If every booking for your homestay or resort arrives through an OTA, you are paying a commission on guests who would happily book you directly — including the ones who already stayed once. A booking site of your own turns those into commission-free repeat business.
What’s free, and what needs Pro
Worth being upfront about this before you start. On Storzu the website itself — your rooms, occupancy, amenities, photos, rates, and contact details — works on any plan, including Free. The booking operations for accommodation businesses are a Pro-plan capability (₹599/month, or ₹5,999/year + GST):
- The availability calendar and overlap protection
- Blackout dates for maintenance or personal use
- Advance and deposit settings
- Guest reminders and the check-in / check-out status flow
- Stay analytics
- Taking booking requests through the storefront
So you can build and publish the site, get it indexed, and start collecting enquiries on a lower plan — then switch bookings on when you are ready to run them properly. See the pricing page for the full plan comparison.
List rooms the way guests decide
- Rooms, cottages, or villas with photos, occupancy, and amenities
- Date-aware pricing — weekday, weekend, festival and peak-season rates
- Your cancellation policy and advance or deposit terms in writing
- Meals, pickup, or activity add-ons as extras
A calendar that will not double-book
With stay features on, booking requests land on a calendar with overlap detection and database-level protection, so two confirmed stays can never hold the same room on the same nights. Blackout dates keep rooms off the calendar for maintenance, family use, or a long staying guest.
Advances by UPI, and no commission
Take advances by direct UPI into your own bank account, on arrival, or via an online gateway using your own Razorpay, Stripe, PayPal or Cashfree account. Storzu charges no per-order commission, so the difference between a direct booking and an OTA booking goes straight to your margin.
Get found on Google and in AI answers
Travellers search before they book. Your site ships SEO-ready with structured data and sitemaps, plus AI-discovery content so assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity can recommend your stay — not only the aggregator listing above you.
Getting started
Sign up free, pick the stay category, add your rooms and rates, and publish. Running a farm stay or agritourism property? See the farm stay guide.