It's 2026. Does your hotel booking engine look like it?
Take commission-free bookings on a hotel website in one of our themes, or add the whole booking flow to the site you already have with two lines of code.
Preview a theme
Postcard
A 1950s large-letter postcard, with your photos inside the letters.
Suits beach towns and properties with a retro streak.
Typefaces: Bowlby One and Libre Franklin
Open the full demo site in PostcardThree ways to take direct bookings
All three run on the same booking engine, rates and inventory, so you can start with one and add another later.
A widget on your own site
The whole booking flow inside your existing pages on WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow or plain HTML — with two lines of code.
Booking pages on your domain
Hosted search, rooms and checkout at an address like book.yourhotel.com, in your colors and fonts. Link to them from any website.
A full website with booking built in
A complete hotel website in one of our themes, with rooms, offers, blog and contact pages, and booking on every page.
Add a fast, full-featured booking flow to the website you already have
Paste two lines where you want the booking engine. Guests search, choose rooms and pay without leaving your page.
Live on this page
<div data-crush-key="pk_live_AZlRAi4jpMT2NUjIWKbwJkz5XEBZAJoy" data-crush-lang="en-US" style="--crush-primary:#3B82F6"></div>
<script async src="https://be.channelrush.net/widget/v1/channelrush.js"></script>This demo runs on a sample property. A widget key only works on the domains you approve in ChannelRUSH, so this code shows “Booking unavailable” on any other site.
Matches your site
Set colors, fonts, corners and spacing with CSS variables, or save a theme for the key in ChannelRUSH.
Stays out of your way
It renders in its own Shadow DOM and sets no cookies, so your styles and scripts are left alone.
Reports to your analytics
Search, add-to-cart, checkout and purchase events for GA4 and Google Tag Manager.
Links straight to a room or rate
Deep links open the widget on a room, a rate or a set of dates, including from Google Hotel Ads.
Works on WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow and static HTML sites.
Every direct booking is revenue you keep.
Put in your own numbers to see what booking direct is worth to your hotel.
- Revenue recaptured
- +25%
- Booking commissions
- 0%
Pick a layout, then make it yours
Almaris, Rivora, Milenia, Seaside and Roamers come with choices for the home page, header and room lists. Every theme takes your colors, corners and fonts, and you preview each change with your own content before saving.
| Theme | Home pages | Header and navigation | Room lists | Colors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Almaris | 9 | 4 headers, top bar or sidebar | 3 | 6 colors, light or dark, 6 style presets |
| Rivora | 5 | Top bar or sidebar | 4 | 4 palettes |
| Milenia | 5 | 6 headers, 5 footers | 3 | 5 colors |
| Seaside | 4 | Overlay or menu bar | 2 | 13 colors |
| Roamers | 1 | Sticky header | 3 | Your brand colors |
Brand controls on every theme
- Accent, text, background, panel and border colors
- Corners from square to round
- Square, soft or pill-shaped buttons
- 19 font families for headings and body text
- Text contrast kept at 4.5:1 or better, automatically
- Your own wording for any label in the booking flow
What guests see, from search to stay
The same steps run on hosted booking pages, theme websites and the widget.
Choose dates
Closed dates and minimum stays are grayed out with the reason. Guests with flexible plans can open a calendar showing the lowest nightly price on each day.
Pick rooms and rates
Each room lists every rate plan, cheapest first, with its cancellation terms and what's due today. Guests can add several rooms to one booking.
Add extras
Breakfast, parking or an airport transfer, priced per booking or per room. The step only appears when you sell extras.
Enter guest details
You decide which fields to ask for and which are required. Promo codes go in here too.
Pay
Charge a deposit or the full amount, following the policy on each rate plan. Cards go through Stripe, Shift4 or dozens of other gateways via PCI Booking.
Manage the booking
Guests get a confirmation with their terms, then look up, change or cancel online and see any refund before they confirm.
Room prices include taxes and fees at every step, with a breakdown in the summary. That follows the US FTC rule on lodging fees and the EU and UK rules on showing the final price.
Try it on a demo hotel
Three demo properties, each with its own theme, languages, currency and rates. Search your own dates and follow a stay through to checkout.
Marivela Beach Resort
Open Marivela Beach ResortA beach resort in US dollars with flexible and non-refundable rates, extras like airport transfers and snorkel trips, and a seven-night minimum over the holidays.
Zirbenhain Alpine Lodge
Open Zirbenhain Alpine LodgeA ski lodge in euros with a 30% deposit, early-booker and half-board rates, and Saturday-to-Saturday weeks in February.
The Cordwainer
Open The CordwainerA city hotel where guests pay at the hotel, with lower weekend rates, bed and breakfast, and hotel taxes in every price.
One website for every property in your group
Multi-property booking from a single platform — fed by our Channel Manager and backed by our CRS (Central Reservation System), so every property shares one availability calendar and one source of truth.
Guests search all your properties by destination from one group website.
Each property keeps its own pages, rooms, prices and policies.
Every site theme has a group edition, so the group site and property pages match.
Change one property without touching the others.
Manage content, reservations and settings for every property from one login.
Connected to the rest of your distribution
The booking engine shares inventory and rates with the ChannelRUSH Channel Manager and CRS, and works with the tools you already use.
Google Hotels at your exact price
Free booking links and Hotel Ads send guests to your booking engine with their dates filled in, at the same price with taxes and fees.
Analytics events
Search, add-to-cart, checkout and purchase events for GA4 and Google Tag Manager, without guest personal data.
Your payment gateway
Stripe and Shift4 directly, or dozens of other gateways through PCI Booking.
Languages and currencies
Each language gets its own web addresses, and guests switch currency from the header.
Search and accessibility
Custom domains get sitemaps, canonical links and hreflang. Every theme has visible focus, reduced motion and readable contrast.
Checkout protection
reCAPTCHA, rate limits and card-testing protection on every checkout. Card data is never stored in cookies.
Reliable and responsive. We have worked with ChannelRUSH for years now. They are both reliable and responsive to our needs. The ChannelRUSH team is service-oriented, and have proven to be a great partner. We look forward to continued success in working with them.
A decade of excellent service. ChannelRUSH has provided us excellent service over the past decade for our 12 properties in California, regularly updating their system with new interesting features to keep up with the technology.
Paid for itself in a quarter. Direct bookings up 47% in six months. The Booking Engine is the only conversion tool we’ve used that paid for itself inside a quarter.
Mobile checkout conversion doubled. Guests finish a booking without us having to answer a single pre-stay question.
Direct bookings up 22% across the collection in our first quarter. We weren’t doing anything differently on marketing. The difference was the booking engine — three fewer clicks to confirm, and we stopped losing mobile traffic across all nine properties. I wish I’d known mobile checkout was the problem.
Ran forty vacation rentals from a spreadsheet for two years. Off-season pricing now moves with demand forecasts and I don’t touch it. Peak-season blackout dates sync to every OTA channel automatically. I got my summers back.
I can actually A/B test rate strategies now. Spin up a rate rule, let it run for three weekends, kill it if it’s not working. The visibility on what each channel is doing per rate plan is what was missing before. RevPAR up 11% in a quarter.
Getting Started — Next Steps
Reach Out
Submit our Book A Demo form or use our contact page to provide details about your booking engine requirements.
Convo & Demo
We’ll have a conversation about your booking engine requirements to see if we’re a good match. We’ll do a live demo and answer any questions.
Trial Account
We’ll get your live trial account set up so you can test everything before we go live with your booking engine site.
Ready to see it in action?
Ready when you are
Let’s see if we’re your perfect partner.
Drop us a line and we’ll set up a 20-minute walkthrough of the platform against your stack.
Frequently Asked Questions
A hotel booking engine lets you accept guest bookings directly from your website – capturing up to 25% more of your revenue by avoiding third-party commissions.
With the ChannelRUSH Booking Engine, guests can:
– Search for available rooms
– Check rates and availability
– Make individual and group reservations
– Pay on your website with their credit card
You can integrate your booking engine into your hotel website and link it to your hotel’s property management system (PMS) to automatically update room availability and rates to ensure instant, real-time information on your website.
Yes. Choose one of our themes and its layout options, and set your colors, corners, button shapes and fonts. You preview every change with your own content before saving, and you can switch themes later without re-entering your content.
Absolutely. Our software is designed for easy navigation, allowing guests to search and make reservations effortlessly. The intuitive interface is mobile-optimized, enabling guests to book reservations from their mobile phones.
Yes. Create promotions and coupon codes, show guests what they save on the rates they apply to, and give an offer its own page whose Book button starts on the offer's dates.
Yes. You can offer multiple languages and currencies on the booking engine, making it easy for guests to navigate and book in their preferred language and currency.
ChannelRUSH prioritizes performant, integrated software across a suite of products, including our booking engine. Unlike other booking engine vendors, we offer:
– A flat fee instead of charging a percentage of booking revenue
– Multi-property booking options for hospitality management companies
– Fast-loading photos and an intuitive checkout process for a better guest experience
Book a demo with us today to learn more about how our booking engine can help you create better guest experiences.
Yes. Paste the two-line widget code into any page on WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow or a static HTML site, and the full booking flow, from search to payment, runs inside that page. You can also link to hosted booking pages on your own domain.
Only the domains you approve. Each widget key has a list of allowed domains in ChannelRUSH, and the widget refuses to load anywhere else, so nobody can put your booking engine on their site.
Yes. Room prices include the taxes and fees set up for your property, and the summary shows the breakdown. This follows the US FTC rule on lodging fees and the EU and UK rules on showing the final price.
Guides and definitions
Booking Engine Evaluation Guide
A checklist for auditing the booking engine you have, or one you’re considering.
Read on the blog
How Multi-Property Hotels Can Increase Direct Bookings with a Better Booking Engine
Why direct bookings protect a hotel group’s margin, and what a better booking engine changes.
Read on the blog
Hotel Booking Engine: Direct Booking Technology Explained
How a booking engine takes reservations on your website, and the integrations and payments behind it.
See the glossary entry