WhatsApp booking agent for hotels and hostels.

Guests message your property on WhatsApp to ask about rooms. Osvi's booking agent replies within seconds, checks live availability and rates in your PMS, creates the reservation, and sends the payment link in that same chat.

Replies in seconds, day and nightQuotes from live ratesPayment link in the chat

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WhatsApp enquiries at a busy front desk

A guest who writes to your WhatsApp number has picked you over the OTA app on the same phone. If your reply takes an hour, or comes the next morning, that guest opens the OTA and books there, and you pay commission on demand you created.

If your front desk answers WhatsApp from a shared phone, your staff can keep up at noon on a quiet Tuesday. At 11pm on a long weekend they are checking guests in while forty chats sit unread. More than a quarter of Zostel's guest messages arrive before 9am or after 9pm.

Osvi's WhatsApp booking agent replies to those messages as they arrive. From a message like "two of us, Friday, three nights" it picks out the dates and guest count, asks which property if you run more than one, and checks availability and rates in your PMS or booking engine before it quotes. Once the guest says yes, the agent creates the booking and sends the payment link in the chat. If the guest asks for a person, your team gets the conversation with the dates, quote, and request written down. You can run the same agent in a chat widget on your website and inside your web app or booking portal.

The agent reads prices from your PMS or booking engine for each quote, so it won't offer a room someone booked an hour ago or a rate you changed this morning. Osvi runs policies, coupons, and minimum stays as rules in code, and two guests who ask the same question get the same answer.

From first message to paid booking

The agent reads availability and rates from your booking systems, so the price it quotes in the chat matches the amount on the payment link.

  • Answer the enquiry
  • Quote from live inventory
  • Book and follow up

Bookings that change over several days

A guest asks on Monday, changes the dates on Tuesday, and pays on Thursday. The agent keeps that conversation tied to one booking.

  • Multi-property routing
  • Changes and add-ons
  • Follow-ups within Meta's rules
  • Handoff to your team

Zostel's WhatsApp bookings

Zostel, India's largest backpacker hostel brand, runs three Osvi agents across 111+ properties. Zobu answers guests on WhatsApp, a group booking agent prices group stays over chat and voice, and a voice agent picks up the property phone lines.

Frequently asked questions

What does a hotel need to run a WhatsApp booking agent?

You need a WhatsApp Business Platform number, from Meta or through a provider such as Gupshup, and API access to availability and rates in your PMS, channel manager, or booking engine. Osvi connects the two and runs the conversation.

Can I keep the WhatsApp number guests use today?

In most cases, yes. Meta lets you move an existing WhatsApp Business App number onto the platform, and guests keep writing to the number they have saved.

Can the agent take payment?

The agent sends a payment link from your booking engine or payment gateway and follows up until the guest pays. At Zostel, guests complete 81% of payments through links the agent generates.

What happens when the agent cannot help a guest?

The agent hands the conversation to your team as one ticket with the guest's number, booking, and issue attached. Your staff pick it up without asking the guest to start over.

Where does the agent get room availability and prices?

The agent calls your systems' APIs for each quote. Osvi connects to PMS platforms such as Cloudbeds and Apaleo, to booking engines, and to custom APIs. Osvi keeps prices out of the prompt, so the next quote reflects a rate you change in your PMS.

Can the same agent answer on our website and app?

Yes. Osvi's Chat SDK puts the same agent on your website as a chat launcher or as an inline panel on a page. For a web app or booking portal, your developers can use the headless client and build your own chat interface on it. In logged-in mode your backend signs the guest in, so the agent can follow them from one device to another and use their account data. A team member can take over the conversation at any point.