B&B & guesthouse software for Mornington Peninsula operators
Accommador is guesthouse and B&B software for the Mornington Peninsula: seasonal minimum stays that switch themselves, automated guest journeys, review requests, extras sold at booking, and clean Xero books — from $500/mo.
- Sorrento
- Portsea
- Rye
- Red Hill
- Blairgowrie
- Flinders
What makes Mornington Peninsula different
Sorrento, Portsea, Red Hill and the Peninsula’s bay and back-beach towns are Melbourne’s closest coastal holiday market — under two hours from the city, which makes it both a weekend market and a summer-house market at the same time. Holiday homes and villas here often sit empty mid-week in shoulder season while turning away weekend enquiries that do not match a Friday-to-Sunday shape.
The January peak is intense and short, with a strong spring and autumn weekend trade built around the wineries and hot springs, plus a quiet winter. Summer minimum stays of five to seven nights are common on holiday homes, then drop to two-night weekends the rest of the year — a twice-yearly rule switch that manual calendars handle badly.
What quietly costs operators bookings here
Peninsula guesthouses face an unusually sharp two-mode year: a compressed summer peak where minimums stretch, and a long weekend-led shoulder built on wineries, hot springs and coastal walking. Managing both by hand means re-configuring the calendar twice a year and living with whatever gets missed.
The shoulder is where the platform earns most. Mid-week and off-peak nights are filled by talking to people who already stayed — which requires owning their details, which requires the direct booking in the first place.
What goes wrong here is the seasonal switch: a summer minimum of five to seven nights dropping to two-night weekends in shoulder. Guests searching across the boundary get inconsistent answers from a rigid engine; Accommador applies each season and offers the dates that do fit either side.
See how alternative-date search works →What Mornington Peninsula operators get
- Own the relationship again. Direct bookings put names, emails and stay history in your own guest list — the foundation of every repeat stay.
- Five-star consistency without the hours. Your personal touch reaches every booking automatically, even in the weeks the house is full.
- More breakfasts, hampers and late checkouts sold. Extras are offered on their own at booking and before arrival — small additions, real margin, no asking.
- Reviews that build the moat. A review request lands at the right moment after checkout, and you see and answer every one from a single inbox.
- No commission on the stays you earn. Direct bookings carry no booking fee from us, so the 15–25% stays in the house where it belongs.
- Your listings still working. 50+ booking sites stay in sync for the guests who haven’t found you yet.
Same price in Mornington Peninsula as everywhere else — your own booking engine, 50+ booking sites kept in sync, payments that hold the bond on the card, the marketing tools, and books that reconcile themselves in Xero. Moving you across is free — we do it for you on the yearly plan, and our AI walks you through it on monthly.
Mornington Peninsula questions
Yes — seasonal minimums are tied to the dates you choose and change themselves. You do not re-configure the calendar twice a year, and guests searching across a boundary get workable options either side.
The bond is reserved on the guest’s card before arrival through Stripe or PayDollar — reserved, never charged, and released on its own after a clean checkout.
No — seasons are tied to the dates you set and change over automatically, so the summer minimum applies and lifts on its own each year without you rebuilding anything.
Keep the guests. Keep their details. Keep the commission.
Free and built from your live listings, no call required. Locked-for-Life operators also get a free move-over and the 90-day guarantee.