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OTA commission calculator for hotels

See how much extra your hotel makes every year when some OTA bookings move to your own website. Change any number and the results update as you type.

Your hotel

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Lower this if you close for part of the off-season.

Your bookings

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Everything else (your website, phone, walk-ins) counts as direct.

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Commission varies by OTA and by your contract. If you're not sure, leave it at 20%.

18% GST on the OTA's commission

Not counted. Above ₹7,500 a night, rooms pay 18% GST with input tax credit, so the GST on commission can usually be claimed back.

Based on GST rates in force from 22 September 2025. General information, not tax advice. Last reviewed: 3 October 2026.

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The share of today's OTA bookings that come to your own site instead.

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Payment gateway (about 2%), plus any Google Hotel Ads or promotion you run.

Your hotel makes about ₹6.25 lakh extra every year

That's about ₹52,122 a month, just by moving some OTA bookings to your own website.

At these numbers, direct bookings cost more than the commission they replace. Try a lower cost per direct booking.

Where your OTA commission goes

Back in your pocket₹6.25 lakh
Cost of direct bookings₹1.10 lakh
Still paid to OTAs₹41.7 lakh
Extra every month₹52,122
Extra per room, per year₹31,273

Share of bookings that are direct

Today30%
After40.5%
Room-nights per year
4,380
Room revenue
₹3.50 crore
OTA revenue
₹2.45 crore
OTA cost today
₹49.1 lakh
Revenue moved to direct
₹36.8 lakh
Commission avoided
₹7.36 lakh
Direct booking costs
-₹1.10 lakh
Extra you make every year
₹6.25 lakh
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These are estimates based on the numbers you enter. Actual savings depend on your real booking mix, season and market. We measure your real results against your starting baseline every month.

How the calculation works

In plain words, the calculator follows the money from your rooms to the OTA's commission, then works out what you'd keep if some of those bookings came to you directly.

  1. Room-nights: number of rooms × days open × average occupancy.
  2. Room revenue: room-nights × your average room rate. Your OTA revenue is the share of that from OTAs.
  3. OTA cost today: OTA revenue × the average commission. If the 18% GST on that commission is counted as a cost, it's added on top. "Work it out" counts it when your average rate is ₹7,500 a night or less, because those rooms pay 5% GST without input tax credit, so the GST on commission can't be claimed back.
  4. Commission avoided: the share of OTA revenue you move to direct, × the same commission rate.
  5. Extra you make every year: commission avoided, minus the cost of each direct booking (payment gateway fees and any promotion you run) on the revenue you moved.

The results are estimates. They don't include any change in how many bookings you get, only where the bookings you already get come from. For the background, read our guides to reducing OTA commission and GST on hotel rooms and OTA commission.

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