing Booking.com.
Google-indexable booking pages
Mobile-first conversion-optimised checkout
Instant confirmation and payment
Stripe-powered secure payments
Guest repeat booking and loyalty
Zero commission per direct booking
Hotel Delminivm: -30% OTA dependency in year 1
AdriaticExplore: +50% revenue in 12 months
Direct bookings by the numbers
0%
OTA dependency cut
Hotel Delminivm, year 1 on Nokumo
0%
Revenue increase
AdriaticExplore, 12 months
0
Commission per direct booking
Every booking on your own site is commission-free
0
Checkout flow
Search to confirmed booking — no OTA handoff
Direct Booking Engine FAQ
A booking engine is the conversion layer on your own website: guests check real availability, pay, and get instant confirmation without an OTA in the middle. It is not a reservation system — every booking it captures writes straight into the Nokumo PMS, which stays the system of record.
No. The booking engine is the guest-facing checkout on your website; the reservation system — the PMS — is where bookings are stored and managed. Nokumo's engine writes every reservation into the PMS in real time, so there is one calendar and no manual re-entry.
Zero. Every booking made on your own site is commission-free. Payment settles through Nokumo Pay — Stripe-powered and secure — with instant confirmation, and the reservation lands in your PMS in real time.
Nokumo's booking pages are SEO-structured and Google-indexable, and your property appears on Google Hotels. A guest searching for a hotel in Dubrovnik can find your property, check availability, and confirm a booking without ever seeing Booking.com.
Hotel Delminivm cut OTA dependency by 30% in its first year on Nokumo. AdriaticExplore grew revenue 50% in 12 months, combining direct bookings with Nokumo's revenue tools. Promotional codes and direct-only rates help convert returning guests.
Because the guest relationship — and the repeat booking — belongs to you, not to the OTA. First-time guests will keep arriving via Booking.com, and Nokumo prices that channel correctly. But when a guest returns, your direct booking portal lets them rebook at 0% commission instead of 15–20%.
You can be taking direct bookings within your onboarding week. The portal is generated from your existing PMS data — rooms, rates, photos, policies — so there is no separate build project. A shareable portal link works even before you attach a custom domain or full website.
Yes. Promo codes with configurable scope run per rate plan, and you can display them publicly for consumer campaigns or hide them for B2B partners such as corporate clients and travel agents. Packages bundle accommodation with extras like cleaning or excursions, bookable only on your direct channel.
Yes. The guest-facing portal renders in the languages Nokumo supports, and multi-currency billing handles cross-border guests. This matters most for Adriatic and Alpine properties whose guests book from across the EU — the portal should not lose a German guest at a Croatian property to a language gap.
No — the portal draws from the same central availability as every OTA channel. A direct booking decrements inventory and closes the window on Booking.com and Airbnb within the same 60-second sync, so you can never oversell by adding a direct channel.
Compare your direct share of bookings before and after, and watch repeat-guest behaviour: returning guests who originally came via an OTA are the cheapest direct-conversion opportunity. Nokumo's reporting shows channel mix per booking, so the shift is measurable rather than anecdotal.
