$149 a month. Per property. Not per room.
Unlimited rooms. Unlimited users. Every module — PMS, channel manager, booking engine, CRM, folio, payments, AI. $0 to set up. No sales call, no quote form, no per-room tax on compute that costs us nothing to add.
Everything, for any property of any size. Properties two and up are $99 each.
Monthly. Cancel any time. CAD, taxes extra.For properties in a community under 25,000 people. Self-serve at signup — no application, no hardship letter, no approval step.
Checked against published census population. Anyone can verify it.First 50 properties, locked for life. You get the price; we get design partners who will tell us the truth because they have skin in it.
Locked for as long as you stay subscribed.What does a room cost you?
Every incumbent in this category prices by room count. We price by property. Drag the slider and watch what that difference does over five years.
At 21 rooms you are paying them $13.33 a room.A 21-room property pays roughly $13.33 per room; an 80-room property pays $4.38. Identical software. The small independent subsidises the large one at about three times the rate — that gap is the entire reason this company exists.
Cloudbeds does not publish a price list, so their line is a reconstruction, and we say so. It is fitted to the only figures they have made public: tiers around $180, $220 and $320, roughly $15 per room at the small end, about $280 a month for a 21-room property, and $4.38 per room at 80 rooms. Implementation is modelled at $1,500, the low-middle of their published $500–$5,000 range. If you have a real quote that contradicts any of this, send it to us and we will correct the page.
The number that ends the conversation
A 21-room property, five years, same software category. Implementation is modelled at $1,500 — the low-middle of the published $500–$5,000 range. At the top of that range the gap is another $3,500.
| Cloudbeds (modelled) | Northdesk | You keep | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Implementation | $1,500 | $0 | $1,500 |
| Monthly | $280 | $149 | $131 |
| Per room, per month | $13.33 | $7.10 | $6.23 |
| Year one | $4,860 | $1,788 | $3,072 |
| Five years | $18,300 | $8,940 | $9,360 |
Why we can be this specific about them.Because they will not be. Cloudbeds, Little Hotelier, RoomRaccoon and Hotelogix are all quote-only or room-tiered, and the reason is that the number is embarrassing when you write it next to the room count. Every figure on this page is either ours — in which case it is exact — or theirs, in which case it is reconstructed from what they have published and labelled as such.
What it actually costs us to run your property
Flat pricing only works if nothing in our cost base scales with your room count. Here is the cost base. Not a single line moves when you add a room, which is exactly why nobody should be charging you per room.
| Line item | Per property / month | Scales with |
|---|---|---|
| Channel manager (Channex)Drops to ~$4 at volume. A separate $130/mo platform fee is company-wide, not per property. | $7 | Properties, not rooms |
| AI — guest agent, command bar, nightly ops briefSystem prompts are cached (reads ≈0.1× input) and everything non-realtime runs through the Batch API at half price. | $3–$10 | Conversations |
| AI — setup agentAmortised here as if it recurred, which overstates it. | $2–$5 | One-time, at onboarding |
| Email (SES / Postmark) | $1–$3 | Messages |
| SMS / WhatsApp (Twilio)The $15 end is a heavy-messaging property, not a typical one. | $5–$15 | Messages |
| Hosting, Postgres, background workers | $2–$5 | Bookings |
| Total cost of goods sold | $20–$40 | Nothing scales with rooms |
| What you pay | $149 | Flat |
| Our gross margin | 73–87% | Healthy, and now you know it |
Three caveats, since we are doing this properly.One: add up every line at its ceiling and you get $45, not $40. We model $40 because the property burning $15 of SMS is not also the one burning $10 of AI; the floor, $20, is a straight sum and needs no such argument. Two: a genuinely heavy WhatsApp property can push us to $50–$60 — that is what the published fair-use ceilings are for, and overage is billed at our cost. Three: Channex also charges a company-wide platform fee of about $130 a month that is not attributable to any one property, so it is not in the table.
Cheaper in small towns. No application, no letter, no approval.
If your property is in a community under 25,000 people, you pay $99. You tick a box at signup and we check it against published census population. There is no form to plead your case on, because the owner-operator we most want to help is proud and would never fill one in. Means-testing helps the least proud, not the most deserving. An objective rule anyone can check preserves everyone’s dignity and needs no gatekeeper.
Population rather than room count, deliberately: room-count tiering is ordinary volume pricing and nobody repeats it. “They charge less in small towns” is a sentence the operator in Kamloops says to the operator in Golden — and word of mouth between small-town owners is the most trustworthy channel either of us has.
All of it. There is no upgrade tier.
Module sprawl — PMS here, channel manager there, booking engine and payments billed separately — is how a published $180 becomes a real $400. There is one price and it contains everything.
The five commitments behind the number
- Your price never rises while you stay subscribed. In writing, in the contract. Every account carries its own price and the date it was locked, so a future list-price change reaches new customers only.
- One-click full export, documented and permanent. Every reservation, guest, folio line and rate, in open formats, whenever you want it. Leave whenever — take everything. We would rather win by being good than by being hard to leave.
- No implementation fee, ever. Photograph your room rack, your tariff sheet and your reservation book; the setup agent reads them and you approve what it found. An afternoon, not a project.
- Published fair-use ceilings. OTA message volume, AI usage and SMS are the only costs that move with how hard you use the product. The ceilings are published in bookings per month, and overage is priced at our cost, not at a markup.
- Payments are pass-through. Stripe 2.9% + $0.30 online, 2.7% + $0.05 in person. You are merchant of record on Stripe Connect Standard, so the money is yours before it is anyone else’s.
We reserve the right to change list pricing with 60 days’ notice — needed if a supplier moves under us — and that change reaches new subscriptions only. Existing accounts are grandfathered by default, which is a promise we can actually keep because every subscription carries its own price and its own lock date rather than reading a constant out of our code. Prices in CAD, exclusive of tax.