Honest comparisons

Most booking platforms sync your calendar. Almost none of them fill it.

Keeping your booking sites in sync is table stakes. Marketing, reviews, ad tracking and Xero that reconciles itself are usually separate bills, bought from someone else, every month. Ours bundles all of it — eight things that fill rooms — for $500/mo, published, no call required.

  • One price, before any call
  • Eight things that fill rooms, not sold separately
  • Nobody paid to be on this list
The price wall

Twelve of these won’t tell you what they cost

Sixteen booking platforms are sold to Australian operators. Four will show you a price without asking for your phone number. None of the sixteen shows you what you’d still need to buy alongside it to do what we do in one login — that’s the rest of this page.

4 publish a price12 make you ask for it

Sixteen booking platforms sold in Australia, each checked for a price you can read without contacting sales. Four publish one: Accommador, Little Hotelier, Lodgify and Preno. SiteMinder and Guesty show a starting figure but confirm the real number through their sales teams, so they count as make-you-ask. Checked on each platform’s own site, May–July 2026 — confirm current pricing with each vendor.

How we compare

  • Written for one readerAustralian operators running their own place. Nobody else.
  • We say what we don’t doHoliday-park powered sites and trust accounting aren’t ours.
  • Checked, not guessedEvery fact comes from each platform’s own public pages — and every estimate we make is labelled as one.
  • Nobody pays to be hereNo paid placements. No affiliate deals.
Who it’s for

What do you run?

Accommador is built for Australian operators running their own place. Pick your type and we’ll narrow it to the platforms you’re most likely weighing up.

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vs SiteMinder

Their own ASX filing says the average bill is $435 a month — 41% of it, $178, is fees no price list shows. Ours is $500, flat.

Accommador does these. SiteMinder doesn’t.

  • Marketing campaigns, built in — not a marketplace app
  • Never says “no availability”
  • The full price, not just a tier
  • Knows which ads book rooms
What they chargeOnly partly published$359/mo Plus tier at 30 rooms
Ours$500/moPer location. No sales call needed.

Cost to match us~$2,019/mo

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vs Little Hotelier

Their own FAQ: the 1% applies to every booking, online and offline — about $1,117 a month on a 30-room property advertised at $49.

Accommador does these. Little Hotelier doesn’t.

  • Marketing campaigns, built in — not a marketplace app
  • Never says “no availability”
  • Knows which ads book rooms
What they chargeFrom $49/mo
Ours$500/mo

Cost to match us~$1,525/mo

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vs Cloudbeds

Their own worked example prices card processing at interchange plus 1.2% — about $1,153 a month on a 30-room property, on top of a licence they won’t quote you.

Accommador does these. Cloudbeds doesn’t.

  • Marketing campaigns, built in — not a marketplace app
  • Never says “no availability”
  • The whole price — no demo, no call
What they chargeNot published
Ours$500/mo

Cost to match us~$1,680/moplus their payments margin

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vs RMS Cloud

Cheaper on licence — until you add the A$6,453 setup fee and the growth tooling RMS sells as add-ons. All in, ours costs less and comes with the marketing.

Accommador does these. RMS Cloud doesn’t.

  • Marketing campaigns, built in — not a marketplace app
  • Never says “no availability”
  • The whole price — no demo, no call
What they chargeNot published
Ours$500/mo

Cost to match us~$759/moplus a $6,453 setup fee

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vs Newbook

Newbook’s own contract stops customers telling each other what they pay. Ours is public: $500/mo, in writing.

Accommador does these. Newbook doesn’t.

  • Marketing campaigns, built in — not a marketplace app
  • Never says “no availability”
  • The whole price — no demo, no call
What they chargeNot published
Ours$500/mo

Cost to match us~$1,580–2,530/mo

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vs Lodgify

Lodgify’s price is real — and uncapped. $607/mo at 30 rooms, $1,266 at 80. Ours stays $500 flat.

Accommador does these. Lodgify doesn’t.

  • Marketing campaigns, built in — not a marketplace app
  • Never says “no availability”
  • 50+ sites, not just the big ones
What they chargeFrom $607/mo at 30 units
Ours$500/mo

Cost to match us~$1,167/mo

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vs Mews

Priced per room and per car park, plus a card-payments margin that can beat the licence. Matching what we bundle costs another $775–1,270/mo. Ours: $500 flat.

Accommador does these. Mews doesn’t.

  • Marketing campaigns, built in — not a marketplace app
  • Never says “no availability”
  • The whole price — no demo, no call
What they chargeNot published
Ours$500/mo

Cost to match us~$1,220–2,000/moplus their payments margin

See all 7 differences
All 16 platforms, side by sideWho shows you a price, and who helps fill your rooms. Only one does both.See them all

Two things we don’t do: powered sites for holiday parks, and trust accounting. Everything else, we do.

The whole field

Two questions: will they show you a price, and will they help fill your rooms?

The two things you can check before anyone gets you on a call. Pricing shown here is the licence only — see each card above for what it would cost to match us. Pick a platform to read the full comparison.

HiddenDemo or enquiry first
Partly shownA range, then a sales call
PublishedOn their own site
Built inEmails, texts, follow-up, reviews
Hidden price · marketing built inNobody here
Partly shown price · marketing built inNobody here
Published price · marketing built in
  • Alone hereAccommador$500/mo · $5,000/yr
Some of itGuest emails only
Hidden price · marketing some of it
Partly shown price · marketing some of it
Published price · marketing some of it
Add-onBought separately
Hidden price · marketing add-on
Partly shown price · marketing add-onNobody here
Published price · marketing add-on

One platform shows its price and fills your rooms.

Pricing checked across all 16 platforms on their own sites, May–July 2026. “Cost to match us” figures are our estimate of what you’d pay elsewhere, at typical Australian market rates, for the parts of our bundle a platform’s licence doesn’t include — not what that platform charges. Confirm current pricing with each vendor.

The one thing to test before any demo

Search dates that break a minimum-stay rule

Most booking engines

“No availability.” The guest leaves.

Accommador

The three nearest bookable dates — with prices.

See how alternative-date search works
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FAQ

Questions we get asked

Because hiding it is a sales tactic, not a service. It’s $500/mo, or $5,000/yr paid yearly, with everything included, whatever your room count. That’s the whole price list.

It’s our estimate of what you’d still need to buy — a guest database, SMS, reviews, ad tracking and so on — to do what Accommador already bundles, priced at typical Australian market rates for those bought elsewhere. It is never what the platform itself charges for them, and we say so everywhere it appears.

We’re obviously not neutral. So every fact about another platform comes from their own public pages, our price is right there to check, and nobody pays to appear here.

We move you — bookings, rates, booking-site connections and Xero — free on the yearly plan, and your listings never go dark. On monthly, our AI walks you through it step by step.

The first 10 operators get everything for $5,000/yr, that price held for life, and we move you over free.

Every figure on this page is a modelled estimate, on the assumptions stated below — not a quote, not an offer, and not what any particular property will pay.Where a figure is a range, an estimate or unverified, this page labels it as such rather than presenting it as fact.

Modelling assumes a 30-room Australian property at 65% occupancy, A$180 average daily rate, a 2.0-night average stay and a 65% online booking share, with United States dollar figures converted at the market spot rate of AUD/USD 0.6973 as at 24 July 2026, and stated ex-GST — see the full working, every vendor's longhand sum and what remains unverified at the methodology page. A different property's numbers will differ.

Every named source was checked on each vendor's own public pages and carries an access date of 26 July 2026. Pricing changes without notice — always verify current pricing directly with the vendor before making a decision.

Accommador has no affiliation with, endorsement by, or partnership with any vendor named on this page. All product names, company names and trade marks referenced are the property of their respective owners.

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