A Barefoot alternative with no fee on your Airbnb rent
Barefoot is property management software for short-term, mid-term and timeshare operations, and resorts, with built-in trust accounting and a price it publishes — this isn’t a takedown. The differences are the 1%-of-rent charge on its Airbnb and Vrbo integrations, and how much runs in one system. VacayOps is the Full Platform at $29/property/month: PMS, direct channel connections, booking website, field operations, owner statements, trust accounting, phones and CRM, with unlimited users and no booking fee on your direct site.
Running the business
Every Barefoot cell is from barefoot.com. Where Barefoot’s site doesn’t describe something, the cell says so.
| Capability | VacayOps | Barefoot |
|---|---|---|
| Published price | $29/property/month, on the pricing page | Published by unit tier: $800/mo for 1–50 units, $1,100/mo for 51–100, $1,400/mo for 101–150, +$300/mo per extra 50 |
| Fee on Airbnb & Vrbo bookings | None on Airbnb; 0.5% on Vrbo payments — our payment partner’s fee, at cost | 1% of rent on Airbnb and Vrbo direct integrations |
| Setup | No setup fee | Onboarding, implementation guidance, training and support included; integration setup fees may apply |
| Users | Unlimited, no per-seat fee | not stated on the pricing page |
| System of record for your properties (PMS) | ||
| Channel connections | Direct connections to Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Expedia, Google Vacation Rentals, and Hopper | Direct integrations with Vrbo, Airbnb and TripAdvisor, plus other portals |
| Vendor & crew access to work orders | Crew and vendor users with photo checklists, unlimited | Vendor access with comments, pictures and invoices on work orders |
| Form builder & AI form creation | Drag-and-drop builder; AI drafts a form from a description or rebuilds one from a PDF, Word file or photo of the paper form | not marketed on barefoot.com’s product pages |
| Form answers as automation triggers | A submitted form or a single answer (a “Fail”) starts a workflow — create the maintenance task, notify the manager | not marketed on barefoot.com’s product pages |
| Business phone system & recorded calls | Lines $7/line/month, calls recorded | not described on barefoot.com’s product pages |
| CRM & owner pipeline | Sales CRM with an owner pipeline, plus email marketing | CRM for owner leads through to a signed agreement, with triggered email campaigns |
Barefoot column from barefoot.com (pricing, product, portal, CRM and partner pages) as of 25 October 2026. Barefoot is a trademark of its owner; VacayOps is not affiliated with Barefoot.
Owner money and the books
Both have trust accounting built in. Here is how they line up.
| Capability | VacayOps | Barefoot |
|---|---|---|
| Trust accounting | Included (Full Platform) | Trust accounting with separate accounts, reconciliations and owner statements |
| Owner portal & statements | Owner portal with online statements, newsletters and year-end reports | |
| Three-way reconciliation | Monthly, with sign-off and a reconciliation PDF | reconciliations described; three-way not named |
| Owner & vendor payments | Recorded — you send them from your own bank | Owner and vendor payments by ACH, eCheck and check writing |
Barefoot accounting facts from barefoot.com as of 25 October 2026. Spot something out of date? Tell us and we’ll fix it.
Sources — read on the vendor’s own pages, 25 October 2026
A lower subscription, plus a share of the rent
At 100 properties, with bookings on Airbnb and Vrbo.
Barefoot
$1,100/mo + 1% of Airbnb & Vrbo rent
The published 51–100 unit tier (10% off on an annual plan). Airbnb and Vrbo direct integrations are billed at 1% of rent; integration setup fees may apply.
Every $100,000 of Airbnb and Vrbo rent adds $1,000 a year.
VacayOps Full Platform
$29/property/mo base
PMS, direct connections to Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Expedia, Google Vacation Rentals, and Hopper, booking website, field operations, phones, CRM, owner statements and trust accounting — unlimited users, no direct booking fee. Add-ons: smart devices $5/device/month, phone lines $7/line/month. Vrbo, Booking.com and Expedia payments carry our payment partner’s 0.5%, passed through at cost.
100 properties = $2,900/mo; every $100,000 of Vrbo payments adds $500 a year at cost, and Airbnb adds nothing.
Barefoot prices from Barefoot’s pricing page, as of 25 October 2026. At 100 units, Barefoot’s published price is lower below about $2,160,000 a year of rent if it is all Airbnb, or about $4,320,000 if it is all Vrbo (VacayOps passes our payment partner’s 0.5% on Vrbo payments through at cost). Booking channels charge their own commissions on both. Current VacayOps pricing at vacayops.com/pricing.
Where VacayOps differs
Nothing on Airbnb, at cost on Vrbo
Barefoot’s pricing page says Airbnb and Vrbo direct integrations are billed at 1% of rent. VacayOps connects to Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Expedia, Google Vacation Rentals, and Hopper and takes nothing on Airbnb bookings. On Vrbo, Booking.com and Expedia payments, our payment partner’s fee (currently 0.5%) is passed through at cost, with no markup.
Field operations on the phone
Checkouts create the clean, crews work photo checklists on their phones, and the photos land on the task — with unlimited users for staff, crews and vendors.
Phones and CRM in the same system
A business phone system with recorded calls (lines $7/line/month) and a sales CRM with an owner pipeline, on the same records as the reservations and the trust books.
Where Barefoot goes further
Barefoot describes itself as a fit for companies with several property types or detailed accounting needs, and some of it goes beyond what VacayOps does.
- A published price that, from 28 units up, is lower than the Full Platform’s subscription.
- Owner and vendor payments by ACH, eCheck and check writing — VacayOps records payouts; you send them.
- Software for short-term, mid-term and timeshare operations, and resorts — VacayOps is built for vacation rentals.
- Onboarding, implementation guidance, training and support included.
Switching from Barefoot
Switching is built in — a self-guided Migration Center, with a specialist reviewing your move. Migration is the reason managers stay on software they have outgrown. The Migration Center is in your account from day one: it reads your old system’s exports, shows exactly what will change before anything is saved, runs both systems side by side so your guests notice nothing, checks every booking against your old system, and switches over on the day you pick.
- Barefoot uses the general export guide. There is no live connection to your old system: the Migration Center works from the files you export, so nothing changes there until you switch over.
- Past and upcoming reservations with guest details and the money as your export itemizes it, properties with their access codes and housekeeping details, owners, team and vendors, opening balances, old owner statements as files and CRM contacts.
- Guest message history, saved cards, rate calendars, Vrbo listing content and review text stay behind — reviews stay on your channel listings.
Leaving Barefoot: common questions
- Is Barefoot cheaper than VacayOps?
- On the subscription alone, from 28 units up, yes: Barefoot’s first tier is $800 a month for 1–50 units, and below 28 properties the Full Platform costs less. Barefoot publishes $1,100 a month for 51–100 units, and the VacayOps Full Platform is $29/property/month — $2,900 a month at 100 properties. Barefoot also bills 1% of rent on its Airbnb and Vrbo integrations. VacayOps takes nothing on Airbnb and passes our payment partner’s 0.5% on Vrbo payments through at cost. At 100 units the two come out even at about $2,160,000 a year of rent if it is all Airbnb, or about $4,320,000 if it is all Vrbo.
- Does VacayOps do trust accounting like Barefoot?
- Yes. Trust accounting, owner statements and a monthly three-way reconciliation with sign-off are part of the Full Platform. Trust rules come from your state and your license. VacayOps gives you and your accountant or broker the records, checks and signed reconciliations to work from; meeting those rules and making your filings stay with you.
- Can VacayOps pay owners by ACH or print checks?
- No. VacayOps records and reconciles the money in your own bank and processor accounts. It never holds or moves funds. You send payouts from your own bank and VacayOps records each one. Barefoot lists ACH direct deposit, eChecks and check writing — if you want the software to send payments, that is a real difference.
- How do I switch from Barefoot?
- Switching is built in — a self-guided Migration Center, with a specialist reviewing your move. Barefoot uses the Migration Center’s general export guide: you export reservations, properties and owners, it reads the files, shows what will change before anything is saved, and checks every booking. There is no live connection to your old system: the Migration Center works from the files you export, so nothing changes there until you switch over.
- What comes across from Barefoot, and what doesn’t?
- Past and upcoming reservations with guest details and the money as your export itemizes it, properties with their access codes and housekeeping details, owners, team and vendors, opening balances, old owner statements as files and CRM contacts. Guest message history, saved cards, rate calendars, Vrbo listing content and review text stay behind — reviews stay on your channel listings.
Trust accounting, every channel and your field team — no percentage of your Airbnb rent.
One login. One bill. Unlimited users. Priced per property. No seat fees, no setup fee, no contract, and no booking fee on your direct site. 14-day free trial — no charge until it ends.