Leak 1 — The commission.
A typical OTA takes 15–25% of every booking, and visibility programs push it higher. On a 12-room property at normal season occupancy, that's a five-figure sum every year — paid for guests who often searched your name first.
Full rooms can still leak money — to commissions, to slow replies, to searches you never appear in. We build the digital side of Maldives hospitality so the busy season actually pays.
One property, one year. The numbers, including the ones that got worse.
Every Maldives property loses money in four places: the commission on bookings that could have been direct, the enquiries that die waiting for a reply, the guests who never found you because an AI answered someone else's name, and the margin that leaks out through rates priced for demand that never arrives. This page shows you all four — and what fixing each one costs. The last two are the ones you can't see on any report. We'll get to them.
In four places: OTA commission on bookings that could have been direct, enquiries lost to slow replies across too many channels, invisibility in the AI-assisted searches guests now use, and margin bleeding out through a rate structure priced for demand that never arrives. The first two show up in your accounts. The last two rarely do.
A typical OTA takes 15–25% of every booking, and visibility programs push it higher. On a 12-room property at normal season occupancy, that's a five-figure sum every year — paid for guests who often searched your name first.
Enquiries arrive on WhatsApp, Instagram, email and three extranets. Replies wait. Quotes get retyped. Staff change and the answers change with them. Every slow reply is a guest quietly booking the island next door.
Guests now ask ChatGPT, Google's AI answers and Perplexity where to stay. Those systems only recommend properties whose information they can read, verify and quote. If your site wasn't built for that, you're not losing bookings — you were never in the running.
There's a 15-minute way to find out if this is happening to you — it's at the bottom of this page.
Rooms sold below market, long-lead bookings priced as if they'll all arrive, and promotions that produce volume instead of revenue. Nala Veli was ranked #2 of 35 on its island and still underpricing by 20%. This leak doesn't show up as a missing booking. It shows up as a full season that didn't pay.
See it, measured, on the Proof page →Taxes went up. Commissions creep up. Doing nothing is the only option with a guaranteed cost.
Beautiful on the surface. Engineered underneath.
Twenty-plus years inside Maldives tourism: resort operations, the OTA distribution business — yes, we've sat on their side of the extranet — travel agencies, and island guesthouses. Then one property, joined at six rooms. Today it runs thirty-two rooms, a spa, a restaurant and an excursion centre — with the website, booking funnel, Cloudbeds setup, pricing system and AI-assisted guest communication all built in-house, by us.
That property taught us one rule we now refuse to break — it's the reason our AI never invents a price, and it's two scrolls down.
EzWebBuilds exists to build that same machinery for other Maldives properties — priced in the open, owned by you.
A property website that matches your OTA listing's quality, answers in your guests' languages, and is structured so Google and AI assistants can read, verify and quote it.
In-house property photography and video — a team born and raised on Ukulhas, so no travel cost on our own atoll. Shot to Booking.com's 4000×3000 spec, sequenced in listing order.
An AI assistant trained on your property that drafts accurate, on-brand replies for your staff — and refuses to guess. Bookings and complaints always escalate to a human.
We read twelve months of your Booking.com data and recommend a rate structure — season bands, cancellation policy mix, lead-time rules. We recommend; you approve. Your prices stay yours.
Telegram mini apps, dashboards and automation for reservations, invoices and reporting — scoped through a paid Discovery so the price is fixed before the build starts.
The property behind our Proof page — website, photography and rate structure rebuilt together, with the measured results published in full.
A locally owned excursion operator's sea trips made bookable in one tap — sandbank, snorkelling, fishing and manta days, with a 4.9 Google rating carried up front.
A travel-agency-style island hub: search and compare stays, flights, dining, diving and excursions on one island, with information checked from the ground — the model for any destination or agency site.
A whale-shark-country guesthouse with its trips and rooms presented the way guests actually search for them.
A dive centre's courses and manta trips made bookable by enquiry — clear pages a guest can act on from a phone.
A vacation home given a presence that matches its personal-host character — small property, credible site.
A bilingual site for a private island vacation home — live and in use by the property.
A boutique beach-stay brand given a booking-ready presence — rooms, rates and direct enquiry, built to match the property's character.
Everything here is shipped — eight sites live and in use across the islands.
Read the case studies →Every project gets a written scope and a fixed price before work starts. Prices are in USD with MVR equivalents at a reference rate of 15.46; final tax treatment and exchange values are confirmed in the written proposal.
A scored, evidence-tagged review of your website and Google presence — 54 checkpoints, delivered in 7 days. $400 for multi-property.
One focused page for one offer, live within 5 working days of receiving content, with a tracked WhatsApp CTA.
A fast, mobile-first property website — up to 7 sections, structured for Google and AI search, WhatsApp-first enquiry. Live in 3 weeks from content receipt.
A conversion-built property site: room-level pages, offers, booking-engine embed or structured enquiry flow, full structured data. Additional language +$300.
A trained assistant that drafts accurate, on-brand replies for your staff. It never invents prices or availability, and a human always sends the final message.
A structured 1–2 week engagement that maps your workflows and ends with a fixed-price proposal for any custom build. Every custom system starts here.
Hosting, SSL, backups, monitoring and capped update hours in three monthly tiers, so the site keeps earning after launch.
Custom systems Reservation mini apps (from $1,200) and operations dashboards (from $1,500) are scoped and fixed-priced through paid Discovery — never quoted open-ended.
AI projects work a little differently from a website, and we’d rather explain it up front than surprise you later. Here’s exactly how the costs break down.
Every automation is different, so there’s no flat tag. We map your exact workflow, then quote the build agreed before any work starts.
Running cost depends on what it needs — database, storage, integrations. We size it to the job and keep it lean.
AI models charge by the token — small chunks of the text they read and write. The more it’s used, the more it processes.
You’ll get a clear expected monthly range based on real usage patterns — no mystery bills after go-live.
We can place a hard ceiling on usage so monthly spend stays inside a limit you choose.
Past an agreed point, nothing scales up without your sign-off first. Spend never runs away on its own.
A token is just a small piece of text — roughly a few characters, or part of a word. AI tools are billed by how many tokens they read and write, the way a phone plan bills by data. We design each workflow to use as few as possible, and show you the math before you commit.
At EzWebBuilds, a complete guesthouse website starts at $900 (about MVR 13,900) and is live within three weeks of receiving your photos and details. Direct-booking websites with room-level pages and booking-engine integration start at $1,800. Every build includes 60 days of care.
No honest studio guarantees booking shifts. What a direct-booking website changes is the machinery: your property's information matches your OTA listing, guests can enquire in one tap on WhatsApp, and every enquiry is tracked — so direct business finally has somewhere to land.
Ours is built not to. It answers only from information your property approved, refuses to state prices or availability it hasn't been given, and escalates bookings and complaints to your staff. A human always sends the final message. We demonstrate the refusals before handover.
Photos, room and price details, and a decision-maker for approvals. We supply a checklist on day one; your project clock starts when the content arrives — most owners gather everything in under a week.
Guests increasingly ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI answers where to stay. Those systems recommend properties whose websites they can read and verify. We structure every build for that — and our $250 audit shows exactly where an existing site stands.
Yes, in-house. Miruppe and Accko are born and raised on Ukulhas, so on our own atoll there's no travel cost, no speedboat and no overnight line on your invoice. Packages run from a $350 Listing Refresh to a $1,200 Signature photo-and-video shoot, all to Booking.com's 4000×3000 spec.
We read your twelve months of extranet data and recommend a rate structure — season bands, cancellation policy mix, lead-time and length-of-stay rules. You approve it and it loads with your sign-off. We recommend; you decide. No studio can promise a revenue number, and we won't.
Hospitality is our home ground, but the same machinery — websites, mini apps, automation — has shipped for service businesses like an AC maintenance company. If your operation runs on enquiries and invoices, it likely fits.
That 15-minute check we promised at the top of the page? It's the audit: your site scored against 54 points — including the third leak — for $250, credited in full if we rebuild. Or just say hello on WhatsApp.
What happens next: you message → we ask five questions → you get a one-page plan with a fixed price within 48 hours.