- 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 Lodgify: Half Price This Year. Then What?
Lodgify publishes its price, which is rare in this category, and under about 15 units it’s genuinely cheaper than us. But it bills per unit with no ceiling — $607/mo at 30 rooms, $1,266 at 80 — and the price you’re quoted right now is likely a 50%-off promo. Ours is $500/mo flat, in Australian dollars, for life on our first ten operators.
- Flat $500/mo — every room included, no meter running
- Billed in Australian dollars, not USD, EUR or GBP
- Runs the whole property, not just the website
- 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 Lodgify, side by side
| Capability | Accommador | Lodgify |
|---|---|---|
| Transparent public pricing | $500/mo or $5,000/yr — no demo needed | published in full — but billed per bookable unit in US dollars, with no ceiling, and no AUD option at all |
| Marketing suite included (email/SMS/WhatsApp, CRM, reputation) | built in | Transactional guest emails only — no campaigns, no guest database, no reviews |
| Booking engine | your own booking page, and it understands your stay rules | a genuinely strong no-code website builder with a booking button |
| 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 | Syncs 3–4 major sites by direct connection (Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com) — everything else is availability-only iCal |
| 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 | Their own payments product is for US hosts only; an Australian operator bolts on a third-party gateway |
| Self-reconciling Xero | reconciles itself | Not built in — no Xero, no MYOB anywhere |
| AU-based support | Australian — you speak to the founder | An Australian phone number, staffed 10am–7pm GMT — about 8pm to 5am here |
Lodgify pricing read from their own published price list, July 2026, converted from US dollars at that month’s rate — confirm current pricing and capabilities on lodgify.com before relying on them.
The core difference
What each platform is actually for
Lodgify answers one question well: "I have a holiday rental — how do I get a cheap website with a booking button and keep my Airbnb and Booking.com calendars in sync?"
Accommador answers a bigger one: how do you run this as a business that fills its own rooms? Rates, stay rules and housekeeping underneath; 50+ booking sites in sync; emails and texts that bring past guests back; card payments that hold the security bond; and a booking page that offers the guest another night instead of turning them away.
A website gets you listed. This gets you booked, rebooked and reconciled.
Why operators pick us
The case against Lodgify, in plain terms
Lodgify is a good product and it publishes its price — rare in this category. Here’s where it stops being enough for a whole property:
No front desk, because it isn’t built for one.
There’s no walk-in handling, no folio, no night audit, no room moves and no group bookings — those words don’t appear anywhere on Lodgify’s own site. If a guest can turn up at your door, you need the other half of the software.
The meter never stops.
Every extra unit adds roughly $13–15 a month with no ceiling. A 30-room property pays about $607 a month, an 80-room one about $1,266. Ours is $500 flat, whatever you run.
You can’t pay them in Australian dollars.
Their own pricing system flatly rejects AUD — US dollars, euros or pounds only. You carry the exchange rate and a foreign-transaction card fee on a bill that moves every month.
Their phone line is open while you’re asleep.
They list an Australian number, but their support hours are 10am to 7pm GMT — roughly 8pm to 5am here. A Saturday-morning booking problem has no one to call.
This year’s price isn’t next year’s price.
Right now they’re running a 50% site-wide discount plus deeper influencer codes, so most quotes are around half the list price you’d actually renew at. Our first ten operators hold their price for life.
Half the growth side simply isn’t there.
No email campaigns, no guest database, no review management, no SMS or WhatsApp marketing, no ad tracking, and no Xero or MYOB anywhere in their product. Their answer is a marketplace of separate paid subscriptions.
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
- 1/8Lodgify
- Accommador advantage
- Both platforms
- Partly, or with limits
- Not offered
| Capability | Accommador | Lodgify |
|---|---|---|
| Email campaigns | Yes. Campaigns and sequences, not just booking confirmations | Not offered. No email campaigns anywhere on their own site — guest email is transactional only. |
| SMS and WhatsApp campaigns | Yes. Both channels, in the one price | Not offered. No native SMS or WhatsApp marketing — every mention belongs to a third-party integration. |
| Guest CRM | Yes. Every past guest, segmentable | Not offered. The only guest-database mentions anywhere on their site are on a third party’s integration page. |
| Reputation management | Yes. Review requests and replies built in | Not offered. No review management anywhere on their own site. |
| 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. Their website builder and booking button are genuinely good — this is their strongest product. |
| Alternative-date search | Yes. Shows the 3 nearest open nights, priced | Not offered. Guests just get “no availability”. |
| Self-reconciling Xero | Yes. Reconciles itself | Not offered. No Xero, no MYOB, anywhere in their product or site. |
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?Lodgify’s own fees, above its own licence
$2,060/mo
thirteen tools, thirteen billsLodgify publishes its price and bills per unit, in US dollars.
The full pricing picture
Their cheapest two plans cap at one and two rentals, so any real property is on Professional or Ultimate: about A$291 a month at 10 units, A$607 at 30, A$1,266 at 80, with no ceiling. Below about 15 units they are cheaper than us and we’ll say so. Note the price you’re quoted is usually a heavy first-year discount — the renewal is the real number.
$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 Lodgify costs once everything is on it
$607/mo
PublishedLodgify’s own live pricing feed, called from lodgify.com/pricing/, 2026-07-26; AUD/USD 0.6973 spot, 24 Jul 2026
Lodgify’s own plain list price for their Professional plan at 30 bookable units, converted from their live pricing feed at spot rates on 2026-07-26 — not the 50%-off promo price a prospect is likely to see right now, which looks tempting until renewal. Whether a 30-room property is billed as 30 units depends on how Lodgify counts a rental, which isn’t documented anywhere in their own material, so treat the room-count reading as illustrative.
- Ad tracking that lasts$200/mo
No mention of ad attribution anywhere across Lodgify’s own site. Our market rate for equivalent ad-tracking tooling bought elsewhere, not a Lodgify charge.
Source
Full sweep of lodgify.com/all-features/ and 24 crawled pages, accessed 2026-07-26
- Email marketing$80/mo
Guest email is transactional only — confirmations and check-in instructions. Our market rate for equivalent email marketing bought elsewhere.
Source
Full sweep of lodgify.com, accessed 2026-07-26
- SMS marketing$80/mo
No native SMS or WhatsApp marketing — every mention on their own site belongs to third-party integration pages, not the product. Our market rate for equivalent marketing bought elsewhere.
Source
Full sweep of lodgify.com, accessed 2026-07-26
- Books done in Xero$200/mo
No Xero, no MYOB, anywhere in Lodgify’s product or site. Our market rate to close that gap elsewhere.
Source
Full sweep of lodgify.com, accessed 2026-07-26
All in≈$1,167/moat 30 rooms — against our published $500/mo flat
30 rooms read as 30 bookable units on Lodgify’s Professional plan, checked 2026-07-26. $607 is Lodgify’s own published figure; every line above is our market rate for buying that capability elsewhere, not a Lodgify charge. $607 + $560 = $1,167.
Their own variable fees
What Lodgify’s own fee lines add up to
Lodgify’s own charges, not our estimate of a matching bundle.
A$831.09/mo
Ultimate at 30 units (Lodgify’s own live pricing API), US$579.52/mo converted at market-spot FX (AUD = USD ÷ 0.6973, 24 Jul 2026) — the plan needed for feature parity with Accommador (task management, check-in automation, owner statements are all Ultimate-only), so a higher plan than the Professional tier used in the Real Bill block above. Whether a 30-room property is billed as 30 separate units or fewer via pooled room types is UNVERIFIED — Lodgify’s own documentation doesn’t specify; the worst case (30 billed units) is modelled here.
~1.03×
A$856.02/mo
- Booking feeA$0/mo
RETIRED — do not resurrect. Prior materials cited a 1.9% Lodgify booking fee; confirmed dead: all tiers are 0%, no StarterFee plan exists in their live pricing API, /terms/booking-fee/ 404s.
Show the working
Workings A$0/mo — no booking fee, confirmed
Lodgify live pricing API, /terms/booking-fee/ 404 check; Market Research/HIDDEN-FEE-MATH.md §2.7, accessed 2026-07-26 - FX surcharge — the one real variable costA$24.93/mo
Lodgify cannot bill in AUD at all (their pricing API returns HTTP 400 for “aud”; only USD/EUR/GBP). An AU card issuer typically adds a ~3% international transaction surcharge on a USD-denominated recurring charge — a structural cost of how Lodgify bills, not a Lodgify-imposed fee.
Show the working
Workings A$831.09 × 3% = A$24.93/mo
Lodgify pricing API (HTTP 400 on AUD); typical AU card-issuer international surcharge; Market Research/HIDDEN-FEE-MATH.md §2.7, accessed 2026-07-26
HIGH on the booking fee (confirmed dead) — MEDIUM on the 30-billed-units assumption, which is the real driver of Lodgify’s cost, not a hidden fee. By a wide margin the smallest gap in this set, because there genuinely isn’t one — the real Lodgify story is the per-unit meter, not a hidden fee.
Not priced — genuinely unverified, not assumed to be zero
- Whether a 30-room property is billed as 30 separate units or fewer via pooled room types — not documented anywhere in Lodgify’s own material.
Switching from Lodgify
We move you — you don’t migrate yourself
- 01
Audit
We map your properties, rates, stay rules, listings and guest list.
- 02
Build
We set up your booking page and everything behind it, alongside what you run now.
- 03
Cutover
We reconnect your listings one at a time, so none of them 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
Under about 15 bookable units, yes, and we’ll say so plainly. Above that their per-unit pricing overtakes our flat $500/mo — at 30 rooms they’re around $607, at 80 rooms $1,266, with no ceiling.
No — that fee was retired. Every current Lodgify plan charges 0% on direct bookings, same as us.
No — those aren’t part of the product. It’s built for holiday-rental hosts, not for a property someone can walk into.
No — US dollars, euros or pounds only. Their own pricing system rejects AUD outright, so you carry the exchange rate on a bill that moves every month.
Email marketing, a guest database, review management, SMS or WhatsApp campaigns, ad tracking, and Xero — none of it is native to Lodgify. It’s all separate paid subscriptions.
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
Compare both real prices, not just year one
Book a 30-minute demo. We’ll run your unit count against Lodgify’s published price and show you where the lines cross — honestly, even if that means Lodgify wins for you.