A plumber in Sydney
OneBookPlus Plumbing
The home page: the name centred over the menu, a dark hero photo, a navy quote button and a grid of services.
Open the OneBookPlus Plumbing site(opens in a new tab)For Hotels, Motels, BnBs & Holiday Rentals
The PMS Australian Hosts Wish They Had Years Ago
Win the direct booking before Booking.com takes its 15% cut.
Stays board, rate calendar, iCal & channel sync, a commission-free direct booking engine, pre-arrival check-in, housekeeping and NSW PID / VIC levy compliance, built for the AU market, not a 200-room resort. All-in-one for $0 to $69/mo, replaces Little Hotelier + SiteMinder + Xero.
Free for one property. No card required. · GST & ABN built-in · Commission-free direct bookings · NSW PID + VIC levy tracked
Built and supported in AustraliaOpen a live demo business
Free forever for one property. No monthly contracts. Australian-hosted.
Free Tools & Resources
Reference material for owners and operators
Founder Guide
Start a Cafe or Restaurant
8-step founder guide, ABN, GST, food licence, fit-out, liquor, insurance, suppliers, opening week.
InteractiveMenu Item Pricing Calculator
Interactive estimator, food cost %, labour, overhead, GP target, and final menu price.
ReferenceFood Safety Supervisor by State
FSS certificate requirements per state, refresher cycles, and when an Allergen Aware course is mandatory.
Operator GuideRestaurant Industry Award (MA000119)
Plain-English MA000119, Level 1–6 classifications, Saturday/Sunday penalties, casual loading, junior rates.
ReferenceHospitality Insurance Guide
Public liability, food/product liability, liquor liability, business interruption, glass, coverage and premium ranges.
Key takeaways
5- OneBookPlus is a unified property management system, channel manager, and direct booking engine for AU hotels, motels, BnBs, holiday rentals, and caravan parks, replacing stacks like Little Hotelier, RMS Cloud or SiteMinder, none of which we republish a price for here, on a free starter plan.
- Direct bookings via your /stay/your-slug page are commission-free, versus 15-18% commission on Booking.com or 14-16% host fees on Airbnb, and the savings are whatever your own OTA commission bill comes to.
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- Built-in NSW Property ID (PID) registration tracking and the 180-night Greater Sydney non-hosted short-term rental cap counter alert at 90% and 100% so you don't breach the cap and trigger a fine.
- Victoria's Short Stay Levy (7.5% on stays under 28 nights, in force since 1 January 2025) is calculated on every applicable booking and reported quarterly to the State Revenue Office.
- Free iCal sync with Airbnb, Stayz, Booking.com, Vrbo, and Agoda lands inbound holds roughly every 30 minutes; a Channel Manager app with direct API connections to Expedia, Wotif, Trip.com, and Agoda for higher-volume properties is coming.
Cut $318+/mo from your software stack by replacing Little Hotelier + SiteMinder + Xero + Mailchimp with OneBookPlus, before a single recovered Booking.com commission.
See your savingsBuilt for AU accommodation operators
OneBookPlus is built in Melbourne for Australian accommodation operators, from a single BnB room to a multi-property motel group. ABN 17 971 013 775. We do not publish an operator count, a rating or a savings figure we cannot show you the working for.
Live demo
Try the booking widget, right here
This is the same iframe operators paste onto Wix, Squarespace, or their existing site. Pick dates, see live rates pulled from the demo property's rate calendar, submit a hold, it all works.
The panel above is a live iframe. Every operator on OneBookPlus gets a URL like /embed/stay/your-slug to paste anywhere.
Complete accommodation toolkit
Built for AU SME hosts
From the front desk to OTA distribution, STR compliance to rate calendars, every feature an Australian accommodation business actually needs in one place.
Stays & arrivals board
See today's check-ins, check-outs, and in-house guests on one screen. Pre-arrival badges show who's already submitted their ETA + party + special requests via the public check-in portal.
Rooms & rate calendar
Define room types and inventory once. Per-night rate calendar with weekend uplift, min-LOS restrictions, and CTA/CTD closures. Bulk-apply weekend rates across the next 8 weeks in one click.
Direct booking engine
Public booking page on your domain, every guest who finds you direct skips the 15% Booking.com / Airbnb commission. Branded with your logo and brand color, mobile-first, includes guest acknowledgement email. Embed your booking on Wix / Squarespace / WordPress in one line of code.
iCal sync (free)
Two-way calendar sync with Airbnb, Stayz, Booking.com, Vrbo, Agoda. Inbound holds appear on your stays board roughly every 30 minutes. Outbound feed publishes back so OTAs never sell a night you're already booked.
Pre-arrival check-in
Token-based public link sent to every guest before arrival. They submit ETA, party names, special requests, and accept terms, saving 5 minutes per check-in at the front desk.
STR compliance (AU)
NSW PID + 180-night Greater Sydney cap counter, VIC 7.5% Short Stay Levy calculation, QLD council permit tracking. Automatic alerts when you're approaching a cap so you don't accidentally breach.
Housekeeping board
Today's room status at a glance: needs cleaning (today's check-outs), in-house DND, arriving today, available, out of service. Per-cleaner share links open in any phone browser, iOS, Android, no install.
Channel manager (coming)
Real-time API connections to Booking.com, Expedia/Wotif/Hotels.com, Airbnb, Agoda, Trip.com/Ctrip, HotelTonight. One install, configure each channel as you go. Includes commission reconciler.
Built-in invoicing & GST
GST-compliant guest invoices, deposit tracking, OTA commission accruals, and BAS-ready reports for your accountant. Daily revenue sync to Xero or MYOB is not built and is not on a date; the GST summary exports in one click today.
List your first room free, live in 30 minutes
Free for one property · No credit card · Cancel anytime
Website included
A website for your property business, included.
Every paid plan includes a full website, hosted by us, with nothing extra to buy and no separate builder: your site, its booking page and the tools behind them sit on one plan. The Free plan keeps the booking page and does not have the website.
The AI drafts every page from your own answers about your property work, not from your business name, and it does not invent claims. Every page is laid out for a phone as well as a desk. In the Website Studio you edit any section in place, add text, lists and buttons inside it, choose how many cards sit across, and change the look, which keeps your words, your photos and the spacing you set. The booking page is built in and the site's Book buttons go to it. Your first AI build is included with the plan. A later rebuild runs on AI Companion credits, and one that starts fresh replaces your pages, saving a restore point in History first.
Bookings around the clock
A guest books a room at 11pm via your /stay page while the front desk is closed. The hold lands on your stays board tagged direct, zero Booking.com or Airbnb commission, ready for a one-click confirm in the morning.
Prices up front
Queen room from $189/night. Family cabin $245/night. A customer sees the price before they book.
Your services and the area you cover
The AI writes your services and the area you cover from your answers, so when someone searches 'accommodation in [town]' there is a page that says what you do and where.
No card needed to start.
The Website Studio's Build with AI at its Plan step, on our plumbing demo: the pages, sections and menu the AI proposed from the answers already on the account, before anything is built. Click it to see it full size, or watch the recording of the build on the homepage.
What each plan holds for hosts
Free
$0
A branded booking page on your OneBookPlus address. No website on this plan.
Starter
$29/mo
A website on your OneBookPlus address, hosted with SSL: 10 pages and a blog. The first AI draft is included.
Plus
$49/mo
Your own domain with SSL, 50 pages and a members area.
Growth
$69/mo
Unlimited pages, and a landing page per suburb from one template.
Your own domain connects on an active paid Plus or Growth subscription, not during the 14 day trial; a trial site lives on your OneBookPlus address. Every published site carries a small “Made with OneBookPlus” credit.
Three businesses, three looks
All three sites were drafted by the AI from the owner's answers, our own site included. It picks one of eight heading and body type pairings and how the cards sit (a fine line, a bold outline, a soft lift or no card), so a plumber's site, a driving school's and ours do not come out alike. Switch the view to see each one on a desktop, a tablet and a phone, click any screenshot to see it full size, or open the live site in a new tab. The plumber and the driving school are our demo businesses, not customers.
A driving school in Donnybrook
OneBookPlus Driving School
The home page: a teal logo and name on the left, an L plates hero and lessons and packages as cards.
Open the OneBookPlus Driving School site(opens in a new tab)
Our own site, built the same way
OneBookPlus
The home page: a serif heading beside a framed photo on pale grey, and no full width hero at all.
Open the OneBookPlus site(opens in a new tab)See it in action
The screens between the counter and the books.
Not mockups, the real product screens for running a property day to day.
Stays & arrivals board
Today's check-ins, check-outs and in-house guests on one screen, with a pre-arrival badge from the public check-in portal. Confirm a Booking.com hold or a direct /stay booking with one click.
Rooms & rate calendar
Per-night rates with weekend uplift, min-LOS and CTA/CTD closures. Bulk-apply Schoolies-week or Easter rates across the next 8 weeks; the outbound iCal feed keeps Airbnb and Stayz from double-selling a night.
GST folio & OTA commission reconciler
GST-compliant guest folios with deposit tracking, plus a commission accrual line on every Booking.com and Expedia stay. BAS-ready GST summaries export in one click. Daily revenue sync to Xero or MYOB is not built and is not on a date.
Every accommodation business
Hotel, BnB, holiday rental, caravan park
Pick your subtype at signup, sample inventory and onboarding copy adapt automatically. The same PMS works the same way regardless of size or type.
Hotels
Full-service properties with F&B and events
Motels
Drive-up and roadside accommodation
Bed & Breakfasts
Owner-operated guest houses
Holiday Rentals
Single-property short-term rentals
Multi-property STR
Hosts with multiple Airbnb / Stayz listings
Serviced Apartments
Self-contained, longer-stay units
Hostels
Dorms, bunks, working-holiday market
Caravan Parks
Powered sites, cabins, camp grounds
Boutique Lodges
Eco-lodges, glamping, farm stays
Pub Accommodation
Country pub upstairs rooms
From signup to first booking
Live in 30 minutes
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Sign up + pick your accommodation subtype
Choose hotel, motel, BnB, holiday rental, multi-STR, hostel, caravan park, lodge, serviced apartments or pub accommodation. Subtype-aware sample rooms appear automatically.
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Add your rooms (or import from Airbnb)
Define room types with rates, then add physical rooms. Already on Airbnb? Paste your iCal feed and upcoming bookings start flowing in on a roughly 30-minute refresh.
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Share your direct booking URL
Your /stay/your-slug page is live the moment you have one room. Add it to your website footer, email signature, and Google Business Profile to start collecting commission-free bookings.
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Confirm holds, check guests in
Direct bookings land as 'holds' for you to confirm. Guests get an automatic acknowledgement email; you get a notification with a one-click confirm. Email guests their pre-arrival check-in link from the dashboard.
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Stay compliant + organised
NSW PID and 180-night cap tracked automatically. VIC 7.5% levy calculated on every applicable stay. Housekeeping board shows what needs cleaning today. One-click BAS-ready GST exports keep your accountant happy (a daily Xero or MYOB sync is not built and is not on a date).
Share your direct booking link, Free
Paste your iCal feed and sell your first direct room the day you sign up
Who it's for
Built for every accommodation business
From a single Airbnb cottage to a 40-room country motel. OneBookPlus adapts to how AU hosts run a property.
BnB / Holiday Rental Host
One or two listings on Airbnb and Stayz. Needs free iCal sync to stop double-bookings, a commission-free direct /stay page, and the VIC Short Stay Levy worked out automatically.
Motel Operator
10 to 40 drive-up rooms, lots of walk-ins. Needs a fast stays board, a per-night rate calendar with weekend uplift, and a housekeeping board the casual cleaner can update from a phone.
Multi-property STR Host
A portfolio of Greater Sydney listings. Needs the NSW PID register and the 180-night non-hosted cap counter with 90% and 100% alerts so a single property never triggers a fine.
Boutique Lodge / Caravan Park
Powered sites, cabins or glamping tents with seasonal pricing. Needs flexible room types, deposit-on-booking via Stripe, and GST folios with one-click BAS-ready exports (a live Xero sync is not built and is not on a date).
What a four-tool stack costs each month
Named tools, at each vendor’s own cheapest published plan, and ours underneath. Vendor pricing changes, so check each one before you decide.
Little HotelierPMS + booking engine
$120/moSiteMinderChannel manager
$190/moXeroAccounting + GST/BAS
$37/moMailchimpGuest email + reviews
Not publishedTotal monthly cost$347/mo + Mailchimp
Or use OneBookPlus
$29/mo
Everything in the list above, on one bill.
Start freeNo credit card · Free forever · Cancel anytime
Example walkthrough
Friday, arrivals, channel and cash-up
An illustrative walkthrough of a typical owner-operator day
Early morning. You open the stays board on the front-desk tablet: today's departures and arrivals, plus a couple of in-house guests on a longer contract stay. Several arrivals already show a pre-arrival badge because they submitted ETAs and rego details through the check-in portal overnight, so you pre-allocate rooms before the cleaners start.
Mid-morning. A direct booking lands on the board, a family for two nights, captured through your own /stay page off the back of your Google Business Profile. No OTA commission comes out of that one. You confirm the hold with one click and the guest gets an acknowledgement email automatically.
Late morning. You bulk-apply a long-weekend rate across the next couple of months for local events, weekend uplift on and minimum length of stay set. The outbound iCal feed pushes the closures so the OTA listings cannot oversell a night.
Through the day, if you are in Victoria the Short Stay Levy line is calculated on every qualifying short stay, ready to lodge with the State Revenue Office next quarter. Your casual cleaner works off a /clean share link with no login, marking rooms inspected from a phone as they go.
End of day: rooms turned, folios totalled, and card deposits already captured. You export the commission report and check it against the OTA payout when it lands. Come BAS time the GST summary is one click (daily revenue sync to Xero is not built and is not on a date).
How we compare
OneBookPlus vs hotel software
How we compare to the PMS and channel-manager tools AU accommodation operators typically use.
| Feature | OneBookPlus | Little Hotelier | RMS Cloud | SiteMinder |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free starter plan (1 property) | Yes | No | No | No |
| Commission-free direct booking engine | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Free iCal sync (Airbnb / Stayz / Booking.com) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| NSW PID + 180-night cap tracking | Yes | No | No | No |
| VIC 7.5% Short Stay Levy calculation | Yes | No | No | No |
| Pre-arrival guest check-in portal | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Housekeeping board + cleaner share links | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| GST folios + one-click BAS export | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| OTA commission reconciler | Yes | No | No | No |
| Setup without a consultant | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Price | From $0/mo | Subscription | Subscription | Subscription |
vs. Little Hotelier, RMS, SiteMinder
Built for owner-operators, not 200-room resorts
Big PMS suites are powerful but priced for chains and require setup consultants. OneBookPlus gives a single property the same toolset at a fraction of the cost, and you can start free today.
| Feature | OneBookPlus | Little Hotelier | RMS Cloud | SiteMinder |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free starter plan | Yes | No | No | No |
| Direct booking engine (commission-free) | Yes, included | Add-on | Add-on | Bundled |
| iCal channel sync (Airbnb / Stayz / Booking.com) | Yes, included | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| AU STR compliance (NSW PID, VIC levy, QLD councils) | Yes, built-in | No | No | No |
| Housekeeping board + mobile cleaner PWA | Yes, included | Yes | Yes | No |
| Invoicing + GST + accounting | Yes, full Xero-level | Basic | Limited | No |
| Restaurant POS for in-house F&B (KDS coming soon) | Yes, optional | No | Add-on | No |
| Per-room monthly cost (1 prop, 6 rooms) | from $0 | ~$120 AUD | ~$280 AUD | ~$190 AUD |
| Setup time | 30 minutes | 1-2 weeks | 2-4 weeks | 1-2 weeks |
| AU support, no consultant required | Yes | Phone-tag | Consultant | Phone-tag |
Competitor pricing estimates based on publicly listed AU plans for a single 6-room property as of May 2026. We don't collect a per-room fee, your plan price is the same whether you have 1 room or 50.
One day, written by itself, an illustrated day of an Australian motel run on OneBookPlus
An illustrated day, not real customer data. Scroll through it from morning to 5pm: the AI receptionist answers and books a missed call, the work runs from the app, the GST invoice is sent on the spot, payment lands and the books balance themselves, a review invite is queued for the next daily run, and the day closes with the ledger already written.
8:00am
Mid checkout rush
The room-for-tonight call you'd have missed.
A family of four wants a room for tonight. They call the first motel on Google, yours, while you're juggling six departures.
AI Receptionist
Answered. Booked. No commission.
The AI answers in two rings, books two nights direct and texts a check-in link, no Booking.com clipping $74 off the top.
At the front desk
They just walk in.
Arrival card on the iPad: ETA, rego and details already in through the check-in link. Room 9 is ready and inspected.
Check-in
Folio raised on the spot.
One tap raises the folio with a pay link, GST itemised, no paper registration card, no end-of-month catch-up.
Back to the board
Paid at check-in, posted to the stays board.
The card payment lands, the stays board updates, and $44.55 GST is set aside for BAS.
Reputation on autopilot
The review ask, once they have checked out.
This morning's departing guest gets an automatic review ask at the right moment. No chasing, no awkward ask.
The day closes itself
Eight rooms turned, one direct booking won.
Eight rooms turned, one direct booking won. The book did the rest.
$0
collected
0
admin tasks done by AI
0
evenings lost
An illustrated day, not real customer data. AI Receptionist is a $79/mo add-on that needs AI Companion ($25/mo, included on Growth), and AI Companion is what sends the review invite as well. The rest of the day is the app itself.
Property pricing
Four plans. All built for AU hosts.
Start free on one property, upgrade when the room nights justify it. No per-room fee, no setup consultant, no lock-in contract. Cancel any time.
Free
$0/forever
Sell your first commission-free room today, no credit card.
- One property, up to 25 stays/month
- Direct /stay booking page (0% commission)
- Free iCal sync (Airbnb, Stayz, Booking.com)
- Stays board + rate calendar
- Pre-arrival check-in portal
- GST-compliant guest folios
Starter
$29/mo
Replaces Little Hotelier + Xero + your booking-page builder.
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited stays + room types
- Stripe deposits + card holds (100% to you)
- Weekend uplift, min-LOS, CTA/CTD rules
- Housekeeping board + cleaner share links
- NSW PID + VIC Short Stay Levy tracking
- Accounting, P&L & BAS reports
- 3 team members
No card · Drops to Free if you don't upgrade
Our pickGrowing
Plus
$49/mo
Outgrowing the basics, advanced reporting.
Our pick: unlimited contacts and booking pages for $49
- Everything in Starter
- Your own domain, 50 pages, members area, 5 GB media
- Unlimited contacts & bookings
- Advanced reporting & analytics
- Batch invoicing
- Paid memberships: charge customers weekly or monthly, on your own Stripe
- Budget tracking
- 5 team logins
Growth
$69/mo
For hosts running a portfolio and chasing more direct demand.
- Everything in Plus
- Channel Manager with real-time OTA APIs (coming)
- OTA commission report (export for reconciling against OTA payouts)
- Two-way guest SMS + review requests
- Paid add-on: Google Ads dashboard, $99/mo
- 10 team members
Prices in AUD inc. GST. Marketplace apps (Channel Manager, Revenue Operations) billed separately. Online card payments carry Stripe processing fees (1.7% + 30¢ AU cards) plus a 2.5% OneBookPlus platform fee. See the full plan comparison
Already on another PMS?
Switching from Little Hotelier, RMS Cloud or SiteMinder?
Switching is designed to fit in a single evening. Paste your Airbnb, Stayz and Booking.com iCal feeds in, set your rooms and rates, and you're selling direct before the first arrival tomorrow, no consultant, no 2-week onboarding.
- 1Paste your Airbnb / Stayz / Booking.com iCal feeds, upcoming bookings start flowing in (5 min)
- 2Define room types, base rates and weekend uplift (10 min)
- 3Set your NSW PID / VIC levy state, deposit policy and add your /stay link to Google (15 min)
- 4Cancel your old PMS subscription tomorrow morning, coffee in hand
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FAQ
Common questions
Will this work for my property type?
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Yes. OneBookPlus supports hotels, motels, BnBs, serviced apartments, holiday rentals, multi-property STR hosts, hostels, caravan parks, boutique lodges and pub accommodation. Every feature works the same way regardless of your subtype; only the onboarding tour and sample data are tailored.
How does direct booking save me commission?
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When a guest books through Booking.com or Expedia, you pay 15-25% commission per booking. Every booking that lands on your direct booking page (URL: /stay/your-business-slug) costs you nothing in OTA commission. What you keep is whatever your own OTA commission bill comes to, so put your last statement beside it, by promoting your direct URL alongside OTA listings.
Do I have to manage my OTAs separately?
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No. Free iCal sync covers most small hosts (Airbnb, Stayz, Booking.com all support it): reservations land on your dashboard automatically with the channel labelled, on a roughly 30-minute refresh. A Channel Manager app with direct API connections for higher-volume properties is coming.
What's NSW PID and 180-night cap tracking?
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Since 2021, NSW Greater Sydney non-hosted short-term rentals are capped at 180 nights/year, and every property must register a PID (Premises Identification). OneBookPlus tracks both, set your state and PID once, and we count the nights against the cap automatically with alerts at 90% and 100%.
What does VIC Short Stay Levy mean for me?
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From 1 January 2025, Victoria charges a 7.5% Short Stay Levy on bookings under 28 nights. OneBookPlus calculates the levy on every applicable stay automatically and shows it as a line on the stay detail. You collect from the guest and lodge with SRO quarterly.
Can I try the demo before signing up?
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Yes, the OneBookPlus Hotel demo is publicly viewable. Browse rooms, stays, the rate calendar, the housekeeping board, the loyalty program, the team roster, and the marketplace as a logged-in user. No data entry, just look around to see what a populated property looks like.
How much does it cost?
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The Free tier covers a single property with up to 25 stays/month. Paid plans start at $29/mo for higher volume. Marketplace apps (Guest Experience Suite, Revenue Operations) are billed separately when you install them; Channel Manager is coming and will be billed the same way. The core PMS, including free iCal sync, is always free to start.
Is direct booking really commission-free?
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Yes. The booking page that comes with your account (/stay/your-slug) takes zero commission, every dollar the guest pays is yours minus the payment fees if you wire up Stripe (Stripe charges roughly 1.7% + 30c on AU cards, and OneBookPlus adds a 2.5% platform fee on online card payments). Compare that to Booking.com's 15-18% or Airbnb's 14-16% host fee.
How do guest comms work?
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When a guest books, three SMS touchpoints fire automatically: a check-in link 3 days before arrival, a welcome message on arrival morning, and a review request the day after check-out. Email versions also exist; both are operator-configurable from Settings. Guests with no phone fall back to email.
Can my cleaner update room status without a login?
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Yes, the housekeeping app generates per-cleaner share links (a URL like /clean/abc123) you text to your casual cleaners. They tap to mark rooms clean / dirty / inspected from their phone. No login, no app install, just a link.
What about deposit / pre-payment for direct bookings?
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Configure a deposit policy (none, % of total, flat amount, or first-night) in Settings, then Payments. Once you connect Stripe, deposits are captured as refundable card holds at the time the guest submits the booking, and you capture them when you confirm the stay. Operator gets 100%, no platform fee.
Switching from another tool, can I import my booking history?
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Not automatically today. Free iCal sync starts pulling new holds forward from the day you paste in the feed; a wizard to backfill 12 months of history into your reports and occupancy heatmap is planned for the Channel Manager app once it ships.
Can guests reply to the SMS we send them?
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Yes. Two-way SMS works out of the box, when you send pre-arrival or arrival-day messages from the platform, guest replies land directly in the in-stay conversation thread on the stay detail page. No separate inbox to check.
How OneBookPlus Works for Hotels
Most small Australian properties are run on a tangle of OTA extranets, an Airbnb iCal feed, a paper folio book, and a Google Sheet that never quite agrees with the bank. You re-key the same booking into Booking.com, Stayz and your calendar; you photocopy the registration card; and at the end of the night you tally the takings by hand. Every reservation through an OTA quietly hands over 15% to 18% on Booking.com or a 14% to 16% host fee on Airbnb, and the big PMS suites that promise to fix it, Little Hotelier, SiteMinder and RMS Cloud, are priced for chains and want a setup consultant before you can sell a room.
OneBookPlus rebuilds the property around a single stays board. Every check-in, check-out and in-house guest sits on one screen, with pre-arrival badges from the public check-in portal. Your commission-free direct booking page lives at /stay/your-slug the moment you have one room, paste it into your Google Business Profile, your email signature and your website footer, and every guest who books there keeps you the full nightly rate minus the payment fees: roughly 1.7% + 30¢ to Stripe on AU cards, plus a 2.5% OneBookPlus platform fee on online card payments. Free iCal sync with Airbnb, Stayz, Booking.com, Vrbo and Agoda lands inbound holds roughly every 30 minutes and publishes an outbound feed so the OTAs never oversell a night you've already filled.
Your Daily Workflow
The day starts on the arrivals board: pre-allocate rooms to the guests who've already submitted their ETA, confirm overnight direct holds with one click, and bulk-apply long-weekend or festival rates across the next eight weeks with weekend uplift and a min-LOS rule. As guests check out, the housekeeping board flips rooms to “needs cleaning”; your casual cleaner works off a /clean share link with no login, marking rooms inspected from their phone. Each stay produces a GST-compliant folio with deposit tracking, and an OTA commission report lets you check any Booking.com or Expedia stay against what the channel actually remitted.
Payments & Accounting
Stripe deposits and direct-booking payments match against open folios; OTA payouts net of commission reconcile against the accrual the system already posted; linen, cleaning and OTA commission categorise as cost of sales. Daily revenue sync to Xero or MYOB is not built and is not on a date, so the month-end figures move across on the export rather than on their own. Come BAS time the GST summary is already prepared, GST collected on room nights and extras, GST credits on purchases, exportable in one click or shared straight to your accountant.
Getting Started
Sign up free, no credit card, no lock-in. Pick your subtype (hotel, motel, BnB, holiday rental, multi-property STR, hostel, caravan park, lodge, serviced apartments or pub accommodation) and OneBookPlus pre-loads sample room types and an AU chart of accounts. Paste your existing iCal feeds and upcoming Airbnb / Stayz / Booking.com holds start flowing into your stays board straight away. Set your state so the NSW Property ID and 180-night Greater Sydney cap, or the Victorian 7.5% Short Stay Levy, track automatically. You can sell your first commission-free direct room the day you sign up.
Stop juggling 4 spreadsheets and 6 OTA extranets.
Start free. Set up in 30 minutes. Cancel any time.
15-minute personalised walkthrough. We'll show your subtype-specific setup (BnB / motel / multi-property STR / etc.) live.
Authoritative sources
Where the regulatory and compliance facts on this page come from
Australian short-term and accommodation operators sit under state STR registration schemes, the Victorian short-stay levy, the national hospitality award, and Australian Consumer Law. We cite the primary bodies for the claims on this page so you can verify directly.
- NSW Planning, Short-term rental accommodation (PID register & 180-night cap) , Premises Identification requirement and the Greater Sydney non-hosted 180-night limit.
- State Revenue Office Victoria, Short Stay Levy , The 7.5% levy on stays under 28 nights, in force from 1 January 2025, and quarterly lodgement.
- Queensland Government, Short-term rentals & council permits , Local-government registration and permit requirements for QLD short-stay accommodation.
- Hospitality Industry (General) Award 2020 (MA000009) , Modern award covering front-desk, housekeeping and accommodation staff conditions.
- ACCC, Consumer guarantees , Australian Consumer Law guarantees that apply to accommodation cancellations and refunds.
- Australian Hotels Association (AHA) , Peak body for hotels, pubs and accommodation across Australia.
About the author
Bishal Shrestha
Founder & CEO, OneBookPlus
Bishal spent a decade running digital projects for Australian small businesses before founding OneBookPlus. He writes and maintains these pages, and publishes what OneBookPlus does not do alongside what it does.
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The compliance and licensing statements above are taken from the bodies this page links to, including the Australian Hotels Association, the Queensland Government and NSW Planning, so you can read the rule rather than take our word for it. Plan prices come from the OneBookPlus price registry, so the page and the checkout cannot disagree. Everything said about OneBookPlus describes what the product does today, and the page says so where it does not do something.
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