Why this

A desk fee. Not a tax on sleep.

Plenty of hotel sites sell a pretty book-now button and then invoice a slice of every arrival. Octopus is the operating suite. The price is on the door.

We are not a channel-manager brochure. If you need that category, you already know the names. This is what you get when the product is the calendar, the house, and the guest page — with nobody skimming the stay.

	Typical book-now suite	Octopus
Monthly	Plan ladders, rooms metered, “plus usage”	$29.95 / property
Commission	Often a percent of direct (and sometimes more)	0%
PMS calendar	Add-on, or a thin occupancy strip	Full cell menus, folio, Minires
Housekeeping / maintenance	Rarely the same grid	Same rooms, simpler menus
Rates & rooms	Locked templates	Builders included
Direct page	The product, with a take-rate	Included. Stay amount stays yours