Maximise profit & drive direct bookings

Managing short term rentals requires a sustainable direct booking strategy to reduce reliance on third party channels. As property portfolios grow, keeping website pricing, availability, and content accurate across an independent site can become difficult. Homhero provides a native WordPress booking engine plugin and open API options designed to turn your website into a high performing reservation platform. Connected directly to your master calendar in real time, the booking engine lets you secure commission free bookings while maintaining control over your brand and pricing.

Website Booking Engine Features

Homhero offers a comprehensive suite of features for professional property managers, making light work of direct booking website management.

Optimised Booking Journey

Optimised Booking Journey

Deliver a smooth guest checkout experience with a modern, secure booking form designs to maximise look-to-book conversion rates.
Abandoned Bookings Tracking

Abandoned Bookings Tracking

Identify incomplete transactions and review high value leads who dropped off during the checkout phase, allowing your team to follow up and recover lost revenue.
Developer API Access

Developer API Access

Enable third party web development with a stable open API to build fully custom, bespoke accommodation website solutions.
Specials & Promotions

Specials & Promotions

Create, display, and manage custom discount codes, last minute deals, and seasonal promotional offers directly on your property listings.
Live Listing & Price Sync

Live Listing & Price Sync

Synchronise your property listings, rates, restrictions, and live availability calendars automatically from your central Homhero database straight to your website.
Proprietary WordPress Booking Plugin

Proprietary WordPress Booking Plugin

Transform your WordPress website into a fully functional direct booking platform with a native, easy to install plugin that handles guest searches and live property displays.

Optimised Booking Journey

Drive higher direct conversion rates using a streamlined guest checkout flow designed to minimise booking abandonment.

Capture guest contact details and process initial deposits securely within a high-converting booking form.
Route initial guest deposits and card tokens safely into your connected payment gateway.

Abandoned Bookings Tracking

Identify incomplete transactions and review high value leads who departed during the checkout phase to recover lost revenue.

Review a centralised, updated log of uncompleted bookings from within the Homhero PMS, complete with guest phone numbers and the total value of the lost reservation.
Enable your reservations team to run targeted outbound recovery campaigns via phone or email straight from the dashboard list.
Analyse abandonment data to see exactly where guests drop out of the payment process.

Developer API Access

Give your website developer the access required to build bespoke digital experiences.

Allow external developers to bypass the standard WordPress plugin and connect directly to data feeds for total design freedom.
Build unique property filters, advanced interfaces, and tailored guest journeys.
Route bookings, guest information, and payments safely back into Homhero for standardised processing.

Specials and Promotions Management

Incentivise direct bookings by deploying targeted promotional campaigns on your branded website.

Generate percentage discounts or fixed dollar reductions for return guests and targeted email marketing campaigns.
Set specific minimum stay lengths or arrival windows tied exclusively to your direct website specials.

Live Listing and Price Sync

Eliminate manual data entry by pushing rates, rules, and availability directly from your master calendar to your website.

Pull seasonal tariffs, dynamic pricing rules, and extra guest fees directly from Homhero to ensure website accuracy.
Block out website calendar dates the moment a property is booked on a third party channel or via the internal grid.
Link new properties to your website channel instantly using the standard listing connection assistant inside your PMS.
Take properties offline immediately from the website channel settings when required for long term maintenance or owner usage blocks.

Proprietary WordPress Booking Plugin

The hassle-free way to embed your short term rental portfolio directly into your website. Available to Homhero customers for an additional fee, branded direct booking websites are developed by our in-house team and utilise the WordPress framework and proprietary plugin.

Install the lightweight Homhero plugin directly into your existing WordPress dashboard to enable property availability search functionality.
Deploy check in filters, region selectors, and guest count fields on your website.
Display your entire accommodation portfolio in a clean grid layout that automatically adapts to mobile, tablet and desktop screens.
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Increase Direct Bookings with a Flexible Booking Engine

When managing a short term rental accommodation portfolio, your direct website must function as an automated, high converting sales channel. Homhero stands apart as the premier platform for professional property managers because it embeds a powerful booking engine directly into your WordPress site or custom API setup. By centralising your direct booking engine within your core property management system, Homhero removes manual listing updates, mismatched pricing, and disconnected marketing campaigns. The system automatically synchronises availability, recovers lost revenue via abandoned booking tracking, and deploys targeted website specials in real time. This eliminates administrative overhead, reduces reliance on high-commission third-party channels, and ensures your portfolio drives maximum direct booking profitability.