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Holuwayfor Hosts

Payments, deposits and folios

Get paid online, and keep every charge straight

Guests pay by card when they book on Holuway or your website, payouts reach your own Stripe account, and each reservation's folio holds every night, tax, extra, deposit and payment.

A reservation folio in Holuway: room nights, taxes, extras and the payments recorded against them, with the balance.
Real screens, sample dataReal Holuway screens, captured from the app with a sample company: Harbor Light Inn in Galveston, Cypress Creek Cabin in Wimberley and Eastside Loft in Austin.

01 · Online

The card held, then taken when you confirm

A booking request authorises the guest's card; confirming it captures the payment, and a decline releases the hold. With instant booking, the payment is taken at once. Refunds follow the cancellation policy you chose.

  • Payments on your own Stripe account, paid out to your bank
  • Card processing charged by Stripe to your account at its standard rate

02 · Folios

A folio for every stay, and for the group

Guest, company and group folios hold room nights, taxes, fees, extras, damages, discounts, deposits, payments and refunds. Move charges between folios of a reservation, print or download a folio, and close it when the stay is settled.

  • A correction is a reversal, never an edit
  • Add a charge, take a payment, adjust or discount from the folio

03 · At the desk

Payments taken at the property, recorded

Record a payment taken by your own card terminal, in cash or by check, or a card hold with its capture or release, so the folio and the balance are always right. Refund a desk payment from the same place.

  • Settle at check-out, or leave a balance owed with a note

04 · Fees

Every fee on its own line

No commission on bookings you bring, a commission only on Holuway marketplace bookings, and every fee shown as its own line in your statement.

Not in Holuway yet

Said plainly, so you can plan around it.

  • Card readers connected to Holuway: payments taken on your own terminal are recorded on the folio.
  • Payment links and cards kept on file for desk bookings.
  • Deposit schedules: a stay booked online is authorised in full at the request.

Commission only when Holuway brings the guest

Bookings you bring cost no commission: your website and booking engine, walk-ins, phone and email bookings, and your own channels. Holuway charges a commission only on bookings from the Holuway marketplace, and the guest pays no service fee.

Bookings you bring

No commission

Your website, booking engine, desk, phone and email.

Bookings from other channels

No Holuway fee

A channel's booking carries that channel's own commission, never Holuway's.

Bookings from the Holuway marketplace

12% on Free, 12% on Pro, 12% on Business

Taken from the payout of each booking, refunded in proportion with a refund. No guest service fee.

Spaces marketplace bookings: 12% on Free, 12% on Pro, 12% on Business.

Card money you take for your own bookings through Holuway carries no Holuway fee.

Card processing (2.9% + $0.30 for standard US cards) is charged by Stripe to your own Stripe account.

Questions, answered

Who pays the card processing?

On the standard payout account, Stripe charges its processing to your own Stripe account, as it would for any business. Holuway's own fees, when a payment carries one, are separate lines.

When do I receive the money?

Stripe pays out to your bank on your account's payout schedule; Holuway's commission, when a booking carries one, is taken from that payment.

Open your desk today

Create your account, add your property and its rooms, and take your first booking. The core is free and needs no credit card.

  • Booking engine and website

    A direct booking engine and a website made from your rooms, rates and photos, on a Holuway address or your own domain. Card authorised at the request, extras and promotion codes, and no commission on direct bookings.

  • Finance and books

    Books for your hospitality business inside Holuway: a chart of accounts from a template, journals with reversals, periods, a trial balance you can export, and approvals for what a bookkeeper prepares.

  • Pricing

    Holuway for Hosts pricing: a free core, Stays Pro and Stays Business priced per bookable unit with volume tiers, Spaces plans per location, no commission on bookings you bring and a host-only marketplace commission.