An independent inn or B&B with 6 to 12 rooms usually has one person on the phones - the owner - while bookings that arrive through OTAs give up a typical 15 to 25% in commission. Siya answers 24/7, books rooms against your live availability, hands every guest a confirmation code, and only rings your cell when it matters, from $19 per month with no PMS required.
You are flipping pancakes at 8 a.m., turning over rooms at 1 p.m., and buying groceries at 5 p.m. The phone does not care. It rings through all of it, and again at 11 p.m. when a road-tripper wants tonight's last room.
Every one of those calls is your zero-commission channel. Miss it and the guest books the same night through an OTA that takes its cut, or drives on to the property that answered. An answering machine cannot check availability, quote a rate, or take a booking, so it does not save the sale; it just documents the loss.
Industry estimates put unanswered hotel and motel calls as high as 40%, and one-person properties skew worse because there is no second pair of hands. Put your rate and call volume into the missed-call calculator to see what the quiet phone is costing, then compare it with how Siya works for lodging.
Every feature below is included on every plan, from the $19 Starter up.
Siya checks your live availability for the caller's dates, quotes the nightly rate and stay total, books the room, and reads the confirmation code back slowly enough to write down.
Guests call back with their confirmation code and Siya moves dates, switches rooms when availability allows, or cancels. Inventory updates instantly, so you never oversell your best room.
Check-in time, parking, pets, breakfast hours, late arrivals: answered from your knowledge base at 2 a.m. while you sleep. The booking is on the dashboard when you wake up.
A phone booking pays no OTA commission. At a typical 15 to 25% commission on a $200 two-night stay, a single direct booking a month can cover the entire Starter plan.
Travelers call in Spanish, French, German, Hindi, or 100+ other languages, and Siya switches mid-call automatically. Included on every plan.
Robocalls are screened out. Genuinely urgent calls transfer to your cell under rules you set; everything else becomes a booking, a message, or a transcript you read on your schedule.
Straight talk: the AskSiya dashboard is the booking calendar - room types, rates, per-date inventory, arrivals list. There is no PMS or channel-manager sync yet, so if you also list on OTAs, adjust those allotments when a phone booking lands. Most inns run on the $19/month Starter plan. See pricing or read the motel edition of this page.
No. The AskSiya dashboard is your booking calendar: room types, nightly rates, per-date inventory, and an arrivals list. If you run a paper book or a spreadsheet today, it replaces them in an afternoon. There is no channel-manager sync yet, so keep OTA allotments updated yourself when a phone booking lands.
Siya answers in one ring, checks availability for the dates, quotes the rate and stay total, books the room, and reads back a confirmation code. You see the booking and the full transcript on the dashboard, and the guest shows up instead of driving on.
Yes. They call back with the confirmation code and Siya moves dates, changes room type when availability allows, or cancels. Inventory updates instantly so you never double-book a room.
Yes, on your terms. Set transfer rules and Siya rings your cell for the calls that genuinely need you, takes messages for the rest, and screens out robocalls entirely. Many owners keep transfers on for emergencies only and read everything else with coffee.
Most 6-to-12-room properties fit the $19/month Starter plan with 60 minutes of calls; $79 buys 200 minutes. Every feature is on every plan, plans auto-upgrade at 110% usage so calls never stop, and the 7-day trial needs no card. One direct booking a month typically covers the bill.
