Direct booking engine for hotels
Direct bookings for your hotel, made simple
BookingEye is the booking engine on your own website. Guests see live availability, choose a room and an offer, add extras and pay through your bank. The booking reaches your team and your channel manager straight away.
A booking page in your brand
Live rooms and offers, amenities, photos and the price for the whole stay, on your own domain.
- 1Rooms
- 2Your details
- 3Payment
4 rooms available for 3 nights
- King bed
- 38 m²
- Ocean balcony
- Free Wi-Fi
- Double or twin
- 28 m²
- Garden view
- Air conditioning
Rooms that sell themselves, and the extras
A photo gallery, every amenity, a choice of meal plans, and add-ons such as transfers, spa and dining.
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- King bed
- 38 m²
- Ocean balcony
- Rain shower
- Minibar
- Smart TV
- Free Wi-Fi
- Air conditioning
Airport transferPrivate car, one way
USD 35
Couples spa massage60 minutes
USD 90
Candlelit beach dinnerFor two
USD 120
Your bookings at a glance
Bookings, room nights, revenue and ADR, the revenue trend, your room mix and where guests come from.
- Dashboard
- Reservations
- Rates
- Inventory
- Offers
- Add-ons
- Reports
- Settings
Rates, rooms and offers on one calendar
Set rooms and rates by day, close a date in one click, run offers, and approve changes before they go live.
- Dashboard
- Reservations
- Rates
- Inventory
- Offers
- Add-ons
- Reports
- Settings
Example hotel and illustrative figures.
- 100+ hotels and resorts take direct bookings with BookingEye
- 18 banks and payment gateways connected
- 4 leading channel managers in sync
- 24/7 bookings without your team lifting a finger
Why direct bookings matter
Every direct booking is worth more to you
Online travel agents bring guests, and they take a share of every booking. A strong booking engine on your own website lets guests book with you directly.
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Keep the commission
A booking through an online travel agent costs you a commission on the room. A booking on your own website does not.
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Own the guest relationship
The guest's details come to you, not to a third party, so you can welcome them properly and invite them back.
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Back up your rate parity
When your own website offers your best rate, guests who compare prices have a reason to book with you.
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Sell more than the room
Packages, add-ons, transfers and offers for direct guests only: things a listing on someone else's site cannot show.
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Set your own terms
Your deposit, your cancellation policy, your minimum stays and your promotions, applied the way you decide.
Our difference
Why hotels choose BookingEye
Built for the way hotels in Sri Lanka, the Maldives and beyond actually sell and get paid.
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Paid straight to your bank
Guests pay through your own bank's gateway and the money settles to your account, not ours. We connect the leading banks and gateways in Sri Lanka, the Maldives and internationally.
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The right merchant account, every time
Use several merchant accounts and send each card type and currency to the right one, with the dates each account is active.
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Bank card promotions
Run offers with partner banks: a discount that applies only when the guest pays with that bank's cards, checked as they type the card number.
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Local and foreign rates
Separate rates for residents and international guests, each with its own currency and the gateways that accept it.
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More revenue from every stay
Transfers, spa, dining and excursions offered with photos while the guest books, priced into the same payment.
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Marketing know-how built in
Made by eMarketingEye, hotel digital marketers since 2007: Google Analytics 4, Tag Manager and Google Hotel Ads follow every booking.
Features
Everything a direct booking needs
From the first search to the confirmation email, and the hotel admin behind it.
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Multi-property search
Guests pick a hotel and dates in one search, across every property in your group.
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Live rooms and offers
Rooms and offers are priced from your own inventory and rates as the guest searches, with a calendar of open dates when the chosen dates are full.
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Offers with rules, and promo codes
Early-bird, last-minute and length-of-stay offers with their own minimum stays and deposits, and promo codes with a landing page for a campaign.
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Add-ons and transport
Sell extras and airport transfers during the booking, and after it from a link in the confirmation email.
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Full payment or a deposit
Take the full amount or a deposit, set per offer, on your bank's secure payment page.
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Channel manager sync
Bookings, availability and rates flow between BookingEye and RateGain, STAAH, SiteMinder or eZee Centrix.
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Rates and inventory calendar
Rooms and rates by day for each room type and offer, close a date in one click, and see what has sold.
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Dashboard and reports
Bookings, revenue, ADR and trends at a glance; reports by room type and guest country that export to a spreadsheet.
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Approvals and roles
Give each user view, edit or approve rights per property, and have rate and inventory changes approved before they go live.
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Google Hotel Ads
Your rooms and rates can appear on Google with a link to book directly on your engine.
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Tracking that follows the booking
Google Analytics 4 and Google Tag Manager on every step, so you can see which campaigns bring bookings.
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Your brand, on every screen
Your domain, colours and logo, on a booking page that works on a phone, a tablet or a computer.
Integrations
Connected to the systems you already use
Bookings go to your channel manager, and payments go through your own bank or gateway.
Channel managers
Availability, rates and reservations kept in sync.
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- SiteMinder
- eZee Centrix
Payment gateways
Money settles to the hotel's own merchant account.
Sri Lanka
Maldives
International
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- Mastercard Gateway (MPGS)
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- IPayAmex
Logos and names are trademarks of their owners and are shown to identify the systems BookingEye connects to.
Using a different channel manager or bank? Ask us
How it works
From first call to live bookings in four steps
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Step 01
We set up your hotel
Tell us about your properties. We set up your rooms, rates, offers and branding with you.
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Step 02
Connect payments and your channel manager
We connect your bank's payment gateway and your channel manager, and test a booking end to end.
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Step 03
Go live on your domain
Your booking engine goes live on your own domain or on bookingeye.net, linked from your website.
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Step 04
You manage rates and offers
Your team runs rates, availability and offers from the hotel admin, and we are there when you need us.
Security and trust
Built to protect your guests and your hotel
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Card details stay with the bank
Guests enter their card on the bank's or gateway's secure page. BookingEye never sees or stores a card number.
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Bank credentials stay out of the engine
Your merchant account credentials are held by the payment service, not by the booking engine.
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Secrets are encrypted
The keys and passwords the platform needs are stored encrypted, never in plain text.
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Each hotel separate
Every customer's data lives in its own database, and each user sees only the properties they have been given.
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An audit trail
Changes are logged with who made them and when, and changes that need approval wait until someone approves them.
FAQ
Questions and answers
What is BookingEye?
BookingEye is a booking engine for hotels. It runs on your own website so guests can check availability, choose a room and an offer, and pay, without leaving your brand.
How much does it cost?
Pricing depends on your hotel — number of properties and rooms. Request a demo and we'll prepare a proposal.
Can guests book on my own domain?
Yes. Your booking engine can run on an address such as book.yourhotel.com, or on yourhotel.bookingeye.net.
We have several hotels. Does that work?
Yes. Guests can search across all your properties in one place, and your team manages them from one admin with access set per property.
How do guests pay, and who receives the money?
By card, on your bank's or gateway's secure page, in full or as a deposit depending on the offer. The money settles to your own merchant account. You can use several merchant accounts, by card type and currency.
Which banks and payment gateways do you support?
In Sri Lanka: Commercial Bank, Sampath Bank, Bank of Ceylon, Hatton National Bank, Global Payments, PayHere, KOKO, WebXPay and Dialog Pay Business (formerly Genie). In the Maldives: Bank of Maldives. Internationally: Stripe, 2C2P, Red Dot Payment, ClicToPay, Mastercard Gateway (MPGS), CyberSource, CMI and IPayAmex.
Does it work with my channel manager?
BookingEye works with RateGain, STAAH, SiteMinder and eZee Centrix. Using another? Tell us when you request a demo and we will confirm.
Who sets up rooms, rates and offers?
We do the first set-up with you. After that your team manages rates, availability and offers in the hotel admin.
Is the booking engine mobile-friendly?
Yes. Guests can search, book and pay on a phone, a tablet or a computer.
Can we move from our current booking engine?
Yes. Tell us which engine you use today and we will plan the move with you.
How long does it take to go live?
It depends on how many properties, rooms and offers you have. We agree a go-live date with you during set-up.
Still have a question? Email us
Ready to take more direct bookings?
See BookingEye with your own hotel in mind. We will walk you through the booking engine and the admin, and answer your questions.
- A walk-through of the guest booking journey
- The hotel admin and dashboard your team will use
- A proposal for your properties
Or email sales@emarketingeye.com