Booking engine for hostels, hotels and other accommodation providers
Max Booking Engine.
Direct bookings.Zero commission.
Your guest, your money. With Max, there is no commission or monthly payments. Just a flat booking fee, paid by your guest at checkout. Keep 100% of the booking value, take charge of your payments, and keep the booking path focused solely on your property.
That’s around
€638
per month you keep instead of paying OTA commission.
With MaxBooking your guests pay a flat €1.50 fee at checkout through your
connected Stripe account — you keep 100% of the booking value.
Trusted by established hostels and hotels
Why MaxBooking
Flexible booking tools that keep you in control and your room revenue intact.
Max gives properties their own booking page, flexible inventory and
pricing tools, and secure payments through their own account.
Free for properties
Free for you
Keep 100% of your room rate. No commission, no license fee, no
monthly booking bill. Just a flat €1.50 per booking paid by the
guest at checkout through your connected Stripe account. Your room
revenue stays yours.
€0.00
for the property
No commission, no bill.
Doesn’t matter how many nights, guests, units or what the total
value of the booking is.
Payments under your control
Your money. Your account.
Payments flow directly from your guest to your own payment account.
Payment details are securely collected during booking and saved in
your own Stripe account created for you. You decide when to create
charges and withdraw money.
Direct bookings
Your own direct booking page.
Guests book directly on a page that belongs only to your property.
No competing properties, no distractions. Keep the guest on your own
booking page from date selection to confirmation.
Dates
Jul 10 - Jul 15
Guests
2
Search
Complete inventory
Offer whole rooms, individual beds, or anything else
Manage private rooms, dorm beds, and add-ons together in the same
setup. Create the categories, units, capacity, and extras that match
how your property actually sells.
Private rooms Dorms Apartments Breakfast Tours and more...
Flexible pricing
Shape pricing around your property
Use simple rates when that is enough, or add more control when you
need it. From simple rates to complex occupancy-based yield rules and
promo codes.
Practical tools for everyday reservation management
Set stay rules, prevent unwanted checkout dates, review bookings,
search reservations, track arrivals and departures, and support guests
with multilingual booking content.
Reservation management
Stay rules
Bulk updates
Multilingual content
How it works
Launch your own booking page
without depending on an OTA.
Three steps. No complicated integrations, no account managers, no 6-week
onboarding - just the booking engine, wired to your own payment account.
01
Step 1
Sign up and connect payments
Create your Max account and tell us a little about your property. We guide you through Stripe onboarding inside the dashboard to get you your own payment account. No contract, no credit card, no sales call.
02
Step 2
Set your rooms and booking rules
Add your private rooms, dorm beds and any extras. Then set prices, availability and booking rules to match how your property actually sells. Everything from minimum stays to yield pricing is all under your control.
03
Step 3
Take direct bookings
Once your payment account is approved, you are ready to take direct bookings. Add the booking widget to your site with a simple code snippet, or simply link to your booking page. Guests book through your site and the reservation appears in your inbox.
A flat EUR 1.50 per confirmed booking, shown to and paid by the guest during checkout. Payments run through the property’s connected Stripe account, and the fee is routed to MaxBooking as an application fee.
Is there a percentage commission I’m missing?
No — there genuinely isn’t. €1.50 flat, full stop.
Is there a contract or minimum term?
None. Sign up, try our service and if you don’t like it, cancel whenever — no questions asked.
Do I need my own website?
Yes — Max is built around the idea of direct bookings through your own site. We provide a customizable booking widget that you can easily add to your existing website.
How do payments work? Do I need to already have a Stripe account?
You do not need an existing Stripe account. We walk you through setting up a payment account as part of onboarding. It’s easy even if you’ve never taken online card payments before. We use Stripe (a well-known global payments provider), and the account is 100% yours. Durinig the booking process Stripe securely collects the guest’s payment details and saves them in your Stripe account. You decide when to create charges and withrdaw money via your Stripe dashboard. We never touch the money or the card details, and we never take a cut of your payouts. You can also use Stripe’s powerful dashboard to manage refunds, disputes, reporting and more.
Is my guests’ card data stored on your servers?
No. Card details stay with our payments partner (Stripe) — we never see or store them.
How do I receive my bookings?
At the time the booking is completed, an email notification is sent to your property (as well as your guest). When you log into your dashboard you will find a list of new bookings which you can open to read all details. All bookings remain stored in your dashboard to view at any time.
What happens if a guest cancels?
Cancel the booking in MaxBooking, then issue any refund from your own payment dashboard — it’s all handled on your side, so your cancellation policy stays your call.
What inventory can I manage?
Anything you like — private rooms, dorm beds, apartments, and more. You can create the categories, units, capacity and pricing structure that matches how your property actually sells. You can also add extras like tours, parking, breakfast and more.
Can I add tours, breakfast or other extras alongside rooms?
Yes — we support custom categories as well as add-on items with their own pricing (per stay, per night, per item or per item per night).
What languages do you support?
19 in total — English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Vietnamese and Chinese. We automatically show the right language to each guest based on their browser settings.
Can I change the price for one specific day?
Yes. Daily prices override every other rate layer for that date.
Do you support yield or dynamic pricing?
Yes. Set rate adjustments by occupancy band and lead-time bucket — prices move automatically as you fill up or as the date approaches.
Can I run promo codes?
Yes — with validity windows, blackout periods, min and max nights, per-unit scope, and even non-monetary rewards like a free drink or t-shirt.
I own more than one property — can I use MaxBooking?
Absolutely. Set up a separate MaxBooking account for each property — each one gets its own booking page, payment account, rooms, rates and dashboard. You can use the same email across all of them.
Can guests book from any country?
Yes — guests can book from anywhere in the world.
Which countries can property owners sign up from?
Property owners can sign up when their payment-receiving business is based in a Stripe-supported country. Guests can book from anywhere in the world. Supported countries currently include Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and United States.
Can I set my own booking conditions?
Yes — you can set your own cancellation policy, house rules, check-in and check-out times, and any other conditions you like. Further you can instantly set minimum stay, no check-out, release period, maximum people per booking, maximum units per booking and much more.
Is MaxBooking GDPR compliant?
Yes. We’re a European business and operate under GDPR.
Do you have a developer API?
Yes — an OpenTravel-based REST API lets you set availability, set prices and pull bookings.
Ready when you are
Ready to take bookings
on your terms?
Sign up in a few minutes. No card. No contract. No setup fee.