The direct-booking math · Hotels & short-term rentals
Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo skim a cut off every reservation. Pull the levers below and watch what those commissions quietly add up to — and what a direct booking site keeps in your pocket.
A direct booking site only pays card processing — we figure ~3% (Stripe). Everything above that is money you’re handing the platforms.
You’d keep about
$0
a year, with a direct booking site of your own.
Over three years, that’s about $0 back where it belongs.
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