For destination management companies
Run every hotel booking in your destination from one platform
A destination business lives on local delivery: groups arriving in waves, tight quote deadlines, and hotel cost as the biggest procurement line — every dollar saved on buying is margin. HotelByte puts every connected hotel supplier on one platform: the same hotel and dates, priced by all of them side by side, so you buy cheaper — with live quotes and confirmations that beat the deadline.
What you are buying
Stai API — one account across every connected supplier, plus optional API access. Log in and you can search, compare, quote, book and run after-sales — over their aggregated inventory (Dida, Hotelbeds, Tourmind, Yalago, TBO, Juniper, ...), covering the hotels those upstreams hold in your destinations. Live rates, terms attached to every quote, books kept per currency.
- Search and compare: one search lays quotes from every connected upstream for the same hotel and dates side by side — competition works on your purchase price — with taxes and cancellation policy included.
- Quotes: turn search results into a quote you can send the source-market operator as it is, terms riding along.
- Booking and after-sales: two-phase confirmation with supplier references on file; changes, cancellations and refunds leave a trail.
- Books: the wallet settles per buyer, seller and currency — one ledger across upstreams and currencies.
- Optional add-ons: API, MCP (AI assistant access), white-label, Lookout price intelligence — see "Which products you are likely to need" below.
Where the price advantage comes from
Hotel procurement is the largest cost line of a destination business — and software is a cost too. In a thin-margin trade, both ends need to be lean. The price advantage is not a slogan: five visible mechanisms, each demonstrable on the spot.
Every connected upstream bids in one search
Same hotel, same dates: quotes from every connected source laid side by side in a single search. Competition works on your purchase price — account by account, you would never get this density.
Wholesale net rates
Upstreams supply at wholesale net rates: what you see is the price before your own pricing. What you add on top is your commercial decision.
The spread stays visible
Every quote carries its source and tax breakdown. Where a price comes from is traceable — and explainable to your customers.
Hear it first when a price is wrong
Lookout watches key hotels on a schedule: parity breaks and upstream gaps surface before your customers or competitors find them.
Software is a cost too
Thin margins demand visible software spend: the platform is a self-serve subscription per account and runs in the browser — no implementation fee, no open-ended rollout. Only the API route needs engineering.
The advantage is a mechanism, not a promise — search, evidence, price watching. Run the sandbox on the hotels you buy most and compare against your current prices, line by line.
Which one are you
Smaller DMC: buying is the point
A small team with no engineers needs to buy hotel rooms right, fast, and with grounds. One platform account is the entire onboarding cost.
- Sellers search, compare and produce quotes on the platform — no IT involvement.
- Confirmation states are clear, and after-sales keeps supplier references to check against.
- Browser login, nothing to integrate, nothing to install.
Larger DMC: buy and sell
Beyond your own procurement, you serve trade customers. Structure their accounts, price rules and credit lines into the same platform — under your own brand if you choose.
- The platform under your brand, opened to your trade customers.
- Customer and account hierarchy with clear data boundaries.
- Price rules configured per customer; books reconciled per currency.
Pain points and answers
Quotes that take half a day
A source-market operator asks for 20 rooms across five nights. Your team checks supplier portals one by one, waits for WhatsApp replies, then assembles a spreadsheet. The quote arrives after the customer has booked elsewhere.
With HotelByte
One search reaches every connected supplier with live rates and availability. The quote carries taxes, cancellation policy and confirmation type, ready to send as it is.
Overflow season, unknown confirmation
When contracted hotels fill up, you buy from wholesalers you touch a few weeks a year. Whether a booking is truly confirmed — or merely accepted — decides whether a group lands with rooms.
With HotelByte
Two-phase booking separates an accepted request from a supplier-confirmed order, and every order keeps the supplier reference on file.
Rates you cannot see across channels
Contracted rates, wholesaler rates and season pricing live in different places. Nobody can say quickly which source wins for a specific date, and parity gaps surface as customer complaints.
With HotelByte
One search compares what every connected supplier quotes for the same dates. Lookout price intelligence watches your key hotels on a schedule and reports the gaps.
Settlement across suppliers and currencies
Prepaid and credit terms mix, currencies multiply, and monthly statements never reconcile on the first pass — finance pays for every upstream difference by hand.
With HotelByte
The wallet settles per buyer, seller and currency, so upstream payables and downstream receivables stay on one ledger.
Capabilities
One supply layer behind your product
Dida, Hotelbeds, Tourmind, Yalago, TBO, Juniper and more sit behind one interface, with hotel and room mapping checked before release.
- Live search across every connected supplier.
- Quotes that keep their supplier evidence.
- One API when you want this inside your stack.
Buy upstream, sell downstream
A destination company is both a buyer and a seller. The same platform structures your trade customers, their price rules and their access — under your brand if you choose.
- White-label the platform for your trade customers.
- Customer, account and credit boundaries with explicit ownership.
- Price rules set per customer, not per spreadsheet.
Operations that survive incidents
Search, booking and after-sales events share identifiers, so when something breaks, the trail reaches the supplier boundary instead of stopping at a support inbox.
- Two-phase confirmed bookings with supplier references.
- TraceSight diagnostics across the full linkage.
- Lookout price intelligence on your key hotels.
How the partnership gets done
See the demo
Walk search, quoting, booking and after-sales in the public demo, and confirm it fits how your team works.
Sandbox validation
Bring your destinations and your hotel list: coverage, price level and confirmation speed, tested on the hotels you actually sell.
Step-by-step: the sandbox verification guide →Commercial and compliance confirmation
Agree on the engagement model, settlement currencies, invoicing and entity requirements — the items under "Requirements to line up", one by one.
Go live
Platform accounts are usable on day one; the API path follows an integration plan.
Which products you are likely to need
One core; the rest are add-ons by your size and route.
Stai API
Every DMC · core
The main surface for buying and selling: search, compare, quote, orders, after-sales, books.
White-label & customer system
When you serve trade customers
Put trade customers on the platform under your own brand, with layered price rules, credit and data.
System integration (API)
With an engineering team
The same supply and booking capabilities, integrated into your existing systems through one API.
MCP / AI distribution interface
When you want AI assistants working
Agents search, quote and pre-draft bookings for human review — not a black box.
Lookout price intelligence
When rates matter
Watch key hotels across channels on a schedule; catch parity gaps before customers do.
Requirements to line up
Each item is confirmed during the commercial stage and governed by the contract.
Contracting entity and accounts
You contract as a company. The platform opens customers and accounts in a hierarchy, with permissions and data isolated by boundary — who sees what is fixed from day one.
Settlement and wallet
Settlement runs per buyer, seller and currency, multi-currency supported. Available currencies, credit terms and limits are confirmed commercially.
Invoicing and tax
Invoicing and tax handling follow the commercial arrangement of the contracting entity’s jurisdiction, as agreed in the contract.
Supply availability
Upstream supplier activation depends on their commercial authorization and market scope; the sandbox stage checks each item against your hotel list — what works and what does not yet gets said up front.
Questions buyers ask
We already hold direct hotel contracts. Does this replace them?
No. Your contracts keep running as they do today. HotelByte aggregates upstream suppliers for coverage and overflow, and lets you manage both on one platform.
Do we need an engineering team?
No. The platform is the product — teams run search, quotes, bookings and after-sales in it. Engineering only matters if you choose the API path.
How do we verify supplier coverage in our destinations?
Run a sandbox evaluation with your own hotel list. The integration directory also shows which adapters exist and what must be checked before claiming live coverage.
How can we verify the price advantage?
In the sandbox, compare HotelByte quotes against your current buying prices, hotel by hotel. The spread and its source are visible in the evidence attached to each quote.
How is the software priced?
The platform is a self-serve subscription per account, opened online; the public demo is free. API integration is scoped separately at the commercial stage.