Hotel, Property & Vacation rental systems are our specialty. You need a easy to use online reservation system to manage your bookings and take phone orders. It can be very expensive to program a online reservation system from scratch. Our online booking software is built on the most powerful E-commerce platform available – Magento. It features complete inventory tracking and management, and allows your customers to book online safely and securely from your website. Sales Igniter Reservation System features:
- Easy management of your Rental Properties
- Mass upload and download spreadsheets of your hotel room inventory, property descriptions, and order data
- Customers can browse all your hotel rooms, rental properties, or vacation rentals online and book reservations seeing what rooms or properties are available on the rental calendar. Complete E-commerce backend
- Sort your store by custom rental property attributes like number of rooms, amenities, stars, room service, wifi, etc.
- Securely store your customer’s credit card information with the already integrated Authorize.net CIM credit card merchant account system
- Ready to go professional design templates, or have us design your own
- Google Maps integration for showing where your rental properties are
View more about our Hotel & Vacation Rental Online Reservation Booking System.
Direct Bookings You Own — Without the OTA Commission
Every booking that comes through a listing site costs you between fifteen and twenty per cent, and hands the guest relationship to somebody else. A booking engine on your own domain costs you a flat licence and keeps the guest, the email address and the margin. Sales Igniter is that engine.
Nightly, weekly and seasonal rates
Set rates per night, per week or per month, with high, shoulder and low season pricing, minimum-stay rules by date, and weekend or event premiums. Prorated or flat — whichever matches how you actually quote.
Changeover days protected
Buffer time between stays holds the property off the calendar for cleaning, laundry and inspection, so a same-day turnaround only gets sold when you have genuinely allowed for it.
Deposit now, balance later
Take a percentage deposit to confirm the reservation and collect the balance closer to arrival, or hold a card token for the damage deposit and only charge it if you need to.
Guests browse and filter properties the way they think — bedrooms, sleeps, pool, pet-friendly, sea view, parking, wifi — see a live availability calendar for the exact dates they typed in, and book without leaving your site. Bookings export to Google Calendar and other calendars by iCal, so your existing workflow keeps working. Your team takes phone reservations through the same admin calendar, and mass-imports room and property data by spreadsheet when the portfolio grows.
Run It on WooCommerce or Magento 2 — Same Rental Engine, Your Platform
One cottage or two hundred apartments, the reservation logic is the same. Pick the platform that fits the portfolio.
Sales Igniter ships as two products built on one rental engine: the WordPress rental plugin for WooCommerce sites, and the Magento 2 rental booking extension for Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source. Both are 100% open source, self-hosted and licensed per site — no per-booking fees and no per-seat charges.
Sales Igniter Bookings & Tours — the WooCommerce vacation rental booking plugin
Ideal for owner-operators and small portfolios that want commission-free direct bookings on a site they already run.
- A commission-free booking calendar, deposits and iCal sync, straight into WordPress.
- Drops into any WordPress site you already own — keep your theme, your pages, your SEO and your blog.
- Rental pricing by the hour, day, week or month, prorated or flat, with special pricing for peak dates and seasons.
- PDF rental contracts signed at checkout, refundable security deposits and deposit-to-reserve part payments.
- Stripe, PayPal, Braintree and Authorize.net are supported out of the box.
- The fastest, lowest-cost way to be taking real online bookings — usually live in days, not months.
Sales Igniter — the Magento 2 vacation rental booking extension
Ideal for managed portfolios, aparthotels and operators running several brands, regions or languages from one back office.
- Per-region inventory, multi-brand storefronts and multi-language, multi-currency guest journeys.
- Multi-Source Inventory: real stock levels per warehouse, depot, branch or city, on one calendar.
- Multi-store and multi-language storefronts running off a single catalogue and a single inventory pool.
- Serial-number and barcode tracking, B2B account pricing, request-a-quote and enterprise-grade reporting.
- Built to stay fast with tens of thousands of SKUs and heavy seasonal booking traffic.
- The platform to choose when you are scaling locations, catalogue size or head count.
Still weighing it up? Our honest, side-by-side breakdown of Magento vs. WordPress / WooCommerce booking solutions walks through cost, scale and what each platform is genuinely good at — or just take the live demo for a spin and see the booking calendar work with your own dates.
What Vacation Rental Software Has To Handle
A property is not a product with a stock level, it is a single unit with a calendar, and almost every rule that matters is a rule about that calendar. These are the four that generic booking plugins get wrong.
Nights, changeovers and minimum stays
A booking runs from a check-in to a check-out, and the check-out day is usually available again to the next guest. Minimum and maximum stay lengths are set per property, dates are held as real nightly availability, and the calendar on your own site reflects exactly what is genuinely free.
Changeover cleaning built into the calendar
Between two bookings there is a clean, a linen change and an inspection. Turnaround buffers hold that window automatically, so a same-day changeover only appears as bookable when the timings genuinely work, and a property needing a full day between guests is never double-sold.
Season, peak weeks and length-of-stay pricing
August does not cost what November costs, and a week rarely costs seven times a night. Rates are entered by night, week or month, and special pricing attaches to specific date ranges, so school holidays, festival weeks and shoulder season each carry their own price without a second calendar.
Deposits, agreements and the money you keep
A refundable damage deposit can be charged at checkout and released after the stay, or held as a card token and taken only if needed, and the rental agreement is generated as a PDF and signed online before arrival. Because the booking is on your own site, the guest’s payment goes to your gateway and no commission is deducted from it.
Direct Bookings on a Website You Own
The entire argument for self-hosting a property business is that the booking, the guest and the margin are yours:
- Your own property pages – photography, floor plans, local guides – with a live availability calendar on the same page
- Guests booking direct at any hour, paying through your own gateway, with no commission deducted from the stay
- Your own SEO for the location, so the property ranks under your name rather than only inside a marketplace
- Guest details, booking history and the site itself stay on your server, so repeat guests are genuinely your customers
Listing sites are a useful source of first-time guests. They are an expensive way to take a booking from somebody who already knows your property by name, and a direct-booking site is how you stop paying for that twice.
What Vacation Rental Software Costs Over Five Years
Property bookings carry the highest order values of any rental vertical, which makes any percentage taken per booking the dominant cost in the comparison. The same choice expressed as a five-year total, using list prices read in August 2026.
| Option | Five-year total | What drives the number |
|---|---|---|
| Sales Igniter — Regular | $995 | $199 once, then $199/year for support and updates. Online store included. |
| Sales Igniter — Pro | $1,095 | $299 once, plus optional $199/year support you can stop at any time |
| Booqable Grow | $4,140 | $69/month billed annually, before add-ons |
| Checkfront | $5,940 + 3% | $99/month plus 3% of every online booking |
On a $900 average stay and 200 bookings a year, a 3% booking fee costs about $5,400 annually – and marketplace commissions run well above that, which is the whole reason direct booking is worth building. If you are weighing specific platforms, our Checkfront alternative without per-booking fees and Booqable alternative for rental businesses each include a section on when the competitor is genuinely the better choice.
Guest Details, Arrival Times and Paid Extras Collected With the Booking
A direct booking should arrive with everything the changeover needs already attached to it. Guest numbers decide the bed configuration and the linen, arrival time decides whether anyone is left waiting on a doorstep, and the extras a guest will happily pay for are the ones offered at the moment of booking rather than mentioned in a follow-up email nobody reads.
- Number of adults and children, with children’s ages where a cot, high chair or extra bed depends on them
- Estimated arrival time, late check-in, and the flight or train the party is travelling on
- Pets: how many and what kind, with a pet fee charged as a priced field
- Linen and towel packs, a mid-stay clean, a welcome hamper and parking, each priced per unit
- Vehicle registration for a parking permit, and the lead guest’s photo ID where local registration rules require it
Because fields on the property page are stored per cart line, a guest booking two apartments for one trip records two arrival times and two party sizes — which is what a changeover schedule actually needs, and what a single order-level form loses. An accidental damage waiver can stand in for the held deposit guests dislike: a fixed amount or a percentage of the stay, required on some properties and offered as a decline-able opt-in on others, with the decision stored on the booking. Where you are obliged to record guest identity, documents are kept outside the media library rather than in the public uploads folder and can be purged automatically once the stay is over. See vacation rental custom fields, guest data capture and damage waiver.
Vacation and Property Rental Software Questions
Can guests book specific nights with a check-in and check-out date?
Can I set a minimum stay?
Does it handle changeover cleaning between guests?
Can I charge different rates by season?
Can I take a refundable damage deposit?
Do you take commission on bookings?
Is there open source vacation rental software?
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Keep the commission and keep the guest. See the booking calendar work in the live demo.