Escapia

RATING:

4.5

(147)

About Escapia

Escapia is a proven, full-featured vacation rental software offering business guidance you can trust and automation to simplify. With innovative tools backed by Expedia Group data, it’s never been easier to optimize your property management business. Escapia also has strong core functionality such as trust accounting, rates management, guest communications, reservation calendar, distribution, housekeeping, owner portal, & more. Escapia is one of the most trusted and widely used vacation rental software solutions in the industry.

Escapia Pricing

Pay a flat monthly fee based on the number of properties you manage. No percentage fees per booking, no additional cost for listing on Vrbo, no surprises — pricing you can plan for. Pricing starts at $9 per unit based on a 100-unit customer. Contact us for your custom pricing quote!

Starting price: 

$10.00 per month

Free trial: 

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Free version: 

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Escapia Rates Manager (All-New!)
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Escapia Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

4.5

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for Escapia

1 - 5 of 148 Reviews

Cristina

Hospitality, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed February 2024

Escapia Review 2024

Our overall experience has been a good one. I know there will always be hiccups along the way, but being able to reach out to a responsive support team is critical. So if it wasn't for the Escapia support team coming to the rescue during those times, my rating would probably not be as good.

PROS

Easy to use and customer support is awesome and agents have always been professional and kind.

CONS

Over the last 2 years, I've learned a lot of different features in Escapia but learned new things along the way.

Reasons for switching to Escapia

We were forced to make the change since V12 was going to be obsolete.

Melanie

Hospitality, 51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed February 2023

Solid Property Management Software with Excellent Trust Accounting

I have been using Escapia for 5 years now and overall it has saved us an incredible amount of hours we used to spend doing things manually. It does take a considerable amount of time to setup automations, owner contracts, etc. and just learn all the ins and outs in general. However, their implementation teams are extremely helpful and knowledgeable and they have great training articles and videos.

PROS

The trust accounting capabilities within the system has greatly improved the speed and accuracy in which we complete our month end accounting procedures, and also provides our owners with very detailed financial statements. Also their integration/mapping with Vrbo is second to none.

CONS

They are working on a lot of new features and improvements which is very exciting. However, sometimes they announce them way too early in my opinion and they should instead have a solid launch date to provide before announcing.

Reason for choosing Escapia

Recommendations from colleagues, price, and distribution/integration with popular vacation rental booking sites.

Reasons for switching to Escapia

RDP is quite antiquated and did not have good distribution to vacation rental booking sites.

Gerardo

Hospitality, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed March 2022

Excellent PMS but needs modernizing

We used Escapia for more than 8 years but we had to always rely on third party solutions to connect with Airbnb, Inntopia and even our own website, so we decided to move away to a more modern and friendly solution. Bit don’t get me wrong, Escapia even though dated is extremely well designed and work very well.

PROS

The accounting, housekeeping and work order modules are incredibly well designed.

CONS

The pricing module is not friendly and cumbersome. Doesn’t have a direct connection with Airbnb and doesn’t have a built in website solution

Reason for choosing Escapia

Escapia offered better support and it was a more natural step up for FRS users.

Reasons for switching to Escapia

FRS was dated as it was DOS based, but in my opinion it was (is) the best PMS ever made.

Jeremy

Real Estate, 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed February 2024

Essential Software for Vacation Rentals

Escapia has evolved over the years, so much so, that I believe we stuck with the right software and appreciate how modules have been updated and improved. Still more to go in my opinion but it is making my job easier as time goes by. Thank you.

PROS

Support Team is outstanding - friendly, efficient and patient saints!

CONS

Inflexible in certain areas. We have had to make accommodations to the software in order to satisfy our business model: (i.e. when it comes to managing 30 day rentals, the calendars and rates need to be closely monitored; we pay our internal reservations a commission based on rent revenue and had to devise a way to track this over and above 3rd party agent commissions; we have policies that differ by property and some functionality must be universal for all properties.

Dinah

Hospitality, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed February 2024

Why we left...and came back.

We, know well what we are working with and the issues that Escapia has. The benefits of the use of Escapia, far out weigh the "gremlins" in Escapia. Customer support is great service.

PROS

Escapia is all inclusive, from bookings to owner payouts. It has everything needed for guests, business and owners.

CONS

The "Gremlins"...Escapia has them, make no mistake about knowing that they are in the program. We actually left Escapia after 10 years of use, to purchase a booking platform that was a one and done upfront cost. We stayed only 3 months using that booking platform and came back to Escapia. For us, it was the devil you know, vs. the devil you don't. Escapia does have 95% of what we need.

Reasons for switching to Escapia

Switch was done 3 months prior to my husband I purchasing the company from another family member.