Mews alternative for small hotels and inns with a published price
Innkeeper is a Mews alternative for independent hotels, inns and B&Bs with 4 to 80 rooms that want a price they can read before a sales call. Mews quotes every hotel per room and shows no public rate card, and RoomMaster's review puts a 12-room property at about $300 a month for the Mews PMS. Innkeeper costs $49, $149 or $499 a month by room count, with channel sync, the booking engine, invoices and housekeeping on every plan, no setup fee and no contract.
Check the front desk yourself before any Mews demo call
Mews shows its PMS in a booked demo, and its pricing page asks you to talk to sales. Innkeeper opens the front desk screen right now. Replay a busy week at a small hotel, drag a stay to another room on the tape chart, and switch channel sync off and on to watch the conflict check stop a double booking.
- 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
- Housekeeping board and invoice preview for every stay, on every plan
Innkeeper vs Mews PMS at a glance
Mews is a cloud hospitality platform founded in Prague in 2012. Software Advice says it serves more than 15,000 customers in 85 countries and lists 60 reviews averaging 4.6, with praise for the modern interface and the integration marketplace. Its pricing page offers Mews Core, Mews Pro and Enterprise, priced per room on a quote.
| What you compare | Innkeeper | Mews PMS |
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| How price is set | Published, one price per property by size band | Per room, quote only, no public rate card |
| 12-room inn | $149 a month, or $74 a month paid yearly | About $300 a month for the PMS (RoomMaster) |
| 45-room hotel | $499 a month, or $249 a month paid yearly | About $1,050 to $1,250 a month before payments (RoomMaster) |
| Housekeeping board | Included on every plan | Mews Pro only, per its pricing page |
| Channel manager | Two-way sync included on every plan | Mews Channel Manager powered by SiteMinder, check your quote |
| Booking engine | Included, commission free | Mews Booking Engine |
| Revenue management | Rate rules and seasons included | Advanced RMS on Pro, Atomize about $400 to $475 a month (RoomMaster) |
| Payments | Online payments from the Hotel plan, your card processor's standard fee | Mews Payments, interchange plus 1.0% on Visa and Mastercard (RoomMaster) |
| Contract | Monthly or yearly, no lock-in | 2-year minimum commitment reported (Costbench) |
| How you see it | Live demo, no account or call needed | Booked demo with sales, no free trial |
Mews figures come from its own pricing page and from RoomMaster, Costbench and Software Advice, and they may differ from your quote. Every Innkeeper plan is on our hotel PMS pricing page, and the monthly cost by hotel size is worked out in our Mews pricing article.
Why owners of smaller hotels look for a Mews alternative
Mews is a strong platform, and many owners who leave it still like the screens. The reasons they give for comparing other PMS vendors usually come down to size and the shape of the bill.
The price only shows up in a quote
Mews prices by room, property type, country and the modules you add, and the quote also depends on your card volume through Mews Payments. A small hotel owner cannot budget the year until sales replies. Innkeeper publishes every plan, so a 25-room inn knows today that it pays $149 a month.
Housekeeping and automations sit on the upper plan
The Mews pricing page lists housekeeping and automations among the features only available in Mews Pro. For an inn with two housekeepers, the room status board is daily work, not an upgrade. Innkeeper includes the hotel housekeeping software on the $49 Inn plan.
Card fees and term length add up
RoomMaster reports Mews Payments at interchange plus 1.0% on Visa and Mastercard, 3.7% on Amex, $0.55 per stored card and $15 per chargeback, and Costbench reports a two-year minimum commitment. On $400,000 of card revenue, every 0.5% of extra processing margin is $2,000 a year.
Where Mews is the better pick
Be fair about it. A 100-room hotel, a hostel or long-stay operator, a group running several brands, or a property that wants POS, spaces and kiosks inside one platform will get more from Mews than from us. Its marketplace and open API are among the broadest in the market. If that is you, stay, and use this page to negotiate your renewal.
How to move from Mews to Innkeeper
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Export reservations and guest profiles
Export future reservations, guest profiles and open bills from Mews reports, and keep your channels connected there until the move is done.
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Import and check the tape chart
Upload the files to Innkeeper. Future stays land on the tape chart with guest, dates, room and total. On Boutique we run the import with you in an onboarding session.
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Connect channels and the booking engine
Connect Booking.com, Expedia, Airbnb and Google in Innkeeper and place the booking engine on your website, so direct bookings arrive without a commission.
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Switch over on a quiet night
Disconnect the OTAs from the old channel manager, confirm the next 90 nights of availability match in Innkeeper, run the first night audit, then give notice under your Mews agreement and check when stored guest cards stop working there.
Who should pick Innkeeper, and who should stay on Mews
Innkeeper fits owner-run hotels, country inns and B&Bs from 4 to 80 rooms that sell on two or more OTAs and want one predictable monthly price with channels and housekeeping included. Our pages on small hotel management software and bed and breakfast software show the daily routine at that size.
Stay with Mews if you run more than 80 rooms, need an integrated POS and spaces booking, run hostels or long stays at scale, or manage a portfolio across countries. A switch costs staff time, so it pays off when both the daily fit and the yearly bill are clearly better.
Mews alternative questions
What is a good alternative to Mews for a small hotel?
For an independent hotel, inn or B&B under 80 rooms, a good Mews alternative is a cloud PMS with a published price and channel sync and housekeeping included. Innkeeper does this from $49 a month for up to 10 rooms and $149 for up to 30. Larger hotels usually compare Mews with Cloudbeds, Stayntouch, RoomKey and Oracle OPERA Cloud.
How much does Mews PMS cost per month?
Mews does not publish prices and quotes each hotel per room. RoomMaster reports the PMS from about $300 a month, or $8 to $15 per room, rising to $15 to $25 or more per room with revenue management, POS and payments. Costbench reports a median contract of $6,600 a year from six buyer reports.
Does Mews include a channel manager?
Mews connects to OTAs through SiteMinder. Close to 3,000 hotels ran Mews and SiteMinder side by side, and the two companies announced Mews Channel Manager powered by SiteMinder inside Mews. Ask whether it is in your quote. Innkeeper includes two-way sync with Booking.com, Expedia, Airbnb and Google on every plan.
Is Mews good for a bed and breakfast?
Mews works for a bed and breakfast, but it is built for hotels, hostels and groups, and its quote, payments model and Pro-only housekeeping fit larger operations better. A B&B with 4 to 10 rooms usually gets more value from a PMS with a flat monthly price, such as Innkeeper's $49 Inn plan.
Can I switch from Mews without losing reservations?
Yes. Export future reservations and guest profiles from Mews, import them into the new PMS, connect your channels there, and only then disconnect the OTAs from the old setup. Check the next 90 nights of availability in both systems and collect card details again for future stays before you give notice.
Innkeeper plans for hotels leaving Mews
No setup fee, no per-room surcharge, no booking commission and no contract. Full details on the hotel PMS pricing page.
A hotel PMS with the price on the page
Create your account, import your reservations and run every channel and the housekeeping board from one calendar at one published price.