Connect With Every Major Booking Site
Connect e4jConnect Vik Booking (previously known as Vik Channel Manager) to the platforms that actually fill your calendar — with real-time sync that updates your prices and calendar everywhere the moment you change them.
Stop Paying Commissions on Every Booking
Most channel managers charge a percentage on every direct booking you take through your own website — on top of what you already pay booking sites. e4jConnect Vik Booking doesn't: one flat monthly fee per channel, regardless of your booking volume or value, so higher occupancy means higher profit, not higher admin costs.
Comparing with Smoobu, Little Hotelier, Guesty, or Smily:
These percentages add up: an independent property doing €50,000/year in direct bookings loses €450–€600 annually to their channel manager's booking fees — on top of what they already pay OTAs. With e4jConnect, that stays yours.
Rates as of June 2026, based on publicly available pricing.
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Unlike other options, they don't charge a percentage of sales. A key component in our operations for several years.
Everything Included — Property Management, Booking Engine & Channel Manager in One
e4jConnect Vik Booking is a complete, unified suite that runs your daily operations from a single interface: a PMS for room availability and guest details, a direct booking engine for reservations on your own website, and a channel manager that keeps your availability updated on booking sites everywhere.
Single dashboard for daily operations, bookings and channels
Real-time two-way sync — no overbooking
Your website, your data — even if you ever cancel, it all stays yours
What are the benefits of e4jConnect Vik Booking?
Less Admin, More Time Back
Stop juggling logins and spreadsheets — guest communication, room status and seasonal pricing all live in one dashboard, so daily operations take minutes, not hours.
More Direct Revenue, Zero Commission on Direct Bookings
Every guest who books through your own website skips OTA commissions entirely — real-time availability and secure payments included, so what you earn on a direct booking is yours, in full.
Total Peace of Mind, Every Channel
Change a price or block a date once, and it updates Booking.com, Airbnb, Expedia and every connected channel within seconds. No double bookings.
Get Found Where Travelers Search First
Connect your inventory directly to Google Hotel and Vacation Rental listings, so guests researching their next stay can find and book you before they ever reach an OTA.
Smart Hospitality: 24/7 AI-Driven Automation
e4jConnect includes AI-powered tools that automate the most time-consuming parts of running an independent hospitality business — repetitive tasks, guest relations and inventory updates — letting you run your property with maximum efficiency.
Guest Communication, Reviews & Translation
A human-like virtual agent that speaks 100+ languages, replies to pre-booking inquiries instantly, replies to pre-booking inquiries instantly, writes and sends replies to guest reviews, and asks every guest for a review after checkout — building your reputation on Booking.com and Airbnb automatically.
Smart Self Check-In Automation
The AI coordinates the full check-in journey — requests guest information, processes regulatory data and delivers secure digital key codes right before arrival, for a smooth, contactless welcome.
Conversational AI Assistant
Instead of navigating menus, instruct the assistant via chat: search or modify bookings, look up seasonal stats, change prices or alter the minimum length of stay for an upcoming weekend — in a single command.
How It Works
Moving your property management to your own website takes less time than a lunch break — live in as little as one hour, in four clear steps.
Installation
You install it yourself in a few clicks, right from your website — no developer required.
Channel Connection
You securely connect your Booking.com and Airbnb accounts to your website.
Automated Synchronisation
From that moment on, every booking updates your availability everywhere instantly — no more double bookings.
Direct Reservations
Your website starts taking direct bookings right away — guest details stay safely on your own site, and confirmations go out automatically.
Independent self-service
30-day free trial. No credit card, no mandatory sales demo, no onboarding call required. Review these prerequisites before starting:
- A WordPress website.
- An active account: a verified Booking.com or Airbnb account to test live synchronisation.
- Active migration: the trial is a live migration, not a parallel test — disconnect from your current channel manager and link your channels to e4jConnect for the 30-day period.
Changed your mind? You can reconnect your previous channel manager at any time.
9,000+ accommodation owners worldwide are cutting OTA commissions with e4jConnect, as of
Case Study
LeibTour is a market-leading vacation rental company in Ibiza, one of Europe's most competitive short-term rental markets.
Alessandro Verdicchio
CEO & Founder LeibTour.com · Vacation Rentals, Ibiza
"After only two full months, we already reached 50% of last year's amount in direct bookings."
"Thanks to the automated synchronisation of all channels, there has never been a double booking."
It truly is a game changer [...] with a live calendar, PMS, advanced online payment methods, and of course: zero commission
Built for WordPress and Joomla — professional deployment for agencies and developers
A reliable, self-hosted alternative to restrictive SaaS platforms for your hospitality clients. Ship once, own the stack, scale across portfolios.
Requirements
- Uses the CMS PHP requirements
- WordPress 5.x or higher
- Joomla 4.x or higher
Note: the free 30-day trial runs on WordPress only. Joomla deployments go through direct licensing on extensionsforjoomla.com.
Costs
- One-time license fee per site
- VikBooking + Vik Channel Manager + e4jConnect subscription
- Only recurring cost: channel sync. No per-booking fees.
Customisation
- Extensible framework
- Compatible with any theme that follows CMS standards
- Safe CSS and template overrides (WP & Joomla MVC)
Support
- Channel Manager documentation
- Knowledge Base: hooks, filters, integrations
- Dedicated support team — open a ticket
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
A channel manager is a software that connects your internal reservation calendar with external travel platforms like Booking.com and Airbnb, updating room availability across all channels instantly whenever a booking occurs — preventing manual errors and overbooking. e4jConnect Vik Booking runs this self-hosted, directly on your own website, rather than through a third-party platform. It works the same way whether you run a hotel, a B&B, a hostel or a portfolio of vacation rentals.
e4jConnect Vik Booking is built specifically for independent hotels, B&Bs and vacation rental owners — not enterprise hotel groups. It runs as a plugin installed directly on your own website, rather than a separate platform you log into, so you keep full control without needing chain-level IT support.
Yes — e4jConnect Vik Booking is built natively for both platforms, with identical core features: reservation management, direct bookings and real-time channel synchronisation. The free 30-day trial currently runs on WordPress only; Joomla users get the same software through direct licensing, with the same e4jConnect channel subscriptions available on both sides.
e4jConnect Vik Booking never takes a percentage of your bookings. Instead of per-reservation commissions, you pay a one-time license fee to activate the software plus a predictable subscription per connected channel — so higher occupancy means higher profit, not higher costs. The 30-day trial is completely free with no credit card required; licensing only applies if you decide to continue afterwards.
Because the software is installed on your own domain, you retain full ownership of your data. If you cancel your e4jConnect Vik Booking subscription, your website, booking engine plugin and complete historical guest and reservation database stay on your server.
Yes. Sync Booking.com, Airbnb and other OTAs directly from your website dashboard. Any change to rates, minimum stay, messages or availability on your site transfers to external platforms automatically.
A channel manager keeps your rates and availability in sync with OTAs like Booking.com and Airbnb. A booking engine is the tool guests use to reserve directly on your own website, without going through an OTA at all. e4jConnect Vik Booking includes both in a single suite, together with a PMS to manage your calendar — so you get direct bookings and OTA distribution from one dashboard, not two separate tools to maintain.
Major channels — Booking.com, Airbnb, Expedia, Vrbo and others — connect through a full two-way API, syncing instantly and letting you manage rates, restrictions and messages, not just availability. For platforms that only offer calendar feeds, e4jConnect also supports generic iCal two-way connections as an add-on channel, so you're not limited to API-only integrations.
