- Included: Your booking diary
- Included: 100+ booking sites in sync
- Included: Your own booking page
- Partly: Email and SMS marketing
- Included: Payments + security bonds
- Costs extra: Xero, done automatically
Side-by-side comparison
Accommador vs Mews: Mews Is Priced by Quote. Ours Is $500 per Location.
Mews’ pricing page asks for your details before it shows a price. On our estimates, matching what Accommador bundles on top of a per-room Mews licence comes to about $1,265–$2,000 a month for 30 rooms, before card processing, which costs money on both platforms. Accommador is a flat $500/mo marketing included, no quote call.
Vendor prices are cited and dated; our estimates are labelled. See how we worked them out.
- The price, without a quote call
- We add no fee to your Stripe or PayDollar payments
- Monthly plan is month to month, not an auto-renewing contract
- 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 Mews, side by side
- Included
- Costs extra
- Partly, or with limits
- Not found in their published material, or not published
| Capability | Accommador | Mews |
|---|---|---|
| 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. Asks for details firstNot shown: their pricing page asks for your details before it gives a price. Our estimate all-in: $1,265–2,000/mo once you add the apps you’d need, before card processing |
| 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 | Partly. Messaging, no campaigns foundGuest profiles and guest messaging (AI messaging via WhatsApp and SMS on Mews Pro), but we couldn’t find campaign or broadcast marketing or a reputation product in their published material. Those are marketplace apps |
| Your own booking page | Included. Included, no commissionyour own booking page, on your own web address | Included. Included on Proincluded; their pricing page lists it on Mews Pro |
| 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 Mews’ published material (October 2026). Test it yourself: search dates that break your minimum stay |
| Channel manager | Included. 100+ booking sites100+ booking sites | Included. Includedincluded: Mews’ own channel manager, powered by SiteMinder, announced in May 2026 and launched on 17 August 2026. Booking.com, Expedia and Airbnb are standard; the full 400-channel network is on Mews Pro |
| See which ads book rooms | Included. Includedsee which ads book rooms | Not found or not published. Not foundWe couldn’t find it in Mews’ own published material (October 2026) |
| Payments and bond holds | Included. Included, with bond holdscard payments, security bond held automatically | Included. Yes, plus a feeMews Payments: their payment-fees page (which Mews now lists among its legacy documents for contracts signed before 1 October 2026) uses a 1.1%++ fee over interchange and scheme fees as its example, which we model at about $480–1,060/mo at 30 rooms. Under their current terms, fees can be collected from your merchant account |
| Xero, done automatically | Included. Books code themselvesthe books code themselves | Costs extra. Marketplace appExportable accounting reports; a live Xero sync is a marketplace app |
| Australian support | Included. Australian, founder-runAustralian and founder-run | Partly. No Australian officeNo Australian office: their contact page lists Australia as a remote location (October 2026). Round-the-clock support, with 24/7 phone lines for critical issues |
We make Accommador, so we are not a neutral judge. Mews facts from their pricing page and payment-fees page (checked October 2026) and their Master Terms v6.0 (effective 1 October 2026, read 28 October 2026), plus third-party per-room rates from July 2026 that predate Mews’ current plans. They show no price without your details, so cost figures are our estimates and labelled as such. Confirm with Mews.
The core difference
What each platform is actually for
Mews Pro bundles a lot, and everything else comes from more than 1,000 marketplace apps, each with its own vendor and bill. That suits a property with someone to choose and join up the add-ons. Pricing is per room, after you hand over your details.
Accommador assumes the opposite: one owner, no IT department, no patience for quote calls. Everything is already joined up, for one bill you can read right now: $500/mo.
Why operators pick us
The case against Mews, in plain terms
For an independent Australian property, here’s the case for us, drawn from their own pricing page, legal terms and contract, plus our labelled estimates where they don’t publish a figure:
You can price it without a sales call.
Mews’ pricing page asks for your details before it gives a price, and says pricing is per room. On our estimates, once you add what you’d still need to buy, it lands at about $1,265–$2,000/mo for 30 rooms, before card processing. Ours is on the page, and it’s the same number for everyone.
Card fees are a separate bill on both.
Mews’ payment-fees page, now listed among its legacy documents for contracts signed before 1 October 2026, uses 1.1%++ as its example. On our 30-room assumptions that’s roughly $480–1,060 a month (the low end assumes you negotiate it down to 0.5%), and their terms let fees be collected from your merchant account. 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, so compare the processors’ rates on your own card mix.
You’re billed per room, and even per car park.
Their pricing page says Mews is priced per room and sells parking spots and meeting rooms through a Spaces and Amenities add-on. Their Master Terms (v6.0) bill any use above your contracted quantities through monthly true-up invoices. We charge $500 for the property, whatever your room count.
The marketing apps aren’t in the box.
On our estimates, matching what we bundle (a guest database, an SMS and WhatsApp tool, a reviews tool, a revenue tool) costs another $775–1,270 a month at your size. That assumes Mews Core, their entry plan; Mews Pro adds revenue management and AI messaging via WhatsApp and SMS at a higher licence.
The contract renews itself.
Under Mews’ Master Terms (version 6.0, effective 1 October 2026), the agreement renews automatically for another year unless you give written notice at least 30 days before the term ends, and there’s no right to end it early for convenience. Paying monthly doesn’t change that: the terms say monthly instalments don’t create a right to terminate. Our monthly plan is month to month.
Support from an Australian business.
Mews’ contact page lists Australia as a remote location rather than an office (October 2026). Its support runs round the clock, with 24/7 phone lines for critical issues. With us, support comes from an Australian, founder-run business.
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
- 1/8Mews, included, plus 4 at extra cost
- Included
- Costs extra
- Partly
- Not found in their published material
| Capability | Accommador | Mews |
|---|---|---|
| Email campaigns | YesCampaigns and sequences, not just booking confirmations | Marketplace appSends branded transactional email; we couldn’t find a campaign or broadcast product. A campaign tool is a marketplace app. |
| SMS and WhatsApp campaigns | YesSMS built in at published rates; WhatsApp as an add-on | Marketplace appMews Pro lists AI guest messaging via WhatsApp and SMS, but we couldn’t find SMS or WhatsApp campaigns. Those need a marketplace app. |
| Guest CRM | YesEvery past guest, segmentable | Profiles, no campaignsGuest profiles, but data-led, not campaign-capable. |
| Reputation management | YesReview requests and replies built in | Marketplace appWe couldn’t find a review-management product in their published material; marketplace apps cover it. |
| Ad attribution that lasts | YesServer-side, so it keeps working after browsers stop tracking | Not foundWe couldn’t find it in their published material. |
| Your own booking page | YesOn your own web address, no cut taken | YesIncluded; their pricing page lists the booking engine on Mews Pro. |
| 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 | Marketplace appExportable reports for simplified accounting; a live sync is a marketplace app. |
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 Mews'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$1,265–2,000/mo
our estimate: their licence plus the tools to match usMews’ pricing page asks for your details before it shows a price, and says it prices per room.
The full pricing picture
Third-party reporting from before Mews’ current Core and Pro plans puts it around A$490–730 a month for 30 rooms, and parking spaces and meeting rooms are add-ons. Card processing is a separate bill: their payment-fees page gives 1.1%++ as its example. Then the apps: matching what we include costs another A$775–1,270 a month on our estimates.
$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 Mews’s full bill, line by line, with sources
The real bill
What Mews costs once everything is on it
Mews’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$490–730/mo
Demo-gatedNo Mews-confirmed number exists in public. Range spans HotelMinder’s €300/month floor for Mews’ old Essentials tier up to Hotel Tech Insight’s US$17 per room. Third-party only, accessed 2026-07-26.
Licence only, entry plan, 30 rooms. Mews asks for your details before it shows a price. This range comes from third-party reporting that predates Mews’ current Core and Pro plans, not from Mews, and the entry plan may not include the booking engine or the full channel network, which Mews lists on Pro.
- Marketplace apps to match what we bundleA$775–1,270/mo
A guest database and email A$86–430, SMS and WhatsApp A$258 (plus about A$981 one-off onboarding), reputation A$107–258, revenue management about A$324. These are our estimates of what you’d pay those app vendors on the entry plan, not a Mews charge. Mews Pro includes revenue management and AI guest messaging at a higher licence.
Source
mews.com/marketplace listings and vendor pricing pages, accessed 2026-07-26; mews.com/en/pricing plan contents, checked 2026-10-07. How we worked this out
- Their card-payments feeA$480–1,057/mo
The rate is Mews’ own published example (1.1%++); the dollar figures are ours, on the assumptions below, with the low end assuming you negotiate it down to 0.5%. Every processor charges something; this is the fee on top of interchange and scheme fees, which is what you would compare against your own processor’s margin. 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. Mews now lists this payment-fees page among its legacy documents for contracts signed before 1 October 2026, so ask Mews for the current rate. It sits outside the all-in figure below, which counts only the licence plus what you’d buy elsewhere.
Source
mews.com/en/legal/payments-fees and mews.com/en/legal (legacy documents list), checked 2026-10-28; Master Terms v6.0, cl. 8(a), checked 2026-10-28. How we worked this out
- An implementation fee, if your plan has oneunpublished
When we checked in July 2026, their pricing page listed "no implementation fees" as an Enterprise benefit, which suggested the lower plans carry one. The current pricing page doesn’t show that line, so ask Mews whether yours does. We don’t put a number on it because they don’t.
Source
mews.com pricing page, accessed 2026-07-26 and checked 2026-10-28. How we worked this out
All in≈A$1,265–2,000/moto match what we bundle, on our estimates. That’s before card processing and any implementation fee
High on the structure: per-room pricing is on Mews’ pricing page, and the interchange-plus-plus payments model is on its payment-fees page. Medium on the licence dollar figure, which is third-party-estimated only. Never treat a Mews dollar price as settled fact.
30-room Australian independent on the Mews entry plan. The licence is third-party estimated, never published by Mews; the app line is our estimate of what those vendors charge, not a Mews charge; the payments line uses Mews’ own published example rate, and the dollar figures are ours. A$490 + A$775 = A$1,265; A$730 + A$1,270 = A$2,000.
Their own variable fees
What Mews’s own fee lines add up to
Mews’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$490–731/mo
Our estimate. We couldn’t find a vendor-confirmed AU number, and Mews’ pricing page shows no figures (checked 2026-10-28). Third-party band from reporting that predates Mews’ current Core and Pro plans: HotelMinder’s €300/month floor for its old Essentials tier, up to Hotel Tech Insight’s US$17 per room. USD band converted at market-spot FX (AUD = USD ÷ 0.6973, 24 Jul 2026). EUR band converted at EUR 1 = AUD 1.635. That is not a 24 Jul 2026 spot rate but a mid-July 2026 rate (MTFX/CoinCodex); we had no dated EUR/AUD spot for 24 Jul 2026, so this rate is carried forward and flagged as an assumption, not verified as spot.
~4.0× their licence
A$1,745–3,116/mo (midpoint A$2,431/mo)
- Payments fee: Mews’ own published example, “1.1%++”A$480.43–1,056.95/mo
Applied to 90% card-settled room revenue (our assumption). The rate is negotiated per property, so a 0.5% floor (also our assumption) is modelled too. Merchant Cost Consulting, a US payments consultancy that sells fee reduction, calls 1.1%++ “3-4x higher than we typically see for any type of integrated or embedded setup”.
Show the working
Workings Card volume: $106,762.50 × 0.90 = $96,086.25. Published rate: $96,086.25 × 1.1% = A$1,056.95/mo. Negotiated floor: $96,086.25 × 0.5% = A$480.43/mo.
mews.com/en/legal/payments-fees (listed among Mews’ legacy documents for contracts signed before 1 October 2026) and Master Terms v6.0, cl. 8(a), checked 2026-10-28; Merchant Cost Consulting, accessed 2026-07-26. How we worked this out - Marketplace apps to reach feature parity (our estimate)A$775–1,270/mo
On Mews Core, their entry plan, we couldn’t find a native email/SMS/WhatsApp campaign tool or reputation management in their published material. CRM/email A$86–430, SMS/WhatsApp A$258/mo (+A$981 one-off onboarding), reputation A$107–258, revenue management/dynamic pricing A$324. These are per-vendor named comparables.
Show the working
Workings A$86–430 + A$258 + A$107–258 + A$324 = A$775–1,270/mo
mews.com marketplace listings and HotelTechReport category bands, accessed 2026-07-26. How we worked this out - Implementation fee (modelled both ways)A$0–58/mo
Existence LOW–MEDIUM confidence: Mews’ July 2026 pricing page listed “no implementation fees” as an Enterprise-only benefit, which suggested lower tiers carry one, but the current page doesn’t show that line. Amount UNVERIFIED.
Show the working
Workings Excluded (unknown): A$0/mo. Third-party estimate ~A$1,400, amortised over 24 months: A$1,400 ÷ 24 = A$58/mo.
mews.com pricing page, accessed 2026-07-26. How we worked this out
LOW–MEDIUM on the dollar figures. HIGH on per-room pricing (their pricing page) and on monthly true-ups for use above your contracted quantities (Master Terms v6.0, cl. 9(c) and 9(d)). LOW on whether an implementation fee applies to your plan.
Switching from Mews
We move you. You don’t migrate yourself.
- 01
Audit
We map your rooms, rates, stay rules, booking sites and guest list. If you’re really a group, we say so here.
- 02
Build
We set Accommador up alongside Mews, which keeps running.
- 03
Cutover
We reconnect your booking sites one at a time, so your listings never go dark.
- 04
Reconcile
We connect card 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 Mews?
On the licence line alone, maybe not. Third-party reporting from before Mews’ current plans puts its entry price at $490–730/mo for 30 rooms, which can sit near our $500. But that’s before the apps you’d need to match what we bundle. On our estimates, matching us on Mews lands at about $1,265–2,000/mo, before card processing. Ours is $500 a month, with every send rate we set published.
What does Mews actually cost once you add what we bundle in?
Their licence (estimated, not published) plus the marketplace apps you’d need on the entry plan for email, SMS, reviews and revenue management, which we estimate at about $775–1,270/mo. That’s an estimated $1,265–2,000/mo, before card processing. Their payment-fees page, now listed among their legacy documents, gives 1.1%++ as its example (roughly $480–1,060/mo at 30 rooms on our assumptions). It’s our best-sourced range, not a number Mews publishes.
Can I migrate from Mews 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.
Does Mews really auto-renew my contract?
Yes. Their Master Terms (version 6.0, effective 1 October 2026) renew the agreement for successive one-year terms unless you give written notice at least 30 days before it ends, unless your contract says otherwise, and there’s no termination for convenience. Contracts signed before 1 October 2026 sit under their legacy terms. Check yours before you sign. Our monthly plan has no contract like that: cancel any month.
Is Accommador modern software, or just cheaper?
Judge it in 20 minutes: a booking page that answers a near-miss search with your three nearest dates, ad tracking that keeps working after browsers stop tracking, Xero books that code themselves, guest emails that run themselves. It’s one plan at $500/mo, with every send rate we set published, no marketplace shopping required.
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
Work out the real bill before you sign anything
Book a 30-minute demo on your real rates. We’ll show you what Mews would likely cost once the apps and the payments fee are added, not just the licence.