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For boutique hotels · resorts · lodges

Every room type walkable. In one afternoon.

Boutique hotels lose direct bookings to OTAs partly because OTAs win the imagination — polished 3D, easy comparison. VOLUME ships a walkable tour per room category in a day, embeddable in your direct-booking flow, for $99 a room category instead of a professional 3D shoot.

Start with one room type freeWalk a live tour
  • 1 day
    for a full 12-room-type shoot
  • $99
    per room category
  • 0
    camera rigs to rent or crews to book
A real Gaussian-splat reconstruction of an apartment, built from one phone-shot walkthrough

Real reconstruction · phone-shot · via Giotto 7

Problems

What's broken today.

  • Problem01

    OTAs win the visual comparison.

    Guests comparing your suite to a comp on Booking.com don't have the walkable context you'd give them on a site visit. Your direct-booking page loses on visual richness alone.

  • Problem02

    A professional 3D shoot is a capital expense.

    A full-property scan of a boutique hotel means a crew, a rig, and a quote with revisions baked in. VOLUME per room category is $99, filmed by your own staff on a phone — so you can refresh instead of ration.

  • Problem03

    Refreshing seasonal setups is painful.

    Photograph in spring, ignore summer. VOLUME reruns are same-day, so seasonal or event setups get their own tour without the reshoot tax.

Solution

What VOLUME does about it.

  • With VOLUME01

    One tour per room category.

    Standard king, junior suite, premier suite, family. Each gets its own walkable URL — guests pick before they book, not on check-in.

  • With VOLUME02

    Embed in your direct-booking flow.

    One line of HTML on every room-type page. Guests spend more time on your site, book direct at higher rates, skip the OTA commission.

  • With VOLUME03

    Team plan handles staff + brand.

    Your marketing team owns brand kit + roll-up analytics; front-desk staff can view rooms without editing. Roles are proper — owner / admin / agent / viewer.

The software

What the analytics show you

Views, dwell time, showing requests and where the traffic came from — portfolio-wide or for one property.

Portfolio analytics: views, dwell, showing requests and where traffic comes from
Sample data
volume · analytics
Workflow

The workflow.

  1. 01

    Film

    Housekeeping films each room type during the daily turn-down cycle.

  2. 02

    Upload

    Batch upload one per room type.

  3. 03

    Reconstruct

    MakeSplat processes each in parallel — typically under an hour.

  4. 04

    Embed

    One HTML line per room-type page on your direct-booking site.

How it stacks

Same listing. Four different pitches to the buyer.

Every current option asks the seller to compromise on one of cost, speed, or walkability. This is the row-by-row comparison, with the trade-offs left in.

  • Cost per listing
    VOLUME$99 one-time
    Matterport$300–$800 shoot + $75/mo
    360° photos~$150–$250 shoot
    Still photos$150–$400 shoot
  • Time to shipped tour
    VOLUMETypically <1 hr
    MatterportSame-day scan + 24 hr
    360° photosSame-day
    Still photosSame-day
  • Equipment needed
    VOLUMEAny phone
    MatterportPro camera + tripod
    360° photos360 camera
    Still photosDSLR
  • Interactive walkable 3D
    VOLUMEYes — Gaussian splat
    MatterportYes — dollhouse
    360° photosPanorama only
    Still photosStatic
  • Mobile view without app
    VOLUMEYes
    MatterportSlow
    360° photosYes
    Still photosYes
  • Embed on your own domain
    VOLUMEYes — one line of HTML
    MatterportTeam plan+
    360° photosYes
    Still photosYes
  • You own the file forever
    VOLUMEYes — download .ply
    MatterportHosted only
    360° photosDepends
    Still photosYes
  • SEO — indexable public URL
    VOLUMEYes — per-tour /t/[slug]
    MatterportFrames + JS wall
    360° photosFrames
    Still photosYes
  • Analytics per tour
    VOLUMEViews · dwell · region · leads
    MatterportBasic
    360° photosNone
    Still photosNone
  • Failed capture = free retry
    VOLUMEYes — never charged on failure
    MatterportYou paid the shoot
    360° photosReshoot
    Still photosReshoot

Comparison based on public list prices at time of writing. Matterport and 360-camera setups still have real strengths for some verticals — the point is to pick right per listing, not to pretend they don't exist.

FAQ · Hotels + resorts

Questions people ask first.

  • How do we handle rebranding or property refreshes?
    Reshoot that room type. New tour replaces the old at the same URL if you use the reshoot flow (Solo + Team). Team plan gets 20 tours/month — enough for quarterly refreshes on a 20-room-type property.
  • Do you integrate with our PMS or booking engine?
    Not yet — tours are plain URLs, so they embed anywhere. Real PMS + channel-manager integration (Cloudbeds, SiteMinder, RMS) is on the roadmap.
  • What about spa, gym, restaurant?
    Same $99 per space. Common bookable amenity tours often outperform room tours on engagement — guests want to see the pool.

Everything you can film should be walkable.

One phone video in. A space buyers can walk, in any browser. First tour free.

Start with one room type freeSee pricing