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A Website for a Santorini Transfer Company: Map, Bookings & Automatic Pricing

Santorini welcomes more than 2 million visitors a year. Every one needs a transfer—from the airport, from the port, between villages or for excursions. And every one searches on Google before booking. If your transfer company does not appear there—or appears without a way to book online—you are missing a significant share of this market.

Codehouse has developed a complete website specifically for Santorini transfer companies, with technology not usually seen in local businesses: a live map, customer location sharing, automatic price calculation and a tour catalogue with online booking.

The problem this website solves

Most Santorini transfer companies currently operate through WhatsApp or phone bookings, Viator or GetTransfer for online presence (with 20–30% commission), and perhaps an old or non-existent website. The result:

• Bookings are lost from tourists searching on the day or late at night.
• Every booking through a platform costs 15–30% in commission.
• Tourists cannot easily find out how much a transfer will cost from their location.
• Tours are not presented properly, so additional revenue is lost.

The website Codehouse builds solves all four problems.

Live map & location sharing: customers see the price immediately

This is the feature that makes the difference. A tourist opens the website, taps “Where am I?” and the map automatically detects their location. They choose a destination and immediately see the price calculated from the actual distance. No waiting for an email, sending a WhatsApp message or back-and-forth.

Illustrative map example—not a quote: Your location, Fira → Santorini Airport (JTR). Estimated transfer fare: €28 · 7.4 km · approximately 14 minutes · 1–4 passengers. The map uses the Google Maps API with real distances.

How it works technically: the system uses the Google Maps API together with the company’s price list (a price per zone or per kilometre). The customer sees the route on the map, estimated duration and price—and books the transfer immediately.

• Location sharing: the customer gives access to their location and the map detects it automatically—no need to type an address.
• Automatic price calculation: the price is calculated in real time based on actual distance and your price list. Customers know what they will pay before booking.
• Route visualisation: the route appears on the map—building trust and reducing “are you sure about the price?” questions.
• Booking in 60 seconds: from sharing location to booking confirmation in less than a minute, 24/7, without you being online.
• Online payment or deposit: customers pay the full amount or leave a deposit by card or PayPal. You receive a notification immediately.
• Automatic confirmation: a confirmation email with route, time, price and driver details. No manual work.

Tour catalogue: revenue beyond simple transfers

Many Santorini transfer companies also run excursions—but sell them only by word of mouth or through hotels. With a Codehouse website, every tour has its own page with photos, stops, duration, price and the option to book online immediately.

• Volcano & Caldera: Fira → Imerovigli → Thirassia → Nea Kameni; from €45 per person · 4–5 hours.
• Oia Sunset: Fira → Imerovigli → Oia (sunset stop); from €30 per person · 3 hours.
• Akrotiri & Red Beach: Fira → Akrotiri → Red Beach → Emporio; from €35 per person · 4 hours.
• Wine Tasting Tour: selected Santorini wineries · 3 stops; from €55 per person · 5 hours.
• Beaches: Perissa & Kamari: Fira → Kamari → Perissa → Black Beach; from €25 per person · 3 hours.
• Full Day Custom Tour: a tailored tour of the whole island; from €120 per group · 8 hours.

Each tour has its own URL (e.g. /tours/santorini-sunset-oia/), ideal for SEO—and its own booking page. You choose which tours to offer, their prices and routes. We build them.

Dynamic SEO—the website is found where people search

SEO is not simply “add a few keywords.” For Santorini transfers and tours, we use a strategy designed to perform:

Pages for each route. Every origin-destination combination has its own URL and copy—exactly what tourists search for, such as Santorini airport transfer Oia, taxi Santorini Fira, Santorini private transfer, Imerovigli transfer Santorini, Santorini sunset tour Oia, volcano tour Santorini, Akrotiri excursion Santorini, wine tasting Santorini tour, Perissa beach transfer or Santorini port taxi.

Schema markup. Code that tells Google exactly what you do, where you are, what services you offer and what they cost—for rich results directly in search listings.

Google Business Profile optimisation. Full connection between the website and Google Maps profile to support visibility in the Local Pack.

Content for tourist searches. Travel guide blog posts such as “How to get from Santorini airport to Oia” can appear for informational searches and bring visitors who may become customers.

Multilingual structure. Greek and English as standard. Each language has its own URL structure (such as /en/santorini-airport-transfer/), correct hreflang tags and independent SEO optimisation.

Exactly what the website includes

Delivery time & what we need from you

The website is delivered in 10–14 days from the start of the collaboration. We need:

• A logo or simply your colours / brand name.
• Your transfer price list (zones or price per kilometre).
• A list of the tours you want to present.
• A few photos (phone photos are fine to start with).
• Your contact phone number and email.

We take care of everything else—design, copy, SEO and technical implementation.

A tourist in Imerovigli looking for a transfer to the airport in two hours opens your site on their phone: within 60 seconds, they know the price, see the route on the map and book. No WhatsApp, no waiting and no platform commission.

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