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Channel sync, double bookings, and the plumbing that lets you sell direct without fear.
Best PMS for small hotels: twelve systems priced for 8 to 25 rooms
Five of the twelve systems on this list publish a price you can read without a sales call. The rest quote you. Here is what each one costs at 8 to 25 rooms, the second bill hiding behind the subscription, the six questions that decide a demo, and the case for keeping the system you already pay for.
Mews API: how to build a direct booking page
The developer's read on the Mews API, and the owner's. Two references at docs.mews.com, a public demo environment to build against, certification before a production key, an access token per building, and a reservation state that holds the room while the guest pays.
Lodgify vs OwnerRez: what twelve units cost on each, and which to buy
OwnerRez publishes a sliding scale you can add up yourself, which comes to $141 a month at twelve units, while Lodgify's $14 to $77 plans are all priced for a single property. Here is what each really costs at your unit count, who pays extra for the website, and how the two count identical units that sell as one type.
Hostaway vs Lodgify: the prices, and which one fits a small property
Lodgify's four plans are $14, $26, $42 and $62 a month on annual billing, all of them priced for a single property, and Hostaway puts no figure on its site at all. Here is what each really costs at 8 to 25 units, the booking fee only one of them charges, and how to test the sync and support complaints yourself.
Bed and breakfast channel manager: ten systems and their prices
Nine of the ten channel managers worth a small B&B's time arrive inside a property system, so the first job is finding out which one you already pay for. The ten systems with each vendor's published price, what changes between five rooms and fifteen, and the two hour check that tells you whether yours is working.
Cloudbeds API: how to build a direct booking checkout
Cloudbeds will write a real booking into the property system from your own page, and it will not take a cent of the money. There is no hold on the room either, so a refused card leaves a booking your own code has to cancel. What that build involves, and what the platform costs.
Hostaway API: what it takes to build a direct booking checkout
Hostaway's public API lives in a single reference, the key is yours to create, and the request that makes a reservation can charge the card at the same time. If that charge fails, Hostaway deletes the reservation. Nothing it publishes holds the dates while a guest is paying.
Guesty vs Hostaway: which is better for a small lodging business
Guesty publishes a starting price and Hostaway quotes every account, so an 8 to 25 unit property cannot compare them without two sales calls. Here is what each one costs, what its support covers, what happens when a guest's card fails, and which sort of property should buy which.
Guesty API documentation, and what a direct booking page costs to build
Guesty has two APIs, and the narrow one is built for a direct booking site: your checkout requests a reservation quote, Guesty guarantees that price for 24 hours, and the quote becomes a booking. Nothing it publishes says the dates are held while the guest pays.
Airbnb channel manager: what it does and what it costs you
An Airbnb channel manager keeps one calendar and one price list across Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo and your own site. What connecting actually changes, including the 15.5% host-only fee, what Airbnb keeps hold of, and a three number test for your own books.
Channel manager comparison: 31 systems priced for a 12 unit property
Nineteen of these 31 channel managers already sit inside a property system you may be paying for. What each publishes, what twelve units actually costs, and which of them you can price without a sales call.
Bed and breakfast software: fourteen systems, their published prices, and which suits ten rooms
Fourteen systems a ten room B&B would really run, each with the price its own page publishes and who it fits, including the B&B and inn specialists. Then the four jobs the software has to do, the demo script that proves them, and the one job the box usually drops.