- 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 Newbook: $950–$1,900 a Month. They Just Won’t Let You Say So.
Newbook is excellent Australian-built software — for a holiday park. By their own numbers 94% of their customers run one, and their contract forbids customers from telling each other what they pay for it. Ours is on this page: $500/mo, or $5,000/yr, no confidentiality clause required.
- $500/mo, in writing, on this page
- No clause stopping you comparing notes with the operator down the road
- Growth capabilities included — not a park agency’s retainer
- 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 Newbook, side by side
| Capability | Accommador | Newbook |
|---|---|---|
| Transparent public pricing | $500/mo or $5,000/yr — no demo needed | Never published — and their own contract bars customers from telling anyone what they pay, on pain of losing the contract |
| Marketing suite included (email/SMS/WhatsApp, CRM, reputation) | built in | Sold as a separate paid agency retainer built for parks — not part of the software licence |
| Booking engine | your own booking page, on your own web address | included |
| 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 | included |
| Server-side ad attribution (survives Apple’s cookie cap) | see which ads book rooms | Doesn’t do it — ad tracking sits inside the same paid park-agency retainer |
| Payments + security-bond holds | card payments, security bond held automatically | included, and their published AU card rates (1.65% + $0.30 Visa/Mastercard) are competitive, not a gouge |
| Self-reconciling Xero | reconciles itself | Their own terms say they won’t support reconciling third-party accounting systems at all |
| AU-based support | Australian — you speak to the founder | Australian-built, Gold Coast HQ retained — but support is a paid upgrade, and the default is do-it-yourself |
Newbook facts from their public pages and published terms of service, July 2026. They publish no software licence price — cost figures are modelled. Confirm with Newbook.
The core difference
What each platform is actually for
Newbook earned its position the honest way: it is genuinely excellent at running parks and communities. Powered sites, kiosks, long-stay residents — that is what it is shaped like.
So the question is simple: is your property shaped like a park?
If you run a motel, a lodge, houseboats or a B&B, you don’t need any of that. You need more direct bookings — which is the whole point of Accommador, at a price you can read right now.
Why operators pick us
The case against Newbook, in plain terms
Newbook is excellent at parks — 94% of their own customers run one. If you run rooms instead of sites, here’s what changes:
You’re not allowed to compare notes.
Newbook’s own contract tells customers to keep what they pay confidential, and says the contract can be ended if you tell another business or a competitor. That’s the real reason nobody has ever seen a Newbook price. Ours is on this page.
A year at a time, whether you like it or not.
Twelve months minimum, renewing itself unless you give three months’ notice. Leave early and their terms say you forfeit what you’ve already paid and still owe the rest of the term. We’re month to month.
Free support has a price tag.
Their marketing promises free 24/7 support. Their contract says the opposite: support defaults to do-it-yourself unless you buy a support licence, and even the paid tiers stop Saturday morning. Ours is included and answers.
They won’t help you balance the books.
Newbook’s own terms say plainly they will not support reconciling your payment gateway or accounting system. Reconciliation is exactly the admin our Xero connection handles automatically.
The growth side is a park agency’s retainer.
Email, SMS, reviews and ad tracking exist at Newbook — inside a paid Digital Marketing Services package that is, in their own words, tailored to multi-park operators. A 20-room motel gets automated messages and a quote from an agency.
The product is built for someone else, and they say so.
Newbook’s own numbers: 94% of their customers run RV parks, campgrounds or glamping resorts, and their "small" starts at 30 sites. Their motels page is a leftover park template — the button at the bottom still reads "make it a whole new park". We only build for accommodation properties.
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
- 1/8Newbook
- Accommador advantage
- Both platforms
- Partly, or with limits
- Not offered
| Capability | Accommador | Newbook |
|---|---|---|
| Email campaigns | Yes. Campaigns and sequences, not just booking confirmations | Not offered. Real campaigns sit inside the paid agency retainer built for parks. Native messaging is transactional templates only. |
| SMS and WhatsApp campaigns | Yes. Both channels, in the one price | Not offered. SMS marketing is in that same paid retainer — not in the licence. |
| Guest CRM | Yes. Every past guest, segmentable | Not offered. Guest data sits in the booking system; segmenting it and campaigning to it isn’t native. |
| Reputation management | Yes. Review requests and replies built in | Not offered. Review monitoring and reputation management are agency add-ons, not product features. |
| 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 in the core platform. |
| 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 third-party accounting link at best — their own terms say they won’t support reconciling it. |
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?Newbook’s own fees, above its own licence
$2,060/mo
thirteen tools, thirteen billsNewbook doesn’t publish a price, and their terms go further: customers agree to keep what they pay confidential, on pain of termination.
The full pricing picture
So you can’t ask the operator down the road either. What they do publish is $3.50 per booking on their entry product. Add the marketing tools growth needs and a 30-room operator is realistically somewhere between $950 and $1,900 a month, on a twelve-month auto-renewing contract.
$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 Newbook costs once everything is on it
$950–$1,900/mo
Demo-gatedModelled from Newbook’s own published rates (newbook.cloud/newbook-payment/ and /features/self-service-kiosks/, accessed 2026-07-26) plus competitor-published estimates (keeprstay.com/compare/pricing, 2026)
Newbook has never published or leaked an Australian software price, and their own terms forbid customers from disclosing what they pay. This range is modelled from Newbook’s own published payment and hardware rates plus competitor-published estimates for their unpublished top plan — there is no clean separate licence line to isolate, so it already includes Newbook’s own known fees: a paid support licence, the payment gateway and terminal hire, a modelled per-booking charge, and amortised onboarding.
- Books done in Xero$200/mo
Newbook’s own terms flatly refuse this: they do not provide a bookkeeping service and will not support balancing or reconciling third-party payment gateways or accounting systems. Our market rate to close that gap elsewhere.
Source
newbook.cloud/terms-and-conditions/, §8.9, accessed 2026-07-26
- Guest reviews$150/mo
Reputation and review management exist only inside Newbook’s paid Digital Marketing Services retainer, which is explicitly tailored to multi-park operators — not a feature of the software. Our market rate for equivalent reputation software bought elsewhere.
Source
newbook.cloud/services/digital-marketing-services/, accessed 2026-07-26
- Ad tracking that lasts$200/mo
Ad attribution and retargeting are sold only inside that same paid agency retainer — not in any Newbook software plan. Our market rate for equivalent tooling bought elsewhere.
Source
newbook.cloud/services/digital-marketing-services/, accessed 2026-07-26
- Email marketing$80/mo
Real email campaigns are also inside the paid agency retainer; native messaging is transactional templates only. Our market rate for equivalent email marketing bought elsewhere.
Source
newbook.cloud/services/digital-marketing-services/, accessed 2026-07-26
All in≈$1,580–$2,530/mo, modelled — against our published $500/mo flat
Low to medium on the dollar figure — no first-party Australian price exists to check it against. High on the structure: modules bought à la carte, a paid support licence, paid onboarding and a 12-month auto-renewing term are all documented in Newbook’s own terms of service.
30-room independent Australian property on Newbook’s top plan (their entry product is marketed as small RV park software and doesn’t fit this size), checked 2026-07-26. The sticker is modelled, not published; every line above is our market rate for buying that capability elsewhere, not a Newbook charge. $950 + $630 = $1,580; $1,900 + $630 = $2,530.
Their own variable fees
What Newbook’s own fee lines add up to
Newbook’s own charges, not our estimate of a matching bundle.
A$717.05/mo
Modelled, LOW confidence — Newbook’s AU software price has never been published or leaked, and their own T&Cs §6.2 contractually forbid customers from disclosing it. US$500/mo competitor-published estimate, converted at market-spot FX (AUD = USD ÷ 0.6973, 24 Jul 2026).
~2.0×
A$1,009–1,860/mo (midpoint A$1,434/mo)
- Payment gateway + EFTPOS terminal hire — published, structural charges beyond the card rateA$52.94/mo
Per-instance gateway fee plus terminal hire, both on-page. The 1.65%+$0.30 card rate itself is excluded per the house convention (roughly at/below standard Stripe AU, not Newbook-specific).
Show the working
Workings Gateway A$22.95/mo + EFTPOS terminal hire A$29.99/mo = A$52.94/mo
newbook.cloud/newbook-payment/, accessed 2026-07-26; Market Research/HIDDEN-FEE-MATH.md §2.6 - Per-booking fee — CONTESTED, whether Signature carries one at all is UNVERIFIEDA$0–850.60/mo
First-party confirmed only for Essentials ($3.50/booking — the small-RV-park plan a 30-room motel wouldn’t buy). A competitor source (Keepr) claims ~US$2/booking on Signature; modelled both ways.
Show the working
Workings If it applies: 3,558.75 bookings/yr ÷ 12 = 296.56/mo × US$2.00 = US$593.13/mo ÷ 0.6973 = A$850.60/mo. If it doesn’t (UNVERIFIED either way): A$0/mo.
Newbook Essentials pricing page; keeprstay.com/compare/pricing (competitor claim, LOW confidence); Market Research/HIDDEN-FEE-MATH.md §2.6, accessed 2026-07-26 - Onboarding/setup/training/migration, amortised over Newbook’s own 12-month minimum termA$239.02/mo
Competitor-published range US$1,000–3,000, midpoint used.
Show the working
Workings US$2,000 ÷ 0.6973 = A$2,868.20 → A$2,868.20 ÷ 12 months = A$239.02/mo
Competitor-published range (keeprstay.com); Newbook T&Cs, 12-month minimum term; Market Research/HIDDEN-FEE-MATH.md §2.6, accessed 2026-07-26
LOW–MEDIUM on every dollar figure, HIGH on structure. Newbook’s own T&Cs §6.2 contractually forbid their customers from disclosing what they pay — the reason no real AU number has ever leaked.
Not priced — genuinely unverified, not assumed to be zero
- AU software list price — never published, never leaked, genuinely unverified rather than merely hidden.
- Whether Signature (the plan a 30-room motel would actually buy) carries a per-booking fee at all.
Switching from Newbook
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 park, we say so here and stop.
- 02
Build
We set Accommador 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
Because their own contract tells customers to keep it confidential, on pain of losing the contract. Our price is $500/mo or $5,000/yr, published, no calls required.
There’s no published number, but modelling their own published fees and competitor-sourced figures puts a 30-room independent at roughly $950–$1,900 a month in software costs alone, on a 12-month contract that renews itself.
Their marketing says so. Their contract says support defaults to do-it-yourself unless you buy a paid licence, and even then it stops Saturday morning. Ours is included and answers.
Very much so — by their own numbers, 94% of their customers run one. We don’t build for parks, so if that’s your property, Newbook is the better choice.
Their own terms say they won’t support reconciling third-party accounting systems at all. Our Xero connection reconciles itself.
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
See the number they won’t publish
Book a 30-minute demo and we’ll model your real Newbook cost against our published $500/mo. If you run a park, we’ll say Newbook’s the better fit and mean it.