On your own website

The Channel Manager for Hotels & Vacation Rentals

It runs directly on your own website — not a third-party platform — and syncs rates and availability with Booking.com, Airbnb and every major OTA in real time. You pay one flat fee per channel, never a cut of your bookings, and keep 100% of every direct reservation.

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Connect With Every Major Booking Site

Connect e4jConnect Vik Booking 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:

Smoobu
0.9%
per direct booking — ≈ €450/year
Little Hotelier
1%
per direct booking — ≈ €500/year
Guesty
~1%
per direct booking — ≈ €500/year
Smily
1.2%
per direct booking — ≈ €600/year
e4jConnect VikBooking
0%
flat monthly fee — €0 lost to commissions

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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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.

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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.

AI-driven operations

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.

1

Installation

You install it yourself in a few clicks, right from your website — no developer required.

2

Channel Connection

You securely connect your Booking.com and Airbnb accounts to your website.

3

Automated Synchronisation

From that moment on, every booking updates your availability everywhere instantly — no more double bookings.

4

Direct Reservations

Your website starts taking direct bookings right away — guest details stay safely on your own site, and confirmations go out automatically.

Easy to start, quick to connect

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.

For agencies & developers

Built for professional deployment

A reliable, self-hosted alternative to restrictive SaaS platforms for your hospitality clients. Ship once, own the stack, scale across portfolios.

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01 · Environment

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.

02 · Licensing

Costs

  • One-time license fee per site
  • VikBooking + Vik Channel Manager + e4jConnect subscription
  • Only recurring cost: channel sync. No per-booking fees.
03 · Extensibility

Customisation

  • Extensible framework
  • Compatible with any theme that follows CMS standards
  • Safe CSS and template overrides (WP & Joomla MVC)
04 · Resources

Support

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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.


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