Booking.com Commission Calculator · South Africa
How much is Booking.com really costing your guesthouse?
Every time a guest books your place through Booking.com or Airbnb, a slice of that payment never reaches you. On a busy month those slices add up to real money — money that could be covering your bond, your staff, or your next renovation.
Use the calculator below to see your number for the year. It takes about 30 seconds.
Your Property
Platform
Commission Lost
R168 480
to Booking.com this year
Nights Given Away
144 nights
you work for free for Booking.com
With EezyBookings Direct Bookings
You save with EezyBookings
vs staying on Booking.com this year
R156 600
this year
How much commission does Booking.com take in South Africa?
Booking.com typically charges South African properties a commission in the region of 15% per reservation, and it can climb higher if you opt into programmes that boost your visibility in their search results. Airbnb usually applies a host service fee on top of what guests pay, and local platforms like LekkeSlaap and SafariNow each take their own cut.
The exact percentage matters less than the annual total. A guesthouse turning over R80,000 a month through OTAs at 15% is handing over R12,000 every month — R144,000 a year — for bookings it could increasingly be getting directly.
What that money could be doing instead
That's not a rounding error. It's a part-time salary, a pool refurbishment, a year of marketing, or simply margin you keep. The guests are already choosing your property — you're paying a toll for the introduction long after you've made it.
Part-time staff member
Pool refurbishment
A year of marketing
Pure margin you keep
You don't have to leave the OTAs to fix this
This isn't about deleting your Booking.com listing. It's about converting the guests who would happily book you directly — repeat visitors, referrals, people who found you and then Googled your name — through your own commission-free booking page instead of paying a percentage on every one.
That's what EezyBookings does: a booking engine and payment flow on your own site, your guests' details saved in your own CRM, for a flat monthly fee with zero commission — and a 90-day free trial to prove it.
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