- Your booking diary
- 50+ booking sites in sync
- Your own booking page
- Email, SMS and WhatsApp
- Payments + security bonds
- Xero, done automatically
Honest comparison
Accommador vs Little Hotelier: $49/mo, Until You Read the 1%.
Little Hotelier’s own FAQ says the 1% fee on the $49 plan applies to every booking you take — walk-ins and phone calls included — which works out to roughly $1,117 a month on a full 30-room property. Accommador is $500 flat, with the marketing that actually fills the rooms built in, not metered.
- Their own footnote, not ours
- No tax on the bookings you already have
- Marketing built in, not an add-on
- Your booking diary
- 50+ booking sites in sync
- Your own booking page
- Email, SMS and WhatsApp
- Payments + security bonds
- Xero, done automatically
At a glance
Accommador vs Little Hotelier, side by side
| Capability | Accommador | Little Hotelier |
|---|---|---|
| Transparent public pricing | $500/mo or $5,000/yr — no demo needed | published — $49/mo entry, plus 1% of every booking you take, online and offline, including walk-ins and phone calls |
| Marketing suite included (email/SMS/WhatsApp, CRM, reputation) | built in | Guest emails live inside a paid add-on (from $85/mo); no SMS or WhatsApp campaigns, no guest database, no review inbox |
| Booking engine | your own booking page, and we take no cut | included at every tier — but the entry tier charges 1% on every booking that comes through it, and every other one |
| Wins min-stay searches (alternative dates) | shows the 3 nearest bookable dates with prices | Guests just get “no availability” |
| Channel manager included | 50+ booking sites | Channels Plus included — commission charged per completed stay, rate unpublished |
| Server-side ad attribution (survives Apple’s cookie cap) | see which ads book rooms | Doesn’t do it |
| Payments + security-bond holds | card payments, security bond held automatically | Payments included, but the processing rate is unpublished |
| Self-reconciling Xero | reconciles itself | A CSV file you export and import by hand — not a live sync |
| AU-based support | Australian — you speak to the founder | SiteMinder-owned, Australian; phone support only on the paid tiers |
Little Hotelier Australian pricing as published on their own pricing page, verified July 2026. Their prices differ by country — confirm current AU pricing on littlehotelier.com.
The core difference
What each platform is actually for
Credit where it’s due: Little Hotelier shows you a price and runs a real free trial. Twelve of the 16 platforms sold here won’t do either.
The difference is what each one is for. Little Hotelier keeps your bookings tidy: reservations, booking sites, a booking page, payments.
Accommador does that and fills the rooms. Emails, texts and WhatsApp bring past guests back, you can see which ads earned a booking, and when a guest asks for dates that break your minimum stay, they get your three nearest open nights instead of "no availability".
Why operators pick us
The case against Little Hotelier, in plain terms
Little Hotelier is the honest budget option and we won’t pretend otherwise. Here is where the maths turns:
Their 1% is on your takings, not on software.
The $49 plan takes 1% of gross bookings, and their own FAQ says that covers online and offline — so walk-ins and phone bookings are taxed too. At 30 rooms, $180 a night, 65% full, that’s about $1,117 a month. The headline was $49.
Adding a room can’t put you in a dearer bracket.
Their fee-free plan is banded by room count: go from 20 rooms to 21 and it jumps 13%, from $305 to $345, for exactly the same software. We removed brackets entirely — $500 covers whatever you run.
There is no ceiling to grow into.
Little Hotelier’s own product stops taking self-serve sign-ups above 30 rooms, and every plan reads "Contact sales" past 50. Past that you don’t upgrade, you migrate — their parent’s product is a channel manager, not a front desk. We stay one system, whatever your room count.
The marketing is in the price, not on the roadmap.
At no tier does Little Hotelier give you campaigns, a real guest database, ad tracking or a reviews workflow — those are the things that actually grow direct bookings, and they’re most of what our $500 is buying you.
Your books reconcile themselves.
Their Xero path is a manual CSV export you import by hand. Ours reconciles itself — a few hours a month back for most operators.
You can work out your bill in advance.
Four of their revenue lines have no published rate — card processing, metasearch commission, Channels Plus commission and the Pro setup fee. Ours is one number, and it’s the number.
The one test to run before any demo
Search dates that break your minimum-stay rule
Most booking pages answer "no availability" and the guest is gone. Accommador shows the three nearest open nights with prices, so the near miss becomes a booking.
See how alternative-date search works →The growth scorecard
Eight things that fill rooms — and who does them
- 8/8Accommador
- 1/8Little Hotelier
- Accommador advantage
- Both platforms
- Partly, or with limits
- Not offered
| Capability | Accommador | Little Hotelier |
|---|---|---|
| Email campaigns | Yes. Campaigns and sequences, not just booking confirmations | Partial. Guest Engagement email is a paid add-on, not a campaign builder. |
| SMS and WhatsApp campaigns | Yes. Both channels, in the one price | Not offered. WhatsApp exists only as a guest-service channel inside the paid add-on, not a marketing channel. |
| Guest CRM | Yes. Every past guest, segmentable | Not offered. No guest database you can segment and campaign to. |
| Reputation management | Yes. Review requests and replies built in | Partial. Feedback surveys funnel guests to review sites; no review inbox or reply workflow. |
| Ad attribution that lasts | Yes. Server-side — keeps working after browsers stop tracking | Not offered. Doesn’t do it. |
| Your own booking page | Yes. On your own web address, no cut taken | Yes. Booking page ships at every tier — though Basics charges 1% on every booking that comes through it, and every other channel too. |
| Alternative-date search | Yes. Shows the 3 nearest open nights, priced | Not offered. Guests just get “no availability”. |
| Self-reconciling Xero | Yes. Reconciles itself | Partial. A CSV file you export and import by hand, not a live sync. |
What you’d actually pay
Both bills, side by side
Three sections follow, each answering a different money question — so three different totals, on purpose.
- What would it cost to match us?their licence, plus the tools you’d buy around it
- What lands on the bill?that same match-up, itemised and sourced
- What do they charge on top?Little Hotelier’s own fees, above its own licence
$2,060/mo
thirteen tools, thirteen billsThe $49 tier takes 1% of your gross bookings — and not just online ones.
The full pricing picture
Their FAQ says it applies to online and offline bookings, so walk-ins and phone bookings are taxed too. A 30-room property at $180 a night and 65% occupancy pays about $1,117 a month on that plan. Their fixed tier, Pro, is $345 at your size with no booking fee — but add guest emails and a website and you’re at $529, and it still doesn’t run campaigns or track your ads.
$500/mo
or $5,000/yr · one plan · published$500/mo, or $5,000/yr paid yearly — about two months free.
What that includes
Every room included, whatever you run. Everything is in it, and we take no cut of a direct booking: the 15–25% the booking sites charge is what you stop paying.
Locked-for-Life Plan — first 10 operators only
$5,000/yr, the price you join at held for life, and we move you over free. 14-day free trial, no card, cancel anytime.
Claim your spotThe real bill
What Little Hotelier costs once everything is on it
$345/mo
PublishedLittle Hotelier pricing API (resources.siteminder.com), region Australia, accessed 2026-07-26
That’s Pro — the plan with no booking fee. Their headline $49 plan (Basics) skips this price but takes 1% of every booking instead, online and offline, which is about $1,068/mo more on a full 30-room property.
- A marketing engine — email, SMS, automatic follow-ups and reviews$390/mo
Guest Engagement ($85/mo at 30 rooms) is a paid add-on for guest messaging, not a campaign or reputation tool. Priced at our own stack rate for buying that layer elsewhere.
Source
littlehotelier.com/guest-engagement, accessed 2026-07-26; Accommador $2,060 stack canon
- A website that promotes the property, and a social media planner$310/mo
Website Builder is a separate paid add-on ($99/mo at 30 rooms) and doesn’t include any social planning. Priced at our own stack rate for buying that elsewhere.
Source
Little Hotelier pricing API, accessed 2026-07-26; Accommador $2,060 stack canon
- Ad tracking, a real guest database and Xero done for you$480/mo
Little Hotelier has none of these. Xero is a CSV file you export and import by hand, not a live sync.
Source
Little Hotelier Help Centre, "accounting-integration-setup", accessed 2026-07-26
All in$1,525/moto match us on the fee-free plan — or about $1,117/mo on the advertised $49 plan once the 1% is added, before any of the above
30-room Australian independent, $180 ADR, 65% occupancy, checked 2026-07-26. $345 is Little Hotelier’s own published figure; the 1% is their own published fee; every other line is our market rate for buying that capability elsewhere, not their charge. $345 + $1,180 = $1,525.
Their own variable fees
What Little Hotelier’s own fee lines add up to
Little Hotelier’s own charges, not our estimate of a matching bundle.
A$49.00/mo
Basics — the plan the fee applies to, flat at any room count 1–50. (Pro, A$345/mo flat, carries no booking fee — a genuinely cheaper all-in alternative, but a different product; see the note below.)
22.8×
A$1,116.63/mo ≈ A$1,117/mo (A$49.00 licence + A$1,067.63 fee)
- Booking fee — 1% of gross reservation revenue, online and offline (their own footnote)A$1,067.63/mo
“$49/mo entry, plus 1% of every booking you take, online and offline, including walk-ins and phone calls” — taxes the property’s whole reservation revenue, not just direct-booking-engine sales.
Show the working
Workings A$106,762.50/mo × 1% = A$1,067.63/mo
Little Hotelier own pricing footnote; Market Research/HIDDEN-FEE-MATH.md §2.1, accessed 2026-07-26
HIGH — the highest-confidence figure in this whole block, cross-verified against Little Hotelier’s own live pricing API.
Not priced — genuinely unverified, not assumed to be zero
- A “minimal setup fee” is referenced on the Pro/Revenue Optimiser tier, amount never published — not modelled here since Basics (the plan this fee applies to) doesn’t carry it.
Switching from Little Hotelier
We move you — you don’t migrate yourself
- 01
Audit
We map your rooms, rates, stay rules and booking-site listings.
- 02
Build
We set everything up alongside what you run now. Nothing is switched off yet.
- 03
Cutover
We reconnect your booking sites one at a time, so your listings never go dark.
- 04
Grow
Your past guests come across, so the first "come back" email can go out in week one.
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
No, and we won’t pretend otherwise. Their $49 plan starts lower — until you read the 1% fee on every booking, which is about $1,117/mo on a full 30-room property. Their fee-free plan, Pro, is $345 for the software alone with none of the marketing we bundle.
Yes — their own FAQ says the fee is charged on gross reservations from online and offline bookings. Walk-ins and phone bookings are included.
Yes, and we do it for you: bookings, rates, stay rules, booking sites and your 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.
Because most booking pages answer those searches with "no availability" and the guest leaves. Ours shows the three nearest nights they can book, with prices.
There’s no ladder of plans to work out. One plan: $500/mo or $5,000/yr, every room included, no percentage taken off anything you sell.
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.
Honest comparisons
Work out which side of the 1% you’re on
Book a 30-minute demo. We’ll add up what the 1% actually costs on your real numbers, and what our marketing would be worth in direct bookings. If the maths says stay put, we’ll tell you.