For Checkfront operators
Checkfront keeps your bookings, items and availability. We build the website around them: your pages, your calendar and your words, on your own domain. We check API access with you first.
You see your new homepage before you pay for anything.
The usual trouble
Checkfront’s own Google Analytics help says bookings made through the Booking Widget “appear as direct”, because GA4 cannot track the referral information. Add to cart, item list views and checkouts are not available in GA4’s Enhanced Ecommerce.1
Checkfront says a custom script, such as a conversion pixel, cannot be added into the widget workflow.2
Checkfront says API access is “not available to Trial users”, and you contact its Sales team to buy it. It also says API V3 is “in maintenance mode and will eventually be replaced by API V4”.3
The teardown
Checkfront’s help pages explain why your bookings lose their source. Step 1 happens every time, and step 3 is where the source is lost. Steps 2, 4 and 5 only happen in some cases, and each one is marked with when.
To see a year of your Checkfront fees next to your own site, try the booking fee calculator.
Booking teardown
When it happens, and who controls it
A Checkfront booking, from the first click
Every bookingA visitor opens the page where you added the widget code.
Your pageHosted booking pageGuests book on a Checkfront address, for example example.checkfront.com/reserve.4
Checkfront addressIn Google Analytics 4Widget bookings “appear as direct”, and add to cart and checkout steps are not available in Enhanced Ecommerce.1
AnalyticsIf you use a tracking pixelA custom pixel cannot be added into the widget workflow.2
Not supportedWix or GoDaddy sitesCustom code there runs inside an iframe, which can break the widget.2
Can breakOn your own pages, you choose the steps around the booking.
Get your free homepage previewWhat we do
We design your pages, your calendar and everything around the booking on your own site, and connect them to your Checkfront through its API. How far the booking step goes depends on your account, so we check API access and payment with you before we start.
Proof
Eagle’s Nest Atitlán · Retreat center, Guatemala
98%
Stay booking value up, September 2026 vs September 2025.
Measured in their booking system. Ads, prices and the season play a part too.
Kalart · Rural coliving, Catalunya
4 to 18
Room applications a month.
Our cases so far are a retreat center and a coliving. We have no Checkfront case yet.
For some operators, yes. You can change its font colour and family, its background colour and language, and add custom CSS.7 What it does not give you is a source for each booking. In GA4, widget bookings show up as direct,1 and your own tracking pixel cannot be added into the widget workflow.2 If you run ads, that is the part to weigh.
Our sites are not WordPress sites and have no plugins, so there is nothing to install or keep updated. We connect to your Checkfront through its API, which you buy through Checkfront’s Sales team.3 If your site is on WordPress today, the new site replaces it, and your domain stays yours.
We check this for your account before we start. Checkfront’s API pages describe how a booking is created and held, and do not confirm card payment.5 We do not promise payment on your own site until we have confirmed how it runs for you.
Yes. Checkfront says API access is bought through its Sales team and is not available on trials.3 Using it also needs an active subscription.8 As the account holder you then create the application in your Checkfront.9 We check your API access with you on the call.
Your Checkfront plan stays as it is, and its fees are Checkfront’s call. Its pricing page lists a 3% online booking fee, and its FAQ says Checkfront does not charge for API-generated bookings.10 We check with you on the call how that works for your plan.
Yes. Your account, plan, items, availability and staff tools stay in Checkfront. We build the website guests see and use.
In three payments: a part up front, a part at launch, and a last part 90 days after launch, which you pay only if your website booked more than in the same 90 days last year. We go through the numbers on the call. Checkfront API access is bought through Checkfront, so we confirm yours is in place first. Once it is, your site is live within thirty business days.
Yes. A free homepage preview comes first, and we show it to you on a call. You decide after.
Yes. Read more about websites for tours and activities, adventure trips and retreats. Comparing systems? See our pages for Rezdy and Cloudbeds.
Every fact about Checkfront on this page was read on Checkfront’s own pages on 30 October 2026. Checkfront changes its pages, so check yours before you decide.
How we build, what it costs and our results are ours, not Checkfront’s.
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