For independent hosts and alojamento local
Your own booking site. Your own domain. Keep your margin.
Capicora gives your vacation rental a direct booking website that reads as your brand, not ours — request-to-book, card payments, OTA calendar sync, and a guest experience that brings people back direct.
How it works
Three steps to your own address.
Apply and tell us about your rental
A short application — your units, the channels you use today, the domain you want. We reply personally.
We set up your site on your domain
Photos, pricing, house content, EN and PT copy, and your OTA calendars connected over iCal in both directions. You stay in control from a simple host console.
Guests book direct — you keep the margin
Requests land with the guest's card verified and saved; confirm and the guest is charged at the free-cancellation cutoff, the calendar blocks everywhere, and every stay ships with the guest page.
Payments
Guests charged like Booking.com — not a day sooner
The card is verified and saved the moment a guest requests. You're only paid at the free-cancellation cutoff you set (or at confirmation for non-refundable dates). If a charge fails, the guest gets a recovery link and a 24-hour grace window before the booking auto-cancels.
- RequestCard verified and securely saved
- CutoffCharged at your free-cancellation deadline
- StayThe guest arrives, fully paid
What your site does
Everything a booking needs, on your domain.
Bookings
IncludedRequest-to-book, not a naked calendar
Guests pick their dates and request; you confirm with one tap. Requests expire after 48 hours, so your calendar never drifts out of sync with reality.
Calendars
IncludedOne calendar with the OTAs
iCal in both directions: dates sold on Booking.com or Airbnb block your site, and direct bookings block the OTAs. No double bookings, no channel-manager bill.
Pricing
IncludedPrice every season your way
Set per-date-range season rates, weekend multipliers, and length-of-stay discounts — plus cleaning and pet fees. Every quote applies them automatically.
Compliance
IncludedBuilt for Portugal
Collect NIF/NIPC fatura details at checkout (mod-11 validated), itemize the municipal tourist tax in every quote, handle IVA per property, and show your alojamento local licence in the footer.
Languages
IncludedEnglish and Portuguese, done right
Every page and guest email in both languages, with hreflang so search engines serve the right one to each visitor.
Brand
IncludedYour brand everywhere
Your logo, your colors and your name across the booking flow and every guest email. Capicora stays where it belongs — a quiet line in the footer.
AI assistant connector
IncludedRun your listing from the AI you already pay for
Connect Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP client to manage your listing in conversation. It can change content, rates, availability and the in-stay page, and read guest names and messages. Dedicated guest contact fields are excluded; free text may contain personal details. Payments stay outside the connector.
All of it on Direct, from day one.
€0/mo + 7.5%
Bring your own agent
Set up your listing from the AI you already use.
Capicora speaks MCP, so Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP client can read and edit your listing when you ask it to. Your description, your seasons, your blocked dates, your in-stay page — written by talking. It runs on your own AI subscription: we charge nothing for it and there is no per-message fee.
- Mint your connector linkOne button in your Capicora console.
- Paste it into your assistantClaude and ChatGPT both take a custom connector URL.
- Talk to it"Set up my listing." It interviews you and fills the page in.
Privacy
No ad trackers, ever.
Your site ships GDPR-ready: cookie policy, an honest consent banner and cookieless analytics, all included. Your guests are never retargeted and their data is never sold.
Live today
Two apartments in Funchal, booking direct
SOL by Only Atlantic runs entirely on Capicora — its own domain, direct bookings with card payments live in production, two-way OTA calendar sync, and the guest portal on every stay.
Portugal-compliant out of the box
NIF fatura · taxa municipal · IVA · AL licence
Direct-booking sites report 18–30% repeat-guest rates, versus single digits for OTA-only listings (industry reports).
Visit onlyatlantic.com
The guest portal
A guest experience nobody else ships
Every booking comes with a personal guest page — one link, no app: the house guide, local perks, and a regional bucket list with levels to climb. On Connected, the portal is wired to the place itself — home automation and access that follows the stay.
- A regional bucket list with levels to climb
- Hand-picked local partner perks
- House guide and door details in one link
The rebooking loop
A QR code at the place opens the guest page — and the next stay is booked direct, not through an OTA.
Included on every plan; Connected wires it to your place — installed and integrated by us.
See what's on each planYour Madeira bucket list
Level 2- Sunrise at Pico do Arieiro
- Poncha at the Mercado
- Levada dos Balcões walk
Pricing
Pricing that grows with you
It costs nothing to begin. You pay only when your site converts a booking, and a lower rate once your month fills. When you want the connected guest experience installed in your place, we quote it.
Direct
€0/mo + 7.5%
Pay only when you get booked, and less as you fill
Connected
Quoted per project
The connected guest experience, installed
See the fee on a month like yours.
What would a month cost you?
- Your fee
- €165.00
- Effective rate
- 5.50%
€1,500.00 at 7.50% (€112.50), then €1,500.00 at 3.50% (€52.50).
FAQ
Questions hosts ask
- Do you charge commission on direct bookings?
- We charge a small success fee, never OTA commission: €0/mo, 7.5% on the first €1,500 you capture in a month and 3.5% above it — card processing included, the municipal tourist tax never commissioned. Your direct margin stays the point.
- Can I really use my own domain?
- Yes — your direct booking website lives on your domain (yourvilla.com), under your brand. Guests never need to know what runs underneath; "Powered by Capicora" sits quietly in the footer.
- Will this double-book me against Booking.com or Airbnb?
- No. Your Capicora calendar syncs with the OTAs over iCal in both directions: dates sold on Booking.com or Airbnb close your site, and your direct bookings close theirs.
- What does "Powered by Capicora" mean on a booking site?
- It means the site runs on Capicora's booking platform — request-to-book, card payments, calendar sync and the guest experience — while the brand, the domain and the guest relationship stay the host's.
- How is this different from my Booking.com listing?
- Your OTA listing rents you demand; your direct site owns it. Repeat guests, WhatsApp inquiries and the QR code in your unit stop paying 15% or more every time they book. The OTAs stay part of the mix — your site captures the demand you already generate.
- How do I get started?
- Direct — it's €0/mo, so there's no risk; you pay only when your site converts a booking. When you want the connected experience (home automation, per-stay access), talk to us about Connected and we'll quote your installation.
Put your own address on your bookings
Talk to us and we'll set up your site with you — and quote the connected experience if you want it.
Apply now