Hostel Booking Engines

This page contains a list of hostel booking engines (not affiliates of hostel booking engines) and services that sell dorm beds for hostels with descriptions of their services.

Please keep the listings in alphabetical order.

Booking Services

Agoda

Focus is on hotels

Bedzzle

Based in Italy
Booking system for hostels, hotels, bed & breakfast and guest houses
Fixed yearly fee, no commission / booking fees
Offers a booking engine that can be placed on hotels' websites
Offers a custom Facebook landing page
http://www.bedzzle.it

Booking.com

Commissions are higher (15%?) than sites that focus only on hostels (10%)
Booking.com writes the descriptions, not the hostels

BookingCenter

Based in California, USA
Booking engine for use on accommodation properties own website
PCI-compliant real time credit card verification and deposit transactions
Desktop (Macintosh and Windows support) an 'cloud' versions avaialable. Includes ability to migrate from Desktop to MyPMS and vice versa.
First version launched in 1993, new releases continually.
Choose either booking fees paid by the guest at the time of booking. monthly 'all you can eat' booking fees, or commissions paid by the property.
Global Distribution and full Central Reservations service to all global travel systems (GDS, Expedia, Booking.com, Travelocity, Opbitz, etc)
Customizable to fit the properties own website design
http://www.BookingCenter.com

Budgetplaces

Headquartered in Barcelona (Spain)
Operated by EnGrande S.L.
Launched in 2008
Cheapest booking engine for hostels as well as for travellers
Offers a booking engine that can be placed on hostels' websites called BBE
http://www.budgetplaces.com

Expedia

Some hostels sell through Expedia
Commissions are very high
Guests that book through Expedia may not be hostel-types

GOMIO

based in Barcelona, Catalonia
Owned by The European Hostel Cooperation
NO Booking Fees for customers
cheapest booking engine for hostels as well as for customers
Offers a booking engine that can be placed on hostels' websites called GOMIO.COM CRP
offers front and backoffice Softwares for hostels, the GOMIO.COM Reservation Software
http://www.gomio.com/

Hostelbookers

Based in London
Web site launched March 2004
Owned and operated by MBI MBO Ltd.
No booking fees to backpackers
There are no registration or annual fees and you only pay a 10% commission for each booking made through the website.
http://www.hostelbookers.com/
Offers a booking engine that can be placed on hostels' Web sites called Power Hostels

Hostels.com

See "WRI", below.

Hostels 247

Launched 2007
Based in London, United Kingdom
http://www.hostels247.com/

Hostelsclub

Formed in 2002
Host to over 20,000 hostels worldwide
Hostels in over 120 countries
Free for hostels and hotels to join
Head office based in Venice, Italy
http://www.hostelsclub.com/

Hostelworld

See "WRI", below.

JHC (Japan)

JHC sells hostel beds through a voucher system
more English information needed

Max Booking

Based in Germany
Booking engine for use on accommodation properties own website
Real time credit card verification
First version launched in 2004, latest release November 2009
Minimal booking fee paid by the guest at the time of booking - 1.5 EUR, 1.5 GBP, 2 USD or 2 AUD > properties choice
No fees or commissions paid by the property unless the property chooses to cover the booking fee at 1 EUR per booking. This then makes the booking FREE for the guest
Loaded full of options and settings
Customizable to fit the properties own website design
http://www.maxbooking.com

MINIHOSTELS

Based in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Website launched June 2007
Quality hostels network in South America
No booking fees for customers
10% discount each night for MH cardholders
Offers a booking engine that can be placed on hostels for free.
Offers variety of services free of charge to hostels.
http://www.minihostels.com/

Sirvoy

Based in Ireland
Booking system for hostels, hotels and guest houses
Fixed monthly fee, no commission or booking fees
Offers a booking engine that can be placed on hostels' websites
http://sirvoy.com

STA Travel

STA sells hostels beds through a voucher system
http://www.statravel.com/

VIP Backpackers

Based in Australia
VIP discount card program available
http://www.vipbackpackers.com/

WRI (Hostelworld)

WRI is based in Dublin, Ireland.
They own Web sites including hostelworld.com, hostels.com, boo.com, and hundreds of others.
http://www.hostelworld.com/ - Features over 2 million customer reviews.
http://www.hostels.com - The Original Hostel Website.
Typically charge booking fees to travelers - the exception is on Hostels.com the booking fee can be waived if the traveler signs up for an email newsletter.
Operate a booking engine for third party sites called Book Hostels - http://www.bookhostels.com

WuBook, WooDoo

WuBook provides booking engine for Hotels o for Third Parts, via Xmlrpc
WooDoo is a Channel Manager certified with the Major IDS (like booking.com and Expedia)
http://wubook.net/