A Hospitable Direct alternative, without a fee on every booking.
Hospitable is excellent at automating guest messages and operations, and its Direct site is part of that system. If you want a direct booking site that is entirely yours and takes nothing from each stay, this is the comparison.
The short answer
Choose Hospitable if your days are spent answering guests on Airbnb and Booking.com and you want that automated, with cleaning tasks, dynamic pricing and smart locks in the same place. The direct site comes with it from the Professional plan.
Choose No Effort Rentals if you want a direct booking site under your own brand, built for you, with 0% taken from each booking and one yearly price.
What Hospitable Direct costs
Hospitable has a free Essentials plan and three paid plans: Host ($29 a month), Professional ($59) and Mogul ($99). Direct booking is not available on Essentials or Host, so the direct site starts at $59 a month. Yearly billing saves 12%.
On top of the plan, each direct booking pays a transaction fee: 1% on Direct Basic, which Hospitable calls its do-it-yourself option (you handle taxes, chargebacks, guest screening and damage protection), or 3% from you plus 4% from the guest on Direct Premium, which adds tax calculation, chargeback protection, fraud screening and damage protection.
| Hospitable | No Effort Rentals | |
|---|---|---|
| Plan with a direct booking site | Professional or Mogul (not Essentials or Host) | Every plan |
| Price | Professional $59 a month with 2 properties, then $15 per extra property; Mogul $99 with 3 | $149 a year for 1 home, $349 for up to 5 |
| Same, over a year | About $623 for Professional billed yearly (12% off) | $149 or $349 |
| Fee on each direct booking | Direct Basic 1%, or Direct Premium 3% host + 4% guest | 0% |
| Card payments | Through Stripe, on top of the Direct fee | Your own Stripe account, standard Stripe fee |
| Custom branding on the direct site | Mogul | Every plan: it’s your brand |
| Free trial | 14 days | 30 days |
What Hospitable does that we don’t
- A unified inbox and scheduled messages for Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and Agoda, even on the free plan
- Cleaning and teammate workflows on every plan
- Dynamic pricing from the Host plan
- Smart locks and thermostats from Professional, owner statements and accounting on Mogul
- Direct Premium’s chargeback protection and damage protection
If those matter to you, Hospitable is worth its price. We don’t do any of them. Our Smart Stay module for locks, thermostats and noise sensors is in early access.
Where we fit better
Hospitable is stronger at
- Automating messages across every platform
- Operations: tasks, cleaners, teammates
- Protection products on direct bookings (Premium)
- Growing into a full PMS with owner accounting
We fit better if you want
- A direct site without a percentage on each booking
- Your brand on the site from the first plan
- One yearly price instead of a monthly subscription
- Nothing to configure: we build and run it
What we don’t do:
- No API channel manager: calendars sync through iCal, so a platform can take a little while to see a new booking
- No dynamic pricing, no cleaning schedules, no owner statements
- Guest messages from Airbnb and Booking.com stay in their apps
- Bigger changes to the site go through us rather than a builder you drive
Can you use both?
Yes. Plenty of hosts keep Hospitable for messaging and operations and want a different direct site. Ours reads calendars through iCal links, which Hospitable and the platforms export, so a booking made on your site blocks the dates elsewhere and the other way round. You would then use Hospitable on its free or Host plan for what it does best.
Questions hosts ask
Is Hospitable Direct free?
No. It needs the Professional or Mogul plan, and each direct booking pays a 1% fee (Direct Basic) or 3% from the host plus 4% from the guest (Direct Premium), plus card processing.
Do you take a fee on direct bookings?
No. Guests pay into your own Stripe account, we take 0%, and Stripe charges its standard card fee.
Do you have Hospitable’s automated messaging?
No. Your site has its own guest messages, but we don’t automate messages on Airbnb or Booking.com.
Sources
- Hospitable pricing: https://hospitable.com/pricing
- Hospitable pricing and subscription costs, help center: https://help.hospitable.com/en/articles/4596748-hospitable-pricing-subscription-costs
- Hospitable direct booking: https://hospitable.com/features/direct-booking
- Stripe pricing, US: https://stripe.com/us/pricing
- No Effort Rentals plans: https://noeffortrentals.com/#pricing
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