Booking notifications burying guest emails
Online travel agencies and channel managers send a constant stream of confirmations and modifications. Mixed in with guest questions, real enquiries get missed.
Business email for hotels, guesthouses and B&Bs on your own domain. reservations@, frontdesk@ and a place for booking-platform notifications — 20 mailboxes for $19/year.
The problem
Online travel agencies and channel managers send a constant stream of confirmations and modifications. Mixed in with guest questions, real enquiries get missed.
Front-desk teams work in shifts. Reservations need to be handled from one shared inbox, not whoever was on duty when the email arrived.
Hiring for peak season shouldn’t mean another monthly per-user fee for every temporary team member.
Fake “hotel” emails asking guests to pay elsewhere are common. Authenticating your domain with SPF, DKIM and DMARC makes impersonation harder.
Addresses that work
Create them as full mailboxes, or as aliases that deliver into an existing inbox — aliases don't use up a mailbox.
Register ota@ (or bookings@) with your booking platforms as an alias into a dedicated mailbox, so automated notifications never crowd the guest inbox.
Create reservations@ as a mailbox and connect it on every front-desk computer over IMAP, so the next shift sees what the last one handled.
Guests guess at addresses like info@ or booking@. A per-domain catch-all makes sure those still arrive.
Stop paying per seat
Approximate yearly cost for 10 mailboxes, based on published entry-level list prices billed annually.
| Provider | Pricing model | 10 users / year |
|---|---|---|
| Google Workspace Business Starter | from about $7/user/month | ≈ $840 |
| Microsoft 365 Business Basic | from about $6/user/month | ≈ $720 |
| HavitoMail Pro | flat — up to 20 mailboxes, 5 domains | $19 |
Ten users on Google Workspace Business Starter is about $840 a year at list price. On HavitoMail Pro those ten mailboxes cost $19 a year, with room for 10 more.
Competitor prices are approximate list prices and vary by region, plan and billing term. HavitoMail's 14-day free trial covers 1 domain and 1 mailbox.
Why HavitoMail
Answer guests from reservations@yourhotel.com in webmail or any mail app.
$19/year (₹1,499 in India) for up to 20 mailboxes — add seasonal staff without changing your bill.
Standard IMAP and SMTP for Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird and phones.
Per-domain DKIM and SPF/DMARC guidance help confirmation replies reach guests’ inboxes.
Run up to 5 property domains from one dashboard.
Closed for the winter? Set a vacation reply with your reopening date.
FAQ
Yes. Use any HavitoMail address (for example ota@yourhotel.com) as the notification email in your booking platform or channel manager. Mail arrives like any other message.
If your PMS lets you enter a custom SMTP server, you can use your mailbox’s SMTP settings for individual confirmations. High-volume marketing or newsletters should go through a dedicated email-sending service, as HavitoMail restricts bulk sending.
Yes. Make reservations@ its own mailbox and connect it to each front-desk device over IMAP so everyone sees the same messages and folders.
There is no free-forever plan, but every new account gets a 14-day free trial with 1 domain and 1 mailbox — no credit card needed to start. After that, Pro is $19/year (₹1,499/year in India) for 5 domains, 20 mailboxes, and 10 GB of storage.
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