Innkeeper's Advantage alternative for B&Bs, inns and small hotels with channels in the plan
Innkeeper is an Innkeeper's Advantage alternative for B&Bs, inns and small hotels with 4 to 80 rooms that want the channel manager inside one plan price instead of a yearly fee per OTA. Plans cost $49, $149 or $499 a month by room count, with the booking engine, invoices and housekeeping included, no setup fee, no booking commission and no contract. Innkeeper (innkeeper.ai) is a separate company and is not affiliated with Innkeeper's Advantage.
Run a full week at your inn before you book any tour
Innkeeper's Advantage shows its system on a scheduled guided tour. Innkeeper's demo opens in one click. Replay a week at a small inn, drag a stay to another room on the tape chart, and switch channel sync off and on to watch a double booking appear and the conflict check stop it.
- Tape chart with 6, 8 or 12 room layouts and drag and drop between rooms
- Bookings from Booking.com, Expedia, Airbnb and your own website on one calendar
- Invoice preview for every stay with editable tax lines
Innkeeper vs Innkeeper's Advantage at a glance
Innkeeper's Advantage is a Pennsylvania company founded in 2007 with about 10 staff, according to Hotel Tech Report, where B&Bs and inns write most of its 34 reviews. It sells a website and reservation system in one package. Its own price page lists the plan from $69.95 a month, priced by rooms, channels, packages and add-ons, and each OTA connection at $160 a year. Check the figures in your own quote.
| What you compare | Innkeeper | Innkeeper's Advantage |
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| Published price | $49, $149 or $499 a month by room count | From $69.95 a month, rising with rooms, channels and add-ons |
| OTA channel connections | Included in the plan (4 channels on Inn, unlimited from Hotel) | $160 a year each for Booking.com, Expedia, Airbnb and TripAdvisor |
| Price for an 8-room B&B with 3 OTAs | $588 a year, or $288 paid yearly | about $1,320 a year at the starting price ($839 plan plus $480 in channel fees) |
| Website | Booking engine drops into the website you already have | Designed website with unlimited pages and a blog included in the plan |
| Domain, SSL, mailbox | Not needed for the PMS | $15 a year domain, $68 a year certificate, $3 a month per mailbox |
| Guest text messages | Automated guest emails from Hotel | From $32.50 a month as an add-on |
| Second property | Group plan | $20 a month for multiple property handling |
| Dynamic pricing | Rate plans and seasons from Hotel, AI rate suggestions on Boutique | Seasonal rates and yield management, plus PriceLabs and RoomPriceGenie connections |
| How you see it | Live demo, no account or call needed | Scheduled guided tour |
| Contract | Monthly or yearly, no lock-in | Monthly subscription |
Every plan and limit is on our hotel PMS pricing page. The yearly cost by property size is in our Innkeeper's Advantage pricing article.
Why innkeepers look for an Innkeeper's Advantage alternative
Innkeeper's Advantage has loyal users, a small US team that answers after hours and a website built for you as part of the plan. Owners who compare other systems usually mention three things.
Every OTA adds a line to the bill
The plan price covers the PMS and the website, but each channel connection is billed on top at $160 a year. A B&B on Booking.com, Expedia and Airbnb pays $480 a year in channel fees before any other add-on. Innkeeper puts channel sync in the plan, so adding Google or a fourth OTA does not change what you pay on the Inn plan, and Hotel and Boutique have no channel limit.
The website and the PMS come as one package
Having the vendor design your site is convenient until you want to change it yourself. Reviewers on Software Advice ask for more direct access to customize the website, and Hotel Tech Report reviewers say the guest booking screens look dated. Innkeeper keeps the two apart: the booking engine goes into the website you already own, so you can redesign the site or move hosts without touching reservations.
A tour before you can look around
Innkeeper's Advantage shows the product on a booked guided tour, and reviewers mention a learning curve for advanced settings and thin written help. Innkeeper's demo runs in any browser, including a phone, so you and your staff can test the calendar, channels and invoices on your own time before you pay.
Where Innkeeper's Advantage is the better pick
Be fair about it. If you need a new website and want one vendor to design and host it, Innkeeper's Advantage bundles that into the plan, which Innkeeper does not do. Its support scores are excellent (5.0 for support on Software Advice), it connects to PriceLabs, RoomPriceGenie and RemoteLock, and a very small B&B on one or two channels can come out close to our Inn plan paid monthly.
How to move from Innkeeper's Advantage to Innkeeper
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Export your data
Run the reservation and guest reports in Innkeeper's Advantage and save future stays and guest records as spreadsheets, or ask its support team for an export. Keep your OTA connections running there until the move is done.
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Import and check
Upload the files to Innkeeper. Future stays land on the tape chart with guest, dates, room and total, and guest profiles keep their history. On Boutique we run the import with you in an onboarding session.
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Connect channels and your website
Connect Booking.com, Expedia, Airbnb and Google in Innkeeper and place the booking engine on your website. If your current site is hosted by Innkeeper's Advantage, ask how to transfer the domain to a registrar you control before you cancel.
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Switch over
Disconnect the OTAs from Innkeeper's Advantage, confirm availability for the next 90 nights matches in Innkeeper, then end the subscription.
Who should pick Innkeeper, and who should stay
Innkeeper fits owner-run B&Bs, country inns, guesthouses and small hotels up to 80 rooms that already have a website, sell on several OTAs and want one plan price with channels included. Our pages on bed and breakfast software and inn management software show the daily routine.
Stay with Innkeeper's Advantage if you want the vendor to design and run your website, if you sell on one or two channels only, or if your team relies on its phone support and setup help. A switch costs staff time, so it pays off when both the daily fit and the yearly bill are clearly better.
Innkeeper's Advantage alternative questions
What is the best alternative to Innkeeper's Advantage?
For a B&B, inn or small hotel that already has a website, the best Innkeeper's Advantage alternative is a cloud PMS with the channel manager and a commission-free booking engine inside one monthly price. Innkeeper does this from $49 a month for up to 10 rooms. ResNexus, ThinkReservations, innRoad and Little Hotelier are other systems innkeepers compare.
How much does Innkeeper's Advantage cost?
Innkeeper's Advantage lists its plan from $69.95 a month on its price page, with the final price based on rooms, channels, packages and add-ons. Each OTA connection costs $160 a year, guest texting starts at $32.50 a month, and a domain, SSL certificate and mailbox are billed separately. Card processing is extra.
Is Innkeeper the same company as Innkeeper's Advantage?
No. Innkeeper (innkeeper.ai) is a separate hotel PMS with its own team and pricing and has no connection to Innkeeper's Advantage, which is based in Pennsylvania. The names are similar because both serve innkeepers. This page compares the two so you can choose with the numbers in front of you.
Does Innkeeper's Advantage include a channel manager?
Yes. Innkeeper's Advantage syncs availability with Booking.com, Expedia, Airbnb, TripAdvisor, Vrbo and Google, but its price page bills Booking.com, Expedia, Airbnb and TripAdvisor connections at $160 a year each. Innkeeper includes channel sync in every plan, with four channels on Inn and no limit on Hotel and Boutique.
Can I keep my website if I leave Innkeeper's Advantage?
The site is designed and hosted as part of the Innkeeper's Advantage plan, so ask the vendor in writing what happens to the design, the content and the domain when you cancel. Move the domain to a registrar you control first. Innkeeper's booking engine then works on any website you choose.
Innkeeper plans for inns leaving Innkeeper's Advantage
No setup fee, no booking commission, no per-channel fee and no contract on any plan. Full details on the hotel PMS pricing page.
Every channel in one plan price
Create your account, import your bookings and run Booking.com, Expedia and Airbnb from one calendar without a yearly fee per channel.