Top 10 List of the Best Hotel Website Booking Engines (WBE / IBE) of 2022
Have you been thinking about getting an engaging and appealing hotel website? It’s of course good thinking!
But if your website won’t let your guests book their stay directly, you’ll be losing a lot of potential customers.
Every hotelier wants to increase the count of direct bookings and shift traffic from OTAs to the official website. It not only has a direct impact on revenue, but also provides guests with a seamless and smooth booking experience.
For the reasons stated above, getting a Booking Engine is a MUST!
In this article, we will look at how to choose the right solution among all the online reservation systems on offer online. Let's dive in!
What is a Hotel Website Booking Engine?

A hotel booking engine is a software application used to securely process online reservations. It allows your guests to make reservations directly on the hotel’s website as well as third-party websites like Facebook, whenever the hotel is listed.
Most people spend a good amount of time browsing through social media platforms. Listing your hotel on Facebook is already a good choice. But it’s even better if you’re using a hotel booking engine, which allows guests to conveniently make a reservation via social media.
Moreover, a good website booking engine offers additional resources to hoteliers. For instance, a channel manager may be integrated with a website reservation system, allowing hoteliers to distribute products on multiple channels simultaneously.
How does a Website Reservation System Works?
Simply put, a hotel reservation system processes secure online reservations made through the website. The acquired data is passed to an extranet (backend system), which can be conveniently accessed by hoteliers to manage bookings and a lot of other things.
Why do you need a Booking Button?
Whether you’re a budget property or a popular chain, a hotel reservation system is a necessity to increase sales and revenue. Unless you don’t believe in the power of the internet, which would of course be awkward, you’d know that a lot of travellers rely solely on online reservations to book hotels.
- Reduce OTA Dependency
- Using a booking engine, just like OTAs, you can offer the same ease of searching and booking the right room.
- An increased count of direct bookings means lesser OTA commissions. Saving money is earning money, right?
- Get an Advantage Over Competitors
- A lot of small or budget properties still don’t have official websites. You might even have quite a few such properties in your territory. What’s a loss for them is a win for you! With an online booking system, you get an edge over competitors. Having your own website is not necessarily expensive - at HotelMinder we provide fully managed websites for as little as 35€ per month.
- Improves Efficiency in Business
- With a website booking engine, you can directly communicate with guests.
- Create promotional offers for returning guests, and send personalised messages with ease.
- Keep your inventory updated in real-time across channels, and minimize the risk of overbooking to save time on administrative tasks.
Without a booking engine integrated with your website, you’d be losing a lot of business!
Are you looking to:
- Optimize occupancy, revenue or ADR?
- Upgrade your software stack?
- Solve a distribution or tech issue?
- Improve your hotel online marketing?
Are you looking to:
- Optimize occupancy, revenue or ADR?
- Upgrade your software stack?
- Solve a distribution or tech issue?
- Improve your hotel online marketing?
The Best Booking Engine for your Business
In order to provide you with the most accurate and useful information possible, the solutions listed below are ordered as per their popularity on HotelMinder Marketplace. Note that some of our partners pay a yearly fee in exchange for marketing opportunities on our platform and that we may earn a commission when you buy a third-party product or service from this website.
We know that one solution cannot suit all types of properties: the best software or service for your hotel is the one that fits your specific requirements, objective and budget. If you are looking for professional guidance on what you really need, how to choose it, install it and use it — then look no further.


Built to drive direct bookings, the Cloudbeds Booking Engine easily integrates with any website to turn it into a top-performing booking channel, with no added commissions.
The Cloudbeds Booking Engine puts the full power of direct reservations in the hands of independent property owners.
Recommended for small and medium hotels, hostels and short-term-rental properties in Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa and Central and South America. Recommended for economy and midscale properties.
Starting at €90 for the all-in-one solution including PMS, Channel Manager and Booking Engine - for a few units and for the most basic package. Price increases depending on the property size, number of units and functionalities. Modules like PIE can be added for an additional fee.
Simplotel | GuestJoy | Oaky | REVX | Roommatik | AdsHotel | Breezeway | CartStack | Civitfun | Lightspeed | Paypal | Stripe | TrustYou | UpsellGuru | Whistle | Zapier | Your own website |


A commission-free booking engine, ConvertDirect by Staah is fully customisable and PCI-certified.
It offers a 3-step, intuitive and simple booking process allowing guests to seamlessly proceed to the payment page.
The product comes with valuable extras, such as upgrades, add-on services and WatchMyRate - a price comparison widget.
To help you increase direct bookings, ConvertDirect Booking Engine comes with support for multiple languages, multiple currencies, hot deals and promo codes.
Recommended for medium and large hotels in Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa and Central and South America. Recommended for midscale properties.
No public pricing, you need to register for a callback - but STAAH pricing is usually low enough compared to its competition.
HotelTime | IDeaS | Mews | Oaky | Preno | Simplotel | elina | Aiosell | Protel | Infor | Hotelogix |


FrontDesk Master is an affordable all-in-one solution with one login to use PMS, Channel Manager, and Booking Engine. It's a perfect match for hostels of different shapes and sizes, hotels, guest houses, and posadas.
FrontDesk Master gives you powerful integrations and updates and helps you save hours of manual work while reducing paperwork. Solutions like online check-in, online payments, or online invoicing help you offer the best experience for your guests and your team.
FrontDesk Master is used by 1000+ users, to simplify the operations and track performance of their properties. It's an easy and powerful alternative to the outdated systems, without set up fees, contract or long term commitments.
Recommended for small and medium hotels and hostels in Europe. Recommended for economy and midscale properties.
A free 30-day trial and no set up fees makes FrontDesk Master a very compelling solution for the budget conscious hotelier! The Support Team will even help you migrate existing data from your old PMS. Monthly fees depend on the capacity of the hostel/hotel: PMS Lite + Channel Manager starts at $25 per month PMS PRO + Channel Manager starts at $26 per month The Standalone Channel Manager starts at €11 only.
Pricepoint | SiteMinder | Stripe |
Are you looking to:
- Optimize occupancy, revenue or ADR?
- Upgrade your software stack?
- Solve a distribution or tech issue?
- Improve your hotel online marketing?
Are you looking to:
- Optimize occupancy, revenue or ADR?
- Upgrade your software stack?
- Solve a distribution or tech issue?
- Improve your hotel online marketing?


Zak, WuBook Booking Engine, is a booking system that allows you to increase conversions directly from your website.
Not only charming, but also easy to use.
An intuitive layout, detailed reports, a customizable interface and adjustable to the site of your property to offer your customers a unique booking experience.
Recommended for medium hotels, hostels and short-term-rental properties in Europe, Middle East and Africa and Central and South America. Recommended for economy properties.
No activation cost - from €55 per month for the All-in-One Software (PMS, Booking engine and Channel Manager), but you can also choose not to activate the full suite, the choice is free, depending on your needs. The cost is per package, not according to the number of rooms.
Stripe | Paypal | Mercado Pago | Vikey | Roommatik | Booking Factory | HQ revenue | HotelFriend | MyForecast | Pricepoint | Sezam24 | Aiosell |


RateTiger Booking Engine helps hotels offer their guests a fast and seamless booking experience. It allows hotels to keep their rates and inventory in sync across all channels including hotel brand website.
RateTiger Booking Engine offers:
- Simple and compatible Booking Engine solution which can be integrated to hotel brand website.
- Create & manage promotions, rates, availability & restrictions on hotel brand website.
- Supports multiple languages and currencies, hot dates and promo codes.
- Flexible pricing model to manage costs on new and existing bookings.
- Manage ancillary revenue through add-on services like car parking, spa, packages etc
Recommended for medium and large hotels and short-term-rental properties in Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa and Central and South America. Recommended for economy, midscale and upscale properties.
Starting at €59 for the basic Channel Manager and for few units. Price increases depending on the property size, number of units and modules selected.
Oracle | Infor | Protel | Guestline | Skyware | IDS Next | SIHOT | TrustYou | Apaleo | HotelTime | Simplotel | reconline | IDeaS | Mews | Your own website | Agilysys |


RoomCloud offers software for online distribution and direct sales. With the channel manager, inventory and portals are updated via web 24/7 on 400+ portals, avoiding the risk of overbooking.
Increase direct bookings and sell on Google, TripAdvisor and Trivago with our certified booking engine. The dashboard will show you in a simple but accurate way your performance and your competitors to help you take better decisions.
RoomCloud Channel Manager is certified premier partner of Booking.com, Airbnb, VRBO and Expedia and its Booking Engine is certified for campaigns on Google Hotel ads, Tripadvisor and Trivago.
Recommended for small, medium, and large hotels and short-term-rental properties in Europe. Recommended for economy, midscale and upscale properties.
Upon request.


With a clean design, SabeeApp's commission-free booking engine has been optimised for conversion.
Working on the latest SSL technology to secure data, this platform is fully customisable. You can easily set it up, offer promotional codes and discounts, while also integrating it with Facebook's booking engine.
Using SabeeApp's booking engine, your guests can book multiple room types in a single booking. A mobile-friendly platform, this one comes in 14 different languages.
Recommended for small and medium hotels, hostels and short-term-rental properties in Europe, Asia-Pacific and Central and South America. Recommended for economy and midscale properties.
From €89 per month for PMS + Channel Manager + Booking Engine and for up to 9 rooms.
Xero | Nuki | ASSA ABLOY | Your own website |
Are you looking to:
- Optimize occupancy, revenue or ADR?
- Upgrade your software stack?
- Solve a distribution or tech issue?
- Improve your hotel online marketing?
Are you looking to:
- Optimize occupancy, revenue or ADR?
- Upgrade your software stack?
- Solve a distribution or tech issue?
- Improve your hotel online marketing?


GuestDiary Booking Engine (by AccuBook) is a commission free booking engine module for your hotel website.
GuestDiary advanced mobile ready booking engine technology will allow you to increase direct bookings.
Thanks to its connection with GuestDiary PMS & Channel Manager, online bookings automatically allocate to the best available room in your diary and availability is automatically reduced on connected websites such as Airbnb or Booking.com.
Recommended for small and medium hotels, hostels and short-term-rental properties in Europe. Recommended for economy and midscale properties.
Prices start at €99 per month for up to 10 room properties Properties with 10 - 20 rooms €139 per month Properties with 20 - 40 rooms €169 per month Properties with more than 40 rooms €199 per month There is: NO Setup or upfront fees, NO Contract, NO Support costs.


Hotel Link's Booking Engine provides a great experience for your guests with an intuitive and simple booking process on your website. You can adjust room information and rates quickly; create promotions, best rate badge, special offers and upsell services to increase revenue.
This tool allows you to sell any type of rooms such as bungalows, villas, cottages, apartments, dorms. It turns your website into the most profitable channel by attracting more direct bookings and you can earn full payment from guest without paying any commission.
Recommended for small hotels in Europe and Asia-Pacific. Recommended for economy and midscale properties.
No public pricing but Hotel Link is affordable (the complete suite of applications will start at around 100USD for a small or medium sized property). You will get a callback for quotation when registering here.


5stelle* is a native cloud based PMS, that make you save time and ease your hotel management and online sales, on a daily basis.
The reception is always under control. Thanks to native cloud technology you can manage your accommodation anywhere, anytime. With the new Pocket feature, you can take care of your business even from your smartphone.
5stelle* is a complete all-in-one solution that provides PMS, Channel Manager, Booking Engine, Business Intelligence, Restaurant POS and Payment Gateway.
5stelle* is 100% hardware free and runs on any device, even on your Mac: there are no servers, cables or installation cost; you just need an internet connection.
The 5stelle suite is used by 2500 properties in 15 countries. Telephone and online assistance 7 days a week, updates, hosting and data backup, unlimited workstations and users: everything is included. Set-up is quick and easy!
Recommended for medium hotels in Europe, Asia-Pacific and Middle East and Africa. Recommended for economy properties.
Starting from €1000 per year per property, depending on capacity and add-ons needed.
Lightspeed | iHotelier | D-EDGE | Stripe | PassportScan | Addon Payments | Customer Alliance | 123compare.me | Climber | MyForecast | Octorate | Pace | Sezam24 | RoomPriceGenie | SiteMinder | HQ revenue |


Interlap is a software and consulting business for the leisure hotel industry with 18 years of experience.
Interlap combines easy-to-use software (Channel management, Booking engine, Rate Parity) with exceptional consulting service, focusing on the increase of direct conversion.
The Interlap Team delivers full service in terms of online distribution strategies for the hotel industry.
Recommended for medium hotels in Europe. Recommended for midscale properties.
€590 Setup Fee and €95 per month + €6,50 per month for server space.
Conclusion
If you didn’t find a suitable solution on this list, have a look at our Partners Marketplace for more options and special offers.
Are you still confused about choosing the right option?
Don’t worry, we have that covered too! Here, take a look: How to choose a Booking Engine for your hotel website.
And if that doesn’t help, why don’t you get in touch with an expert?
At HotelMinder, we assist ambitious entrepreneurs manage small and medium independent hotels and chains ranging from around 15 to 150 rooms, so we know and understand how automation with the right tech is essential for a successful hotel business.
Planning the selection and implementation of your new solution with an expert is the only way to ensure you are making the right choice through smart and informed decision making while avoiding pitfalls. Not having to go through dozens of different vendors sales pitches will save you a lot of time, confusion and pressure.
The assurance you are moving forward with the right solution from the start will make you an
efficient decision maker while guaranteeing no costly mistake is being made.


HotelMinder is a hospitality consulting agency providing services in operations, strategy, digital marketing and technology to independent Hotels.
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