Honest answers to honest objections

Exactly. Each of those bookings costs you 15 to 18 %. With 10 rooms that is typically 13 000 to 20 000 kr a month, year after year. Keep Booking.com as a shop window by all means, but returning guests, direct enquiries and everyone googling your name should land on your site, commission-free.

Every percentage point you move from OTA to direct saves you roughly 340 kr a month (on a 10-room basis at 15 % commission). For a 10-room guesthouse, about 12 points cover the subscription on commission alone. But you are not only paying for booking: the templated website with direct booking is part of the subscription, so the booking tool you otherwise pay for alongside it goes away, and the total maths turns positive well before that, strongest for those already paying for a booking tool of their own or sitting high in their own room segment.

It is built precisely for you. No implementation project, no consultants: you enter rooms, prices and photos in a wizard and are running in an evening.

And the math is the same with 5 rooms as with 20: your commission is probably 6 500 to 10 000 kr a month. That is what is too big for a small guesthouse, not 2 499 kr excl. VAT (3 123,75 kr incl. VAT).

No. A monthly agreement with no lock-in: if you cancel, it stops at the next month end. The yearly plan is a choice you make to get 2 months free, not a trap.

And the data, meaning bookings, guest register and invoices, is yours and leaves with you. Compare that: several established full-PMS vendors in Norway operate with long lock-in periods and setup fees.

Because it is not the same product. Those prices are for a booking calendar; then come the website (monthly hosting, plus a separate design job if you want it built from scratch), Norwegian VAT invoicing and a food-and-spa module on top, if you can get them at all.

Gjestly Core is the whole stack in one: a templated website, booking, Norwegian invoice, guest register. Add up what you pay today for a website plus a booking tool plus accounting help on the side; most people land on the same number, with three systems instead of one.

Yes, and several of them are good products. But: no Norwegian admin, no Norwegian VAT logic (the 12/25 split), prices in euro, support in English, and often a lock-in period.

Gjestly is Norwegian invoicing, Norwegian support, prices in NOK and zero lock-in, at the same price.

Good question, and the answer is boring, as it should be. We never see card data: payments run through Stripe, the same payment infrastructure as much of European e-commerce.

Guest data is processed under GDPR with a data processing agreement (DPA) as part of the contract, and every customer's data is separated from every other customer's, enforced on every single request. You will find the list of sub-processors (Stripe, Supabase, Vercel, Resend) in the data processing agreement here on the site.

A fair objection. Here are the three things protecting you: (1) Payments are handled by Stripe, the same payment infrastructure as much of European e-commerce, and we never see card data. (2) Your data can be taken out: bookings, guests and invoices in a readable format. (3) No lock-in: you can leave at any time, to another vendor, without buying yourself free.

That is more than most large vendors dare to offer.

The price is never touched in a period you have already paid for, and changes are announced at least 30 days in advance.

Launch customers who start in 2026 get their monthly price locked for 24 months, in writing. By comparison, several established players in this market have raised prices substantially over the last couple of years.

It is not an IT project. The trial is free: you register a card and your organisation number at signup, but we charge nothing until the trial is over, and it starts only when you publish your booking page.

Nothing switches at once. You set up your guesthouse in parallel with your current solution, at your own pace, and publish when you are ready, preferably after the season. That is the safe technical path, and it works regardless.

If you would rather not do the work yourself, we set up the whole guesthouse for you (the Onboarding package, plus a website build if you want one, see the pricing page). Assisted moving of bookings and the guest list can be agreed.