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The middle, broken

Booking.com takes 18%. What if it didn't have to?

A regional B&B with eight rooms loses 14% to Booking.com on every reservation. A boutique Melbourne hotel loses 18% to Expedia. A multi-day tour operator in the Whitsundays gives 25% to GetYourGuide. None of those margins should be flowing to a US-based intermediary on a property you built. The OTAs are a useful discovery channel, not a tax. The fix is a direct-booking experience that converts.

  • OTA commissions of 14–25% on every booking, forever
  • Channel-manager-hosted sites that look like 200 other Australian B&Bs
  • Direct-booking flows so clunky that even loyal customers go via Booking.com
  • Tour-operator sites that can't handle "two adults, one child, kayak option" properly
  • Mobile checkout flows that lose 60%+ of attempts

We match you with three Australian developers who have built for hospitality. They know SiteMinder, ResOnline, RMS Cloud, RoomRaccoon, FareHarbor, Rezdy, Bokun. They'll build a direct-booking experience that actually converts.

Typical projects

What we typically build for hospitality.

Indicative ranges from real hospitality briefs we've matched in the FindDevs network. Your three quotes will be specific.

Property marketing site
Typical price
$5,500 – $14,000
Timeline
3–6 weeks

A photo-led property site with rooms, rates, and inline booking via your channel manager. Made to convert, not to win design awards.

  • Inline booking via SiteMinder / ResOnline / etc.
  • Per-room landing pages
  • Photo galleries optimised for mobile
  • Local-area + things-to-do content for SEO
Direct-booking checkout
Typical price
$8,500 – $24,000
Timeline
4–8 weeks

A custom, mobile-first checkout that beats your channel manager's default flow on conversion. Pays for itself in months.

  • Custom UX optimised for conversion
  • Stripe + Apple/Google Pay
  • Add-on packages (champagne, late checkout)
  • Email + SMS confirmations
Tour / activity booking
Typical price
$12,000 – $35,000
Timeline
5–10 weeks

For tour operators. Multi-passenger pricing, schedules, weather-dependent options, FareHarbor / Rezdy integration or custom.

  • Per-passenger / age pricing
  • Schedule + capacity management
  • Add-ons + waivers + group bookings
  • FareHarbor / Rezdy / Bokun integration
Multi-property dashboard
Typical price
$18,000 – $55,000
Timeline
8–14 weeks

For groups of 2–10+ properties. Group-level brand, per-property pages, group reporting, cross-property gift vouchers.

  • Per-property branding within group brand
  • Centralised content + reporting
  • Group-level loyalty / vouchers
  • Cross-sell flows
Custom guest app
Typical price
$22,000 – $75,000
Timeline
10–18 weeks

A guest-facing app for check-in, room service, local recommendations, in-stay upsells. Increases per-guest revenue meaningfully.

  • Mobile check-in / digital key
  • In-stay ordering + concierge
  • Local recommendations + maps
  • Push notifications + late-checkout offers

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Why FindDevs for this

Built by Australians who know your sector.

Channel manager fluency.

SiteMinder, ResOnline, RMS Cloud, Little Hotelier, RoomRaccoon, Cloudbeds, Hostfully. Our developers have built integrations against all of them.

Designed to beat Booking.com on conversion.

Direct-booking sites should match or beat OTA conversion rates. Most Australian property sites don't. We match you with developers who treat conversion like a craft.

Tour-operator quirks understood.

Per-passenger pricing, age bands, weather-dependent cancellations, group inclusions. Tours are not hotels. Our matched developers know the difference.

Local + tourism SEO.

Things-to-do pages, local schema, multi-language hooks, attribution from international travellers, proven recipes our developers have already executed.

Tech we know

The stack our matched developers Hospitality developers actually use.

Send us a brief and we'll match you with developers experienced in your specific stack, not generic full-stack tourists.

Next.js / Astro / WordPress SiteMinder / Little Hotelier API ResOnline RMS Cloud RoomRaccoon API Cloudbeds FareHarbor API Rezdy Bokun Stripe Twilio
Real briefs we've matched

Three illustrative examples.

Names lightly anonymised. Outcomes from real engagements through the FindDevs network.

Margaret River, WA
Cape Hideaway
Property site + direct-booking checkout

Direct bookings up from 22% to 58% of total in 8 months. OTA commission paid per year reduced by $87k.

Cairns, QLD
Reef Trail Tours
Tour booking + group bookings

Replaced GetYourGuide as primary channel for 40% of revenue. Per-booking commission saved averages 22%.

Hobart, TAS
Sails & Co
Multi-property dashboard

Rolled out across 4 boutique hotels in 11 weeks. Saved $14k/year in duplicated CMS subscriptions.

"Booking.com was eating $90k a year in commissions on our 14-room boutique hotel. FindDevs matched us with a Sydney developer who rebuilt our site and direct checkout for $18k. Direct-booking share went from 23% to 61% in 9 months."
Marisol · GM, boutique hotel · Tasmania
FAQ

Common questions.

Almost always, OTA commissions of 14–25% on every booking add up fast. The maths break-even on direct-booking sites is usually 4–9 months for a property doing $300k+ revenue. Our matched developers will model the payback specifically for your numbers.
Yes. All major channel managers expose either an API or an iframe-based booking widget. Our matched developers have integrated against the common ones; the site keeps your existing channel manager as the source of truth.
A property marketing site with inline booking lands at $5.5k–$14k. Custom direct-booking checkout: $8.5k–$24k. Multi-property dashboards from $18k. Guest apps from $22k. Full pricing on the home-page guide.
No. OTAs are still a critical discovery channel, especially for international travellers. The goal is shifting the percentage of bookings, not dropping the channel. Most direct-booking sites that succeed move the OTA share from 60–80% down to 30–50% over 12–18 months.
Yes. The fundamentals (direct booking beats OTA commissions) are identical, but the booking flow differs (passenger numbers, age bands, weather, group bookings). Our matched developers have done both, make sure your brief specifies tour operation so we match accordingly.
It can. Most international-traveller-targeting AU properties want at minimum Mandarin and Japanese. The build cost increases ~30–50% for a real multi-language site (not just Google Translate). Worth flagging in the brief.
Australia-wide

Hospitality developers across Australia.

We match Australian developers from every major city and remote-first teams nationwide. Pick your city, we've already got developers there.

Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Perth Adelaide Canberra Gold Coast Hobart Newcastle Wollongong Geelong Sunshine Coast Logan City Darwin
Ready when you are

Three vetted Australian developers.
For your hospitality. In 24 hours.

Two-minute brief. Three written quotes inside a day. Free, no obligation. If none feel like the right fit, we'll line up another three.

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