FREE Short Term Rental Online booking system / service
As our name suggests, freeonlinebooking's online booking system / service is completely FREE of charge. Not only that, but it is commission free, with NO additional charges to pay on bookings.
The online booking system is designed to be integrated with your own Short Term Rental website. Simply get your web developer to cut and paste our booking widget on your website and you can accept online bookings in minutes.
This is our full online booking system that we have previously charged customers for and includes advanced features such as multiple rate plans, additional products/services, minimum stays, special offers and a whole lot more.
Short Term Rental Online booking service - fully customisable
Our FREE online booking system is very flexible and fully customisable to suit your business requirements, both in terms of how it works and how it looks.
This includes the booking widget which goes on your website and the online booking sequence itself.
You can choose from a large number of colour schemes and layouts to suit the design of your website, plus choose what features to enable or hide.
Short Term Rental Online booking system features
Our advanced online booking system supports multiple rate plans, special offers, minimum stays, weekly rates, advance purchase rates, add on purchases and a whole host of other features.
These types of features can turbo charge your bookings and dramatically increase your overall profitability.
 | Fresh modern new look |
| Photo slideshows - showcase your rooms with stunning photos |
| Multi-lingual - makes it easier for your overseas guest to book with you |
| Multi-currency - display your rates in the currency of your customers |
| Weekly deals view – great for self-catering properties! |
| Compulsory fees - add cleaning fees, surcharges, tourist taxes etc |
| Flexible rate plans - setup refundable rates, non-refundable rates, weekly rates, corporate rates etc |
| Sell additional services and products - maximise your profit with booking add-ons |
| Comprehensive restrictions - enforce minimum and maximum stays, check-in/out restrictions, same day and lead day restrictions |
| Special offers - use promotions to drive direct bookings |
| Fully customisable - fits into your website perfectly |
Customisable booking widget and sequence
We recommend using our room availability grid on your booking sequence as customers are often flexible with dates and can easily see when you have availability if their initial dates are unavailable.
We also offer a more traditional single date search for those properties wishing to display bigger pictures of your rooms.
Our online booking service is fully responsive - so can be used on any type of device from smart phones to tablets and larger computer screens.
Availability Search
Many online booking services just return results based upon a single search date. This can prove very frustrating for guests at busier times of the year when you have limited availability. They will search for a date, get told that you have nothing available, and repeat a few times before giving up.
At freeonlinebooking we believe that it is very important to offer your guests an easy way of seeing your room availability, so that guests that are flexible on their dates can easily see when you do have availability.
Our research shows that this can make a sgnificant difference in your level of direct online bookings.
In the example below you can see 14 days at once on screen, along with a couple of rate options, a bed and breakfast rate, a cheaper non-refundable rate and a weekly rate to encourage longer stays.
Integrating online booking with your website
Our FREE online booking service can be integrated with your website a number of ways, depending on how you want it to look and work.
The simplest option is to put a simple link to your online booking service, or use one of customisable booking widgets.
This example shows a basic booking widget / booking button with the colours customised to suit the customer's website.
Another alternative is to embed the booking sequence directly within a page your website. This option makes the booking sequence look part of your website.
Again it can be customised to suit the colours of your website.
The final option is to use a custom date picker on the front page of your website. This way you have total control of how the widget looks; However, it will require an hour or two of your web developer's time to get it looking and working as you want it.
Taking payments online
You can choose to capture guests credit card details and store them in our secure vault until you charge their card. Alternatively you can choose from one of a number of low cost payment gateways that we link with.
Using this option payments are made directly into your bank account. Note that additional monthly and transactional charges apply if you use a third party payment gateway service.
Payment Gateways
Commission FREE & no booking fees
All bookings made via your free online booking system are commission free with NO additional booking charges/fees.
More details
The easiest way for us to show you how this service can benefit your business is for us to give you a short online demo.
In just 20 minutes we can show you exactly how everything works and answer any questions you may have. Just click on the button below for more information.
Benefits of using an online booking system
We would strongly recommend that all accommodation business use an easy to use, highly functional and effective online booking system.
If your do not offer online booking on your website then expect customers to book via one of the online travel agent (OTA) websites, which will of course will mean having to pay a high level of commission on the booking.
- Available 24/7 - your booking service is available at all times night and day.
- Save time and effort - offering an online booking system also means that customers won't have to phone or email you to make a booking. This can save you and your staff a considerable amount of time and effort in administration work.
- Capture full guest details - as part of the booking sequence, guests have to enter their full contact details. This makes it easy for you to
How easy is it to setup an online booking system on your website?
freeonlinebooking can normally get you up and running with online booking in a couple of hours. You will need some decent photos of your rooms, and have a clear idea of how you want to sell your rooms.
For instance do you wish to sell your rooms on a bed and breakfast or room only basis? Of course you may wish to offer multiple rate plans to give customers some choice. You will also need to put a bit of thought into your room rates and ensure that they are attractive to customers.
Once you have set everything up in freeonlinebooking, it is a simple case of deciding (with our assistance) how you wish your booking sequence to work. You can for instance select the default number of guests, whether you accept children or choose to have a special offer code box displayed or not etc.
You also get to choose a colour scheme and booking sequence layout that best suits the design of your website.
The final step is to decide how you wish your online booking system to be integrated with your website. You could have a simple clickable button to open the booking sequence in a new tab or window, use a booking widget so the customer starts choosing number of guests and search date, or you can even embed the booking sequence within your own website so it looks like part of it.
In most cases this will require only mininimal time and effort from your website designer to copy and paste the code onto your website.
More details
The easiest way for us to show you how this service can benefit your business is for us to give you a short online demo.
In just 20 minutes we can show you exactly how everything works and answer any questions you may have. Just click on the button below for more information.