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Hostaway vs OwnerRez: which one can hold your dates while the guest pays
OwnerRez can hold a guest's dates on your calendar while the card clears and Hostaway documents no way to do it, which decides the choice for any small hotel, inn or serviced-apartment group planning to take bookings on its own website.
Little Hotelier vs Lodgify: which one fits your small hotel, inn or serviced apartments
Lodgify if your first problem is having no booking page of your own, Little Hotelier if your first problem is keeping the platforms in step. Prices, the pooled inventory question, and a verdict by property size.
Cloudbeds vs ThinkReservations: which one a small hotel or inn can build on
Both systems now let your own website create the booking, so the choice turns on the guest's card and on how you get the key. What that means for a small hotel, inn or serviced apartment group at 8 to 25 units.
Can you build a direct booking site on Hostfully? What its API lets you do
Hostfully can hold a room for 24 hours while your guest pays and then mark it booked, which is the safest shape a direct booking checkout can have. What it leaves you to build is a nightly reconcile job, because a missed booking message is never sent twice.
Hostfully vs Guesty: which one wins for a small operator
Guesty is the better system to build your own booking site on, and Hostfully is the cheaper one to take direct money through. The published prices, the fee lines, the webhook and availability gaps, and what we found when we moved between them.
Can you build a direct booking site on Lodgify? What its API lets you do
Lodgify's API creates a real booking from your own site and signs every webhook with a secret unique to that endpoint. It will not hold the unit while the guest pays, and Lodgify does not say in readable text which plan includes API access.
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.
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.