What is Booking.com's or Expedia's cut on hotel bookings?

Hotel booking sites online is the best way for hotel booking. Almost fifty percent of reservations are made online nowadays. This is because modern travellers prefer to use mobile devices for researching and planning their trips and prefer to book rooms or tickets online from their homes or on the go. The OTAs and many big branded hotels are taking advantage of this current scenario through their websites.

The online travel agencies(OTAs) usually charge a commission ranging from ten to thirty percent for hotel bookings made through their website. Many small and mid-sized hotel owners have come to realize this as an opportunity to grab online bookings by having their own websites.

To help these hoteliers grab their share of online bookings Webkul Software Pvt. Ltd, a software plug-ins development company has built a solution called Hipmunk. It is an open-source online hotel reservation system. It is entirely free of cost, and it can be customized as per your requirements.

It also launches an attractive, responsive and user-friendly website. Hoteliers can manage both on-desk and offline bookings through a single platform.

Hipmunk has many basic as well as amazing features required by any of the hotel reservation systems in the hotel industry.

Its feature list includes Google Maps integration, support for multiple languages and currencies, PayPal payment gateway, Discounts creation, Partial payment option for users, Tax management and much more.