Bay of Kotor, Montenegro
Stone villa by the bay
House or villa · Sleeps 6 · 3 rooms
Own websiteBook with the host
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.
Founding Host Early Access
50% off your first 3 paid months
No payment today. Your subscription starts only when your first qualifying property becomes Active. How the benefit works
- Your website.
- Your domain.
- Your guests.
- Your revenue.
Early Access is open to accommodation owners. The marketplace is not open to guests yet.
Illustrative, not live
Marketplace previewPlanned
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 designed to help with that: guests will discover your property on a verified marketplace and through your own website, then book with you.
DirectBalkan in brief
- What it is
- DirectBalkan is a direct-booking network being built for accommodation owners in the Balkans and Southeast Europe. Each property gets its own booking website and a listing on a verified marketplace, run from one owner platform, for a fixed subscription with 0% DirectBalkan booking commission.
- Who it is for
- Owners of apartments, houses and villas, guesthouses and B&Bs, hotels, hostels, rural stays, and camps or glamping sites.
- Where
- Ten countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia.
- How it charges
- A fixed monthly subscription, with 0% DirectBalkan booking commission. Payment-provider fees, where they apply, are separate.
- Available today
- Registration for Early Access. The marketplace, property websites and booking are planned and not live yet, so guests cannot book yet.
- Who runs it
- WebResenje PR, Pančevo, Serbia.
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.
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
Register for Early Access. Tell us about your property in two short steps. It is free and needs no payment details.
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.
Verify and complete your property. Confirm who you are and where the property is, then add real photos, units, rates and booking rules.
In designGo Active. When your property passes the publication checks it is listed on DirectBalkan, your website goes live and your subscription starts.
PlannedTake bookings and run them in one place. Guests book, and you manage calendar, rates and reservations from one platform.
Planned
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
- Your account
- One subscription
- Live properties
- Bookable units
One subscription covers all your properties. Your plan is set by whichever limit you reach first: the number of live properties or the number of bookable units.
Direct
€29/month
Up to 1 live property and 3 bookable units
Multi
€59/month
Up to 3 live properties and 10 bookable units
Portfolio
€99/month
Up to 10 live properties and 30 bookable units
Larger Portfolio
Custom quote
More than 10 live properties or more than 30 bookable 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.
Founding Host benefit
50% off your first 3 paid months
Join during Early Access. No payment today.
Join Early Access — get 50% offStarts when your first qualifying property becomes Active.
How the benefit worksRegistering 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.
Calendar and availability. One calendar for all your units, with dates you can open and close.
PlannedRates and seasonal pricing. Set nightly rates and change them by season.
PlannedBookings and guests. See every reservation and the guest behind it.
PlannedYour website. Update rooms, photos and rules without a developer.
Planned
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.
PlannedMore channels. Further channel connections will follow once the first is working.
FutureUnified rates and availability. One set of rates and availability behind every way a guest can book.
PlannedSync you can see. A view of whether each channel is up to date.
Future
No channel connections are live yet.
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.
The website is in English for now. More languages will follow.
Ten target countries. Owners in all of them can register for Early Access.
- Albania
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Greece
- Montenegro
- North Macedonia
- Romania
- Serbia
- Slovenia
| Serbia | Croatia | Montenegro | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guest registration | PlannedeTurista | FutureeVisitor | Future |
| Tourist tax | Planned | Future | Future |
| Invoicing | Planned | Future | Future |
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 matrixIn 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
Questions owners ask first
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.
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.
Gradually, and we do not promise traffic. Your own website and domain work for guests who already know you. The marketplace opens destination by destination, only once enough verified properties exist there, so guests do not land on empty pages. Showing your direct booking link in Google, including Google's free booking links, is a target we are working towards, subject to Google's requirements. Product status shows where each part stands.
Guests book with you, and DirectBalkan does not take a share of the booking. How guests will pay online, and through which payment provider, is still being designed; no payments are processed today. Your DirectBalkan subscription is billed separately from guest payments. You will set your own cancellation policy, and each booking keeps the policy that applied when it was made.
A listing portal gives you an advert. DirectBalkan is planned to give you your own booking website on your own domain, a listing on a verified marketplace, and one owner platform for calendar, rates and bookings, with the guest relationship staying with you. You pay one fixed monthly price and DirectBalkan takes 0% booking commission. If a free listing is all you need, DirectBalkan may not be the right fit.
Join Early Access
Get 50% off your first 3 paid months when your first qualifying property becomes Active.
Join Early Access — get 50% off
No payment today. Joining Early Access does not start a subscription.
How the Founding Host benefit works