Which vacation rental software fits <em>1 to 50 properties</em>?

Smoobu has the most complete euro price grid on this list, property by property. Every plan includes the channel manager, a multi-calendar, a shared inbox, a direct booking site with Stripe and PayPal payments, online check-in and iOS and Android apps. It connects to Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia and 100+ other channels.

The catch is the plan choice. Professional Flex costs €29 a month, but Smoobu takes 0.9% of every booking. On €30,000 of bookings a year, that's €270 extra. Professional Prepaid costs €35 a month (€31.50 billed yearly) with no commission. Once your yearly bookings pass roughly €8,000, Prepaid is the cheaper plan.

Each extra property costs €9.60 a month. Three properties come to about €47 a month, ten to about €114, before the 10% yearly discount (20% on two years). Notice for cancellation is 30 days, and there's no setup fee.

For a US host, one detail matters: Smoobu bills in euros. The dollar prices on its site are estimates, so your card statement moves with the exchange rate. Customers praise how fast bookings sync across Airbnb and Booking.com; the recurring complaint is support that misreads the problem.

Hospitable built its name on automating guest communication. For a seasonal host, though, its billing model is the bigger win: it only charges for "active" properties, the ones with a check-in during the billing period. A lake cabin closed from October to April adds nothing to your bill in those months; only the base plan stays due.

Read the four plans closely. Essentials is free. Host is $29 a month for one property, $10 for a second, and stops at two. Professional is $59 with two properties, then $15 each: five properties come to $104 a month. Mogul is $99 with three properties, then $30 each: ten properties come to $309 a month. Paying yearly takes 12% off.

Past two properties, Professional beats Mogul on price: $74 for three, $179 for ten, against $99 and $309. Even so, at ten year-round units Hospitable costs more than Smoobu at roughly €114. You pay that gap for automation, so do the math with your real number of active properties across the year, not your full portfolio.

The 14-day trial needs no card, which makes it easy to connect one listing and watch how its scheduled messages behave on real bookings before moving everything.

OwnerRez shows up in nearly every US conversation about vacation rental software, and its pricing explains why. It publishes a monthly price on a sliding scale by property count: $88 a month for five properties. It charges no booking fees and asks for no contract.

That makes it the cleanest dollar bill on this list for a five-unit owner. At the same size, Hospitable Professional comes to $104 and Mogul to $159. Smoobu would be around €66 but in euros, with exchange-rate noise on every invoice.

Its limit on this page is what we could verify: the pricing grid gives one clear example, five properties, and we didn't find enough public reviews to judge its support the way we did for the others. Use the 14-day trial to connect one property to Airbnb and Vrbo and run a few real inquiries through it before moving your whole portfolio.

Check the calculator on the pricing page with your exact property count: the scale is degressive, so the per-property cost drops as you grow, which is not true of Hospitable's tiers.

Guesty runs two businesses. Guesty Lite targets small hosts: 1 to 3 listings, from $9 per listing a month. Three listings start at $27 a month, the lowest entry price on this list after Beds24.

Add a fourth listing and you move to Guesty Pro, priced on a quote for 4 to 199 listings, then Enterprise beyond that. There's no public grid for these tiers, so the jump from Lite to Pro isn't visible anywhere. If you plan to grow, ask for that number before you commit.

The direct booking engine takes no percentage; only your payment processor's fees apply. Yearly billing costs less, though Guesty doesn't publish the gap.

Public review scores are high, partly on reviews the vendor invites, and customers often single out responsive support. Read the negative ones too before you sign.

Beds24 is the cheapest tool here. Pricing starts at €15.50 a month and depends on unit count, with a calculator on the pricing page. It then charges €0.55 a month per "link": one room or property type connected to one channel.

Do the math. Three properties on Airbnb and Booking.com make six links, or €3.30 a month on top of the base. Everything else is à la carte: €2 per extra user, €0.10 per SMS, €19 for white label. There's no minimum term and no setup fee, and you can pay in US dollars even though prices are set in euros.

The trade-off is well known. Reviewers call it hard to learn even after paid training, and some report a steep price increase at the start of a year. The same people admit it gets pleasant once mastered. Its public score is low, but on a handful of unsolicited reviews.

If you go with it, pay for the guided setup (from €79). It costs less than three lost weekends in the settings.

Hostaway is built for managers, not individual hosts: a single-property owner lands on a waitlist. Its tiers tell you who it's for: 2-14, 15-49, then 50+ listings. It starts to make sense from about 15 units.

No price is published. You get a quote after a sales call. Customers call the price reasonable compared with competitors, while others warn that a plan sold as all-inclusive still has paid add-ons. Get the list of what's included in writing.

It holds one of the highest review averages in the category, partly on invited reviews. One specific complaint keeps coming up: after a cancellation, the calendar takes too long to reopen. Ask about that delay in the demo.

Hostaway's own glossary says a calendar-link (iCal) sync takes 15 to 30 minutes. That's the best reason to confirm it connects directly to each of your channels, not through a feed.