DOM Bookings

The guest side of my own rental business. domservice.ch is where someone finds one of our places — two chalets in the Saas Valley and a handful of managed apartments — checks the dates, sees a real price, and books.

The 'sees a real price' part is more than it sounds. Availability and pricing are pulled live, so the dates on the site are the ones actually open and the number you see is the number you pay — no 'enquire for availability', no email ping-pong. From there it's a proper reservation flow: pick the stay, confirm the details, and pay a deposit through Stripe to lock it in, with the balance handled closer to arrival.

It's the direct-booking channel — the one that doesn't hand a cut to an OTA — so it has to feel at least as trustworthy and frictionless as booking on the big platforms, on a fraction of their budget. That was the whole design problem: make a one-person operation's booking page feel as solid as Booking.com's, so a guest has no reason to go book the same chalet there instead.

Behind it sits the back office that actually runs the business — that's a separate story.