A direct booking website for Smoobu owners
Keep Smoobu for your calendar. Add a booking website that is yours, connected to it.
How it connects
- We connect to Smoobu through its API.
- We read your calendar and rates from Smoobu, so the prices on your site come from there.
- When a guest books, we check availability with Smoobu through its API first, in under half a second.
What stays in Smoobu
- Your apartments, calendar and bookings stay in Smoobu.
- You keep using the tool you know for your channels.
What you get on your own site
- A custom booking website with your own design and your own address.
- Card payments that cost about 2.9% plus 30 cents, against a booking site's fee of about 15.5% on Airbnb.
- Your own price and stay rules shown to guests.
Who this is not for. If you only use Smoobu to keep calendars in step and you do not need a booking page of your own, you may not need us.
Want to see what a direct booking is worth to you? Try the free booking site fee calculator.
How to start
- Pay half of the $999 setup to start.
- We build your site and connect it to Smoobu. It is ready in 7 working days, or it is free.
- Pay the other half only when you go live.
Questions about Smoobu
Do I have to leave Smoobu?
No. You keep Smoobu for your calendar and prices. Your new site sits on top of it, and your guests book on your site.
Do I need a certain Smoobu plan?
Check with Smoobu whether your plan includes access to its API, because that is how we connect. Ask us if you are not sure, and we will tell you what to look for.
Can two guests book the same dates?
Before a booking is taken, we check availability with Smoobu through its API. No system can promise that nothing ever goes wrong, so ask us what is realistic for your setup.
Tell us how you use Smoobu
We will tell you plainly how Smoobu connects, and what does not. Nothing is sold, and we do not promise a connection we have not checked.
Ask us what is possible
We can look at how you use Smoobu and tell you honestly what your site can do with it. We do not promise results, because nobody honest can.
Launch VRO is not affiliated with or endorsed by Smoobu. Smoobu is a trademark of its owner, named here only to say what our sites connect to.