> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.openbookings.co/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What is OpenBookings? Hotel search platform overview

> OpenBookings is an open-source hotel booking platform. Search hotels by destination, compare real-time prices, and book with passwordless authentication.

OpenBookings is an open-source hotel booking platform that helps travelers find and compare available hotel rooms anywhere in the world. You type a destination, choose your dates and guest count, and OpenBookings returns a ranked list of available properties with dynamically calculated nightly rates — all in real time. No account required to search, and signing up takes seconds with no password to remember.

## What OpenBookings offers

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  <Card title="Destination search" icon="magnifying-glass">
    Type any city name and get instant typeahead suggestions. OpenBookings resolves your destination to geographic coordinates and searches all available properties within a 250 km radius.
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  <Card title="Real-time availability" icon="calendar">
    Every search queries live room inventory. Results only include rooms that are actually available for your selected dates and guest count.
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  <Card title="Dynamic pricing" icon="tag">
    Nightly rates reflect current rate plans, date-specific overrides, length-of-stay discounts, early-bird deals, last-minute rates, and extra-guest surcharges — all calculated at search time.
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  <Card title="Passwordless sign-in" icon="key">
    Sign in with a magic link sent to your email, or with your Google or Apple account. No passwords to create or forget.
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  <Card title="Map view" icon="map">
    Switch to a map layout to see available properties plotted geographically near your destination.
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  <Card title="Open source" icon="code">
    OpenBookings is fully open source. The platform is built on Next.js and PostgreSQL, and the source code is available on GitHub.
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## Who OpenBookings is for

OpenBookings serves two audiences:

* **Travelers** using the web app at [openbookings.co](https://openbookings.co) to search for and book hotel rooms.
* **Developers** integrating OpenBookings search into their own applications via the `GET /api/query` REST endpoint.

This documentation covers both. The **Docs** tab walks through the traveler experience and platform features. The **API Reference** tab covers the search endpoint and data types in detail.

## How it solves common booking frustrations

Most booking platforms require you to create an account before you can see prices, hide fees until checkout, and lock you into a single sort order. OpenBookings shows you real, fully calculated prices upfront — including any discounts you qualify for — with no account wall on search, and lets you filter by the criteria that matter to you.

## Start here

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  <Card title="Quickstart" icon="rocket" href="/quickstart">
    Search for hotels in under 5 minutes — in the app or via the API.
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  <Card title="Authentication" icon="lock" href="/authentication">
    Learn how magic-link and social sign-in work.
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  <Card title="Hotel Search API" icon="terminal" href="/api/hotel-search">
    Full reference for the `GET /api/query` endpoint.
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  <Card title="Pricing & discounts" icon="percent" href="/features/pricing">
    Understand how rates and modifiers are applied.
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