See what a booking platform's commission and per-booking fees really cost your business over a year. Enter your own figures and set the total against a flat monthly fee. Nothing you type leaves your browser.
Your estimate appears here once you enter a booking value, the number of bookings a month and either a commission rate or a fee per booking.
The Formula
It is plain arithmetic. You can check every line of it on paper.
Average booking value, multiplied by bookings a month, multiplied by the commission rate divided by 100.
Any flat fee per booking, multiplied by bookings a month.
Commission each month plus per-booking fees each month.
Total each month, multiplied by twelve.
Total each month, divided by bookings a month.
Your flat monthly fee multiplied by twelve, set against your total over a year to show the difference.
Your figures go in exactly as you typed them. All amounts are in pounds sterling.
Reading The Result
The yearly figure is what the percentage and the per-booking fees add up to over twelve months, at the volume you entered. A rate that looks small on one booking can become a significant sum over a year.
Not every booking a platform passes you comes from a new customer. Some may be regulars, and others may already know your business and would book with you directly if your website took bookings. Enter those bookings separately to see what their commission costs you in a year.
Valacia Business, coming soon, puts a booking system on your own website.
It costs £59 a month, or £649 a year with one month free, after the 14-day free trial ends.
If you take a deposit through your website, the fee is 2.5% + 20p on a standard UK card, and that includes the card processor's charge.
It does not bring you an audience of its own.
Linko Vectis built this calculator. We are a UK-based technology company that designs and engineers custom SaaS applications and makes its own platform, Valacia. Our roadmap sets out what we are building next and the ideas we are considering.
Common Questions
A flat amount a booking platform charges for each booking it passes you, on top of any percentage commission.
Put it in the fee-per-booking box, where it is multiplied by your monthly bookings and then by twelve. A small fee adds up quickly at volume. That is why the calculator shows a yearly figure.
It means a flat price. What you pay does not change with the number of bookings, and no percentage or per-booking fee is taken from the bookings themselves.
A card payment taken with a booking may still carry a processing fee, so check what each provider charges for one. The flat monthly fee box is there for this comparison.
Published rates change, vary by contract and are often negotiated, so any figure we filled in would be out of date or wrong for your account. Your own rate, read off your own statement, gives an answer about your business.
No. The calculator runs inside your own browser. Your figures stay on your device, and no shareable link carries them anywhere. Close the tab and they are gone.
Not on its own. First check that the alternative does the jobs you rely on the platform for today. Then set the two yearly figures side by side.
Valacia Business takes over the booking itself. Customers book on your own website, each booking is confirmed by email, and you pay no commission and no fee per booking. A deposit taken with a booking carries the payment fee and nothing else (Valacia Terms, clauses 4.3 and 4.8).
Valacia does not exchange bookings with booking platforms, so if a platform also sells your rooms or tables, mark each one it sells as taken in Valacia Studio.
Valacia Business
Customers book a room or a table on your website, pay a deposit if you ask for one, and receive an automatic email confirmation. The first fourteen days are free, and no card is needed.