SitesPlaced Hospitality: a booking website for stays and cafés, free
One website and one dashboard for homestays, guesthouses, cottages, small hotels, cafés and restaurants in India. Guests book rooms or order food from you directly, and you keep every rupee: 0% commission on every plan.
By Manan Agrawal, Founder · Updated October 28, 2026
SitesPlaced Hospitality is a free website and booking system for homestays, small hotels, cafés and restaurants in India. Guests pick dates, see the full price with GST and book a room on your own site. Cafés get a menu site with online orders. You run it all from one dashboard, and there’s 0% commission on every plan.
Live demoHomestay & Stays template
Try a booking, start to finish
The demo is a sample family homestay, Deodar & Stone in Himachal’s Tirthan Valley, built on the template. Pick dates and guests and you’ll see every room’s total, GST included, before the book button.
- ✓ A calendar with each night’s price
- ✓ Room pages, meals and getting here
What you get for a homestay, guesthouse or small hotel
Most small stays run on calls, WhatsApp, a notebook and a listing or two on booking apps. SitesPlaced Hospitality adds the missing piece: your own website that takes bookings, and one calendar for every booking, wherever it came from.
A ready website
The Homestay & Stays template: a big photo first, a page per room with photos, beds and who it sleeps, meals, places nearby, getting here with a Google Maps button, a gallery and house rules.
A booking engine on your site
A calendar with each night’s price, full nights greyed out, and every room’s total for the stay, GST included, before the book button.
You decide how bookings work
Confirm each request yourself (rooms are held for the hours you choose) or confirm instantly. Guests pay at the property, a deposit first, or in full first.
Prices that follow your seasons
Weekday and weekend prices, season and festival prices, minimum nights, closed dates, and extra adult and child charges.
No double bookings
Each room-night sells once, including the phone, WhatsApp, walk-in, Airbnb and Booking.com bookings you add by hand.
GST worked out for you
If you’re registered: 5% on rooms up to ₹7,500 a night, 18% above (rates since 22 September 2025). Not registered? No GST is shown.
How does a guest book on your site?
Picks dates
The calendar shows each night’s price; full or closed nights are greyed out.
Chooses guests
Adults and children, so extra-guest charges are added.
Sees every room with the total
The full price for the stay, GST included, before the button.
Leaves a name and phone number
The number is the guest’s WhatsApp too, so you can chat straight away.
Is booked, or sees “request sent”
Instant bookings confirm on the spot; requests wait for you to confirm.
Every new booking reaches you by email and as a push notification on the SitesPlaced phone app, and the guest gets WhatsApp chat buttons to reach you.
The dashboard you run it from
- ✓Today: requests to confirm, arrivals, departures, who’s staying, tonight’s occupancy and money in.
- ✓Calendar: rooms by dates. Tap to add a booking or close a room.
- ✓Bookings: confirm, check in (ID type and last four digits only), record payments and refunds, see the bill with each night’s GST, check out.
- ✓Rooms & prices and venue settings, plus a Form C (now Form-III) reminder at check-in for foreign guests.
Two things it doesn’t do yet
There’s no automatic sync with Airbnb, Booking.com or MakeMyTrip, so you add their bookings by hand. And there’s no online card or UPI payment on the booking page: you collect any deposit by UPI or bank transfer after confirming. For a stay with a handful of rooms, both take a few minutes a day.
What you get for a café or restaurant
Cafés and restaurants use the SitesPlaced store, which already does everything below. Dedicated café and restaurant templates are on the way; today most pick the Food Store or General Store template.
- ✓Your menu as items with prices and photos, or created for you by AI from a photo of your printed menu.
- ✓Pickup and delivery orders paid by UPI or card on your own Razorpay, PhonePe or Cashfree account, cash on delivery, or WhatsApp. 0% commission.
- ✓Coupons, delivery charges, and a switch to pause orders.
- ✓A loyalty programme on Growth: QR stamp cards, scratch cards, locations and a printable table tent.
- ✓A table bookings tab to record calls and walk-ins, with seats per time slot.
Guests can’t book a table on the website themselves yet. More for food businesses: café website builder, online ordering for restaurants and the loyalty QR stand.
Pick a template and see it live
Stays · NewHomestay & Stays
For homestays, guesthouses, cottages and small hotels. A big photo first, rooms with nightly prices, a booking calendar, meals, getting here and house rules.
View live demo
FoodFood Store
Laid out like The Whole Truth. A giant type headline instead of a banner photo, colourful category cards, and pack sizes right on the product card.
View live demo
Cafés & restaurantsGeneral Store
Clean and simple, with colour themes to match your café. Your menu as items with photos and prices, and online orders.
View live demoWhat does it cost? Three plans
One ladder for stays and cafés alike, with 0% commission and unlimited bookings on every plan. Details are on the pricing page.
| Free | Starter | Growth | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | ₹0 | ₹199/month | ₹499/month |
| Website, booking engine and dashboard | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bookings and orders | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Commission | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Web address | A free sitesplaced.com address | Your own domain, e.g. yourhomestay.com | Your own domain |
| “Made with SitesPlaced” badge | Small badge | Removed | Removed |
| Visitor analytics, Meta Pixel, AI copy | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sales boosters, product reviews and Google stars | — | — | ✓ |
| Loyalty programme (QR stamp and scratch cards) | — | — | ✓ |
| WhatsApp Business API order alerts | — | — | ✓ |
SitesPlaced plans as of October 2026.
SitesPlaced vs paid booking software vs booking apps
Booking apps (OTAs, or online travel agencies, such as Booking.com, MakeMyTrip and Airbnb) list your rooms beside thousands of others; paid booking software runs bookings on your own site for a monthly fee.
| SitesPlaced | Paid booking software | Booking apps (OTAs) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What you get | Your own website, booking engine and dashboard | A booking engine, usually sold with front-desk software (a PMS, or property management system) | A listing on someone else’s site or app |
| Monthly cost (as listed, Oct 2026) | ₹0; ₹199/month for your own domain | eZee about ₹2,250/month + GST for its booking engine (1–5 rooms); Stayflexi ₹2,500/month + GST per property; Djubo priced for at least 10 rooms | Usually free to list |
| Cut of each booking | 0% | Mostly a flat fee; some add a fee per booking (Lodgify’s entry plan, about 1.9%) | A commission on every booking, set in your contract |
| Guest’s phone number | Yours, in your dashboard | Yours | On the app’s terms |
| Sync with booking apps (a channel manager) | Not yet — add those bookings by hand | Yes, paid (eZee about ₹5,250/month with a channel manager) | — |
| Online payment at booking | Not yet — collect deposits by UPI or bank transfer after confirming | Often, through a payment gateway (a paid add-on at Djubo) | Yes, inside the app |
| Finds you new guests | You send them: Google, Instagram, WhatsApp | No — it’s software | Yes — their real strength |
Competitor prices as listed in October 2026: eZee on Techjockey, Stayflexi on its India price calculator, Djubo on its own pricing page, Lodgify’s booking fee on its plan comparison. Before tax; check with each vendor before you decide.
SitesPlaced vs food delivery apps
| SitesPlaced | Food delivery apps | |
|---|---|---|
| Cut of each order | 0% | Roughly 20–30%, according to restaurant body NRAI’s complaint to the Competition Commission of India |
| Who collects the money | Your own Razorpay, PhonePe or Cashfree account, cash, or WhatsApp | The app, which then pays you out |
| Customer’s phone number | Yours — every order is in your dashboard | NRAI has complained that apps mask customer data |
| Delivery riders | Your own delivery, or pickup | Provided by the app — a real strength |
| New customers | People who already know you, or find you on Google and Instagram | Yes — people browsing the app |
NRAI figures from its complaint to the Competition Commission of India, as reported by Moneylife when the CCI ordered a probe. They are the association’s allegations, not audited rates.
Booking and delivery apps are good at finding you strangers; paid booking software is good at running bigger properties across many channels. For a homestay, small hotel or café that wants its regulars and its Google and Instagram visitors to book or order direct, SitesPlaced Hospitality does the job for ₹0 and takes nothing per booking. Keep the apps for discovery, and send everyone you can to your own site.
Ready for Google from day one
Your site publishes structured data (labels Google reads) for your business and each room with its price, plus a sitemap with every room page. Paste your booking link into your Google Business Profile; it’s free. Since 30 July 2025 hotels can’t type room rates into the profile themselves, and Google Hotels’ free booking links come through Google’s integration partners. SitesPlaced isn’t one; it makes sure Google can read your rooms and prices on your own site.
Put your stay online today
Pick the Homestay & Stays template, add your rooms and prices, and publish on a free address. Bookings land in your dashboard and on your phone. Free, 0% commission, and ₹199 a month only when you want your own domain.
Start your stay’s website — free →Questions first? Message us on WhatsApp.
Frequently asked questions
What is SitesPlaced Hospitality?
A free website and booking system for homestays, guesthouses, cottages, small hotels, cafés and restaurants in India, launched on 28 October 2026. Stays get a website with a booking engine and an owner dashboard; cafés and restaurants get a menu website with online orders. 0% commission on every plan.
Is SitesPlaced Hospitality really free?
Yes. The Free plan (₹0) includes the website on a free sitesplaced.com address, the booking engine, unlimited bookings and orders, the dashboard and 0% commission. You pay ₹199 a month (Starter) only for your own domain and to remove the badge.
Do guests pay online when they book a room?
Not yet. You choose whether guests pay at the property, a deposit first or in full first. Any advance is collected by you, by UPI or bank transfer, after you confirm the booking, and recorded in the dashboard.
Does it sync with Airbnb, Booking.com or MakeMyTrip?
Not automatically, yet. You add bookings from those apps by hand in the Calendar, as you would phone and walk-in bookings. Each room-night can only be sold once, so your site won’t sell a night you’ve already filled.
Can my café or restaurant take online orders?
Yes: pickup or delivery orders paid by UPI or card on your own Razorpay, PhonePe or Cashfree account, cash on delivery, or WhatsApp, at 0% commission. Guests can’t book a table on the website yet; you record table bookings from calls and walk-ins.
Will my homestay show up on Google?
Your site publishes structured data that lets Google read your rooms and prices, plus a sitemap with every room page, and you can add your booking link to your Google Business Profile for free. Google’s free booking links in Google Hotels come through its integration partners; SitesPlaced is not one.
Which is better — a paid booking engine like eZee or SitesPlaced?
For a bigger hotel selling on several booking apps a day, a paid system such as eZee Absolute does more, with automatic sync on higher plans (Techjockey lists about ₹2,250 a month for its booking engine and about ₹5,250 with a channel manager, 1–5 rooms plus GST, as listed in October 2026). For a homestay, guesthouse or small hotel that wants its own site taking direct bookings, SitesPlaced is the better fit: no monthly fee, no commission, one calendar and GST worked out for you.
