B&B booking 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. It starts at $500/mo.
- Sorrento
- Portsea
- Rye
- Red Hill
- Blairgowrie
- Flinders
What makes Mornington Peninsula different
Guesthouses and B&Bs on the Peninsula cluster in two places: the wine country around Red Hill, Main Ridge and Merricks, and the bay towns from Mornington down to Sorrento. Their guests are mostly Melbourne couples on a weekend away, planned around a winery lunch, the hot springs or a walk on the back beaches, along with wedding guests at the vineyard venues. Hosts run a few rooms or a couple of suites on their own property, and the breakfast, the garden and the local tips are what bring people back.
A Peninsula B&B lives on its weekends from spring through autumn, when couples come down for the wineries, the hot springs and the coastal walks, and a two-night Saturday minimum is standard. Summer stretches those rules, with some guesthouses asking for five nights or a full week over the January peak while others keep shorter stays for couples. Winter is the quiet stretch, sold on fires and long lunches, and mid-week is filled by retirees and couples who book a few days out. Those slow months are where a host’s repeat guests count most.
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. That 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. That list is 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 offer themselves before arrival and at check-in. Small additions, real margin, no asking.
- Reviews that build the moat. A review request lands at the right moment after checkout, and you answer your Google and Facebook reviews from one screen.
- No commission on the stays you earn. Direct bookings carry no booking fee from us, so the 15–20% stays in the house where it belongs.
- Your listings still working. 100+ booking sites stay in sync for the guests who haven’t found you yet.
The price in Mornington Peninsula is the same as everywhere else, and so is what it covers: your own booking engine, 100+ booking sites kept in sync, payments that hold the bond on the card, the marketing tools, and books that code 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
Do we have to reconfigure the calendar every summer?
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.
We have years of past guests in a spreadsheet. Can they come with us?
An existing guest list can be brought across when you move to Accommador, so the people who have stayed with you for years are in your database from the first day. On the annual plan the migration is done for you; on the monthly plan, the setup guides you through it step by step.
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.