Holidu overview
Holidu is the fourth largest holiday rental channel worldwide, enabling partners to lower their dependency on the largest channels. Holidu's mission is to make search and booking of holiday homes easy. It's a booking platform for self-catering properties with over 27 million visitors a month across 21 live domains, with the majority of customers coming from Europe and the UK.
Holidu and SuperControl have a long-standing partnership spanning over 5 years. If you're looking to attract more European travellers, entice return bookers or grow your brand, Holidu could be the perfect channel for you.
Why partner with Holidu?
Holidu helps you maximise your reach and generate more bookings. Here’s how:
- 17M+ Holiday rentals online
- 27M+ Monthly website users
- 1500+ Partners Live
- 100k+ Monthly bookings
- Higher average booking value than other leading OTAs with an average 7 night stay.
- No hidden costs: Holidu doesn’t charge commission on any extra costs such as a cleaning or booking fee.
In addition to some impressive stats, there’s plenty of reasons to list your properties with Holidu:
- Higher average booking value than other leading OTAs with an average 7 night stay.
- No hidden costs! Holidu doesn’t charge commission on any extra costs such as a cleaning or booking fee.
- No risk. The commission is only applied to successful, paid bookings.
- Their new Partner Portal allows live inventory performance reporting.
- You will have your own personal account manager who specialises in your region.
- By partnering with Holidu, you can improve your brand identity, as unlike other OTAs, your logo and company name are clearly displayed. This ensures the guest knows they are booking one of your properties.
- SuperControl's channel service fee does not apply to Holidu.
- We offer full calendar, pricing and content synchronisation between Holidu and SuperControl.
The Guest Journey
The Nuts and Bolts: Listing with Holidu
As of 2022, our Holidu connection is new and improved. With a whole host of additional features on offer, the enhanced integration will give you more control and save you bucketloads of time.
- Upgraded payment processing: Wave goodbye to manually chasing for payments! All bookings include mandatory credit card information entered by the guest directly on Holidu, meaning better booking conversion and fewer clicks for the guest. Direct payments mean that guests won’t be redirected from Holidu when making a payment, making this feel more secure. All you need to do is process the registered card payment.. See instructions here.
- Enable/disable individual properties: You can now enable and disable individual properties to appear on the Holidu platform right from the SuperControl integration page.. providing you with more control in your marketing mix.
- Property specific price uplifts: Price uplifts can now be set for specific properties, providing you with the opportunity to test and try your pricing strategy.
- Holidu specific booking extras: You can now send Holidu specific booking extras such as separate booking fees.
- Auto-mapped amenities: Sending amenities is now much quicker and easier! They’re now auto-mapped, meaning you can simply click the amenity you have set up in your SuperControl account and press ‘map to Holidu’.
- Holidu agent: Previously, you had to set up a Holidu agent yourself and manually add it to each booking. Now, an automatic Holidu agent is added in every Holidu booking when it reaches SuperControl to itemise and provide accurate financials.
- API enhancements: We have much more in-depth API documentation available for you, and the speed and reliability of the integration have been altered, providing real-time updates.
The integrating between Holidu and SuperControl is a two way API connection. From SuperControl, we send:
- Rates; Including default extras, discounts & price uplifts specifically for Holidu.
- Availability
- All static content: properties, capacity, room/bed configurations, photos, amenities and all web descriptions.
Click here to learn how to list your properties with the Holidu platform.
Note: To list on Holidu you must have a minimum of 15 properties, all of which must be instantly bookable (i.e. not 'enquiry only'). This is a requirement on Holidu's side.