This is a question you can answer with arithmetic, and it turns on exactly two numbers: how much you take directly, and how many properties you run. The calculator is below — with your numbers, not our examples.
14–16%
is what the large portals keep from every booking they bring you
0%
is the share Reynt takes from your direct bookings
from 29 EUR
flat monthly fee — whatever your revenue turns out to be
Two sliders and a percentage. The calculator puts both annual costs side by side and names the revenue at which the balance tips.
Revenue-share model
1,500a year
Reynt Professional, flat fee
900a year
that is 75 EUR a month
Stays with you each year
600 EUR
The two models cost the same at around 6,000 EUR of annual revenue. Below that the revenue share is cheaper, above it the flat fee — and the gap widens with every further euro you take directly.
A fair comparison needs this sentence: a portal's commission also pays for its reach. Reynt brings you no guests. The calculator therefore compares only the cost of bookings you would get anyway — repeat guests, referrals, your own website. For a guest a portal found for you, that commission is not a fee but a cost of sale.
All prices are net and exclude statutory VAT. Reynt is offered to businesses only — entrepreneurs within the meaning of § 14 German Civil Code (BGB), legal entities under public law and special funds under public law.
Almost every product in this market follows one of these three models. You can tell which one you are on from a single question: what happens to your bill when a season goes better than planned?
What drives the bill
Your revenue
The classic portal model: a percentage comes off every booking the portal brings, typically 14 to 16 per cent. You pay nothing when nothing is booked — and the most in the year that goes best.
Grow, and the bill grows in exact proportion. It never stops climbing.
What drives the bill
Revenue or booking band
A monthly fee that is nonetheless tied to revenue bands or booking counts. It feels like a flat fee and behaves like a commission in good years — in steps rather than smoothly.
Predictable until the next band. Then the bill jumps, without anything in your work having changed.
What drives the bill
Your property count
The price depends only on how many properties you run, not on what you earn from them. This is the model Reynt runs: zero per cent on every booking, and an amount you know twelve months ahead.
A better season costs you nothing extra. Whatever the growth brings in stays with you in full.
A portal does not take its share for nothing: it supplies reach you would otherwise have to build yourself. For a guest who would never have found you without that portal, the commission is money well spent. We tell nobody to switch their portals off.
The point lies elsewhere: for repeat guests, referrals, and everyone who lands on your own site anyway, you pay that same percentage for an introduction that never happened. Those are the bookings the calculator above is about — and only those.
As soon as your direct booking revenue passes the break-even figure the calculator shows above. For an operation with a handful of properties that point sits at a few thousand euros of annual revenue — considerably lower than most people guess, because the flat fee stays small in absolute terms while the commission grows proportionally. What matters is not your property count but the revenue you earn without an introduction.
No, and that is a fact rather than modesty: Reynt brings you no guests. We supply the machinery for bookings that come to you directly — your own booking site, payment, invoicing, owner settlements. Most of our customers keep their portals and move over only the share that would have come directly anyway. If everything you take today comes through portals, work on your own visibility first and the software second.
That is the band the large booking portals' commissions typically fall in. Because your actual rate may differ — by portal, by programme, and by any visibility options you have bought — you can change it in the calculator. We deliberately name no providers and no specific contract terms: those figures change, and a comparison that depends on somebody else's price list can be wrong the day after it is published.
Yes, and for most operators that is the sensible route. Availability can be synchronised with the portals over iCal so double bookings are avoided; rates and content stay per channel. Whatever is booked directly through Reynt carries no commission — whatever comes through a portal is billed by that portal exactly as before.
You can try Reynt free for 14 days without a credit card, and the trial ends by itself. After that there is no minimum term — you can cancel at any time by email, effective at the end of the period you have already paid for. If it turns out your direct share is still too small for this to pay off, that is a useful thing to have learned — and it has cost you nothing.
Fourteen days free, no credit card. Add your properties, switch on your booking site, and see what is actually left at the end of the month.
No credit card, no subscription — the trial ends by itself after 14 days.