- Included: Your booking diary
- Included: 100+ booking sites in sync
- Included: Your own booking page
- Costs extra: Email and SMS marketing
- Included: Payments + security bonds
- Partly: Xero, done automatically
Side-by-side comparison
Accommador vs Cloudbeds: No Published Price, and the Marketing Costs Extra
Cloudbeds doesn’t publish a price on its site: every plan reads “Request a quote”. Its Guest Marketing CRM and websites are paid add-ons outside every plan, and reputation management comes with its Experience plan or as an add-on. Card processing costs money on both platforms: Cloudbeds’ help pages give interchange plus 1.2% as an example markup, and say rates vary by location. Accommador is $500/mo, published on the page. Card payments run through your own Stripe or PayDollar account at their published rates. We add no fee on top.
Vendor prices are cited and dated; our estimates are labelled. See how we worked them out.
- Published on our site, not after a demo
- We add no fee to your Stripe or PayDollar payments
- Built for Australia, not bolted on
- Your booking diary
- 100+ booking sites in sync
- Your own booking page
- Email and SMS marketing
- Payments + security bonds
- Xero, done automatically
At a glance
Accommador vs Cloudbeds, side by side
- Included
- Costs extra
- Partly, or with limits
- Not found in their published material, or not published
| Capability | Accommador | Cloudbeds |
|---|---|---|
| Price on the website | Included. $500/mo, published$500/mo or $5,000/yr, no demo needed to see it | Not found or not published. Quote onlyNot published: four plans, each with a “Request a quote” button and no prices (checked 28 October 2026) |
| Email and SMS rates published | Included. Published, to the centevery rate we set is published, to the cent | Not found or not published. Not publishedNot published |
| Email, SMS and WhatsApp marketing | Included. Built in, WhatsApp add-onbuilt in | Costs extra. Paid add-onGuest Marketing, a paid add-on outside every plan, is built around email campaigns to segmented guest profiles. SMS and WhatsApp guest messaging come through their Guest Experience product on prepaid credits. We couldn’t confirm SMS or WhatsApp campaigns in their published material (October 2026) |
| Your own booking page | Included. Included, no commissionyour own booking page, on your own web address | Included. Includedincluded |
| Offers the nearest open dates | Included. Shows the 3 nearest datesshows the 3 nearest bookable dates with prices | Not found or not published. Not foundWe couldn’t find a nearest-dates feature in Cloudbeds’ published material (October 2026). Test it yourself: search dates that break your minimum stay |
| Channel manager | Included. 100+ booking sites100+ booking sites | Included. Included, not on Flexincluded on their One plan and above (not Flex): they market 450+ channels |
| See which ads book rooms | Included. Includedsee which ads book rooms | Not found or not published. Not foundWe couldn’t find it in Cloudbeds’ published material (October 2026) |
| Payments and bond holds | Included. Included, with bond holdscard payments, security bond held automatically | Included. Cloudbeds PaymentsCloudbeds Payments; their help pages give interchange plus 1.2% as an example rate, and pricing varies by location |
| Xero, done automatically | Included. Books code themselvesthe books code themselves | Partly. Daily totals, third-partyA third-party app (The Percentage) that posts daily revenue totals into Xero, not a reconciliation |
| Australian support | Included. Australian, founder-runAustralian and founder-run | Partly. No AU office listedNone of the five offices on their contact page is in Australia (October 2026), though it lists Australia among 40+ countries where it has a local presence. Phone support comes with their Premium Support option |
We make Accommador, so we are not a neutral judge. Cloudbeds facts from their public pages and help centre, checked July to October 2026; each cell rechecked in October says so. They publish no pricing, so cost figures are our estimates from one first-hand review and third-party ranges. Confirm with Cloudbeds.
The core difference
What each platform is actually for
Two things separate us. First, the price is a conversation there and a number here: $500/mo or $5,000/yr, every room included. You can decide whether to even talk to us before breakfast.
Second, marketing. Theirs is a paid add-on built around email. Ours is half the product: email and SMS campaigns that bring past guests back, and ad tracking that shows you which ad earned the booking.
Why operators pick us
The case against Cloudbeds, in plain terms
Their licence can land close to ours. The difference is everything around it:
You find out what it costs before you talk to anyone.
Four plans, four "Request a quote" buttons and no prices on their pricing page (checked 28 October 2026). Third-party reviews report a setup fee that Cloudbeds doesn’t publish; one first-hand reviewer says it was waived on request, so ask. Ours is on the page.
We add no fee to your card payments.
Their own help pages give interchange plus 1.2% as an example of their Cost+ pricing, plus a fixed fee per transaction. On our 30-room assumptions, that example markup works out to about $1,150 a month. That markup is their charge as your card processor. On Accommador, card payments run through your own Stripe or PayDollar account at their published rates (Stripe’s standard Australian rate is 1.65% + A$0.30 per domestic card), and we add no fee on top. Compare your processor’s rate with theirs on your own card mix, and ask Cloudbeds for the rate at your location, since they say pricing varies by location.
Marketing is included, and it isn’t just email.
Cloudbeds sells its Guest Marketing CRM, with guest profiles, segmentation and campaigns, as an add-on outside every plan. SMS and WhatsApp guest messaging come through their Guest Experience product on prepaid credits, and we couldn’t confirm SMS or WhatsApp campaigns in their published material (October 2026). Reputation and websites are further add-ons. Ours are in the platform, with sends billed per item at published rates.
You can ring us, on every plan.
On their pricing page (October 2026), phone support comes with Premium Support, which you ask sales about; every plan includes 24/7 support. Phone support with us comes with every plan.
We’re actually in Australia.
None of the five offices on Cloudbeds’ contact page is in Australia (October 2026), though it lists Australia among 40+ countries where it has a local presence. When we checked in July 2026 we couldn’t find an Australian version of their site or an Australian compliance page among the 45 country pages they publish.
The one test to run before any demo
Search dates that break your minimum-stay rule
A booking page without a nearest-dates feature answers "no availability", and the guest may leave. Accommador shows the three nearest open nights with prices, so the near miss can become a booking.
See how alternative-date search works →The growth scorecard
Eight things that fill rooms, and which come in the plan price
- 8/8Accommador, included
- 1/8Cloudbeds, included, plus 3 at extra cost
- Included
- Costs extra
- Partly
- Not found in their published material
| Capability | Accommador | Cloudbeds |
|---|---|---|
| Email campaigns | YesCampaigns and sequences, not just booking confirmations | Paid add-onEmail campaigns come in the Guest Marketing CRM, a paid add-on outside every plan. |
| SMS and WhatsApp campaigns | YesSMS built in at published rates; WhatsApp as an add-on | Messaging, campaigns unclearSMS and WhatsApp guest messaging come through Guest Experience on prepaid credits; we couldn’t confirm SMS or WhatsApp campaigns (October 2026). |
| Guest CRM | YesEvery past guest, segmentable | Paid add-onGuest Marketing CRM, with guest profiles, segmentation and campaigns, is a paid add-on outside every plan. |
| Reputation management | YesReview requests and replies built in | Higher tier or add-onReputation management exists, but only from the Experience tier up or as a paid add-on. |
| Ad attribution that lasts | YesServer-side, so it keeps working after browsers stop tracking | Not foundWe couldn’t find it in their published material (October 2026). |
| Your own booking page | YesOn your own web address, no cut taken | YesIncluded. |
| Alternative-date search | YesShows the 3 nearest open nights, priced | Not foundWe couldn’t find a nearest-dates feature in their published material (October 2026). Test it: search dates that break your minimum stay. |
| Xero books that code themselves | YesMonth-end is checking, not rebuilding | Daily totals onlyA third-party app that posts daily revenue totals into Xero, not a reconciliation. |
How we scored this: the eight capabilities are ours, so we hold every row by construction. The right-hand column is marked from what we could find in Cloudbeds's published material, with the fine print in each cell, checked between July and October 2026; cells rechecked in October 2026 say so. Sources and working are on the methodology page.
What you’d actually pay
Both bills, side by side
≈A$1,530–1,715/mo
our estimate: their licence plus the tools to match usWith Cloudbeds you get a quote, not a price, and any setup fee is in the quote too.
The full pricing picture
The licence itself can land near ours; the difference is what sits on top. Their Guest Marketing CRM is a separate add-on, and card processing is a separate bill on both platforms: Cloudbeds’ help pages use interchange plus 1.2% as an example markup.
$500/mo
or $5,000/yr · one plan · published$500/mo, or $5,000/yr paid yearly, which is about two months free.
What that includes
Every room included, whatever you run. The $500 buys the platform. What you send is billed per item at published rates, and the usual card-processing fees apply. We take no cut of a direct booking, so every booking that comes direct skips the 15–20% the booking sites charge.
Locked-for-Life Plan
$5,000/yr, the price you join at held for life, and we move you over free. 30-day free trial. Cancel before it ends and you pay nothing.
Book a demoCheck our mathsSee Cloudbeds’s full bill, line by line, with sources
The real bill
What Cloudbeds costs once everything is on it
Cloudbeds’s own price where they publish one, plus our estimate of buying what’s missing elsewhere. Our estimates are labelled; see how we worked them out.
~A$430–615/mo
Demo-gated6hoteliers.com Cloudbeds review, published 2026-03-04, updated 2026-08-02, checked 2026-10-28
Cloudbeds publishes no price on its site (checked 28 October 2026). This is our estimate, modelled from a named reviewer’s account: an 80-room hotel paying USD 350/mo on the One plan. Scaled to 30 rooms that puts One at about A$430, and the reviewer’s reported uplift puts Experience at about A$615.
- Email, SMS, follow-ups, reviews and a social planner$450/mo
Their Guest Marketing CRM, a paid add-on outside every plan, is built around email campaigns; we couldn’t confirm SMS or WhatsApp campaigns. This line is our estimate for that layer bought elsewhere, in place of the add-on.
Source
cloudbeds.com/hotel-crm-solution and /pricing, checked 2026-10-28; Accommador published pricing. How we worked this out
- A website, ad tracking and Xero done properly$650/mo
Websites are a Cloudbeds add-on, and their Xero connector is a third-party app that posts daily revenue totals, not a reconciliation. Priced at our own stack rate for buying these elsewhere.
Source
cloudbeds.com/integrations/xero, accessed 2026-07-26; Accommador published pricing. How we worked this out
- Their card-processing markup≈$1,153/mo
The rate is Cloudbeds’ own published example (interchange plus 1.2%); the dollar figure is ours, on the assumptions below: 65% occupancy and 90% of room revenue paid by card, the same figure as the Their Own Variable Fees table below. Every processor charges something; this is the markup on top of interchange, which is what you would compare against your own processor’s margin. Cloudbeds says pricing varies by location. On Accommador, card payments run through your own Stripe or PayDollar account at their published rates (Stripe’s standard Australian rate is 1.65% + A$0.30 per domestic card), and we add no fee on top. It sits outside the all-in figure here, which counts only the licence plus what you’d buy elsewhere.
Source
Cloudbeds Payments help-centre article ("Cost+ Versus Blended Rate Pricing") and cloudbeds.com/payments, checked 2026-10-07. How we worked this out
All in≈A$1,530–1,715/moto match what we do, on our estimates. Card processing is on top, on both platforms
Medium. It is the only first-hand, named data point in the public record: Cloudbeds’ own pricing page and every one of the 45 pages crawled from it return no numbers at all. Treat the licence figure as directional, not exact.
30-room Australian independent, $180 ADR, 65% occupancy. The licence is modelled, not published; the marketing and website lines are our market rate for buying those elsewhere, not a Cloudbeds charge; the payments line uses their own published example rate, and the dollar figure is ours. $430 + $1,100 = $1,530; $615 + $1,100 = $1,715.
Their own variable fees
What Cloudbeds’s own fee lines add up to
Cloudbeds’s own fee lines, not a matching bundle. The rates come from the sources shown; the dollar figures are our estimates on a 30-room property. See how we worked them out.
A$430–615/mo (midpoint A$523/mo)
Our estimate, interpolated from a single first-hand data point (an 80-room hotel reviewer paying US$350/mo on One), which puts a 30-room property at roughly US$300/mo, and that same reviewer’s reported ~43% uplift to Experience. Cloudbeds’ pricing is quote-only, so this is a documented interpolation, not a quote. Converted at market-spot FX, AUD = USD ÷ 0.6973 (24 Jul 2026).
~3.4× their licence
A$1,583–1,924/mo (midpoint A$1,753/mo)
- Payments markup: Cost+ pricing, 1.2% over interchange (Cloudbeds’ own example rate)A$1,153.04/mo
Interchange itself is excluded (a network cost every processor charges); only Cloudbeds’ own markup on top counts, and that is what you would compare against your own processor’s margin. Applied to 90% card-settled room revenue (our assumption). Cloudbeds gives 1.2% as an example and says pricing varies by location. Their help article also adds a fixed fee per transaction, which we leave out.
Show the working
Workings $106,762.50 × 0.90 = $96,086.25 card volume → $96,086.25 × 1.2% = A$1,153.04/mo
Cloudbeds Payments help centre, “Cost+ Versus Blended Rate Pricing”, checked 2026-10-07. How we worked this out - Setup fee, amortised (modelled both ways)A$0–155.36/mo
Third-party estimate US$200–5,000+; Cloudbeds doesn’t publish one. One first-hand reviewer reports it was waived on request (“I’m told this is common”), so ask. Amortised over our own 24-month assumption (Cloudbeds publishes no minimum term).
Show the working
Workings US$2,600 midpoint ÷ 0.6973 = A$3,728.67 → A$3,728.67 ÷ 24 months = A$155.36/mo (or A$0/mo if waived)
hotelminder.com and other aggregators (range); 6hoteliers.com (waiver), accessed 2026-07-26. How we worked this out
MEDIUM. Licence is interpolated from one first-hand data point. The 1.2% payments markup is the vendor’s own published example: HIGH on the rate as an example, MEDIUM on whether any given property is actually offered it. Cloudbeds’ commission-free direct-booking-engine claim is true and is conceded, not attacked.
Switching from Cloudbeds
We move you. You don’t migrate yourself.
- 01
Audit
We map your rooms, rates, stay rules, booking sites and guest list.
- 02
Build
We set Accommador up alongside Cloudbeds, which keeps running.
- 03
Cutover
We reconnect your booking sites one at a time, so your listings never go dark.
- 04
Reconcile
We connect payments and Xero before you switch over.
Moving you over is free. We do it for you on the yearly plan, and our AI walks you through it step by step on monthly.
FAQ
Questions operators ask
Is Accommador cheaper than Cloudbeds?
We can’t compare a number they don’t publish. A well-negotiated Cloudbeds quote can land close to ours on licence alone. Where the gap opens up is the marketing add-ons, which aren’t in their base price. Card processing costs money on both: their example is interchange plus 1.2%. On Accommador, card payments run through your own Stripe or PayDollar account at their published rates, and we add no fee on top, so compare the processors’ rates on your own card mix.
Is Cloudbeds’ commission-free booking claim true?
Yes. Their own FAQ is accurate: no added commission on bookings through their booking page or their booking-site sync. Where the cost shows up instead is card processing and the add-ons around it.
Can I migrate from Cloudbeds to Accommador?
Yes, and we do it for you: bookings, rates, stay rules, booking sites and guest list, reconnected one at a time so your listings stay live. We move you across free on the yearly plan; on monthly our AI sets you up step by step.
Cloudbeds markets 450+ channels. Is 100+ enough?
For Australian operators, almost always. Ours covers the sites that actually drive bookings here. Bring your list to the demo and we’ll tell you plainly what we cover.
Does Cloudbeds have an Australian office?
Not that we could find. In October 2026 their contact page listed offices in San Diego, Dublin, São Paulo, Barcelona and Toronto, and named Australia among 40+ countries where they have a local presence. When we checked in July 2026 we couldn’t find an Australian compliance page. We’re built here.
Figures on this page are prices a vendor publishes, figures from third parties, and our own estimates. We cite and date the first two, and label the third as estimates and work it through on the methodology page. None of them is a quote or what any particular property will pay.
Our estimates assume 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.
Vendor figures come from the vendor's own pages, its pricing data or its published documents, such as RMS Cloud's North American price guide; third-party and competitor-published figures are marked as such. Most figures carry the date they were last checked, next to their source. Most were first checked between May and July 2026, some were rechecked on7 October 2026, and many, including every cell in our shortlist guides' comparison table, were rechecked on 28 October 2026. Where a figure still rests on an older source, such as a vendor's July 2026 pricing data, it says so. 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.
Side-by-side comparisons
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