Promote direct instead of paying commission.
Win the booking with a code you control, not a 15–25% cut to an OTA — coupons and promo codes built into your branded booking engine.
Promote direct
Run real promos — without overselling the discount
Coupons and promo codes built into your own booking engine, with hard usage limits and expiry. Two guests can't both grab the last of a capped code — so a promotion never costs you more than you planned.
- Race-safe redemption — never oversold
- Hard usage limits + expiry dates
- A code is cheaper than 15–25% OTA commission
- No per-booking fee on direct bookings
The problem
You want to run a promotion. A winter-fill code, a returning-guest thank-you, a campaign offer tied to your next email blast. Simple enough — until the tools fight you.
Most operators have one of two problems. Either there's no promo capability at all, so every discount is a manual price drop you punch in by hand and pray you remember to take down. Or the discounting is clunky and oversells: the cap says fifty redemptions, but two guests hit it at the same second and you've honoured fifty-two.
Either way the discount runs away from you. A "10% off" turns into giving away margin you never agreed to — on bookings that may have come anyway.
That's not a promotion. That's a leak with a coupon code stuck on it.
The Accommador way
A bolt-on discount widget treats every redemption as a separate event and hopes they don't collide.
When demand spikes — exactly when your promo is working — that's when it oversells.
Accommador's coupons live inside your own booking engine, and redemption is race-safe. Set a code to fifty uses and it stops at fifty, even if a hundred guests hit it in the same minute. Two guests can't both claim the last of a capped code at once — the engine settles it cleanly, every time.
You set the rules once: the discount, the usage limit, the expiry. The engine enforces them to the booking. The promotion does exactly what you designed — no overselling, no manual clean-up, no surprise margin gone.
And because it's a direct-booking code, every redemption is a stay that skips the OTA. A code you control is almost always cheaper than handing an OTA 15–25% commission on the same guest.
How it works
From signup to a converting page
- 01
Create the code.
Name it, set the discount, and add a hard usage limit and an expiry date. Takes a minute.
- 02
Share it.
Drop it into your next email or SMS campaign, a returning-guest message, or a campaign-specific offer.
- 03
The engine enforces it — race-safe.
Guests redeem on your branded booking engine. The cap holds to the exact number you set, even under a rush.
- 04
It expires on its own.
When the date passes or the uses run out, the code closes itself. No stale discount left live by accident.
What you get
Everything this feature gives you
Never oversell a promotion again.
A capped code stops dead at its limit, even in a booking rush — race-safe redemption means two guests can't both grab the last of a capped code.
Cap the cost of every offer.
You decide exactly how many redemptions a promo can have — hard usage limits enforced to the booking.
Set it and forget it.
Promos close themselves the moment they're meant to — expiry dates that retire the code automatically.
Fill your low-demand windows.
Spin up a quiet-midweek or shoulder-season code to pull bookings into the dates you actually need filled.
Reward the guests who come back.
Hand returning guests a private code as a thank-you — a cheaper, warmer win than re-acquiring them through an OTA.
Run real campaigns, not guesswork.
Pair a campaign-specific code with your email campaigns so the offer and the channel are one move, not two disconnected tools.
Keep your margin yours.
Because the discount is capped and time-boxed, a promotion can never quietly cost more than you planned.
Why it's different
Built for the whole loop, not one box
Most tools
Most setups: a manual price drop or a bolt-on discount widget → no hard cap, or a cap that oversells under load → margin runs away → you clean up by hand.
Accommador
Accommador: a code with a hard limit and expiry → race-safe redemption that holds to the exact number → the promo does only what you designed → a direct booking that skips OTA commission.
A typical 30-room operator already pays $900–$1,500+/month across six-to-nine disconnected tools — and the discounting in that stack is usually the part that oversells or doesn't exist at all.
FAQ
Questions operators ask
Race-safe redemption. The engine settles every claim against the cap, so two guests can't both grab the last of a capped code. Set fifty uses and it stops at fifty, even if a hundred guests hit it in the same minute.
Yes. Every code carries a hard usage limit and an expiry date. You decide exactly how many redemptions it can have and when it closes — the discount can never run past what you planned.
No. Coupons and promo codes are built into Accommador's own booking engine, not a third-party add-on. You create a code in a minute and the engine enforces it automatically.
Because a direct-booking code carries no per-booking fee from us, while an OTA takes 15–25% commission on the same guest. A code you control is almost always the cheaper way to win the stay.
No. Accommador's channel manager keeps your 100+ OTAs flowing while these codes win more direct bookings — the ones with no per-booking fee from us. You escape the 15–25% commission only on the direct stays you win.
Locked-for-Life operators get free white-glove migration. We set up your property, rates and rules so you can launch your first promo code on your real calendar from day one.
Pricing
Replace a $900–$1,500/mo stack with one platform
SiteMinder charges ~$250/mo for the channel manager alone. Accommador includes it — plus PMS, booking engine, payments, Xero and the full marketing stack — from $500/mo per location.
One platform replaces the whole stack
What you'd pay for it all separately
- 100+ channel manager$250/mo
- Property management system$400/mo
- Branded booking engine$150/mo
- Server-side conversion tracking$200/mo
- Email marketing$80/mo
- SMS marketing$80/mo
- Marketing automations$80/mo
- Reputation management$150/mo
- Social media planner$60/mo
- Website & funnel builder$250/mo
- Guest CRM & database$80/mo
- Integrated payments + bond holds$80/mo
- Xero auto-reconciliation$200/mo
Total, bought separately$2,060/mo
Accommador — all of it$500/mo per location
You save $1,560/moabout $19,000 a year — before the bookings you stop losing
Book a demoLocked-for-Life Plan — first 10 operators only
Get the full Accommador platform for $5,000/year, the price held for life, plus free white-glove migration — and our guarantee: more direct bookings in 90 days, or we work free until you do, or you're refunded.
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Stop stitching six tools together
Most operators run a channel manager, a PMS, a booking engine, an email tool, an SMS tool, a reviews tool, a social scheduler and a site builder — six to nine subscriptions, none of them talking to each other. Accommador replaces all of it, from $500 AUD/mo per location.