Lodgify Software

Pros

A one stop holiday rental portal that can offer a channel manager, reservation system, rates setup, booking calendar, reviews and website.

Cons

Rates and promotions can be a little tricky to set up but with assistance from customer support I was able to implement it. They even sent me a personal video to explain how to do it. Best customer service I've ever experience.

It's a good adjunct for online marketing.

Pros

The best part of the product is the design of the website templates. The back end system is good but not great. Syncing the reservation calendar with airbnb and vrbo is great!

Cons

Reservations Calendar is not particularly intuitive. The color of the calder on the website is confusing - white is booked and blue is available. Should be opposite a few people have been confused by this thinking we're booked when we're not.

Pros

Very cheap. Does what was promised. Exactly what i was looking for! Guest and other alternatives too it were either chunky or too expensive and leaves little to our bottom line.

Cons

Didn't like how i had to get seperate channel manager (outswitch) because iCal sync was too slow in syncing so there were a few cases of double bookings which was the worst.

Pros

It integrates the various calendars from different platforms and allows you to see the calender in one single page.

Cons

The interface isn't particularty good and have encountered many bugs. On top of the that, many features aren't well integrated. When I added booking.com as a channel, the software for some reason found it necessary to change my minimum number of nights per stay to 1, which is highly unprofitable. In the next 2 days, I received 5 bookings for 1 night, which booking.com won't allow me to cancel. I will now loose hundreds of euro + a lot of time with these bookings.

Pros

Instinctive functionality, fast processing, easy to use rates and calendar settings plus nice looking display features

Cons

Templates can be a bit restrictive on design and copy layout and could do with more direct links for channel manager listings.

More bookings and online presence.

Pros

The aspects I like most about using Lodgify is its user friendly interface and website management tools. The overall quality of the website looks very profession and it is easy for our prospective clients to navigate.

Cons

The aspect that I least like about this software is the inability to prevent bookings too far in the future. For instance, I would like to prevent instant bookings for more than 1 year in advance.

can run our rental company

Pros

gives a good overview in the calendar view
easy for guests to make the bookings
easy to update the sections

Cons

Missing the ability to allow for discounted rates when the guests are booking. For instance we offer our returning guests a 10% discount and 10% discount if they book more than one cottage, but there does not seem to be a way of handling this

Pros

Lodgify is good software , easy to use with a helpful panoramic overall.
Customer support is excellent
It is 100% customizable and offer a wide rage of solution

Cons

Sometimes the sotfware crash and the change are not saved.
No other problems now, it works well and it is much helpful for me

All bookings in one place.

Pros

Value for your money. Great customer service even sometimes in my language. Nice templates. Great to be able to send quotes from my website.

Cons

Sometimes the navigation is confusing. The mobile version could be better. There s no iDeal payment option available

Pros

It was relatively easy to get a site up and running. And paying a monthly fee is also good to start with

Cons

Because it didn't integrate with booking.com we had to disable the booking facility and instead request to book.

Because it's reliable, I can forget about it working in the background.

Pros

Reliability. I wish they also provided a pricing software package too, so that I could have everything in one place, reliably so!

Pros

We love the easy of use, robust features and most importantly the fantastic customer service. Their customer support team is always incredibly responsive and are always looking to go the extra mile.

Cons

Definitely geared more to the European user (currency defaults; other language issues) and templates they offer do have some limitations re: picture placement.

Good product for the intended purpose of setting up a lodging website.

Pros

Ability to easily make changes and modifications as necessary. Bookings are simple to process. Email notifications of client activity a plus.

Cons

Takes some time getting used to Pages formatting. Could be more intuitive. Auto publish of changes would be nice.

Pros

It's a all in one website plus reservation system. There are several templates and they are easy to use. I love that someone can make a reservation and this will also update the calendar.

Cons

It's more for vacation properties versus retreat properties. It would be great if the software could also incorporate events.

Pros

The software has choices such as having a calendar that tells consumers if the dates are available they are interested in. This allows them to make their plans and arrange their trip around the availability of our vacation spot. It had templates to use to initially set the site up. It also has prices for extras you may supply at an extra fee like our boat or kayak service. There is a photo gallery that allows you to get the true picture of a thousand words before your perspective clients. You can add discounts and local attractions to let future guests know they will have a full vacation experience including all the bells and whistles. You can also add in discounts that can be automatically figured into their quote. Unlike other sites, it allows you to give your phone number so coustomers can deal directly with you. You have the opportunity to have coustomers book directly or contact you at an email address. This is also something that other sites do not allow until payment and fees have been collected by their company.

Cons

The main problem I have is that I am located in Texas. The company is there to walk me through any issues I have but there is a time change difference. This is better now with representation texting messages on the bottom of the screen in real time.

time saving, quick overview

Pros

I like most the 6-month-calender with its brillant overview of available and already booked apartments!
It is easy to coordinate, to check capacities, to adapt prices and react to the current situation in our city.

Cons

For the customers it is not possible to book more apartments at only one step. They have to send a booking request for every apartment.
For me it is difficult to get these bookings into only one booking at the system.

Pros

User friendly
Lots of photos able to be uploaded and good control how you use the photos.
All the areas of description have good amount of character space.

Cons

Not too much not to like but did take some time to get the hang of, but compared to other sites I use to advertise our house it was much easier.

Pros

It is easy to use, support team is responsive and efficient, great tool for someone starting renting properties and does not have the knowledge, or capacity to build its own website.

Cons

There are only a few tweaks that could be improved. Like photo size that adapts to website site, and the translation features can be tricky. But these are really minor issues.

Pros

Lodgify custom website is really the best value considering how easy it's to set up, maintain and update the calendar. There is a 2 way integration with AirBnB, integration with credit card processing.

Cons

I wish there would be a way to collect at guest arrival and hold a security deposit with an easy refund if there is no claim. The reviews raitings are not shown on google search. Having these 5stars would increase website search ranking. I wish there would be 2 way calendar integration with other sites like HomeAway or Trip Advisor. But 1 way calendar sync to these sites works well.

The ability to properly manage bookings with ease. Very user friendly.

Pros

Customer service response rate is high and gives user peace of mind that all queries/concerns will be addressed. I appreciate the upgraded calendar view(s) and function updates made to it recently.
Good value for the price.

Cons

One limitation is that non developers are unable to customize the design and function of their website and have to work with the few templates provided.
Currently there isn't a mobile app allowing users to manage reservations from their phones. Instead uses are expected to login via browser on a device, which can be cumbersome.