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Guides, tips, and insights for hotel, hostel, and B&B operators. Learn about property management, booking engines, channel managers, and the hospitality industry.

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Collect exactly what you need at booking time with a quick, customizable check-in form. Supports both room-based and bed-based booking flows — perfect for hotels and hostels alike.

Custom Check-in Form

Keep every dollar of your booking revenue. No per-booking fees, no percentage cuts ever.

100% Commission-Free

Collect deposits or full payments during booking via Stripe or PayU, with automated confirmation emails sent to the guest instantly.

Instant Confirmation & Payments

Let international guests browse, book, and pay in their own language and currency. Fully localized experience out of the box.

Multi-language & Multi-currency

Optimized for every device: fast, lightweight, and touch-friendly on mobile and tablet.

Fully Responsive

Areca detects your website's design and applies matching colors, fonts, and spacing automatically.

Auto-Apply Styles

Edit every label and message. Add your own translations for a fully localized guest experience.

Custom Texts & Translations

Offer breakfast, airport transfers, late checkout, and tours during the booking flow to boost revenue.

Extras & Upsells

Join the waitlist to lock in beta-only pricing and be the first to go live when we launch this Summer.

Your website. Your profit.

Areca reads your website's styles and auto-applies your fonts, colors, and feel. No designer needed, the booking engine looks native from day one.

Matches your website automatically

Fast, responsive, and built for conversions. Your guests go from browsing to confirmed booking in just a few clicks, desktop, tablet, or mobile.

Book in seconds, from any device

Offer your guests the payment method they trust. Secure, PCI-compliant checkout with instant confirmation. No middleman, no hidden fees.

Stripe, PayU, PayPal — you choose

Everything you need to turn website visitors into paying guests.

Built to maximize direct bookings

Stop paying 15-25% to OTAs. Accept direct bookings with a modern, branded booking engine. Zero commission, full control.

Turn your website into

your best sales channel

Direct bookings flow into your reservation system automatically, with availability synced in real-time across all channels. One platform, one source of truth.

Connects with Areca PMS & Channel Manager

Turn your website into your most profitable sales channel. Commission-free booking engine with auto-styling, Stripe & PayU payments, custom check-in forms, and multi-language support.

Commission-Free Booking Engine for Hotels — Areca

Sign up to try Areca Booking Engine for free during the beta period. No credit card required.

Get early access

See which channels perform best. Track revenue, bookings, conversion rates, and pickup reports per channel.

Channel Analytics & Pickup

Update property descriptions, photos, and policies across channels from one place.

Content Sync

Set a base price and let Areca calculate non-refundable, early-bird, or long-stay rates automatically across every channel.

Derived Rates

Automatically adjust rates based on occupancy, season, or lead time with flexible pricing rules.

Dynamic Pricing

Show real-time rates directly in Google search results and drive commission-free traffic to your direct booking engine.

Google Hotel Search

Connect smaller or niche platforms that don't offer a full API. Perfect for B&B owners using Vrbo, TripAdvisor, or local listing sites.

iCal Support

Get alerts for new bookings, modifications, and cancellations in real-time.

Instant Notifications

Automatic inventory management prevents double bookings before they happen.

Overbooking Protection

Distribute your rooms across the world's largest booking platforms.

Real-time bidirectional sync of reservations, rates, and availability across all channels.

Two-way Sync

Connected to the channels that matter

Stop managing channels manually

Connect to Google Hotel Search to show your real-time rates directly in search results. Capture high-intent travelers directly on Google and keep 100% of your revenue.

Direct from Google Search

Areca automatically calculates and pushes derived rates, like non-refundable or long-stay discounts, to all your channels instantly. No more copying prices between tabs.

Set your base price once

When a booking comes in on any channel, all other channels are updated instantly. No more manual updates, no more overbookings. Just seamless, automated two-way synchronization.

Instant availability updates

Connect to Booking.com, Airbnb, Google Hotel, Expedia, and more OTAs. Manage rates and availability in real-time from a single dashboard.

Maximum visibility.

Zero overbookings.

Areca Channel Manager connects natively with Areca PMS and Booking Engine. All your reservations, from OTAs, Google, or your own website, flow into one unified system.

Works with Areca PMS & Booking Engine

Distribute your rooms across Booking.com, Airbnb, Google Hotel, Expedia, and more channels with real-time two-way sync. Derived rates, iCal support, zero overbookings.

Hotel Channel Manager — Areca

Be among the first to try Areca Channel Manager. Free during the beta — no credit card required.

Track every change to past data with a transparent override history. Financial integrity, built in.

Audit-Ready Reporting

Built for hostels & hotels. Manage private rooms and shared dorm beds with the same ease in one view.

Hybrid Inventory

Manage multiple properties from a single account. Switch between locations without logging out.

Multi-property

Serve international guests in their language and currency. Built for properties that welcome the world.

Accept payments via Stripe, PayU, and more with secure, PCI-compliant processing.

Online Payments

More than just a bed. Sell snacks, tours, or services directly to guest accounts from the front desk.

POS Integration

Work at the speed of your lobby. Open multiple reservations at once and switch tabs without losing your place.

Split View Multi-tasking

Everything you need to run your property efficiently, from the lobby to the cloud.

Built for modern hospitality

Replace your outdated and disconnected tools with Areca and get back to what matters: your guests.

One platform. Zero hassle.

Add a modern, responsive booking engine to your website in minutes. Customize the look to match your brand and start accepting direct reservations commission-free.

Direct bookings, zero commission

Update rates and availability across all your booking channels instantly. Reduce overbookings and save hours of manual work with automatic two-way synchronization.

One dashboard. Every channel.

Handle check-ins, manage room assignments, track housekeeping, and oversee daily operations from one clean, real-time dashboard. Flexible inventory: manage beds or rooms in one view.

Your front desk, digitized

Launching Summer 2026! Join the waitlist for exclusive early-bird pricing.

Manage reservations, sync channels, and take direct bookings without the clutter.

Run your property

on autopilot

Add your rooms, rate plans, and photos in a simple guided setup.

Create your property

Link Booking.com, Airbnb, and other OTAs for automatic sync.

Connect your channels

Go live with your booking engine and manage everything from one dashboard.

Start receiving bookings

Get started quickly with a simple setup process.

Up and running in minutes

Skip the 15% OTA commissions with a high-converting, branded booking engine. Embed it on your site in minutes.

Your Website, Your Profit

Instant two-way sync with Booking.com, Airbnb, Expedia, and other channels. Update rates and availability everywhere at once.

Zero Overbookings

Everything from bed-level management to financial reporting. Handle rooms, dorms, check-ins, and daily operations from one real-time dashboard.

Front Desk Intelligence

Stop juggling multiple tools. Areca brings property management, channel distribution, and direct bookings together in one seamless platform.

Everything you need, in one place

Cloud-based PMS, hotel channel manager, and commission-free booking engine in one platform. Hostel management software built for hotels, hostels, B&Bs, apartments, and guesthouses.

Areca - Cloud-Based PMS, Channel Manager & Booking Engine

Sign up to be among the first to try Areca. Free during the beta period, no credit card required.

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View the history of any booking to see its balance, status, or total as it was on any selected day. Know exactly what happened, when. Fully audit-ready.

Data Integrity & Audit Logs

Manage by room or by bed. Areca handles the math for shared dorms automatically, showing you exactly who is where; no manual spreadsheets.

Beds & Rooms

Store guest details, preferences, and history. Personalize every stay.

Guest Profiles

Assign tasks, track cleaning status, and manage turnover efficiently.

Housekeeping

Connect with Areca Channel Manager and Booking Engine for a complete solution.

Integrations

Generate invoices, process payments, and manage financial records with multi-currency and automatic tax calculations.

Invoicing & Billing

Switch between your hotel, hostel, or B&B from a single account. Centralized reporting across all locations.

Set exact rules for your team. Let staff manage bookings while restricting access to pricing, financial settings, or past data overrides.

Granular Permissions

Track occupancy, ADR, RevPAR, monthly revenue, extra sales, and pickup reports with built-in business intelligence.

Reports & Analytics

One platform. Zero spreadsheets.

Stop losing your progress. Areca's tabbed interface lets you jump between a check-in, a phone inquiry, and a group booking — all without closing a single window. Built for the chaos of a real front desk.

Multitasking for busy front desks

Drag-and-drop calendar view to manage all bookings. Easily move, extend, or modify reservations. See room status at a glance with color-coded indicators.

Visual reservation calendar

See check-outs first in the morning, then arrivals as the day progresses. Occupancy, revenue, and tasks update automatically so your team is always on the same page.

A dashboard that prioritizes your day

Comprehensive tools designed for daily hotel and hostel operations.

Everything you need to run your property

One dashboard to manage reservations, guests, rooms, housekeeping, and reporting. Built for hotels, hostels, and B&Bs of any size.

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Modern cloud-based property management system for hotels, hostels, and B&Bs. Hybrid bed & room inventory, split-view multitasking, audit-ready reporting, and smart dashboard.

Cloud-Based PMS for Hotels & Hostels — Areca

Be among the first to try Areca PMS. Free during the beta, no credit card required.

Professional-grade features, out of the box.

Quick specs

Perfect for studios or small guesthouses.

Free Forever

No hidden "Pro" tiers. Get the full power of Areca PMS, Channel Manager, and Booking Engine — regardless of your size.

One plan. Every feature.

Areca All-in-One

One plan, all features. No commissions, no setup fees. Scale your hotel or hostel with predictable monthly pricing.

Simple, Unit-Based Pricing — Areca

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for your first year after launch. No credit card required.

Lock in your Beta discount

A hostel with 10 private rooms and 40 dorm beds = 20 units. On the All-in-One plan: base €29 (covers 10 units) + 10 extra at €2/unit =

How do we calculate units?

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Comfortable double room with king-size bed and a stand-alone bath within the room. Enjoy your stay in luxury and style.

One plan. Every feature.

Free Forever

Areca All-in-One

How do we calculate units?

Simple pricing. Full platform.

Lock in your Beta discount