Case study
The booking site that fired the middleman.
The problem
A vacation-rental business was doing what most small businesses do: renting its customers from a platform. Listing sites take roughly 15% of every stay in combined fees, control the guest relationship, and can change the rules any time. Every booking came with a tax paid to someone else's website.
What I built
A complete direct-booking website — not a brochure with a phone number, a machine that takes reservations end to end:
- Property pages with photo galleries and live availability calendars
- Instant quotes and secure card checkout — money lands in the owner's own account
- Automated guest messages before and after every stay
- An owner dashboard: bookings, calendar, cleaning schedule, and finances in one place
Why this matters for your business
The same engine adapts to any appointment business: a barber chair, a med-spa treatment room, a training session, a photo shoot, a grooming slot. If your revenue lives on a calendar, your website can fill that calendar directly — without a platform in the middle taking its cut or renting you your own customers.
The numbers
- 100%
- of every booking kept — zero platform commissions
- ~15%
- what listing platforms typically take from each stay
- 7 days
- from empty folder to live and taking payments
Why speed matters
Google ranks fast sites higher, and customers leave slow ones before they load. Template builders stack plugins until pages crawl. Hand-built code has nothing to carry — my builds consistently score in the green on Google's Core Web Vitals, and you can test any of them yourself at pagespeed.web.dev.
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