Citara
Booking management platform for service providers with automated scheduling and client notifications.
⚡ 25 days📊 Web PlatformWeb
Hotel App Development Agency
Direct booking, guest apps, and property ops — cut OTA tax and own the guest relationship.
Hotel software is not a generic booking widget. Availability, rates, deposits, and 'who has the room tonight' have to stay consistent or you get double bookings and angry guests.
We build direct booking sites and guest apps so independent hotels and small groups can take reservations without giving 15–25% to OTAs on every stay. PMS integrations are scoped honestly — they are not a weekend plugin.
Timeline: 4–5 weeksPrice: From $5,800Fixed price — no hourly billing
Why hotel app development is easy to get wrong
OTA commissions of 15–25% on rooms you already own
Manual PMS sync causing double bookings
Generic widgets that cannot do mobile check-in or upsells
Channel managers that look integrated until a weekend rate change
What we build
Direct booking engine
Search, room types, rate plans, deposits, cancellation rules you actually use.
Guest mobile app
Reservation lookup, check-in instructions, upsells, messaging.
Staff / property view
Arrivals, occupancy, and notes — not a second copy of Excel.
Payments
Stripe for deposits and balances. PCI stays with Stripe.
PMS / channel hooks
Cloudbeds, Guesty, Hostaway, or a custom API — quoted as its own slice of scope.
Typical features in v1
Own the guest data
Emails and stays live in your database, not only in Booking.com.
Mobile-first guest flow
Most guests book on a phone. The UI is built for that, not a desktop PMS clone.
Development process
1
Inventory reality check
Room types, seasons, and which PMS is source of truth.
2
Booking UX
The guest path before we touch channel APIs.
3
Build + integrations
Engine, payments, then PMS if in v1.
4
Soft launch
One property first. Then a second property if the model holds.
Recommended stack
- Next.js — Booking site and admin
- React Native — Guest app when you need stores
- Supabase — Reservations and guest records
- Stripe — Deposits and payouts
What you get
- → Direct booking website
- → Guest mobile app (if in scope)
- → Admin dashboard
- → Stripe payments
- → Full source code
Relevant work — hotel app development
Production products we shipped. Metrics come from those projects — we do not invent case studies for this page.
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FAQ
How much does hotel app development cost?
Direct booking MVPs start at $5,800. Multi-property plus guest app plus two-way PMS is a custom fixed quote.
Can you integrate our PMS?
Often yes — Cloudbeds, Guesty, Hostaway, or a documented API. We confirm the connector on the call; we do not assume every PMS has a clean API.
Do we still need Booking.com?
Usually yes at first. Direct is a second channel so you can lower OTA mix over time — not a fantasy overnight switch.
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