Why have a direct booking?
A direct booking page lets guests and campers book with you anytime — checking availability, choosing their room or site, and paying a deposit online — without waiting for a call or email back. It saves you time during the busy season, makes your property look more professional, and gives both new and returning guests a clear path to book directly with you.
Direct booking is not about replacing Airbnb, Booking.com, or other booking sites — it’s about diversifying where your reservations come from. Every direct booking means one less commission paid to the big booking sites. You also keep your guests’ contact information, so you can communicate with them directly and invite them back with special offers and future stays.
What's included
All reservations — whether made online, by phone, or in person — go into one calendar, helping you avoid double bookings. You also get Stripe payments, deposits, cancellation reminders, housekeeping tools, reports, visitor statistics, and other essential tools to manage your daily operations.
Other optional services
We also offer easily customizable property website templates with no HTML knowledge required, giving you the flexibility to update your site anytime. Hosting and SSL included.
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🍁 Our vision:
Our PMS was developed to boost tourism in our beautiful region, for the benefit of all local businesses. We believe that, in order to help all businesses in our community thrive, we need to start by assisting small hotels, motels, B&Bs, and campgrounds in lowering their expenses, and making connections to online travel agencies more accessible. Lowering the cost of hospitality would make our region even more attractive to travelers from around the world, bringing more money to our communities and supporting other local businesses. To achieve this, we must start with tourism. We believe tourism is the key to unlocking all of this.
🏡 About us:
Based in Halifax, in the heart of beautiful Nova Scotia, NovaBooking was created with a simple mission: to support our local hospitality industry with affordable, user-friendly tools. With over 20 years of experience as a software developer, I began this project to give back to our communities. Today, our small but dedicated team continues that mission — helping local hotels, motels, B&Bs, and campgrounds access simple and affordable tools to manage their business.