Best Affordable Hotel Management Software (2026): Top 8 Compared
Every product on this page publishes either a free option or a numeric entry price on its own pricing page, and each figure was read from that page on 5 November 2026. Four have a no-charge option: Sirvoy and Freetobook offer free hosted plans, and QloApps and HotelDruid are open-source systems that can be downloaded and self-hosted without a licence fee. The other four publish a monthly starting price. Most hotel systems price by room or unit, so the entry figure applies to a small property and rises with inventory.
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| Vendor | Consider for | Pricing notes | Standout |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sirvoybudget | Single-unit hosts and small properties wanting free direct booking | Free €0/mo for 1 room; Starter €12/mo or €11 billed yearly; Pro €44/mo or €41 yearly, quoted for 1 room Checked Nov 2026 | Free plan bundles a website, booking engine and online payments |
| Freetobookbudget | UK B&Bs and small hotels wanting a free PMS and booking engine | Booking engine, diary and PMS free; channel manager £1.50/booking (£9–£99/mo); £49 per channel connection Checked Nov 2026 | Core system free with no tie-in, annual fee or commission |
| Beds24budget | Small and multi-property operators who want pay-as-you-go pricing | From €15.50/month; channel manager €0.55 per link/month; extra user €2/month; no contract or setup fee Checked Nov 2026 | Prepaid account with no contract, minimum term or booking commission |
| Qlo | Hotels with technical staff that want open-source software they can modify | Self-Managed download free; Cloud Prime $16/mo billed yearly; Scale $28/mo; Starter Pack setup $749.99 once Checked Nov 2026 | Open-source PMS, booking engine and hotel website with full source code |
| Hotel | Technically capable owners who want free, modifiable hotel software | Software free under AGPL; booking engine module €10 incl. tax; hosting priced per year by units Checked Nov 2026 | AGPL-licensed PMS with POS, statistics and automatic room assignment |
| eviivosmb | Small hotels, B&Bs and rentals wanting PMS, website and channel manager together | Single property from $50/month, minimum applies; multi-property from $125/month; $0.50 per confirmed booking Checked Nov 2026 | All-in-one PMS with optional per-room modules and a 14-day free trial |
| Sabee | Independent hotels and hostels wanting PMS, channel manager and booking engine bundled | From €89/month for a 9-room hotel, excluding VAT; add-ons from €9/month; 14-day free trial Checked Nov 2026 | One subscription with unlimited users and 70+ OTA connections |
| Web | Independent hotels, inns and campgrounds wanting a flat per-unit cloud PMS | $10 per unit/month, $100/month minimum for 1–14 units; no setup fees; 150+ units contact sales Checked Nov 2026 | One per-unit price covering the full cloud PMS with no setup fee |
These comparisons draw on public product information, not hands-on testing of every tool. Source records identify available references and checks; missing evidence is marked. Buyer fit is an editorial assessment, not a measured performance score. How to use this research.
Hotel management software runs the core of a property: reservations, room assignment, check-in and check-out, guest folios, housekeeping and reports. For a B&B, guest house or small independent hotel, the cost of that software ranges from nothing to several hundred dollars a month, and most vendors price by room, unit or booking rather than by a flat plan. Many established hotel systems also publish no prices at all and sell only through quotes.
This comparison covers eight products that each publish a free option or a numeric entry price on their own pricing page. Every figure was read from the vendor’s page on 5 November 2026, and products whose prices could not be read from a vendor page were left out. The list is not ordered by price, and no product is presented as the lowest-cost choice, because room count, channel connections and payment fees change the real cost from one property to the next. Buyers who need quote-based platforms for larger hotels, groups or chains should see the broader hotel management software comparison.
Vendor details and trade-offs
Sirvoy is a cloud property management system, channel manager, booking engine and website builder used by hotels, B&Bs, hostels, apartments and campsites. Its pricing page uses a room-count selector and shows prices in euros, US dollars and seven other currencies, with a yearly billing option that saves 8 percent. For hostels and dorms, four beds count as one room.
At the one-room setting, three plans were displayed. Sirvoy Free costs €0 per month and is described as suited to solo hosts with one unit. It covers one room and up to five extras, a free website and direct booking engine, automated guest emails, and booking, pricing and room management. The page states that the Free plan has no add-ons and that its booking engine carries no commission or fees.
Starter costs €12 per month billed monthly or €11 billed yearly at the same setting. It adds invoicing and basic accounting tools, round-the-clock support by email, chat or phone, and automated SMS messages. Pro costs €44 per month or €41 billed yearly and adds the channel manager for Booking.com, Expedia, Airbnb, Agoda and Hostelworld, Google Hotel Ads, guest history and preferences, and team access with custom permissions. A further channel-connected property costs €20 per month on Pro.
The fit is a very small property that wants direct bookings first. A hotel that relies on OTAs should price Pro at its real room count.
Potential strengths
- Free plan has no booking commission or fees
- Starter adds invoicing tools and 24/7 human support
- Prices shown in nine currencies on the pricing page
Trade-offs
- Free plan covers only one room
- Channel manager for Booking.com, Airbnb and others requires the Pro plan
- Product reference
- Pricing source
- Billing terms: Monthly or yearly billing (yearly saves 8%); priced by number of rooms; hostels count 4 beds as 1 room
- Source review: checked Nov 5, 2026
- Vendor confirmation: not confirmed
Freetobook is an online booking system and property management system from a Glasgow-based company, aimed at hotels, B&Bs, self-catering rentals, hostels and glamping sites. Its pricing page states that the booking engine, diary and PMS are free, with no tie-in, no annual fee and no commission. The core system includes the direct booking engine, an easy booking diary, direct booking links for the property website, flexible occupancy pricing and booking source and occupancy reports.
Paid services are sold as separate add-ons, which the page calls Plus+ services. The channel manager, which connects to Booking.com, Expedia, Airbnb, Hostelworld and others, costs £1.50 per booking, with a minimum of £9 a month for zero to six bookings and a maximum of £99 a month for 66 or more. Direct bookings remain free, and each channel carries a one-off £49 connection fee.
Card Payments costs £139 a year, or £99 for a single unit. Messaging costs £89 a year, or £59 for a single unit. Google Bookings is £59 a year, with Google charging 7 percent of booking value on its ads option. The Reputation Suite is £7.50 a month paid annually or £15 paid monthly, card handling through FabPay starts at 0.4 percent per transaction, and dynamic pricing is quoted on application.
The model suits a small property that takes mostly direct bookings. A busy OTA-dependent hotel will reach the channel manager cap quickly.
Potential strengths
- Direct bookings carry no commission
- Channel manager fee is capped at £99 a month
- Add-ons are bought individually rather than in tiers
Trade-offs
- Each OTA connection costs £49 once
- Dynamic pricing is quoted on application
- Product reference
- Pricing source
- Billing terms: Core free; add-ons billed per booking, monthly or yearly as listed
- Source review: checked Nov 5, 2026
- Vendor confirmation: not confirmed
Beds24 is a cloud property management system, channel manager and booking engine used by hotels, guest houses, vacation rentals and multi-property agencies. Its pricing page states a scalable monthly fee from €15.50 per month, regardless of how many bookings the property receives, on a pay-as-you-go basis with no contract, no minimum term and no setup fees.
The fee for the PMS, channel manager and booking engine is calculated from the actual number of rentals, rooms, apartments or other units. The channel manager is charged per link at €0.55 per month, where one link connects one room type to one channel. Other options include SMS booking notifications at €0.10 per message, additional user log-ins at €2.00 per month and a private-label booking subdomain at €19.00 per month. A calculator on the page estimates the monthly fee from rooms, room types and channels.
Included at no extra cost are the PMS, automation tools, payment processing, a central inbox for Airbnb and Booking.com, automated guest and staff messaging, multi-property management, pricing and yield tools, a booking engine, a booking website and a mobile app. Accounts are prepaid like a phone top-up, and payments under €50 carry a small handling fee. Prices are quoted in euros, and EU customers without a valid VAT registration pay VAT.
Beds24 fits operators willing to configure a detailed system themselves, since its support runs through tickets, a forum and webinars.
Potential strengths
- No commission on bookings
- Many tools included at no extra cost
- Payment accepted in USD, AUD, CAD, EUR, GBP or NZD
Trade-offs
- Channel manager cost grows with each room type and channel connected
- Support is through tickets and a forum
- Product reference
- Pricing source
- Billing terms: Prepaid top-up account; monthly fee by room count; handling fee if a top-up is under €50
- Source review: checked Nov 5, 2026
- Vendor confirmation: not confirmed
QloApps describes itself as an open-source, free hotel booking and management system. The ecosystem includes a property management system, hotel website, booking engine and channel manager connections. Its pricing page splits options into self-managed software, cloud plans and managed hosting.
The Self-Managed option is a free download for developers and technical users who install, configure and run QloApps on their own server. The page lists it as free forever, with community support, no recurring licence fees and full source code access. A Starter Pack costs $749.99 as a one-time payment and adds server setup and installation, one month of support and free training for hotels without technical staff.
Cloud plans are priced by room count with monthly or yearly billing and a 17 percent yearly discount. At the page's default setting, Prime was shown at $16 per month billed yearly against $19.00, and covers the PMS with front desk, housekeeping, guest management and reports. Scale was shown at $28 against $33.00 and adds the booking engine, property website, online booking, payment gateway integration, promotions and dynamic pricing. Enterprise is quoted. Managed QloApps hosting is sold separately at $500, $1,000 or $1,500 a year by server size.
The free route suits a hotel that already pays for hosting and development. Others should compare the cloud price at their room count.
Potential strengths
- Self-Managed edition has no licence fee
- Full source code access
- Hosted cloud plans available for non-technical owners
Trade-offs
- Self-Managed users rely on community support
- Channel manager connectivity and mobile apps are sold as add-ons
- Product reference
- Pricing source
- Billing terms: Self-Managed free; cloud plans monthly or yearly with 17% yearly discount, priced by room count; hosting billed yearly
- Source review: checked Nov 5, 2026
- Vendor confirmation: not confirmed
HotelDruid is a free and open-source property management program developed by DigitalDruid.Net and released under the AGPL licence, which allows the code to be modified. The project's site states that it suits a range of properties, from bed and breakfasts or vacation rentals with a few apartments to hotels with hundreds of rooms. The latest release listed was version 3.0.8, dated 4 December 2025.
The software is web-based and runs from any connected device. Documented features include a configurable number of rooms, periods and rates; automatic room assignment by user-defined rules; extra costs, special offers and restrictions on rates; customised receipts, invoices and emails; multi-user access with privileges; a point of sale for bars and restaurants with inventory management; occupancy and revenue statistics; group bookings; backups; and a drag-and-drop calendar. The interface ships in English, Italian and Spanish, with modules for other languages.
The software itself can be downloaded and installed at no cost. DigitalDruid.Net also sells a hosting service billed as an annual fee calculated from the number of rooms or apartments; the page uses a calculator and no figure was recorded. Hosting includes the proprietary booking engine and channel manager modules, 300MB of webspace, SSL, daily backups and email support. The booking engine module is also sold separately for self-hosted installs at 10 euros including taxes.
HotelDruid suits an owner comfortable with a plain interface and self-managed setup.
Potential strengths
- No licence fee for the core software
- Includes a point of sale with inventory management
- Hosted option comes with booking engine and channel manager modules preinstalled
Trade-offs
- Interface languages limited to English, Italian and Spanish without extra modules
- Booking engine and channel manager modules are proprietary
- Product reference
- Pricing source
- Billing terms: Software free; hosting billed annually by number of rooms or apartments
- Source review: checked Nov 5, 2026
- Vendor confirmation: not confirmed
eviivo is an all-in-one property management system for hotels, motels, B&Bs, guest houses, hostels, apartments, cottages and other short-stay properties, including mobile units such as boats and motorhomes. Its pricing page shows prices in US dollars, pounds, euros, Swiss francs and Canadian dollars.
Single-property pricing starts from $50 per month, with a note that a minimum applies, and a 14-day free trial. Multi-property pricing starts from $125 per month, with a 30-day free trial. A quick-quote calculator asks for the number of properties and bedrooms. Optional extras are priced per room: Payment Manager adds $1, Guest Manager $3, Promo Manager $3, Performance Manager $2 and Owner Manager $3. The mobile app is included free. Prices exclude taxes and VAT, a processing fee of $0.50 applies per confirmed booking, and volume pricing above 10 rooms is by contact. Camping and RV sites receive special reduced pricing on request.
The core product bundles a Property Manager with booking calendar, instant confirmations and invoicing, payments, taxes and contactless check-in; a Website Manager with booking engine and template website; a Channel Manager with two-way OTA sync of rates, availability, photos and reviews; and a Payment Manager with level 1 PCI compliance.
eviivo suits a small property that wants its PMS, website and distribution from one supplier.
Potential strengths
- Published starting price for single and multi-property accounts
- 14-day free trial for a single property and 30 days for portfolios
- Mobile app included at no charge
Trade-offs
- A $0.50 fee applies to each confirmed booking
- Properties above 10 rooms are referred to sales for volume pricing
- Product reference
- Pricing source
- Billing terms: Monthly, priced by number of properties and bedrooms; prices exclude taxes and VAT
- Source review: checked Nov 5, 2026
- Vendor confirmation: not confirmed
SabeeApp is a cloud hotel management system that combines a property management system, channel manager and booking engine. Its pricing page states one monthly subscription with no per-user charge, no surprise licence fees and no long-term contract, and a 14-day free trial. The only factor that changes the core price is the number of rooms, beds or units. Private rooms count as one unit and dormitory beds as a quarter of a unit.
The calculator on the page showed €89 per month for a hotel with nine rooms, labelled as an indicative price excluding VAT, with final pricing confirmed for the buyer's setup. The page describes the slider as showing the price from month five. The core subscription includes the PMS, the channel manager with more than 70 OTA connections, the commission-free booking engine, the marketplace, unlimited user logins and a dedicated account manager.
Optional add-ons are billed separately from the first day. At the one-to-nine-room size, Smart Solutions for contactless check-in, guest feedback and smart locks costs €44 per month, Unified Inbox €29, Cash Drawer €9, an API connection €50, multi-company invoicing €39 and POSCloud €54. SabeePay charges 0.5 percent per transaction plus Stripe fees.
SabeeApp suits a small independent hotel or hostel that wants distribution and direct booking in the base subscription. Buyers should confirm the regular price after the first months.
Potential strengths
- No per-user charge
- Channel manager and booking engine included in the core price
- No long-term contract
Trade-offs
- Price shown is indicative and confirmed per setup
- Guest-facing tools such as online check-in cost extra
- Product reference
- Pricing source
- Billing terms: Monthly subscription priced by rooms, beds or units; no long-term contract; indicative price excluding VAT
- Source review: checked Nov 5, 2026
- Vendor confirmation: not confirmed
WebRezPro is a cloud property management system whose site lists versions for hotels and motels, inns and B&Bs, vacation rentals, hostels, campgrounds and RV parks, and multi-property operators. Its pricing page states that the PMS costs $10 per unit per month, with a minimum of $100 per month, and that one price covers everything needed to run the property in the cloud with no system setup fees.
Minimums rise by property size. Properties of one to 14 units pay at least $100 a month, 15 to 24 units at least $150, 25 to 49 units at least $250, 50 to 74 units at least $500, 75 to 99 units at least $750 and 100 to 149 units at least $1,000. At 150 units or more, the page shows a $1,500 minimum and asks the buyer to contact WebRezPro for pricing. Every band includes a payment gateway integration, and bands from 15 units up add between one and five free integrations of the buyer's choice.
Features listed within the base price include integrated accounting, gift vouchers, POS purchases, security profiles with two-factor authentication and regular software updates. Additional integrations beyond the included allowance are listed on the vendor's integrations page.
WebRezPro also appears on StatWharf's general hotel management software comparison. It fits a property of roughly 10 or more units, where the per-unit rate rather than the monthly minimum sets the bill.
Potential strengths
- Published per-unit price with no system setup fee
- Integrated accounting, gift vouchers and POS purchases listed in the base price
- Free integrations increase with property size
Trade-offs
- $100 monthly minimum applies even to very small properties
- Properties of 150 units or more contact sales
- Product reference
- Pricing source
- Billing terms: Per unit per month with banded monthly minimums; no system setup fees
- Source review: checked Nov 5, 2026
- Vendor confirmation: not confirmed
Frequently asked questions
What counts as affordable hotel management software on this page?
A product qualifies only if its own pricing page publishes a free option or a numeric entry price. Every figure was read from the vendor's page on 5 November 2026. Systems that price only by quote, or whose pricing page could not be read, were left out. The page does not order products by price or name any product the lowest-cost option, because room count, channels and payment fees change the total for each property.
Which products on this page have a free option?
Sirvoy offers a Free plan for one room with a website, booking engine and online payments. Freetobook makes its booking engine, booking diary and PMS free and charges only for add-ons. QloApps and HotelDruid are open-source systems that can be downloaded and self-hosted without a licence fee, with paid hosted options for buyers who prefer not to run servers.
Is a free hotel PMS enough for a small property?
It can be for a property that takes most bookings directly. Free plans usually omit or charge for the channel manager: Sirvoy keeps OTA connections on Pro, and Freetobook charges £1.50 per channel booking. Self-hosted open-source systems need hosting, backups and updates. A property that sells heavily through Booking.com or Expedia should price the paid distribution option before committing.
How do per-room prices affect the comparison?
Most systems here scale with inventory. Sirvoy's figures were shown for one room, SabeeApp's for nine rooms, and WebRezPro charges $10 per unit above a $100 monthly minimum. Beds24 adds €0.55 per channel link, and eviivo adds per-room extras. A 30-room hotel can therefore see very different totals from a three-room B&B, so each calculator should be run at the real room count.
What extra fees should a budget-conscious hotel check?
Booking and payment fees sit on top of subscriptions. eviivo lists $0.50 per confirmed booking, SabeePay charges 0.5% per transaction plus Stripe fees, Freetobook card handling starts at 0.4% per transaction, and Freetobook charges £49 per new channel connection. VAT is excluded from the eviivo and SabeeApp figures, and Beds24 charges EU VAT to customers without a valid VAT registration.
Does open-source hotel software cost nothing?
The licence costs nothing for QloApps and HotelDruid, but running the software does not. The hotel pays for a server, security updates, backups and technical help. QloApps sells a one-time $749.99 setup pack and managed hosting from $500 a year, and DigitalDruid.Net sells annual HotelDruid hosting priced by number of units.
How does this list differ from the general hotel management software comparison?
The general comparison covers platforms for independent hotels through chains, several of which price only by quote, such as Oracle OPERA Cloud, Mews, Cloudbeds and Stayntouch. This page includes only products with a published free option or entry price and adds Sirvoy, Freetobook, Beds24, QloApps, HotelDruid, eviivo and SabeeApp. WebRezPro appears on both.
How was this comparison compiled?
StatWharf Editorial compared eight hotel management systems using each vendor's public product and pricing pages, checked on 5 November 2026. Prices reflect what those pages showed on that date. No product was tested hands-on, and no vendor reviewed or confirmed its entry. Buyer fit is drawn from vendor documentation, not from a ranking.
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First published November 2026. Page update dates reflect editorial changes, not a fresh check of every vendor.