Lodgewise Direct Booking

Direct bookings for small hotels, B&Bs and holiday rentals on Wix Harmony, Studio and classic sites, paid through the site's own checkout and kept in sync with Airbnb and Booking.com.

Lodgewise lets guests book your rooms, cabins or apartments straight from your Wix site. Guests pick dates in a calendar, see the full price, and pay in your site's own checkout. Lodgewise blocks the dates, sends the guest their stay details, and keeps your Airbnb and Booking.com calendars in step.

Set it up

1. Install the app. Its page opens in your dashboard under Apps > Lodgewise.
2. Open Rooms and rentals and click Add room or rental. Add a name, a description, photos, how many guests it sleeps, the minimum stay and a nightly rate. Click Save.
3. Open Settings: property name, check-in and check-out times, your time zone, cancellation policy, arrival information and the e-mail for booking notices. Click Save settings.
4. Make sure your site takes payments: in your dashboard go to Settings > Accept Payments and connect a payment method. Guests pay in your normal checkout; Lodgewise never handles payment details.
5. Open your site in the editor (Wix Harmony, Wix Studio or the classic editor). Add the Lodgewise Booking widget from Add (+) > App Widgets to a page, for example "Stay". In the widget settings choose the title, whether to show all rooms or one room, and the button color.
6. Publish your site. Booking works on the published site only.

Sync with Airbnb, Booking.com and other channels

Each room has an export link. Paste it in Airbnb or Booking.com (calendar settings, "Import calendar") so a stay booked on your site blocks those nights there. This works on every plan.

On the Starter and Pro plans you can also import their calendars:

1. In the channel, copy the room's iCal export link (Airbnb: Calendar > Availability > Connect calendars > Export calendar; Booking.com: Rates & Availability > Sync calendars > Export).
2. In Lodgewise open the room, click Add calendar, give it a name and paste the link. Click Save and sync now.
3. Under the imported calendar, copy the export link Lodgewise shows for that channel and give it to the channel. That link leaves out the channel's own stays, so nothing is echoed back.

Imported calendars refresh every 30 minutes and again when a guest starts to book, and the checkout refuses dates that were taken in the meantime. When a guest opens the checkout, Lodgewise holds those nights for them for 20 minutes, so a second guest cannot buy the same nights at the same time.

Airbnb, Booking.com and the other channels read your export link on their own schedule (often every few hours, and you cannot speed it up). A guest on Airbnb can therefore still book nights that were just sold on your site. If that happens, you get the booking notice with "Check dates" in the subject: cancel one of the two stays.

Rates and rules

• Weekend rate: used for Friday and Saturday nights.
• Extra guests: guests above "Guests in the rate" pay the extra-guest fee per night.
• Cleaning fee: added once per stay.
• Seasons (Starter, Pro): a different nightly rate, weekend rate and minimum stay for a date range, once or every year. Later seasons win where two overlap.
• Deposits (Pro): charge a share of the total at booking; the order shows the balance as due later.
• Long-stay discounts (Pro): for example 10 % off stays of 7 nights or more.
• Booking window: how many days ahead guests must book and how far ahead the calendar opens.

Bookings, blocks and cancellations

• Calendar and bookings shows the next 30 nights for every room and a list of upcoming stays.
• Block dates for maintenance, your own use or a booking taken by phone.
• When an order is cancelled in your Orders, Lodgewise frees the nights. Refunds are made in Orders. A refund alone does not free the nights: cancel the order (or cancel the stay in Lodgewise) too.
• Cancel on a stay in Lodgewise frees the nights only. It does not cancel or refund the order: do that in Orders.
• Lodgewise uses your site's time zone in Wix to decide what "today" is. Change it under Settings if the property is in another time zone.
• You get an e-mail for each new booking; the guest gets their stay details (your site's checkout sends the receipt as usual).

Plans

• Free: one room or rental, direct bookings, calendar export, guest and owner e-mails.
• Starter: up to 3 rooms, calendar import from Airbnb, Booking.com and others, seasons.
• Pro: up to 25 rooms, deposits and long-stay discounts.

Questions: support@aldorock.com (weekdays 09–17 CET).

Help and policies

Support: support@aldorock.com (Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 17:00 Central European Time, except Swedish public holidays). See the support page, the privacy policy and the terms of service.