Bilingual direct-booking websites for Costa Rica property managers and their owners. Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com take around 15% of every reservation, across your whole portfolio. A direct site with local card processing takes about 4.5% - and the deposit lands at booking, not after check-in. We sync it to the PMS you already run. Live in 14 days.
No abstract brand talk. Commission, cash flow, owner loyalty, and the guests you already own - across the whole portfolio.
Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com take a blended ~15% across your channels. Your own site with local card processing costs about 4.5%. That is roughly 10% of every booking kept that used to go to the platforms - multiplied across every property you manage.
Airbnb usually pays out about 24 hours after the guest checks in; other OTAs pay monthly. When you are fronting cleaning, supplies, and owner payouts, that delay is real. On a direct booking the deposit lands in your account the moment the guest confirms.
Repeat guests, owner referrals, the family that came back this season - a chunk of your bookings were coming anyway. Without a direct site every one still runs through the OTA and you pay the commission again. With one, those cost you about 4.5% instead of ~15%.
A direct channel you build and run is something the next manager cannot offer. Owners keep more of every booking, see their property on a real site, and have a concrete reason to stay. It turns your portfolio into a marketing asset instead of a list of OTA listings anyone could take over.
The OTA keeps the customer - you rarely get a real email and cannot follow up. On your own site you capture the booking, the email, and permission to invite them back or move them to another property in your portfolio. That list is an asset no platform will ever hand you.
Same $100,000 of bookings, two ways to take them. The only thing that changes is how much of it you keep.
Illustration, not a quote. Your real number depends on how much volume moves to direct, your mix of local vs international cards, and your channel blend. We run your actual portfolio numbers with you before you commit to anything.
Already on Guesty, Hostaway or Lodgify? We connect to it, not replace it - your PMS keeps doing exactly what it does today, and your direct site simply gives those bookings a lower-fee home.
Your PMS, channel manager, booking engine, payment processor - whatever you already run. If the platform opens an API, we build a clean, two-way integration so availability, pricing and reservations stay in sync and your team keeps working exactly the way they do today. No rip-and-replace, no double entry.
Don't see yours? If it has an open API, we can almost certainly connect it. Tell us what you run and we will confirm before we build.
Portfolio builds are underway now. In the meantime, walk through the live bilingual direct-booking sites we have shipped for Costa Rican rentals and local businesses - the same craft and the same engine, shaped to a portfolio.
See the sites we have built→A fast, bilingual site for a single property or your collection - the foundation the PMS sync and payments plug into.
The basic site is the starting point. What gets added depends on your stack - we quote it once we understand your PMS and how many properties you run.
Optional care from $29/month - hosting, payment and sync upkeep, SEO articles, dev requests. Add aerial drone footage $249 for cinematic property shots. Cancel anytime.
No. Most managers keep their OTA listings and run the direct site in parallel - same calendar, same availability, kept in sync through your PMS. The OTAs keep bringing first-time discovery; your own site captures repeat guests, referrals, and anyone who finds you on Google or asks an AI. Over time the direct channel grows and the ~15% commission shrinks as a share of portfolio revenue.
We connect to the system you already run - Guesty, Hostaway, Lodgify, Hospitable, Icnea and similar - through its API. Availability, pricing and reservations stay in one place. A direct booking on your site flows into your PMS exactly like an OTA booking, so your team keeps working the way they already do. No rip-and-replace.
ONVO Pay is a Costa Rican payment processor. We integrate it into the site so guests pay on your page and the money lands in your account - we never touch it. Rates are about 4.5% on international cards and 1.5% on local cards. That replaces a ~15% OTA commission on every booking you move to direct.
Each property can have its own direct booking site, or you run one collection site for the whole portfolio. Owners keep more of every booking, and the direct channel you provide is a reason they stay with you instead of the manager down the road. You run it; they see the upside.
On a direct booking the deposit hits your account when the guest confirms. Airbnb typically releases payout about 24 hours after check-in, and other OTAs pay monthly. For a manager fronting cleaning, supplies and owner payouts, money at booking is a real cash-flow difference, not just a fee saving.
Basic bilingual sites start at $799 and go live in about 14 days. Portfolio builds, PMS and channel-manager integration, and on-site ONVO payments are scoped per project, since it depends on the integration type and what your system supports. The site is yours forever; optional Care plans from $29/month cover hosting and upkeep.
WhatsApp is fastest - text or voice notes, whatever is easiest for you. We answer within an hour. No bots, no platform. A real person who lives here, will listen first, and run your real portfolio numbers before pitching anything. A cafecito beats a quote any day.