Every room type walkable.
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, at 5% of the cost of a professional 3D shoot.
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.
One professional shoot = $8,000+ per property.
Full-property Matterport of a boutique hotel runs $6k–$12k with revisions. VOLUME per room category is $79 — 100× the shots for the same annual budget.
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.
Every room type walkable. In one afternoon.
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.
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.
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.
Housekeeping films each room type during the daily turn-down cycle.
Batch upload one per room type.
MakeSplat processes each in ~20 min in parallel.
One HTML line per room-type page on your direct-booking site.
Same listing. Four different pitches to the buyer.
We built VOLUME because every current option asks the seller to compromise on one of cost, speed, or walkability. This is the row-by-row comparison honest agents ask us for.
| Feature | VOLUME | Matterport | 360° photos | Still photos |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost per listing | $79 one-time | $300–$800 shoot + $75/mo | ~$150–$250 shoot | $150–$400 shoot |
| Time to shipped tour | ~20 min | Same-day scan + 24 hr | Same-day | Same-day |
| Equipment needed | Any phone | Pro camera + tripod | 360 camera | DSLR |
| Interactive walkable 3D | Yes — Gaussian splat | Yes — dollhouse | Panorama only | Static |
| Mobile view without app | Yes | Slow | Yes | Yes |
| Embed on your own domain | Yes — one line of HTML | Team plan+ | Yes | Yes |
| You own the file forever | Yes — download .ply | Hosted only | Depends | Yes |
| SEO — indexable public URL | Yes — per-tour /t/[slug] | Frames + JS wall | Frames | Yes |
| Analytics per tour | Views · dwell · region · leads | Basic | None | None |
| Failed capture = free retry | Yes — never charged on failure | You paid the shoot | Reshoot | Reshoot |
- VOLUME$79 one-time
- Matterport$300–$800 shoot + $75/mo
- 360° photos~$150–$250 shoot
- Still photos$150–$400 shoot
- VOLUME~20 min
- MatterportSame-day scan + 24 hr
- 360° photosSame-day
- Still photosSame-day
- VOLUMEAny phone
- MatterportPro camera + tripod
- 360° photos360 camera
- Still photosDSLR
- VOLUMEYes — Gaussian splat
- MatterportYes — dollhouse
- 360° photosPanorama only
- Still photosStatic
- VOLUMEYes
- MatterportSlow
- 360° photosYes
- Still photosYes
- VOLUMEYes — one line of HTML
- MatterportTeam plan+
- 360° photosYes
- Still photosYes
- VOLUMEYes — download .ply
- MatterportHosted only
- 360° photosDepends
- Still photosYes
- VOLUMEYes — per-tour /t/[slug]
- MatterportFrames + JS wall
- 360° photosFrames
- Still photosYes
- VOLUMEViews · dwell · region · leads
- MatterportBasic
- 360° photosNone
- Still photosNone
- 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 isn't to nuke them; it's to help you pick right per listing.
What does it cost you not to switch?
Adjust the slider to your yearly listing volume. Numbers update live. Assumes traditional photography at $350 a listing (photog + drone + editing round-trip) and VOLUME at $79 one-off.
Showing lift derived from public 3D-listing analytics (Zillow / Redfin brokerage reports). Conservative 2× multiplier used. Real number is usually higher.
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 $79 per space. Common bookable amenity tours often outperform room tours on engagement — guests want to see the pool.
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