Booking.com commission calculator for riads and hotels
Booking sites bring guests and take 15 to 20% of every night they book. Put in your rooms, your rate and your occupancy, and this calculator shows the commission you pay in a year, and what changes when part of those bookings come to you directly.
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Commission per year
MAD 187,639
MAD 15,637 a month
Booked through them, per year
MAD 1,103,760
1,226 nights
Kept per year
MAD 46,910
if 25% comes direct
Site pays for itself in
3 months
Where a year of booking-site revenue goes
17%
Their commission
Yours
You sell about 1,752 nights a year, and MAD 187,639 of that leaves as commission.
1.Nights sold in a year = rooms × 365 × your occupancy. Eight rooms at 60% is about 1,750 nights.
2.The share of those nights that comes from booking sites, times your average nightly price, is the revenue they handle.
3.Their commission is a percentage of that revenue, charged on the room rate and usually on the whole stay.
4.A site of your own pays for itself once the commission it saves in a year covers what it cost to build.
Questions
How much commission does Booking.com take?
Booking.com sets the rate per property. In Morocco it is generally 15 to 18% of the final price, according to Médias24, and programmes like Genius or Preferred Partner add a few points. Expedia and Airbnb sit in a similar range. The calculator starts at 17%: put in the figure from your own invoices.
Will a website replace Booking.com?
No, and it shouldn't. Booking sites bring people who have never heard of your riad, and that's worth paying for. The point is that a guest who already found you — there, on Instagram, or through a friend — books with you instead of going back to pay the commission again.
How many bookings can realistically come direct?
It depends on the house: how fast you reply, whether your prices are clear and whether guests can pay a deposit online. Returning guests and people who found you on Instagram are the easiest to win back. The slider starts at 25%: move it to see a cautious case and a hopeful one.
What does a riad site with direct booking cost?
A multilingual site with rooms, photos and a booking request starts from about 10,000 MAD (about $1,000). Live availability tied to a channel manager, and payment through CMI or Stripe, cost more.
Is anything I type here saved?
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