Houseful Tools

Tools that do real work.

We build custom tools for boutique hospitality operators across the Caribbean and Riviera Maya. Quote calculators, daily guest guides, quick scorecards. The kind of thing that books a guest, gets you an email address, or brings a local back. Not gadgets. Working parts of your website.

The question they keep asking

Your front desk answers it forty times a week.

What'll this charter run me. Is tomorrow a good beach day. Are the fish biting. Someone asks, you answer, and then they go book it somewhere else.

A tool answers it first, on your site, and keeps the lead attached to your name. Built right, it earns its keep every day. You don't touch it. It works the front door while you run the place.

Built and running

A few we've put to work.

Real tools, live and working. Some answer a guest's question, some screen an investor's deal, some help a founder open the doors. Each one started as a question someone kept asking, and turned into something that answers it and hands you the lead.

You rank
#3 of 6
nearby hotels on Google · real ratings & reviews
Competitor check

How Do You Rank?

Houseful · free for hotels, restaurants, and tours

Type in your business and see instantly how you stack up on Google against the most-reviewed places like yours nearby, using real ratings and review counts, plus the fixes that move you up the list.

Check my rank →
Your Direct Booking Score
72 / 100
10 questions · instant score · step-by-step plan
2-minute quiz

Direct Booking Score

Houseful · free for hotels, restaurants, and tours

Ten quick yes-or-no questions about your website, Google profile, reviews, and guest list. You get a score out of 100 and a plan that shows which fixes will bring in the most bookings first.

Get my score →
Your yearly OTA bill
$68,400
12 rooms · $310 a night · 60% through OTAs
OTA commission calculator

What Booking.com Really Costs You

Houseful · free for operators

Plug in your rooms, your average rate, and how much books through Booking.com and Expedia. You get the yearly commission number in black and white, plus what you would keep by moving even a slice of it direct.

See it live →
Fish tacos (3)
36.4%
$5.82 a plate · sold at $16 · aim for 30%
Food cost calculator

What Every Dish Really Costs

Houseful · free for restaurants and bars

Add what you pay for each ingredient and how much goes in the dish. You get the cost per plate, your food cost percentage, and a menu price that protects your margin.

Price a dish →
Name ideas
Agave & Copal
restaurant · Mexican · casual
Name generator

Restaurant Name Generator

Houseful · free for new restaurants and bars

Pick your food and your vibe and get dozens of name ideas for a restaurant, bar, café or food truck. Tap any name to check the .com and the Instagram handle.

Find a name →
Sargassum today
26 beaches
Riviera Maya · Virgin Islands · Caribbean · daily
Live map

Sargassum Map

Houseful · free for travelers and coastal operators

A daily map of where sargassum is likely to reach the beach, from NOAA satellite data, with notes on which nearby beaches usually stay clearer. Available as a free widget for hotels, villas and beach clubs.

See today's map →
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Is This Legit?
Free scam checker

Is This Legit?

Houseful · free for operators

Paste a suspicious email, text, or letter (or snap a photo) and get a plain-English verdict in seconds. Built to protect hospitality operators from the booking-platform, domain, and overpayment scams hitting inboxes right now.

See it live →
St. Thomas today
2 ships · Busy
~8,700 passengers ashore
Free cruise crowd calendar

St. Thomas Cruise Ship Schedule

Houseful · free for operators

Every cruise ship in St. Thomas for the 2026-27 season, with estimated passengers and a crowd level for each day. Guests plan around the busy days, and any local business can add the calendar to its own site for free.

See it live →
Cozumel today
6 ships · Very busy
~20,000 passengers ashore
Free cruise crowd calendar

Cozumel Cruise Ship Schedule

Houseful · free for operators · English & Spanish

Every cruise ship in Cozumel for the next 30 days, from the official port schedule, with real passenger counts and a daily crowd level. Any local business can add it to its own site for free, in English or Spanish.

See it live →
Charter Quote Calculator screenshot
Quote calculator

Charter Quote Calculator

UC Yacht Charters

Guests price their own charter in 30 seconds. Pick the boat, the date, the headcount, the extras. They get a number, you get a qualified lead with their details already attached. No email tag before anyone's even serious.

See it live →
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Daily guest guide

Daily Fishing Report

Fish Riviera Maya

Answers the only question an angler cares about: are they biting. Pulls conditions, updates every day, and turns "maybe someday" browsers into this-week bookings. Doubles as fresh content that ranks.

See it live →
Beach Day Index screenshot
Daily guest guide

Beach Day Index

BookVI · St. John

Ranks how good tomorrow looks on the beach from weather and cruise ship overflow, so visitors plan around the crowds instead of into them. A daily reason to come back to the site, and a soft handoff into what to book.

See it live →
Hotel Underwriting Tool screenshot
Investor calculator

Hotel Underwriting Tool

Saltvale & Co.

Investors screen a distressed Mexican hotel in minutes. Plug in price, keys, ADR, and the Mexico-specific costs (fideicomiso, IVA, acquisition tax) and get yield-on-cost, cap rate, cash-on-cash, DSCR, and a five-year IRR. The math that used to need a spreadsheet and an analyst.

See it live →
Closing Cost and IVA Estimator screenshot
Investor calculator

Closing Cost & IVA Estimator

Saltvale & Co.

Shows a foreign buyer the real cost to close in Quintana Roo: transfer tax, notario, trust setup, and the 16% IVA they can claw back. Asset purchase or share deal, the number shifts, and the tool shows exactly why.

See it live →
Food Truck Opportunity Map screenshot
Interactive map

Food Truck Opportunity Map

Opening Day Kit

A free, no-email map ranking which U.S. cities are the best bet to open a food truck. Pulls founders in, proves the value, and hands them into the kit, backed by food-cost, menu-pricing, break-even, and naming tools inside.

See it live →
Startup Cost Calculator screenshot
Cost calculator

Startup Cost Calculator

Trade Starter Kit

Adds up exactly what it costs to launch a landscaping or plumbing business, line by line. Uncheck what you already own, edit any number, and get a real startup total.

See it live →
Job Pricing Calculator screenshot
Pricing calculator

Job Pricing Calculator

Trade Starter Kit

Tells a new tradesperson exactly what to charge so every job turns a profit. Pick the trade, plug in the numbers, and get a price on the spot.

See it live →
Food Truck Name Generator screenshot
Interactive tool

Food Truck Name Generator

Opening Day Kit

Spins up food truck names and checks the Instagram handle and domain for each in one tap. A fun front door that pulls founders into the kit.

See it live →
What we can build for you

If your guests keep asking it, we can build the thing that answers it.

01

Quote & booking calculators

Let guests price a stay, a charter, a tour, or a table, and hand you a qualified lead.

02

Daily condition guides

Weather, crowds, surf, fish, what's good today. A reason to come back every morning.

03

Quick scorecards

A guest answers a few questions, gets a useful result, and you get their email.

04

Plan-my-trip tools

Itinerary builders and availability finders that move someone from browsing to booking.

05

Locals and loyalty perks

Passes, perks, and repeat-visit mechanics that fill the shoulder season.

06

Whatever's specific to you

If it's a real question your front desk keeps fielding, it's probably a tool.

How it works

Built once. Runs on its own.

1

We find the one

We look at what your guests keep asking and where you're losing leads, then pick the single tool worth building first.

2

We build it on-brand

It lives on your site, in your colors, on servers we run. It connects to your email list, your booking engine, and your ads so the leads actually go somewhere.

3

We keep it running

We host it, maintain it, and keep it current. You don't babysit it. It works the front door every day.

A tool is a fixed-price build plus a small monthly to host and keep it live. It works on its own. It works harder when we’re running the rest of your marketing too.
Talk it through

Let's find the one tool that earns its keep.

Tell us what your guests keep asking. We'll tell you what to build, what it costs, and what it'll do for your bookings.

Book a call or email hello@housefulhospitality.com