Channel Manager

Your listings everywhere.
One calendar of record.

VacayOps connects your properties directly to Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Expedia, Google Vacation Rentals, and Hopper — and holds the master calendar, rates, and reservations itself, in the same system that runs guest experience, field operations, owner reporting and accounting. The PMS and the channel connections are in the base rate.

Reservations from every channel in one list
Direct Connections

Connected at the source, not through middleware

Your property record is the listing. Photos, amenities, rates, and availability push from VacayOps to each channel over a direct connection — and bookings and booking-channel guest messages arrive natively, on the same data model the rest of your operation runs on.

  • Listings, rates, and availability push from the property record — edit once, distributed everywhere
  • Reservations land as first-party records: the clean schedules itself and the guest portal link fires the moment a booking arrives
  • Booking-channel guest messages land in the unified inbox — answered by your team or your AI
  • No connector fees, no middleware, no channel-manager fee

Riverbend Retreat · property record

Nightly rate updatedPushed to 6 channels
Photos & amenitiesDistributed from the record
New reservationArrived natively — clean scheduled

Edit once. Everywhere your listing lives updates from the same record.

One Calendar

Rates and availability with one source of truth

The master calendar lives here — not in a PMS you sync against. A booking on any channel closes those dates everywhere the moment it lands, and rate changes propagate from one screen.

  • One calendar — a booking on any channel closes those dates everywhere the moment it lands
  • Rate and availability changes propagate to every connected channel from one screen
  • Direct-site bookings and owner blocks close channel availability the same way
  • Housekeeping, the guest portal, and accounting read the same calendar — no sync delay, because there is no sync
One multi-property calendar of record
Replace Your PMS

The line item this page deletes

A standalone PMS runs $30–45 per property, per month — before the channel manager, the ops tool, and the connectors that glue them together. VacayOps holds your reservations, rates, and channels in the base rate, next to the operations, accounting, comms, and AI you already get. One bill, one login.

  • The $30–45/property PMS line item goes away — channels are in the base rate
  • No channel-manager fee, and Airbnb payouts untouched — Vrbo, Booking.com and Expedia payments carry our payment partner’s 0.5%, passed through at cost
  • Your direct-booking website is included, at 0% commission
  • Migrating? The self-guided Migration Center brings your reservations and guests across from your old system’s exports

20 properties, per month

A standalone PMS, alone$600–$900
The PMS plus the ops, CRM, website, AI & reporting tools around it≈ $1300
VacayOps — PMS, channels, ops, accounting, comms & AI$580

The whole platform costs less than the PMS line item alone — and a fraction of the stack around it.

Everything a PMS charges for, in the base rate

Included at $29/property/month — channel connections are not an add-on. No channel-manager fee, and no booking fee on your direct site.

Reservations

The native system of record — every booking from every channel lands as a first-party reservation, driving cleans, codes, messages, and statements.

Rates & availability

One master calendar and rate settings, distributed to every connected channel from a single screen.

Guest messaging

Booking-channel guest messages in the unified inbox — answered by your team or your AI, next to SMS and email.

Reviews

Guest reviews from your connected channels, collected in one place with the stay context attached.

Direct-booking website

A drag-and-drop direct site with live availability and Stripe checkout — 0% commission, on the same calendar as every channel.

Migration included

Switching from another system? The Migration Center walks you through the move — reservations, guests and owners from your old system’s exports, checked booking by booking — and your existing listings connect as they are.

Channel manager questions

What is a channel manager?
A channel manager keeps your listings, rates and availability in step across the booking sites you list on, and brings their reservations back into one calendar, so a night sold on one site can’t be sold again on another. In VacayOps the channel manager is part of the PMS: the calendar it distributes is the same one that schedules the clean and feeds the owner statement.
Which channels does the VacayOps channel manager connect to?
VacayOps connects directly to Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Expedia, Google Vacation Rentals, and Hopper. Listings, rates, availability and reservations are connected at the source. Listing sites without a direct connection can be brought in with an iCal feed, and more channels are added over time — connected the same way, in the same base rate.
Do rates and availability sync across every channel?
Yes. Rates and availability live on one master calendar in VacayOps and go out to every connected channel from one screen. A booking on any channel closes those dates on the others when it lands, and direct-site bookings and owner blocks close channel availability the same way. Housekeeping, the guest portal and accounting read that same calendar.
How much does the channel manager cost?
Nothing extra. The PMS and the channel connections are in the Full Platform base rate, $29/property/month. There is no channel-manager fee and no booking fee on your direct site, and users are unlimited. Airbnb payouts are untouched. Vrbo, Booking.com and Expedia payments are collected through our payment partner, whose fee (currently 0.5%) is passed through at cost, with no markup. The fee is charged on each payment collected (including payments later refunded), itemised on your monthly VacayOps invoice and never deducted from your payouts. Airbnb, Hopper and direct bookings carry no VacayOps fee. A standalone PMS typically runs $30–45 per property per month before the tools around it.
Do channel guest messages and reviews come into VacayOps?
Yes. Guest messages from your booking channels land in the unified inbox next to SMS and email, where your team — or your AI, if you turn on auto-response — answers them. Guest reviews from your connected channels are collected in one place with the stay attached.
Can I keep my existing Airbnb listing and its reviews?
Yes. You connect the listing you already have, so its reviews stay on it — reviews are not copied or moved. For Airbnb and Booking.com, the channel manager can pull in each listing’s name, rooms and beds, descriptions, photos, amenities, fees, cancellation policy and check-in times. Vrbo listing content is entered once in VacayOps.

Not another PMS. The vacation rental ecosystem.

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.