Rate Match

Never the Second-Cheapest Place to Book.

Every Search Checks. Every Gap Closes.

Your guest has your website open and another tab already loading. Every time they search, Rate Match checks what they're about to find — that room, those dates, that currency — and corrects the price in front of them, before they've chosen. Automatically, inside the limits you set, without slowing your booking engine down by a millisecond.

Rate comparison panel showing direct price matched against OTA prices
Rate Parity

Every Guest Checks. Most Hotels Find Out Afterward.

A guest on your site with dates already selected is the most valuable traffic you will ever have. It takes one open tab and a twelve-euro difference to hand that booking to a channel that charges you 15–25% for it — and the gap is almost never a decision you made.

Checked at Every Search

Not overnight. Not a sample.

A live check each time a guest searches — that room, those dates, that currency. Every channel queried at once, not one after another, so the answer is back in seconds. Never a price from last night on dates nobody asked about.

Corrected in the Flow

Close the gap before it closes a sale.

When a channel comes in lower, the price of your cheapest comparable room is corrected on the spot — in the interface the guest is looking at, before they've chosen.

Limits You Set

Automatic, not unsupervised.

You define the maximum adjustment, in euros and as a percentage. Every change is logged with an automatic alert.

Comparison in the Flow

Let the guest see it.

The comparison appears inside the booking engine, at the screen where the decision is made.

Direct-Only Perks

What parity can't block.

Free cancellation, upgrades, early check-in and loyalty benefits shown next to the rate, configured in the Booking Engine.

Native to the Booking Engine

Nothing to install.

Rate Match runs inside Simple Booking's engine. No extra script, no second dashboard — and every check lands in the Analytics section of your back office.

How It Works

See the Gap. Close the Gap.

Rate Match isn't a dashboard you have to remember to open. It's a check that runs every time a guest searches, on the exact room and dates they're looking at.

  • The trigger is the search, not a schedule

    Rate shopping tools sample dates and refresh on a timer, so they compare a price that may no longer be the price. Rate Match checks the room your guest actually selected, at the moment they select it.

  • Every channel at once, and never in your guest's way

    The major OTAs are queried in parallel, not one after another — which is why the answer comes back in seconds. It runs asynchronously, so your booking engine never waits for it and nothing your guest sees gets slower.

  • Complete beats quick

    We wait for the slowest channel before adjusting anything, because a partial comparison is worse than none. There's a ten-second ceiling, and 99% of checks come back well inside it.

  • The correction lands before the choice

    If a channel is lower, the price of your cheapest comparable room — the one the guest is actually comparing — is corrected in the interface, while they're still deciding. Nobody has to notice, approve or remember anything.

  • The limits are yours

    You set the maximum adjustment in euros and as a percentage. Rate Match works inside that boundary and never outside it — automatic doesn't mean unsupervised.

  • Every search is on the record

    The Analytics section of your back office holds every single check and every price correction Rate Match made — so you can see what moved, when, against which channel, and why. Nothing about your pricing happens where you can't look it up.

Guest checking hotel rates on a phone next to a panel comparing direct and OTA prices and a list of direct-booking benefits
In-Flow Comparison

They're Already Comparing. Show Them the Comparison.

Every hotel on the internet says "best rate guaranteed." A guest who has read that three times today doesn't believe the fourth. So stop telling them — show them the prices, side by side, on the page where they're about to book.

  • A claim a guest can check beats a claim they can't

    Your rate next to the channel prices, on your own booking page, at the exact moment of the decision.

  • The comparison closes the second tab

    A guest who can see they're already on the cheapest option has no reason to keep looking — and no reason to come back through a channel that costs you commission.

  • It still works when the answer is "the same."

    Where parity ties your hands, the panel shows your rate level with the channels and the perks underneath it that none of them can offer — free cancellation on your terms, upgrades, early check-in, loyalty. Equal price and better terms is a win you're currently not claiming.

How the Booking Engine shows your direct perks
Distribution

Parity Isn't a Price Problem. It's a Distribution Problem.

A gap on a channel is rarely a pricing decision: a promotion you didn't approve, a conversion you didn't calculate, a restriction that didn't travel. Rate Match tells you it happened. The rest of the platform is where you fix the cause — and Simple Booking is a certified partner of the very platforms it prices against.

Booking Engine

Where the comparison is shown and the direct booking is closed.

Channel Manager

The government of the other 130+, from a single dashboard.

Metasearch

Results ranked on price: a rate that's never undercut is what makes the spend work.

Loyalty Program

Member rates and benefits that only work on your own channel.

Converto CRM

Turn inquiries into confirmed bookings with instant quotes.

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