Little Hotelier alternative for B&Bs, inns and small hotels with no booking fee
Innkeeper is a Little Hotelier alternative for B&Bs, inns and independent hotels with 4 to 80 rooms that want one flat monthly price and no percentage taken from their bookings: $49, $149 or $499 a month by room count, no setup fee, no annual contract and no booking fee on any plan.
Run your week in the demo before you cancel anything
Open the live demo and replay a normal week at your property. Send a booking in from Booking.com, watch the same nights close on Airbnb, Expedia and your own website, then drag the stay to another room and see the conflict check stop a double booking before it is saved. You can do all of it without an account or a sales call.
- Tape chart with 6, 8 or 12 room layouts and drag and drop between rooms
- Channel sync on and off, so you can see exactly how an overbooking happens
- Invoice preview for every stay with editable tax lines
Innkeeper vs Little Hotelier at a glance
Little Hotelier, part of SiteMinder, is a well-known PMS for small properties with a strong channel manager and a good mobile app. Its entry price is lower than ours. The catch is on the Basics plan: directories and reviewers report a 1% fee on every reservation on top of the subscription. The Little Hotelier column below uses figures reported by Capterra, Roommaster and other review sites, because Little Hotelier calculates your price from your room count and region, so confirm your own number on its pricing page.
| What you compare | Innkeeper | Little Hotelier |
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| Entry price | $49 a month for up to 10 rooms | Basics reported at about $29 to $39 a month, varies by rooms and region |
| Booking fee on reservations | None, on every plan | Basics reported at 1% of every booking, including OTA bookings |
| Plan without a booking fee | Every plan | Pro, reported from about $109 a month |
| Setup fee | None | None reported on Basics |
| Contract | Monthly or yearly, no lock-in | Monthly, no lock-in |
| Channel sync | Included on every plan | Included on every plan |
| Booking engine | Included, commission-free | Included on every plan |
| Online payments and deposits | From the Hotel plan ($149) | From the Pro plan |
| Dynamic pricing | AI rate suggestions on Boutique | Revenue Optimiser plan, custom quote |
| Best fit | Owner-run B&Bs, inns and hotels up to 80 rooms that want a flat bill | Very small properties with low booking revenue, or those already on SiteMinder |
See every plan and limit on our hotel PMS pricing page, and read our Little Hotelier pricing breakdown for the math behind the booking fee.
Why B&Bs and inns look for a Little Hotelier alternative
Most owners who search for a replacement are not unhappy with the calendar. They are unhappy with the bill, and the bill grows every time the property has a good month. A percentage fee is easy to miss when you sign up and hard to miss once you do the math at the end of a busy summer.
A 1% fee is a revenue share, not a small extra
Take an 8-room B&B that books $150,000 a year in room revenue. A 1% fee on those reservations is $1,500 a year, before the subscription. Add $29 to $39 a month for Basics and the software costs roughly $1,850 to $1,970 a year. Innkeeper's Inn plan costs $588 a year paid monthly, or $490 paid yearly, whatever your revenue is. The better your year, the wider that gap gets.
Moving to Pro fixes the fee but not the price
Little Hotelier's answer to the fee is the Pro plan, which drops the booking fee and adds payments and rate intelligence. It is reported from about $109 a month for a small property, so the flat option costs more than twice our Inn plan. Innkeeper has no fee on any plan, so the plan you pick depends only on your room count.
One price you can read today
Our Inn plan covers up to 10 rooms for $49 a month, Hotel covers up to 30 rooms for $149 and Boutique covers up to 80 rooms for $499. Pay yearly and you get twelve months for the price of ten. The number on the pricing page is the number on the invoice, and it does not move with your occupancy.
How to move from Little Hotelier to Innkeeper
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Export your data
Export your future reservations and guest list from Little Hotelier as CSV files. Keep your Little Hotelier account running until the move is finished, so no booking falls through the gap.
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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 your channels
Connect Booking.com, Expedia, Airbnb and Google and place the booking engine on your website. Compare availability for the next 90 nights against Little Hotelier side by side.
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Switch over
Disconnect the channels from Little Hotelier, confirm they are live in Innkeeper and cancel your old plan at the end of its billing month.
Who should pick Innkeeper, and who should stay on Little Hotelier
Innkeeper fits bed and breakfasts, country inns, guesthouses and independent hotels with up to 80 rooms where one or two people run reservations and a percentage of revenue feels wrong. If that is you, our pages on bed and breakfast software and inn management software go deeper into the daily routine.
Little Hotelier can be the cheaper choice if your property is very small and books little revenue, because a 1% fee on $30,000 a year is only $300. It also makes sense if you already use other SiteMinder products and want one vendor, or if its mobile app is the tool your team lives in. We would rather say so now than have you switch for the wrong reason.
Little Hotelier alternative questions
What is the best alternative to Little Hotelier?
For a B&B or small hotel that wants a flat price, the best Little Hotelier alternative is a PMS that includes channel sync and a booking engine with no fee per booking. Innkeeper does this from $49 a month for up to 10 rooms, with no setup fee and no contract. Cloudbeds, ThinkReservations and RoomRaccoon are other options owners compare.
Does Little Hotelier charge a booking fee?
Yes, on its Basics plan. Review sites and directories report a 1% fee on every reservation, including bookings from OTAs, on top of the monthly subscription. The Pro plan, reported from about $109 a month, removes the booking fee. Innkeeper charges no booking fee on any plan.
How much does Little Hotelier cost per month?
Little Hotelier calculates the price from your room count and region. Directories report Basics at about $29 to $39 a month plus a 1% booking fee, and Pro from about $109 a month with no booking fee. Revenue Optimiser is quoted. Innkeeper costs $49, $149 or $499 a month.
Can I import my reservations from Little Hotelier?
Yes. Export future reservations and guests from Little Hotelier as CSV and upload them to Innkeeper, where they are placed on the calendar with their guest profiles. On the Boutique plan we run the import with you in an onboarding session.
Is Innkeeper cheaper than Little Hotelier?
It depends on your booking revenue. Once a property books more than about $12,000 to $24,000 a year, the 1% Basics fee plus the subscription typically costs more than Innkeeper's flat $49 Inn plan. Compared with Little Hotelier Pro, Innkeeper Inn costs less than half.
Innkeeper plans for properties leaving Little Hotelier
Hotel
Monthly
$149
- Yearly
- $1,490
- Rooms
- up to 30 rooms
Boutique
Monthly
$499
- Yearly
- $4,990
- Rooms
- up to 80 rooms
No booking fee and no commission on any plan. Full details on the hotel PMS pricing page.
Keep your booking revenue
Create your account, import your Little Hotelier reservations and run every channel from one calendar for one flat price.