From roughly 30% to 70% of all reservations booked commission-free on their own website.
Keep the commissions you pay Airbnb and Booking.com. Same Smoobu.
SWIFT is a booking layer that sits on top of Smoobu. Same calendar, same PMS, a branded booking page on your own site, with your card payment system. Guests book direct on your own page. You keep the commission.
No migration. Nothing to enter again. Your Smoobu stays exactly as it is.
Works with
- Smoobu
- Stripe
- 3-D Secure
- SEPA
One property. Same Smoobu. 70% direct bookings.
One of our first customers rents out a single property on Smoobu. Before SWIFT, only about 30% of their bookings came through their own website. The rest went to Airbnb and Booking.com, and they paid commission on all of it. They connected SWIFT to their Smoobu, and today around 70% of reservations come in direct.
One of our first customers went from 30% to 70% direct bookings.
Reported by one of our first customers.
Every booking that reaches you direct instead of through an OTA saves you the commission, about €15 on every €100. For this customer, moving roughly €85.000 of bookings to direct added up to about €13.000 kept in a single year.
At the same property, what guests spend on extras rose by 20%: early check-in, breakfast, spa slots, gift vouchers and the shop after booking.
* Over the same period we also rebuilt this customer's SEO. We cannot say how much of the shift came from SWIFT and how much from better search visibility.
This solution let us free ourselves further from the traditional booking platforms (such as Airbnb or Booking), which take significant commissions of up to 15% of every reservation. SWIFT also let us increase our average basket significantly, thanks to the smooth and intuitive integration of many extras at the moment of booking. In the end, this solution let us make progress on profitability and on guest satisfaction alike. We are very happy with the results.
Three steps, and nothing to re-platform.
Onboarding is a Smoobu API key and a short configuration call. We own the rest.
Connect: paste your Smoobu API key.
SWIFT pulls the calendar, room types and rate plans you already maintain in Smoobu. Nothing to enter twice.
Configure: pick a subdomain and a palette.
Your brand, your domain. Add the extras you sell, set a deposit, and decide who covers the transfer, you or the guest.
Earn: keep the commission on every direct booking.
Direct guests pay you and you keep the 10 to 18% an OTA would have taken. SWIFT books the stay into Smoobu exactly as Airbnb would.
The five jobs Smoobu could not do for your direct channel.
Made for places with a name of their own: gîtes de charme, guesthouses, villas, domaines. If guests seek you out and you have extras to sell, SWIFT pays for itself.
One source of truth for your calendar
SWIFT reads availability and rates from Smoobu and keeps them synced automatically, so the calendar that greets your OTA guests also powers the booking page on your own site. No double bookings, no manual sync.
A booking page that looks like you
Hosted on a subdomain of your choice and styled to your house: your typography, your photography, your colours. The booking flow lives on your site, not on a third-party portal.
Card with 3-D Secure, or bank transfer
Stripe handles cards, strong authentication and refunds. Guests who prefer a wire can switch to bank transfer at checkout. Whichever they pick, the booking lands in Smoobu.
The extras Smoobu does not sell for you
Smoobu can add a fee to a booking. It cannot sell a spa slot that runs out, a gift voucher, or a campaign with a budget, and its monthly report leaves your extras out. SWIFT does all four, and exports them clean.
Money that does not wait for a booking
A gift voucher page takes payment today from someone who is not your guest yet: they pick the amount, the recipient and the message, and the stay gets booked later. An extras shop brings a guest who has already booked back before arrival to add to their stay. Smoobu has neither.
Smoobu · channel manager
SWIFT · direct booking confirmed
Your property
14 → 18 July · 4 nights · 2 guests
- Stay
- € 480,00
- Early check-in (extra)
- € 35,00
- Breakfast × 4
- € 60,00
- Paid by guest
- € 575,00
Does SWIFT replace Smoobu?
No. Smoobu stays exactly what it is today: your calendar and channel manager. SWIFT connects on top and adds the layer that actually makes you money: direct bookings, extras, payments, clean exports.
| Feature | Smoobu | SWIFT |
|---|---|---|
| Channel manager & OTA sync | Its job | Reads and writes, never duplicates |
| Multi property calendar | Included | Stays synced automatically |
| Branded direct booking site & checkout | Basic, limited pages | Built to convert |
| Extras, vouchers, private offers | Basic items and fees | Bookable slots, vouchers, campaigns, clean export |
| Daily ops dashboard, reports, reminders | Basic | Built for small teams, not enterprises |
No migration. No duplicate calendar work.
Book your 30 minute demo
See exactly how SWIFT sits on top of your Smoobu in a 30 minute demo.
Custom. No setup fee. No lock-in.
Pricing scales with the number of properties, the booking volume and the extras you turn on. The conversation belongs on a call, and we quote in 30 minutes.
- No platform migration. You keep Smoobu exactly as it is.
- No setup fee, no minimum contract, no per-booking surcharge on top of Stripe.
- Includes the booking subdomain, the calendar sync, the extras engine and support.
Bring your numbers.
Book your 30 minute demo
We will model the commission you pay today against the direct shift SWIFT can sustain over 12 months. You leave the call with a written quote.
FAQ
Is SWIFT a Smoobu alternative?
No. SWIFT does not replace Smoobu and is not a competing PMS. It is a direct booking layer that connects to your existing Smoobu account and adds extras, payments and a booking page built to convert on top.
Do I need to move my properties out of Smoobu?
No. You keep managing calendar, rates, and OTA channels in Smoobu exactly like today. SWIFT connects through the Smoobu integration and syncs on top. No data migration.
What happens if the Smoobu sync fails?
SWIFT retries automatically and flags anything it can't resolve on its own: a reservation, a rate, an availability update. A temporary connection hiccup doesn't turn into a double booking.
Can I sell extras Smoobu does not?
Smoobu can add a fee to a booking. It cannot sell a spa slot that runs out, a gift voucher, or a campaign with a budget, and its monthly report leaves your extras out. SWIFT does all four, and exports them clean.
How do guests pay?
Through your own secured payment system: card with 3D Secure where required, or bank transfer. SWIFT never stores full card numbers.
Who is SWIFT actually built for?
SWIFT is built for premium, brand-led whole-property rentals: gîtes de charme, guesthouses, villas and domaines in Belgium and France that sell direct and have extras worth selling. It is not for budget single apartments with nothing to upsell and no brand of their own.
What does SWIFT cost?
Pricing is custom and scales with the number of properties, your booking volume and the extras you turn on. No setup fee, no minimum contract, and no per-booking surcharge on top of Stripe. You leave a 30 minute demo with a written quote.
How are payments reconciled?
Card payments and bank transfers both land against the reservation, and every extra sold is tracked next to it. The whole thing exports clean for your accountant, including the extras Smoobu leaves out of its monthly report.
See what your property could keep.
30 minutes, with your real Smoobu data: booking flow, upsells, payments, and what the numbers could look like for you specifically.
Custom pilot pricing that pays for itself. No setup fee, cancel any time.
- Pays for itself
- No setup fee
- Cancel anytime