Marketplace & Direct Bookings

Every Stayantra hotel automatically gets a free public listing on the Stayantra Marketplace (marketplace.stayantra.com) — a booking page guests can find and reserve from directly, with no OTA commission on the booking.

1. Your Free Listing

The moment your hotel is set up in Stayantra Web, it goes live on the Marketplace with your rooms, rates, photos, and policies:

• No setup required: Your listing is generated from the same property profile you already filled in during onboarding — rooms, rates, amenities, and photos.
• Zero commission: Guests book straight into your inventory. Unlike OTAs (Booking.com, Agoda), Stayantra does not take a cut of the booking.
• One live inventory: A Marketplace booking reflects instantly on your Smart Grid and folio, exactly like a walk-in or phone booking — see Bookings & Folios for how a reservation moves through check-in, folio charges, and checkout.

[!TIP] Included on every plan, including the free Base Camp tier — see Plans & Billing.

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2. Exubee on Your Listing

Your Marketplace page embeds Exubee, the same AI concierge used across Stayantra:

• Answers guest questions: Check-in times, room amenities, nearby attractions, policies — Exubee answers directly on the listing, day or night.
• Helps guests book: Exubee can walk a guest through picking a room and dates and complete the booking for them, showing the total and terms before any payment.
• No extra configuration: Exubee already knows your hotel's details from your property profile, so there's nothing separate to train or maintain.

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3. Getting Found — By Search Engines and AI

A listing only helps if guests can find it. Every Marketplace page is built to be discoverable everywhere people now look for a hotel:

• SEO (search engines): Your listing is indexed by Google like any other website, with a sitemap so new pages get discovered quickly.
• AEO (answer engines): Your listing carries machine-readable structured data (LodgingBusiness markup) so answer engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini can read your hotel's details accurately when someone asks them for a recommendation — for example, if a traveler asks ChatGPT to find them a hotel in your city, your listing can surface there, not just on Google.
• GEO (generative engines): Your hotel also publishes an llms.txt file — a machine-readable summary built specifically for AI systems to read and cite.

All of this is automatic and free. You don't write any markup or configure anything — Exubee keeps this metadata current as your rooms, rates, and photos change.

[!NOTE] This is also what makes your hotel "agent-bookable" — an AI assistant or autonomous booking agent can discover and book your hotel directly, using the same booking surface as a guest, with terms shown before any payment handoff.

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4. Want This on Your Own Website?

If your hotel already has its own website, you don't have to choose between it and the Marketplace. Stayantra's Website API lets you pull live availability and rates — and the same Exubee chatbot — onto your own domain, so direct bookings can happen there too, with no OTA cut. See Integrations for details.