CultBay is an innovative technical service provider that enables hotels and accommodation providers to integrate 14 eBay marketplaces as a full functional sales channel into their own distribution mix.

• Sell your offers on one of the largest marketplaces in the world
• Sales commissions on eBay are as low as 6% (UK), 9% (Germany) or 10% (USA)
• Perfect for filling rooms in low seasons
• eBay is connected to your Channel Manager
• Traffic from eBay can be directed to your own website
• Sold offers are paid immediately and payments are transferred directly to your bank account
• Buyers can only withdraw within 30 days and only if they have not booked yet
• Up to 30% of the vouchers are never redeemed
• eBay increases your profit

CultBay supports both formats: Auction and fixed price offers.

Auctions receive a starting price and are sold to the highest bidder, while fixed-price offers allow buyers to purchase a package immediately at a fixed price.

In order to maximise revenues, we recommend using both eBay formats: Auctions starting at 1.00 EUR and fixed price offers at regular prices.

Auctions run for 7-10 days and attract a lot of attention during this time. However, once a guest has decided on an offer, he does not want to wait until the end of the auction to buy it, because it is unclear whether his bid will win the auction and the desired dates are still available at that time. Therefore, eBayers often buy the fixed price offer.

Even if an auction starts with 1.00 EUR, there is enough demand in strong markets (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, UK, USA) to raise the price to 60-80 EUR per night.

In other countries (e.g. Italy, France, Spain), auctions should be handled with caution, as demand is not as high and prices may then be lower.

The availability calendar is updated in real-time from the hotel’s channel manager. The hotelier only has to open or close the availabilities in the channel ,anager.

The Channel Manager can also send price information. When the price reaches a certain threshold, the date is automatically closed on eBay.

In CultBay there are two ways of filling the availability calendar:
1) Via the channel manager. CultBay is an independent distribution channel in the channel management system.
2) Via the CultBay extranet. If a hotel does not have any channel management system, availabilities can be fed in via the CultBay extranet.

Payments are made directly from eBay to the hotelier’s PayPal account once the buyer has paid on eBay.

In future, eBay wants to handle the payment processing itself. eBay will then make payments directly to hotelier’s bank account within 2 business days after purchase.

In the CultBay extranet there is a voucher management system in which the sold vouchers and their status are visible at all times.

Yes, this is possible. CultBay has a multi-property function which allows you to easily switch between the individual accommodations.

No, we made it much more convenient: The CultBay extranet offers the possibility of automatically importing all data from Booking.com and creating the offer from this data.

If you already have an eBay account, we can use this account.

We do not want to bind anybody long-term. Every contract can be terminated with 30 days’ notice to the end of the month.