Hospitable meters the money. VacayOps charges one flat software price.
Hospitable is genuinely good automation — the comparison here is the bill, not the craft. Its pricing stacks per-transaction fees on the money that moves — direct bookings, upsells, security deposits, cleaner payments and extra payout runs — on top of tiered plans. The VacayOps Full Platform is $29/property/month flat: PMS, direct connections to Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Expedia, Google Vacation Rentals, and Hopper, operations, owner statements and trust accounting, comms, CRM, and AI — no commission on your direct bookings, and Airbnb payouts untouched. Card processing is billed by your own processor at its rates; Vrbo, Booking.com and Expedia payments carry our payment partner’s 0.5%, passed through at cost.
The features converge. The fee schedules don't.
Modern platforms all message guests and sync channels. Look instead at what happens to each dollar that moves through the system.
| Capability | VacayOps | Hospitable |
|---|---|---|
| System of record for your properties (PMS) | ||
| Direct OTA channel connections | Direct integrations with Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo | |
| AI guest messaging | AI-drafted replies on paid plans; fully automated Inbox AI on Mogul | |
| Nightly pricing | Rate rules included; PriceLabs natively synced for market data — billed by PriceLabs, no VacayOps fee | Dynamic pricing included on paid plans; $15/property/mo on the free Essentials plan after a trial |
| Direct booking engine | included — no booking fee; card processing billed by your own processor | a direct transaction fee: 1% on Direct Basic, 4% + 3% on Direct Premium; plans: Direct Basic and Direct Premium (Professional plan and up) |
| Guest upsells | no VacayOps commission; card processing billed by your own processor | 7% fee on paid plans, 10% on Essentials |
| Owner statements & payouts | statements on every Full Platform account; payouts recorded — you send them from your own bank | Owner statements, owner portal and owner payouts on Mogul (US bank accounts); one payout run a month included, extra runs 1.5% capped at $5 |
| Trust accounting | included (Full Platform), with a monthly three-way reconciliation | Listed as “Currently in pilot” on Mogul |
| Owner changes mid-month | Month split by check-in date — a statement for each owner | Ownership transfers start at the beginning of a month |
| When revenue counts on owner statements | Check-in, check-out or night by night | Prorated per night, check-in or checkout (Mogul) |
| 1099s | 1099-NEC and 1099-MISC rents as IRS IRIS-layout CSV files you upload | Form 1099-K issued by Hospitable as merchant of record for payouts it makes |
| Accounting integrations | QuickBooks Online (invoices and bills); your own ledger built in | QuickBooks or a built-in option, plus VRPlatform, BookingTrust, Clearing and others (Mogul) |
| Housekeeping & maintenance ops with photo checklists & inspections | auto-assigned cleaning and maintenance; cleaner payments 1.5% per clean on paid plans (2.5% on Essentials), capped at $5 | |
| 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 hospitable.com/features — tasks are listed without checklists; photo checklists come through the listo integration |
| 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 hospitable.com/features |
| Business phone system & recorded calls | lines $7/line/month, unlimited users | not built in; via a third-party integration |
| Smart locks & thermostats | $5/device/month | Lock and thermostat automations on Professional and Mogul — 2 or 4 devices included, then $5 each |
| Sales CRM & owner pipeline | not marketed as a CRM; a property-manager marketplace on Mogul | |
| Email marketing & guest audiences | through integrations (Mailchimp, StayFi) | |
| Pricing model | $29/property/month, flat — every property, same rate | tiered: Host $29, Professional $59, Mogul $99 a month with 1, 2 or 3 properties included, then $10, $15 or $30 each |
| Fees on money that moves | None on direct bookings, upsells, deposits or payouts; 0.5% on Vrbo, Booking.com and Expedia payments — our payment partner’s fee, at cost | direct bookings 1% or 4% + 3%; upsells 7–10%; security deposits 2%; cleaner payments and extra payout runs 1.5–2.5% (capped at $5) |
Hospitable direct-booking fee (a direct transaction fee: 1% on Direct Basic, 4% + 3% on Direct Premium; plans: Direct Basic and Direct Premium (Professional plan and up)) from hospitable.com/pricing as of October 2026. Other Hospitable plans, fees and features from hospitable.com (pricing, product pages and help centre) as of 24 October 2026 — paid plans include dynamic pricing (the free Essentials plan pays $15/property after a trial); upsell fee 7% on paid plans, 10% on Essentials; additional owner payout runs 1.5% capped at $5 (Mogul). Hospitable is a trademark of its owner; VacayOps is not affiliated with Hospitable.
Why flat beats metered
No cut of direct bookings or upsells
Hospitable's fee schedule touches the money as it moves: direct bookings, upsells, security deposits, cleaner payments, extra payout runs. VacayOps takes no commission on any of it. Card processing is still billed by your own processor at its rates. The one pass-through: our payment partner’s fee (currently 0.5%) on Vrbo, Booking.com and Expedia payments, at cost.
One number to budget
$29/property/month flat, published, with exactly two add-ons: smart devices at $5/device/month and phone lines at $7/line/month. Your software cost scales with your portfolio — not with your booking volume.
Owner money, recorded — not routed
Hospitable sends owner payouts for you on its Mogul plan, with a fee on extra payout runs, and lists trust accounting as a pilot there. VacayOps records every owner payout against owner balances while you pay from your own bank, and trust accounting with a monthly three-way reconciliation is part of the Full Platform. Rule-based rate automation is included: seasons, day-of-week, last-minute windows, orphan nights, and a floor built from your real cleaning costs. It prices from your business, not from market data.
A tier plus fees vs one number
Hospitable's base tiers look modest — the meter is in the fee schedule. VacayOps has no meter on direct bookings or upsells.
Hospitable
Tiered+ per-transaction fees
Host $29, Professional $59, Mogul $99 a month with 1, 2 or 3 properties included, then $10, $15 or $30 per extra property — plus 1% to 4% + 3% on direct bookings (Direct Basic and Direct Premium (Professional plan and up)), 7–10% on upsells, 2% on security deposits, and fees on cleaner payments and extra payout runs. Owner statements, owner payouts and accounting integrations are on Mogul.
The total depends on how much money moves.
VacayOps
$29/property/mo base
PMS, direct channel connections, operations, owner statements and trust accounting, comms, CRM, email marketing, website builder, and AI — unlimited users. Keep 100% of your direct bookings. No booking fee, no revenue share — card processing is billed by your own processor at its rates. Rate rules included; PriceLabs optional, billed by PriceLabs. Vrbo, Booking.com and Expedia payments carry our payment partner’s 0.5%, passed through at cost.
100 properties = $2,900/mo in software — the same in a slow month and a record month.
Hospitable direct transaction fee from hospitable.com/pricing as of October 2026; other Hospitable plans and fees as published on hospitable.com on 24 October 2026. Current VacayOps pricing at vacayops.com/pricing. See how other platforms charge on direct booking fees compared · Trust accounting.
One flat price. No direct booking fee. PMS included.
Every software feature is in the base rate — no per-seat fees, no direct booking fees, no upsell commissions (card processing is billed by your own processor). The only add-ons: smart devices and phone lines. Rule-based rate automation is included; PriceLabs plugs in natively if you want market data too.