Vacation Rental Software Pricing: $2 Per Unit

How much does FrontDesko cost for vacation rentals?

$2 per unit per month, with a $4 minimum monthly bill. That covers the complete product — property management system, channel manager, direct booking engine and guest messaging. There is no separate PMS fee and no commission on direct bookings.

One rate, one line on the invoice. Ten units is $20 a month. Three units is $6. The bill never drops below $4. The number does not change because you added a feature, because you connected another channel, or because you took more bookings.

This is deliberately a different model from our hotel pricing. Hotels are billed in room bands — see hotel PMS pricing — because a hotel is one property with many rooms. A vacation rental portfolio is many properties, often in different places, and per-unit is the honest way to charge for that.

What $2 per unit includes

The whole product. There is no cheaper tier with things removed.

Property management

Multi-unit calendar, reservations, owner and guest records, cleaning and turnover scheduling, reporting across the whole portfolio.

Channel manager

Two-way sync with Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com so availability and rates stay aligned and you stop double-booking.

Direct booking engine

Take bookings on your own site with no commission and no booking fee — the line where several competitors still charge a percentage.

Guest messaging

Automated confirmations, pre-arrival access instructions, mid-stay checks and review requests.

Payments

Deposits and balances charged on a schedule, so you are not chasing money between stays.

Support and setup

No implementation fee, no migration fee, no per-integration charge, no contract term.

What the market charges per unit

Published and reported per-listing pricing, October 2026.

Platform	Published per-unit cost	Booking fee	1 unit / month	10 units / month
FrontDesko	$2 per unit	None on direct bookings	$4 (minimum)	$20
Lodgify (Starter)	~$14–16 (annual billing)	1.9%	~$14–16 + 1.9%	varies by plan
Hostaway	~$20–40 reported; quote-based	None published	quote only	~$200–400
Guesty (Lite / Pro)	~$23 Lite; ~$30–50 Pro	None published	~$16–23	~$300–500
Hospitable	~$29–39 first listing, +$10 each	None published	~$29–39	~$119–129
OwnerRez	~$88 for one property, sliding down	None published	~$88	sliding scale

Competitor figures are third-party reported ranges as of October 2026, not vendor rate cards — several of these platforms price by quote and publish no list price. Sources are linked below. Verify directly before deciding; vacation rental pricing moves frequently and often differs between monthly and annual billing.

Why the gap is this large

Two reasons, and only one of them is about us.

The first is cost structure. Vacation rental software is sold largely to professional managers by sales teams, with onboarding handled by people. That organisation has to be paid for out of the per-listing fee, and it sets a floor beneath which a vendor of that shape cannot go. A small team building with AI has a different floor. The mechanics are set out on legacy vs AI-native software.

The second is where the money is taken. Some platforms show a low headline and recover it elsewhere — Lodgify's Starter plan carries a reported 1.9% booking fee, and on a unit turning over $40,000 a year that is roughly $760 annually on top of the subscription. A percentage of revenue is not a software price; it is a share of your business. We do not take one.

Work out your own number

Multiply units by $2, with a $4 floor. That is the whole calculation:

1 unit — $4/month (the minimum), $48/year
5 units — $10/month, $120/year
10 units — $20/month, $240/year
25 units — $50/month, $600/year
50 units — $100/month, $1,200/year

Then do the same for whatever else you are considering, and include the booking fee if there is one. That single step changes the ranking more often than any feature comparison does.

The honest caveats

Three things worth knowing before you switch, stated plainly because you will find them out anyway.

We are newer than the platforms above. Guesty, Hostaway, Lodgify and OwnerRez have years of reviews on the major directories; we do not yet. If reading fifty peer reviews is part of how you buy, that is a real gap.

Our integration list is shorter. If you depend on a niche channel, a specific dynamic-pricing tool or a particular smart-lock brand, check it before committing rather than after.

We are not a professional-manager platform. Trust accounting, owner statements and large-portfolio workflows are where Guesty and Hostaway have genuinely invested. If you manage units on behalf of owners and need owner payouts and statements, they fit better than we do today.

Questions

How much does vacation rental software cost per unit?

FrontDesko is $2 per unit per month with a $4 minimum monthly bill, which covers the full property management system, the channel manager for Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com, a commission-free direct booking engine and guest messaging. Across the wider market, reported per-listing pricing runs roughly $14 to $16 for Lodgify Starter plus a 1.9% booking fee, around $20 to $40 for Hostaway, about $23 for Guesty Lite and $30 to $50 for Guesty Pro, $29 to $39 for Hospitable on a first listing, and around $88 for a single property on OwnerRez.

What is included in FrontDesko’s $2 per unit price?

Everything, for $2 per unit per month with a $4 minimum bill: the property management system with a multi-unit calendar and turnover scheduling, the channel manager with two-way Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com sync, a direct booking engine that takes no commission, automated guest messaging, and scheduled payment collection. There is no cheaper tier with features removed and no separate PMS charge — $2 per unit per month is the whole product.

Is there a booking fee or commission?

No. FrontDesko takes no commission and no booking fee on direct bookings. This matters more than the headline rate: Lodgify’s Starter plan carries a reported 1.9% booking fee, which on a unit turning over $40,000 a year works out at roughly $760 annually on top of the subscription. Always add any percentage fee to the subscription before comparing platforms.

How does $2 per unit compare to Guesty, Hostaway and Lodgify?

It is substantially below all three on reported figures. Guesty Lite is around $23 per listing per month with Pro reported at $30 to $50; Hostaway is quote-based and reported at roughly $20 to $40 per listing; Lodgify Starter is around $14 to $16 with a 1.9% booking fee attached, and its Professional plan is reported at $40 per listing without the fee. At ten units that is $20 a month against $200 to $500.

Why is vacation rental pricing per unit rather than flat?

Because a vacation rental portfolio is many separate properties rather than one property with many rooms. Per-unit is the honest way to charge for that, and it means a host with three units is not subsidising one with thirty. FrontDesko’s hotel pricing works differently, in room bands, because a hotel is a single property — the two models exist for genuinely different shapes of business.

What does it cost for 10 vacation rental units?

$20 per month, or $240 per year, covering the full property management system, channel manager, commission-free direct booking engine and guest messaging for all ten units. There is no setup fee, no migration fee, no per-integration charge and no contract term, so the annual figure is the actual cost rather than a starting point.

Are there setup or migration fees?

No. There is no implementation fee, no data migration fee, no per-integration charge and no minimum contract term. This is worth checking carefully elsewhere in this category, because one-time onboarding costs are a common addition to the advertised per-listing rate and frequently exceed the first few months of subscription.

When is FrontDesko the wrong choice for a vacation rental business?

If you manage units on behalf of third-party owners and need trust accounting, owner statements and owner payouts, Guesty and Hostaway have invested far more in that workflow. If you depend on a niche channel, a specific dynamic-pricing integration or a particular smart-lock brand, check our integration list before committing. And if peer reviews on the major software directories are part of how you buy, we are newer and do not have them yet.

Sources

Figures above are as published by the cited sources and were checked on 6 October 2026. Vendor pricing in this category is overwhelmingly quote-based; where a range is given it is a published third-party estimate, not a vendor list price.

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