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The direct-booking network for the Balkans.

Found on DirectBalkan. Booked with you.

We are building DirectBalkan so every property has a place on a verified marketplace and its own booking website, run from one owner platform. You pay a fixed subscription. DirectBalkan takes 0% booking commission.

  • Your website.
  • Your domain.
  • Your guests.
  • Your revenue.
Join Early AccessSee how it works

Early Access is open to accommodation owners. The marketplace is not open to guests yet.

Stone villa with an olive tree and a pool above the Adriatic coast

Illustrative, not live

Marketplace previewPlanned

Bay of Kotor, Montenegro

Stone villa by the bay

House or villa · Sleeps 6 · 3 rooms

Own websiteBook with the host

Direct bookings keep the guest relationship with you.

When a guest books through a large platform, that platform holds the guest relationship and takes a share of the booking. A direct booking keeps both with you.

The hard part has always been being found. DirectBalkan is built to solve that part: guests discover your property on a verified marketplace, then book with you.

Product preview

One property. Three ways to be found and booked. One platform behind them.

Planned

Marketplace

Guests discover verified properties by destination. Every Active property is listed automatically.

Planned

Property website

Your property gets its own booking website, on your own domain or a DirectBalkan address.

Planned

Owner Portal

You manage calendar, rates, bookings and guests in one place.

One booking platform

One booking platform behind all three: one calendar, one set of rates, one set of reservations.

Everything shown here is planned. See Product status for the current state of each part.

The Balkans, booked direct.

Travellers will search by destination, see the total price first and book with the host. Every listed property will be verified.

  • Discover by destination. Start with where you want to go.
  • See the total price first. Every fee is itemised before you book.
  • Verified properties. Each property passes the same checks before it is published.
  • Talk to your host directly. The host's contact details are one tap away.
  • Visit the property's own website. Every property has its own booking website.
Marketplace previewPlanned

Illustrative examples, not real properties. Nothing shown here can be booked yet.

Destinations

  • TaraMountains and national park, SerbiaOpening soon
  • ZlatiborMountain resort region, SerbiaOpening soon
  • KotorBay and old town, MontenegroOpening soon
  • OhridLake and old town, North MacedoniaOpening soon

A destination opens when there are enough verified properties. Nothing is open to guests yet.

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Product preview

Your website. Your domain. Your guests. Your revenue.

Your property gets its own booking website, on your own domain or a DirectBalkan address.

Planned

How it works for owners

  1. Register for Early Access. Tell us about your property in two short steps. It is free and needs no payment details.

  2. We get in touch. We review your registration and contact you about Early Access. If your property is a fit, we invite you to onboarding and tell you what we need to verify it.

  3. Verify and complete your property. Confirm who you are and where the property is, then add real photos, units, rates and booking rules.

    In design

  4. Go Active. When your property passes the publication checks it is listed on DirectBalkan, your website goes live and your subscription starts.

    Planned

  5. Take bookings and run them in one place. Guests book, and you manage calendar, rates and reservations from one platform.

    Planned
Join Early Access

A fixed subscription. No booking commission.

Fixed subscription. You pay a fixed amount to use DirectBalkan, not a share of each booking.

0% DirectBalkan booking commission. DirectBalkan takes no commission on your bookings.

Provider fees are separate. Payment providers may charge their own fees. Those are not DirectBalkan fees and are always shown as such.

Launch plans

  1. Organization
  2. Subscription plan
  3. Active properties
  4. Billable units

One subscription belongs to an Organization. The applicable plan is determined by whichever limit is reached first: Active properties or billable units.

  • Direct

    €29/month

    Up to 1 Active property and 3 billable units

  • Multi

    €59/month

    Up to 3 Active properties and 10 billable units

  • Portfolio

    €99/month

    Up to 10 Active properties and 30 billable units

  • Larger Portfolio

    Custom quote

    More than 10 Active properties or more than 30 billable units

At introduction, standard plans are month-to-month and cancellable at any time.

Payment-provider fees and any legally applicable taxes are separate from the DirectBalkan subscription.

Registering for Early Access is not a purchase and commits you to nothing.

Owner Portal

Run it from one place.

The Owner Portal is planned as the single place for your calendar, rates, bookings, guests and website.

Product preview

  • Calendar and availability. One calendar for all your units, with dates you can open and close.

    Planned

  • Rates and seasonal pricing. Set nightly rates and change them by season.

    Planned

  • Bookings and guests. See every reservation and the guest behind it.

    Planned

  • Your website. Update rooms, photos and rules without a developer.

    Planned
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One calendar for more than one channel.

You do not have to choose between DirectBalkan and the channels you use today. Bringing them into one calendar is on the roadmap, in stages.

  • Google connectivity. A target: showing your direct booking link in Google, including Google's free booking links, where Google's requirements allow.

    Planned

  • More channels. Further channel connections will follow once the first is working.

    Future

  • Unified rates and availability. One set of rates and availability behind every way a guest can book.

    Planned

  • Sync you can see. A view of whether each channel is up to date.

    Future

No channel connections are live yet.

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Built for how the Balkans actually work.

Guest registration, tourist tax and invoicing differ from country to country. DirectBalkan adds them one country at a time.

English and Serbian first; more languages later.

Countryside house with a garden courtyard, a hilltop church behind

Owners in the Balkans can register.

  • Serbia
  • Montenegro
  • Croatia
  • Albania
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Bulgaria
  • Greece
  • North Macedonia
  • Romania
  • Slovenia
SerbiaCroatiaMontenegro
Guest registrationPlannedeTuristaFutureeVisitorFuture
Tourist taxPlannedFutureFuture
InvoicingPlannedFutureFuture

Guest registration

  • Serbia eTuristaPlanned
  • Croatia eVisitorFuture
  • MontenegroFuture

Tourist tax

  • SerbiaPlanned
  • CroatiaFuture
  • MontenegroFuture

Invoicing

  • SerbiaPlanned
  • CroatiaFuture
  • MontenegroFuture

Statuses describe what we are building, not legal compliance.

View full capability matrix
In design

Verified means checked before it is published.

A property becomes Active only after it passes publication checks. The same checks apply to every property.

Exact thresholds are not final.

Read how verification works
  • Identity and contact confirmed
  • Address and property details validated
  • Required property information complete
  • A minimum set of real photos
  • Units, rates and booking rules set up
  • Required policy content in place

See what is built, what is next, and what is not.

DirectBalkan is being built in public. Every capability has a status, and the list changes as the work does.

What the statuses mean

Available
Live and working for everyone it applies to.
Early Access
Available to Early Access owners and still being refined.
In development
It is being built.
In design
We are working out how it should work and look.
Planned
We intend to build this. Design has not started or is not final.
Future
On the long-term list, not scheduled.
  • AvailableEarly Access registrationOperations
  • AvailableProduct status pageOperations
  • In designVerified marketplaceMarketplace
  • PlannedWebsite for every propertyDirect Booking
  • PlannedGoogle Free Booking LinksConnectivity
  • FutureContent draftingAI
View the full roadmap

Questions owners ask first

All questions

No. DirectBalkan takes 0% commission on bookings. You pay a fixed subscription. Payment providers may charge their own fees on card payments. Those fees are separate and are not DirectBalkan fees.

That is the plan. Every Active property gets its own booking website. This is planned and not live yet; see Product status.

Yes. Nothing requires you to leave other platforms. No channel connections are live yet, so you would manage other channels as you do today. Bringing several channels into one calendar is on the roadmap.

Early Access is how accommodation owners register their interest and talk to us while DirectBalkan is being built. It is free to join and not a purchase. We will contact you about Early Access.

Join Early Access

Tell us about your property. We will contact you about Early Access.

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Free to join. No payment details. Registration is not a purchase.