OPEN TO PARTNERS
It takes a lot of partners
to help a property succeed.
Payments, distribution and the infrastructure under every confirmed stay.
Who we build with
Payments first, because that is where most booking problems in India actually begin.
Official platform partner
Razorpay for Homestays, Hotels & Resorts
Razorpay is our payments partner and OpenStays is a listed Razorpay Platform Partner. Online payment link, UPI collect, card payment, netbanking transfer, booking advance and refund on OpenStays runs on Razorpay infrastructure, which is RBI authorised and PCI DSS Level 1 certified. Your guest pays on a screen they already recognise and trust, which matters more than people admit when the amount is large and the property is unfamiliar. The money settles straight into the property owner bank account and never passes through OpenStays at any stage.
If you do not have a Razorpay account yet, we help you open and connect one during onboarding, and if you already have one you simply connect the same account. Refunds, partial advances and settlement reports all stay inside a single dashboard.
UPI
Cards
Netbanking
Wallets
Payment links
Booking advances
One-click refunds
Direct bank settlement
This list is short today and that is deliberate. We would rather integrate deeply with a handful of companies that genuinely run well in India than collect logos for a website. Razorpay is the first and we are in conversation with a small number of others. As each one goes live it will appear here with its own page, exactly the way Razorpay has one, so you can see precisely what it does and what it means for your bookings rather than guessing from a logo.
Travel Partners
For the people who sell Indian holidays for a living and want inventory that behaves.
If you book stays for other people, you already know exactly where this breaks. The property does not answer the phone on a Sunday evening, the rate quoted on WhatsApp has quietly moved by the time your client says yes and the confirmation you promised is still not in writing on the morning of travel. As an OpenStays travel partner you quote from live availability and real rates, so you quote once and you quote correctly. Your client stays your client, the property gets paid directly by you and your evenings stop disappearing into follow up messages that should never have been necessary.
Who it is for
Independent travel agents
You work on your own, you know your destinations properly and you compete on judgement rather than on volume. You get inventory depth of a much larger agency without the overheads that come with it.
Who it is for
Small travel agencies
You have a team taking enquiries all day and the bottleneck is confirmation, not demand. Everyone in your office works off the same live availability, so two people never sell the same room twice.
Who it is for
Corporate and DMCs
You handle repeat volume where reliability matters more than the last hundred rupees. You get consistent rates, written confirmations and guest identity handled before check-in.
Platform and AI partners
For software that needs to do more than recommend a stay. It needs to actually book one.
An AI travel assistant is only ever as good as the inventory sitting behind it. Scraped listings go stale within days and a beautifully written recommendation for a property that filled up last Tuesday is worse than saying nothing at all, because the traveller trusted it. OpenStays gives platform partners API access to live availability, real rates and a booking endpoint that returns an actual confirmation rather than a lead for somebody to chase later. Your software can check a date, collect payment through Razorpay, confirm the booking and complete guest identity verification inside a single conversation, which is the whole difference between suggesting a trip and booking one.
Who it is for
AI assistants and trip planners
Conversational agents, generative trip planners and travel chatbots that need to move from a good suggestion to a confirmed booking without handing the traveller off to a human.
Who it is for
Channel managers and PMS
Property software that wants OpenStays inventory and bookings flowing into the calendar your properties already use every morning, without a second screen to check.
Who it is for
Booking and distribution platforms
Marketplaces, aggregators and vertical travel products that want Indian homestays and boutique properties which the large aggregators simply do not carry.
How to become an OpenStays partner
Free to join, with no paperwork at the application stage.
Becoming an OpenStays partner takes three simple steps and most partners are live within a week.
Tell us who you are
Fill the short partner form with your name, your business and whether you sell stays or build software. It takes about two minutes and there is no paperwork at this stage.
Get your partner account
We review the application and set up your OpenStays account with partner rates. Platform partners also receive API keys, documentation and a sandbox to build against.
Start booking
Search live availability, quote a real rate, confirm in seconds and collect payment through Razorpay. Your guest checks in and the property gets paid, with no follow up needed.
Partner programme questions
What travel agents and platform teams usually ask us before they join.
Does it cost anything to become an OpenStays partner?
Yes. Joining the travel partner programme will have an flat annual fee. There is no minimum booking commitment and you simply get partner rates on whatever you book.
Platform and AI partners sit on a separate volume based arrangement, which we work out once we understand your expected traffic.
Who does the guest actually pay?
The guest or the agent pays the property directly. OpenStays never holds the money, so there is no settlement cycle to wait out. Funds go straight into the property owner bank account.
Which properties can partners book?
Homestays, boutique hotels, resorts and serviced apartments across India, including a lot of properties in smaller towns and hill destinations that never make it onto the large online travel agencies.
How long does a platform integration take?
Most platform partners have a working integration inside a few weeks. You get documented search, availability, pricing and booking endpoints plus a sandbox environment and our team stays on a shared slack channel with your developers through the build.
Can I keep working with my existing suppliers?
Yes. There is no exclusivity and no lock-in of any kind. OpenStays is meant to sit alongside what you already use and most partners keep their direct property relationships exactly as they were.
Is guest ID included?
Yes. Guest identity collection is built into the booking flow, so the property meets Indian guest record requirements and your guest gets a faster check-in.
Do partners see the same availability as direct guests?
Yes. There is no separate partner inventory and no delayed feed. You are querying the same live availability the property itself is working from, which is the reason a confirmation given to your client holds rather than getting walked back a day later.
Tell us what you are building
Two minutes to apply, and a real person reads every application. Usually you will hear back within one working day.