- Included: Your booking diary
- Included: 100+ booking sites in sync
- Included: Your own booking page
- Costs extra: Email and SMS marketing
- Partly: Payments + security bonds
- Partly: Xero, done automatically
Side-by-side comparison
Accommador vs Little Hotelier: $49/mo, Until You Read the 1%.
Little Hotelier’s own FAQ says the 1% booking fee on the $49 plan is calculated on online and offline bookings, which we read as including walk-ins and phone bookings. On our 30-room assumptions that fee comes to about $1,070 a month before cancellations, so at that size their Pro plan ($345 at 30 rooms on their July 2026 pricing data) is the cheaper choice. Either way, Accommador is $500 flat, with the marketing that fills the rooms built in.
Vendor prices are cited and dated; our estimates are labelled. See how we worked them out.
- The 1% is in their own pricing FAQ
- No booking fee on phone or walk-in bookings
- Marketing built in, not an add-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 Little Hotelier, side by side
- Included
- Costs extra
- Partly, or with limits
- Not found in their published material, or not published
| Capability | Accommador | Little Hotelier |
|---|---|---|
| Price on the website | Included. $500/mo, published$500/mo or $5,000/yr, no demo needed to see it | Included. Yes, plus 1% feepublished: $49/mo entry, plus a 1% fee on online and offline bookings, which we read as including walk-ins and phone bookings |
| Email and SMS rates published | Included. Published, to the centevery rate we set is published, to the cent | Not found or not published. None foundWe couldn’t find per-message rates in Little Hotelier’s published material (October 2026). Ask whether Guest Engagement charges for messages beyond the add-on fee |
| Email, SMS and WhatsApp marketing | Included. Built in, WhatsApp add-onbuilt in | Costs extra. Paid add-on, Pro onlyGuest Engagement is a paid add-on on Pro ($85/mo at 30 rooms on July 2026 pricing data) for guest messages by email, SMS and WhatsApp, plus feedback surveys that route happy guests to review sites. We couldn’t find SMS or WhatsApp campaigns or a segmentable guest database (October 2026) |
| Your own booking page | Included. Included, no commissionyour own booking page, and we take no cut | Included. Includedincluded at every tier, but the entry tier’s 1% fee applies to online and offline bookings, not only the ones made through it |
| 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 Little Hotelier’s published material (October 2026). Test it yourself: search dates that break your minimum stay |
| Channel manager | Included. 100+ booking sites100+ booking sites | Included. Includedchannel manager on every plan (450+ channels). Channels Plus is an add-on on Basics and included on Pro, with variable booking fees at a rate they don’t publish |
| See which ads book rooms | Included. Includedsee which ads book rooms | Not found or not published. Not foundWe couldn’t find it in Little Hotelier’s published material (October 2026) |
| Payments and bond holds | Included. Included, with bond holdscard payments, security bond held automatically | Partly. Rate not publishedPayments on every plan (an add-on on Basics, included on Pro), with no subscription cost; transaction fees apply at a rate they don’t publish |
| Xero, done automatically | Included. Books code themselvesthe books code themselves | Partly. Export, no live syncTheir help centre describes a CSV export you import by hand, not a live sync (July 2026) |
| Australian support | Included. Australian, founder-runAustralian and founder-run | Included. SiteMinder-owned, 24/7Part of SiteMinder (Sydney head office). A 24/7 global support team: chat and email on every plan, phone on Pro and Revenue Optimiser only |
We make Accommador, so we are not a neutral judge. Little Hotelier Australian prices from their own pricing page and pricing data, July 2026 (on 28 October 2026 the page showed Basics from $49 and Pro from $179, rising with rooms); the booking-fee wording in their pricing FAQ rechecked October 2026. Their prices differ by country, so confirm current AU pricing on littlehotelier.com.
The core difference
What each platform is actually for
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 and texts 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
Here is where the maths turns:
Their 1% is on your takings, not on software.
The $49 plan charges a 1% booking fee. Their own FAQ says the fee base covers online and offline bookings, which we read as including walk-ins and phone bookings. On our assumptions (30 rooms, $180 a night, 65% full), that fee comes to about $1,070 a month before cancellations, or about $1,117 with the plan. At that size their own Pro plan ($345 at 30 rooms on July 2026 pricing data, no booking fee) is the cheaper choice. The headline was $49.
Adding a room can’t put you in a dearer bracket.
Their fee-free plan is banded by room count: on their July 2026 prices, going from 20 rooms to 21 took it up 13%, from $305 to $345, for exactly the same software. We removed brackets entirely: $500 covers whatever you run.
Grow past 30 rooms without changing system.
Little Hotelier says it specialises in properties with 1 to 30 rooms, and in July 2026 its plans above 30 rooms went through sales. If you plan to grow past that, ask what your plan and price become. We stay one system, whatever your room count.
The marketing is in the price, not an add-on.
We couldn’t find campaigns, a segmentable guest database or ad tracking at any Little Hotelier tier in their published material (October 2026). Review prompts come in their paid Guest Engagement add-on. Those are the things that grow direct bookings, and they’re most of what our $500 is buying you.
Your books code themselves.
When we checked in July 2026, their help centre described the Xero path as a CSV export you import by hand. Ours writes the invoice at check-out and lands every payment on the right line, so month-end is checking, not rebuilding.
You can work out your bill in advance.
Four of their revenue lines have no published rate: card processing, metasearch fees, Channels Plus fees and any setup fee on Pro. Ours is one plan price, and every rate we set for sends is published, so you can work out your bill before you sign.
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
- 1/8Little Hotelier, included, plus 2 at extra cost
- Included
- Costs extra
- Partly
- Not found in their published material
| Capability | Accommador | Little Hotelier |
|---|---|---|
| Email campaigns | YesCampaigns and sequences, not just booking confirmations | Paid add-onGuest Engagement email is a paid add-on, not a campaign builder. |
| SMS and WhatsApp campaigns | YesSMS built in at published rates; WhatsApp as an add-on | Guest conversations onlySMS and WhatsApp exist only as guest-conversation channels inside the paid add-on, not marketing channels. |
| Guest CRM | YesEvery past guest, segmentable | Not foundWe couldn’t find a guest database you can segment and campaign to (October 2026). |
| Reputation management | YesReview requests and replies built in | Add-on, review promptsFeedback surveys in the paid Guest Engagement add-on route happy guests to review sites; we couldn’t find a review inbox or reply workflow. |
| 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 | YesBooking page ships at every tier. Basics, though, charges its 1% fee on online and offline bookings, not only the ones made through it. |
| 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 | Export, no live syncTheir help centre described a CSV export you import by hand, not a live sync (July 2026). |
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 Little Hotelier'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
$1,374/mo
our estimate: their licence plus the tools to match usThe $49 tier charges a 1% fee on gross bookings, not just the online ones.
The full pricing picture
Their FAQ says it is calculated on online and offline bookings, which we read as including walk-ins and phone bookings. On our model of a 30-room property at $180 a night and 65% occupancy, that plan comes to about $1,117 a month, before cancellations. On July 2026 pricing data their fee-free plan, Pro, was $345 at 30 rooms. Add Guest Engagement and the website builder and it was $529, and we couldn’t find campaigns or ad tracking in either.
$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 Little Hotelier’s full bill, line by line, with sources
The real bill
What Little Hotelier costs once everything is on it
Little Hotelier’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.
$345/mo
PartialLittle Hotelier’s own Australian pricing data (the figures behind littlehotelier.com/pricing), accessed 2026-07-26
That’s Pro, the plan with no booking fee. Their headline $49 plan (Basics) skips this price but charges a 1% fee on online and offline bookings instead, which we model at about $1,068/mo 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 on July 2026 pricing data) is a paid add-on for guest messages and review prompts, not a campaign tool. This line is our estimate for a full campaign, SMS and reviews layer bought elsewhere, in place of that add-on.
Source
littlehotelier.com/pricing and /guest-engagement, checked 2026-10-28; Accommador published pricing. How we worked this out
- Their Website Builder, plus a social media planner bought elsewhere$159/mo
Website Builder is Little Hotelier’s own paid add-on ($99/mo at 30 rooms on July 2026 pricing data). It doesn’t include social planning, which we add at our own stack rate ($60/mo).
Source
Little Hotelier’s own Australian pricing data, accessed 2026-07-26; Accommador published pricing. How we worked this out
- Ad tracking, a segmentable guest database and Xero done for you$480/mo
We couldn’t find these in Little Hotelier’s published material (October 2026). When we checked in July 2026 their help centre described Xero as a CSV export you import by hand, not a live sync.
Source
Little Hotelier Help Centre, "accounting-integration-setup", accessed 2026-07-26. How we worked this out
All in$1,374/moto match us on the fee-free plan, on our estimates. On the $49 plan we model about $1,117/mo once the 1% is added, before cancellations and before any of the above
30-room Australian independent, $180 ADR, 65% occupancy. $345 and the $99 Website Builder are Little Hotelier’s own figures from its July 2026 pricing data (accessed 2026-07-26); the 1% is their own published fee, and the dollar figure for it is ours; every other line is our market rate for buying that capability elsewhere, not their charge. $345 + $1,029 = $1,374.
Their own variable fees
What Little Hotelier’s own fee lines add up to
Little Hotelier’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$49.00/mo
Basics is the plan the fee applies to, at $49 for any room count from 1 to 50 on July 2026 pricing data. (Pro, $345 at 30 rooms on the same data, carries no booking fee. That makes it a cheaper all-in alternative, but a different product; see the note below.)
≈A$1,117/mo
A$1,116.63/mo ≈ A$1,117/mo (about 22.8× the A$49 plan: A$49.00 licence + A$1,067.63 fee, our upper estimate before cancellations)
- Booking fee: 1% on online and offline bookings (their own pricing FAQ)A$1,067.63/mo
Their pricing FAQ says the booking fee is “the gross reservations profit from online and offline bookings”, excluding taxes, add-ons, and changes or cancellations made before check-out. We read “offline” as including walk-ins and phone bookings. Our model applies the 1% to all room revenue with no allowance for cancellations, so it is an upper estimate.
Show the working
Workings A$106,762.50/mo × 1% = A$1,067.63/mo
Little Hotelier pricing page FAQ, wording checked 2026-10-07; $49 Basics price accessed 2026-07-26. How we worked this out
HIGH on the 1% rate (their own FAQ). MEDIUM on the dollar figure, which depends on our assumptions and on reading “offline” as including walk-ins and phone bookings. At this size Little Hotelier’s own Pro plan (A$345 at 30 rooms on July 2026 pricing data, no booking fee) would cost a rational operator less.
Not priced: unverified, not assumed to be zero
- A “minimal setup fee” is referenced for plans that come with an onboarding specialist, such as Pro, but the amount is never published. It is 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
Is Accommador cheaper than Little Hotelier?
Not on the sticker. Their $49 plan starts lower. Then there’s the 1% fee on online and offline bookings, which we model at about $1,117/mo all-in on a full 30-room property, before cancellations. On July 2026 pricing data their fee-free plan, Pro, was $345 at 30 rooms for the software alone, without the marketing we bundle.
Does the 1% really apply to bookings I take over the phone?
Their own FAQ says the fee is based on “the gross reservations profit from online and offline bookings”, excluding taxes, add-ons, and changes or cancellations made before check-out. We read “offline” as including phone and walk-in bookings. Ask Little Hotelier to confirm how they count yours.
Can I migrate from Little Hotelier to Accommador?
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.
I have minimum-stay rules. Why does that matter here?
Because a booking page without a nearest-dates feature answers those searches with "no availability" and the guest leaves. Ours shows the three nearest nights they can book, with prices.
Both of us publish a price. So what’s the catch on yours?
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. Card payments run through your own Stripe or PayDollar account at their published rates. We add no fee on top. Sends are billed per item at published rates.
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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