Smoobu

RATING:

4.5

(177)

About Smoobu

Smoobu is an online vacation rental solution designed to help businesses streamline processes related to reservations, communications, guest experience and more. It comes with a channel manager, which lets users connect the platform with third-party rental channels such as Airbnb, Agoda, Expedia or Booking.com and automatically sync data such as minimum stay, prices and more. Smoobu comes with a reservation system, which provides a centralized dashboard to add bookings or blocked dates, share calendars with employees and export bookings as CSV tables. Businesses can utilize the platform to create vacation rental homepages or websites and integrate photos, videos occupancy calendar or locations of accommodations using Google maps. Smoobu provides a unified inbo...

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Smoobu Pricing

At Smoobu you pay just once for all features! For your first property you pay as little as 23.20€ p/month for the two yearly plan OR 29€ for the monthly plan. Each additional property is only 7.2€ on the two yearly plan OR 9€ p/month on the monthly plan respectively.

Starting price: 

€23.20 per month

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Not Available

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Smoobu 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 Smoobu

1 - 5 of 176 Reviews

Cheryl

Hospitality, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed November 2022

Highly recommend Smoobu - even if you are a small operator

Smoobu Customer Service is Fantastic! I always get a quick response, and they never make me feel 'dumb' - because sometimes I ask some off-the-wall questions! I highly recommend Smoobu to all vacation rental owners. We only have 2 units, and we couldn't do it without them!

PROS

What we like most about the software: ease of use, communication templates/scheduling of messages, ability to update rates and they immediately update across all connected OTAs, ability to set % increases on OTAs over our direct book rates, Digital Guest Guidebook (& how easy it is to customize regarding what guests see before, during & after their stays), & the ability to nest units. There's more to like out the software, but these are the top items on our list.

CONS

Always looking for more features, but what they already have far exceeds previous channel managers I've used.

Reasons for switching to Smoobu

Beds24 lacked superior Customer Service, and they charged by OTA, versus by unit.

Anonymous

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed October 2023

Good for small company

Overall a good experience. We used Smoobu, untill we started hiring Customer Service staff and they needed a centralized communication terminal that when we switched. For most entrepreneurs who runs Airbnbs it works great, in many wasy more simple than other solutions on the market. I wish they did make the SMS automation work, I wish full API integration with VRBO worked as well. But you cant get everything.

PROS

Price is the best. It does basic things like it will keep all your listings in sync. Forget about centralized messaging, because certain things just won't sync like VRBO. But for small operators 1-5 peroperties it works great, and price you can't beat

CONS

no full API integration with VRBOlack of SMS automationsCustomer Service doesn't existi, you can create a ticket they will answer next week

Reasons for switching to Smoobu

sms automationcentral messagingVRBO full api integrationCustomer Service

Anonymous

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

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

OVERALL RATING:

2

EASE OF USE

2

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed May 2021

Not what it used to be

This was a great PMS two years ago, not anymore.

PROS

When we first started testing different vacation rental software, Smoobu stood out as a great option, seamless and quick. But it has only been downhill from there. Their development team has made the interface clunky, their servers are down often, my team now hates Smoobu.

CONS

Extremely slow interface in 2021. If you manage more than 10 listings, please do not use this software. We had previously used Hostaway and Lodgify. We have had more double bookings with Smoobu by far than with any other PMS.

Allan

Hospitality, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed March 2021

Tokeet to Smoobu

Overall, our experience has been great. We have lost a couple of features, however what we have gained far outweighs this. Customer support also very kindly offered to import existing direct bookings which was very helpful.

PROS

The features that drew us to Smoobu were the automated messaging, Igloohome integration, the guest guide/portal and the additional option selling.

CONS

I would say the only negative point we have so far is the handling/recording of invoices. Payments need to be recorded manually, whereas Tokeet would handle this automatically and made it very easy to schedule invoices, and track sent, outstanding and paid invoices.

Reason for choosing Smoobu

Price was the main motivation, as I feel Smoobu provides the best level of functionality in the price bracket.

Reasons for switching to Smoobu

To improve integration with third party services, improve our automation functionality and provide a better customer experience for our guests.

Luke

Hospitality, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed June 2021

Great channel manager!

with previous channel manager, I have used in the past, there were missing one most important think for me, mobile compatibility, which smoobu has and its working perfectly

PROS

Mobile friendly and customer support where the key factor for me

CONS

do not have it at the moment, its working perfectly for me

Reason for choosing Smoobu

customer support, more clear fees, and personly more user friendly.

Reasons for switching to Smoobu

user friendly and mobile compatibility