A booking on your own line is the one you keep.
A travel site keeps fifteen to twenty-five percent of every booking. A call on your own line costs you the card fee.
One night, itemised
Example, illustrative
- Room, one night €200
- Through a travel site, their commission -€30 to -€50
- On your own line, the card fee about -€8
Stays with you when they call you ≈ €192
Put your own numbers in.
Kept in a month €390 to €650
Kept in a year €4,680 to €7,800
Counted on one-night stays. Longer stays keep more.
Your numbers, and the published fifteen to twenty five percent commission range. Nothing here is a Lypt result.
Put your own numbers in. Your room rate, your commission, and the bookings a quiet phone sends away.
The phone is the highest-value channel a hotel has, and the one most often left to ring.
- Highest value The phone is a hotel’s top-converting channel, and the one most often left to ring. Revinate, 2024
- Fifteen to twenty-five percent is what a travel site keeps of each booking a direct call would have kept whole. Cloudbeds, 2025
Commission fifteen to twenty-five percent against about four percent direct: Cloudbeds 2025. The phone as highest-value channel: Revinate 2024. Worked example, illustrative.