- Your booking diary
- 100+ booking sites in sync
- Your own booking page
- Email and SMS campaigns
- Payments + security bonds
- Xero, done automatically
Side-by-side comparison
Accommador vs SiteMinder: Priced by Room Count, With No Front Desk.
In its FY26 results SiteMinder reported average monthly revenue of $429 per property across all its properties worldwide, Little Hotelier included. About 41% of that ($179) came from transaction products such as payments and metasearch, which are charged per transaction or as a commission rather than at a published monthly price. SiteMinder doesn’t include a front-desk system. Accommador is a flat $500 a month, every feature included, with no cut taken on a direct booking.
Vendor prices are cited and dated; our estimates are labelled. See how we worked them out.
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- Revenue figures from SiteMinder’s own ASX results
- Flat $500, every room included
- Zero cut of a direct booking
- Your booking diary
- 100+ booking sites in sync
- Your own booking page
- Email and SMS campaigns
- Payments + security bonds
- Xero, done automatically
At a glance
Accommador vs SiteMinder, point by point
- Included
- Costs extra
- Partly, or with limits
- Not found in their published material, or not published
| Capability | Accommador | SiteMinder |
|---|---|---|
| Price on the website | Included. $500/mo, published$500/mo or $5,000/yr, no demo needed to see it | Partly. 5-room price onlyFrom $135/mo (SiteMinder) or $195/mo (SiteMinder Plus) for a 5-room property, charged monthly per property, ex tax (28 October 2026). Larger properties are priced in a call. Any additional setup costs are confirmed in your contract before you sign, and transaction fees are not published |
| 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 SiteMinder’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. Add-on, simple campaignsGuest Engagement, a paid add-on on both plans, covers guest messages by email, SMS and WhatsApp, upsells, simple post-stay campaigns and reminders, and review prompts. We couldn’t find a segmentable guest database or a full campaign builder in SiteMinder’s published material (October 2026) |
| Your own booking page | Included. Included, no commissionyour own booking page, on your own web address | Costs extra. Dearer tier onlyOnly on SiteMinder Plus, from $195/mo for a 5-room property against $135/mo for the base plan (28 October 2026); larger properties are priced in a call. Bookings through it carry no commission; card payments carry a per-payment fee and metasearch a commission on completed stays |
| 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 SiteMinder’s published material (October 2026). Test it yourself: search dates that break your minimum stay |
| Channel manager | Included. 100+ booking sites100+ booking sites, in the one price | Included. Includedit is the product: from $135/mo for a 5-room property (28 October 2026), with larger properties priced in a call. The booking page comes on Plus, from $195/mo |
| See which ads book rooms | Included. Includedsee which ads book rooms | Not found or not published. Not foundWe couldn’t find it in SiteMinder’s published material (October 2026) |
| Payments and bond holds | Included. Included, with bond holdscard payments, security bond held automatically | Partly. Bond hold not foundHotel payments come with every plan, at a per-payment fee that isn’t published. We couldn’t find a security-bond hold on the card in SiteMinder’s own material (October 2026); its app store lists third-party apps that take security deposits |
| Xero, done automatically | Included. Books code themselvesthe books code themselves | Not found or not published. Not foundWe couldn’t find a Xero connection in SiteMinder’s published material (October 2026) |
| Australian support | Included. Australian, founder-runAustralian and founder-run | Included. Sydney office, 24/7 supportSydney head office, listed company. Its pricing page includes 24/7 chat, phone and email support in every plan (28 October 2026) |
We make Accommador, so we are not a neutral judge. SiteMinder prices read from its Australian pricing page on 28 October 2026 (the page was updated on 9 October 2026): starting prices for a 5-room property, charged monthly per property, ex tax. It doesn’t publish a price for larger properties, so we don’t show one. FY26 results to the ASX, August 2026, checked October 2026. Confirm current pricing with SiteMinder.
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, priced.
Fri 10 Sep – Sun 12 Sep · 2 nights · 2 guestsYour rule: 3-night minimum
No availability
Fri 10 Sep · 3 nights$220
Sat 11 Sep · 3 nights$240
Fri 17 Sep · 3 nights$210
The core difference
What each platform is actually for
Built around distribution, with direct-booking and guest tools as extras
- Booking sites, then extrasThe booking page is on the dearer Plus tier.
- Doesn’t run your front deskYou buy that separately.
- Basic campaigns, as a paid add-onWe couldn’t find ad tracking; that is usually another subscription.
Built to fill the rooms and run them
- Your booking diary
- 100+ booking sites in sync
- Your own booking page
- Email and SMS campaigns
- Payments + security bonds
- Xero, done automatically
One login, one bill, one price you can read.
Why operators pick us
The case against SiteMinder, in plain terms
Here is why an independent Australian operator ends up better off with us:
You see the whole price, not the opening one.
SiteMinder shows starting prices for a 5-room property: from $135 a month, or $195 on Plus, the plan with the booking page (28 October 2026). Past that, its pricing page says your price depends on your room count and the products you use, and a rep confirms it in a call. Any additional setup costs are confirmed in your contract before you sign. We publish one number that covers every room you have.
Nothing is taken off the top of a booking.
In their FY26 results SiteMinder reported average monthly revenue of $429 per property across all its properties worldwide, $179 of it (about 41%) from transaction products such as payments and metasearch. In February 2026 they told investors they see “a 5x ARPU monetisation opportunity at full Smart Platform attach”. Ours is $500 a month, every send rate we set is published, and we take no cut of a direct booking.
Growing a room doesn’t cost you anything.
SiteMinder’s pricing page says your actual price depends on your room count, and it publishes no price above 5 rooms (28 October 2026), so you find out what adding rooms costs in a call. Ours stays $500, whatever your room count.
It fills the rooms, not just syncs them.
SiteMinder keeps your calendar right across 500+ booking sites, but it isn’t a front-desk system, and its campaigns are simple post-stay reminders in a paid add-on. Email and SMS campaigns, your guest list, reviews and ad tracking are all in our platform, with sends billed per item at published rates.
You can see which ads actually booked a room.
We track it in a way that survives Apple blocking cookies. We couldn’t find anything like it in SiteMinder’s published material (October 2026), so on their stack that answer would have to come from a separate tool.
The growth scorecard
Eight things that fill rooms, and which come in the plan price
- 8/8Accommador, included
- 0/8SiteMinder, included, plus 3 at extra cost
- Included
- Costs extra
- Partly
- Not found in their published material
| Capability | Accommador | SiteMinder |
|---|---|---|
| Email campaigns | YesCampaigns and sequences, not just booking confirmations | Add-on, simple campaignsGuest Engagement, a paid add-on, sends simple post-stay campaigns and reminders. We couldn’t find a full campaign builder (October 2026). |
| SMS and WhatsApp campaigns | YesSMS built in at published rates; WhatsApp as an add-on | Conversations onlySMS and WhatsApp conversations come in the Guest Engagement add-on; we couldn’t find SMS or WhatsApp campaigns (October 2026). |
| 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 promptsReview prompts sit in the paid Guest Engagement add-on. We couldn’t find a review inbox or reply workflow (October 2026). |
| 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 | Dearer tier onlyBooking page only on SiteMinder Plus, from $195/mo against $135/mo for a 5-room property (28 October 2026). |
| 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 | Not foundWe couldn’t find a Xero connection in their published material (October 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 SiteMinder'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
$2,060/mo
thirteen tools, at our market-rate estimates- Booking-site sync$250
- Front-desk system$400
- Your own booking page$150
- Ad tracking$200
- Xero reconciliation$200
- + 8 marketing and payment tools$860
A typical stack, at our market rates. SiteMinder’s base plan covers the sync line (from $135/mo for a 5-room property on 28 October 2026; larger properties are priced in a call), its Plus plan adds a booking page and website, and payments come with every plan. The front desk, ad tracking and Xero you buy elsewhere.
$500/mo
or $5,000/yr · one plan · published- Your booking diary
- 100+ booking sites in sync
- Your own booking page
- Email and SMS campaigns
- Payments + security bonds
- Xero, done automatically
About $1,560/mo lessthan a typical thirteen-tool stack (76% less), on our market-rate estimates
- Every room included · no room ladder to climb
- We take no cut of a direct booking
- No 15–20% booking-site commission on bookings that come direct
- We move you over free on annual · AI setup on monthly
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 SiteMinder’s full bill, line by line, with sources
The real bill
What SiteMinder costs once everything is on it
SiteMinder’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.
From $195/mo
Publishedsiteminder.com/en-au/pricing (plan cards and FAQ), checked 2026-10-28
SiteMinder Plus, the plan with a booking page, for a 5-room property (28 October 2026). SiteMinder doesn’t publish a price for a 30-room property: its sales team quotes it in a call, so the bill beside this starts from their quote, not from this figure.
- A front-desk system to run reservations, housekeeping and guest folios$400/mo
SiteMinder isn’t a property-management system. It plugs into one you buy separately. Priced at our own stack rate for that capability bought elsewhere.
Source
siteminder.com product pages, accessed 2026-07-26; Accommador published pricing. How we worked this out
- Email, SMS, follow-ups, reviews and a social planner$450/mo
Guest Engagement, an add-on on both SiteMinder plans, covers guest messages, upsells, simple post-stay campaigns and review prompts. This line is our estimate for a full campaign, SMS and reviews layer bought elsewhere, in place of that add-on.
Source
siteminder.com/guest-engagement, checked 2026-10-28; Accommador published pricing. How we worked this out
- Ad tracking, a guest database, bond holds and Xero done for you$560/mo
We couldn’t find these in SiteMinder’s own plans (October 2026). Plus already includes a website builder, so no website is priced here. Priced at our own stack rate for buying them elsewhere.
Source
siteminder.com/pricing feature table, checked 2026-10-28; Accommador published pricing. How we worked this out
All inQuote + $1,410/moOur estimate of the tools to match us, on top of whatever SiteMinder quotes you for 30 rooms, and before any transaction fee
Scenario: a 30-room Australian independent property on SiteMinder Plus, checked 2026-10-28. SiteMinder publishes a starting price only for 5 rooms and quotes larger properties in a call, so this bill starts from their quote and states no SiteMinder price. Every line above is our market rate for buying that capability elsewhere, not a SiteMinder charge. $400 + $450 + $560 = $1,410.
Their own variable fees
What SiteMinder’s own fee lines add up to
SiteMinder’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.
Quoted in a call
SiteMinder publishes starting prices for a 5-room property only: from A$135/mo, or A$195/mo on Plus, the plan with the booking page (28 October 2026, ex tax). A 30-room price is quoted in a call, so we don’t model one. Guest Engagement, for guest messaging and upsells, is an add-on on both plans.
Quote + usage fees
Not modelled: SiteMinder quotes the 30-room licence, and its transaction rates aren’t published
- Transaction fees on metasearch (Demand Plus), the channel marketplace (Channels Plus), hotel payments (SiteMinder Pay) and Dynamic Revenue PlusNot published
No published rate for any of the four. SiteMinder’s pricing page describes them as usage-based: a per-payment fee for payments, a commission on completed stays for metasearch and its channel marketplace, and a transaction fee on completed stays for Dynamic Revenue Plus, in some cases on top of a setup or monthly fee. For scale, not as a price: in its FY26 results to the ASX, group-wide average monthly revenue per property split A$250 subscription and A$179 transaction products, about 41% of the total. That is an average across every property it serves worldwide, not your bill, and with no published 30-room licence we don’t turn it into a dollar figure.
Show the working
Workings No rate is published, so there is nothing to multiply. For scale only: A$179 ÷ A$429 = about 41% of group-wide average revenue per property came from transaction products (FY26).
SiteMinder FY26 results to the ASX (August 2026), checked 2026-10-07; siteminder.com/pricing transactional-fees FAQ, checked 2026-10-28. How we worked this out
HIGH that these fees exist and are usage-based (SiteMinder’s own pricing page and ASX results). There is no dollar figure to rate: the 30-room licence is quoted in a call and the transaction rates aren’t published.
Not priced: unverified, not assumed to be zero
- The 30-room licence: SiteMinder publishes starting prices for a 5-room property only and confirms larger properties in a call (checked 2026-10-28).
- Setup fees: SiteMinder’s pricing page says any additional setup costs depend on your property configuration and are confirmed in your contract (checked 2026-10-28), but the amount is not published. It is excluded from the total, not assumed to be zero.
- SiteMinder’s pricing page says metasearch carries a commission on completed stays, and in February 2026 its COO said Dynamic Revenue Plus pricing is linked to gross booking value, so these fees rise with the bookings that go through them.
Switching from SiteMinder
We move you. You don’t migrate yourself.
Audit
We map your rooms, rates, stay rules and booking-site listings.
Build
We set everything up alongside what you run now. Nothing is switched off yet.
Cutover
We reconnect your booking sites one at a time, so your listings never go dark.
Reconcile
We connect 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 SiteMinder?
On the licence alone at 5 rooms, no: SiteMinder starts from $135 a month, or $195 on Plus with the booking page (28 October 2026), against our $500. Past 5 rooms SiteMinder quotes your price in a call, so ask for it in writing and compare. Where we come out ahead is the whole setup. SiteMinder doesn’t include a front desk or ad tracking, and we couldn’t find a Xero connection in its published material. On our market-rate estimates, buying those elsewhere adds about $1,410 a month at 30 rooms, on top of whatever SiteMinder quotes.
Why does SiteMinder’s price go up as I add rooms?
Its pricing page says the prices shown are starting prices for a 5-room property, that your actual price depends on your room count and the products you use, and that a rep confirms it in a call (28 October 2026). Ours doesn’t move: $500 flat, whatever your room count.
What contract and support come with SiteMinder?
Its pricing page says plans run month to month with 30 days’ written notice, with a fixed term as an option, and that 24/7 chat, phone and email support is included in every plan (28 October 2026). Guest messaging and upsells sit in Guest Engagement, an add-on, and dynamic pricing and GDS are add-ons too. Our monthly plan is month to month as well, and support is included.
Can I migrate from SiteMinder without my listings going down?
Yes. We reconnect your booking sites one at a time, so your listings stay live the whole way. We move you across free on the yearly plan; on monthly our AI sets you up step by step.
Does Accommador replace SiteMinder completely?
Yes. You get the sync across 100+ booking sites and your own booking page, plus the front-desk, marketing and Xero layers SiteMinder doesn’t cover itself.
I actually use Little Hotelier, not SiteMinder. Is that the same comparison?
No. Little Hotelier is SiteMinder’s small-property brand and the trade-offs are different. See our Accommador vs Little Hotelier comparison.
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.
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