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Morfum Stay

Direct bookings for apartments and villas

Our product for apartment and villa owners: a website where guests book directly, without platform commission, with a calendar that matches Booking.com and Airbnb and an assistant that answers guests in their language.

Our own product. Vila Lučica, its owner and the guests on screen are fictional, and the figures are illustrative.

Type
Product
Year
2026
Role
Product design and development
Stack
Next.js, React, TypeScript
Morfum Stay: Direct bookings for apartments and villas (1)

Challenge

Booking.com usually takes about 15% of every stay, and from October 2026 most Airbnb hosts pay 15.5%. Even returning guests, and people who search for the house by name, still book through the platforms, because the owner has nowhere else for them to book.

Approach

The guest sees the price, the dates and the saving in the first screen, and books in three steps with a card deposit. Availability comes from the owner’s channel manager, so no date is sold twice. The owner’s overview shows one number first: how much commission stayed with them this season. Questions about parking, pets or check-in go to the assistant, which only answers from what the owner gave it and forwards everything else.

What we built

  • Guest website in English, German and Croatian, more languages on request
  • Booking with live availability and a card deposit
  • Season overview for the owner
  • Guest assistant that hands over to the owner
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