RoomPlex - new online marketplace for renting and booking travel accommodation
I am more a reader than a contributor at hostelmanagement.com. Posts in this forum were very useful to understand the problems and the difficulties that hostels have in reaching to clients. With this post I would like to make a short announcement.
We build a new online marketplace for renting and booking travel accommodation – RoomPlex (http://www.roomplex.com). RoomPlex targets budged places like small hotels and hostels as well as agencies that rent apartments to tourists.
Is RoomPlex just another OTA like all the others? We think No.
RoomPlex is different in few important aspects. RoomPlex is not commission based and will not charge commissions neither the host nor the guest. RoomPlex does not have any restrictions such as price parity or availability parity or any other. Hosts can sell their accommodation at lower rates in their own web page or elsewhere. RoomPlex will provide rich analytics about your listings and the redirects to your own web site. RoomPlex will not hide and even opposite will promote accommodation providers’ brand. Accommodation providers can openly put link to (in fact we will ask for) their own web page and even if they want to invite the guests to visit their own web page and book directly. We hope that RoomPlex would help you (hosts) increase your direct bookings or at least make the name of your property known a bit more.
How RoomPlex will earn money? We will earn money from subscriptions. You can start for free and receive reservations without buying subscription. The free trail is limited until your property accumulates 10 nights. The free trail is intended to lower the friction at the beginning when we anticipate to have low traffic and bring few reservations.
By opting for subscription model instead of commission model we want to build a long term relationship with both the hosts and the guests albeit relationship based on the collection of commissions. We have a number of strong arguments to believe that commissions are not good neither for hosts nor for guests.
In few days we are about to launch a preview and also plan an official launch in August. It would be great if anyone is interested to be one of the first hosts listed in RoomPlex. An important advantage of the early adopters would be that we will set the rating of their property to the highest.
Some more information about RoomPlex.
- At the moment we don’t have integration to channel manager but we work on integrating with MyAllocator.
- RoomPlex is incorporated in UK but at the moment we do most of the work from Barcelona.
I would be happy to answer questions related to RoomPlex and appreciate your feedback and comments.
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