A room is held when money arrives, not when someone promises.
Every booking gets its own account number and the calendar blocks the moment it settles. No-shows stop being free.
For hotels & short-lets
Take bookings directly. Get paid before arrival.
For guest houses, boutique hotels and short-let apartments.
No card requiredSet up in minutes
Rooms
A nine-room guest house
Room 101
In-house
Arrived Tuesday
Room 102
Free
Room 103
Booked
Arrives 16:00
Room 201
In-house
Departs Sunday
Room 202
Held
Deposit pending
Room 203
Free
Room 202 is held, not booked. The calendar blocks the moment the deposit settles.
The problems you know
- A booking on WhatsApp, a booking on Airbnb, and one room
- “I'm coming on Friday” — and they don't, and the room sat empty
- Commission on every booking that isn't direct
- A front desk running on a paper register and a guessing game about who's paid
How Smilelink handles it
Two people cannot book the same room.
Not a warning. Not a conflict alert. It's simply impossible.
Rooms
A nine-room guest house
Room 101
In-house
Arrived Tuesday
Room 102
Free
Room 103
Booked
Arrives 16:00
Room 201
In-house
Departs Sunday
Room 202
Held
Deposit pending
Room 203
Free
Room 202 is held, not booked. The calendar blocks the moment the deposit settles.
“Do you have a room this weekend?”
gets answered on WhatsApp against your real calendar, with your real rate, and the booking taken in the same conversation.
A front desk that fits in your hand.
Arrivals, in-house, departures, housekeeping. Check in a guest in two minutes.
The bill builds itself.
Room nights, extras, room service if you run a kitchen — one folio, settled at checkout from the guest's own phone if they'd rather.
Guests manage their own stay.
They see their bill as it grows, order food, extend, and check out without queueing.
What it costs
One direct booking a week that would have gone through an agent covers the plan several times over.
What you'll use most
CalendarYour whole week: bookings, deadlines, deliveries, staff.PaymentsCard, bank transfer, mobile money. Every payment confirms itself.CounterWhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook — orders taken and payments confirmed in the chats your customers already use.InvoicingProfessional, numbered, and they mark themselves paid.Staff & salariesPay your team from the money already in your wallet.
Questions
What about Airbnb and Booking.com?
Bring those bookings in as blocks, or connect your calendar so the dates sync. Direct bookings are the ones you keep the commission on, and this is built to grow them.
Three apartments or forty rooms?
Both. It arrives set up differently for each.
Set up for hotels & short-lets from the first screen.
Free to start. No card. Talk to a person any time.