ThinkReservations alternative for B&Bs, inns and small hotels with a public price
Innkeeper is a ThinkReservations alternative for B&Bs, inns and independent hotels with 4 to 80 rooms that want to see the price before they talk to anyone: $49, $149 or $499 a month by room count, no setup fee, no annual contract, no booking commission, and a live demo you can open right now.
Test a full week at your inn before you book a sales call
ThinkReservations shows its product through a scheduled demo and a custom quote. Here you can open the live demo in one click and replay a normal week yourself. Send a reservation in from Booking.com, watch the same nights close on Expedia, Airbnb and your own website, move a stay to another room and see the conflict check block a double booking before it is saved.
- Tape chart with 6, 8 or 12 room layouts and drag and drop between rooms
- Channel sync on and off, so you can see how an overbooking happens and how it is stopped
- Invoice preview for every stay with editable tax lines
Innkeeper vs ThinkReservations at a glance
ThinkReservations is a well-regarded PMS built in the US for bed and breakfasts, inns and boutique hotels, and its reviewers consistently praise its support team. It does not publish prices. You request a demo, share your property details and receive a quote. The ThinkReservations column below uses what the company lists on its own site plus cost ranges reported by Roommaster, SelectHub and ITQlick, so confirm your own quote before you decide.
| What you compare | Innkeeper | ThinkReservations |
|---|---|---|
| Published price | Yes: $49, $149 or $499 a month by room count | No, quote-based after a demo |
| Typical monthly cost, small B&B | $49 for up to 10 rooms | Reported at about $100 to $250 a month |
| Setup and onboarding fee | None | Reported at about $500 to $2,000 for small properties |
| Try before you buy | Live demo, no account or call needed | Scheduled demo, no self-serve trial reported |
| Contract | Monthly or yearly, no lock-in | Reported month to month |
| Booking commission | None, on every plan | None reported |
| Channel manager | Included on every plan | Included |
| Booking engine | Included, commission-free | Included |
| Online payments and deposits | From the Hotel plan ($149) | Integrated payment processing |
| Door lock and accounting integrations | API and webhooks on Boutique | Listed as integrations |
| Dynamic pricing | AI rate suggestions on Boutique | Listed as a product |
| Best fit | Owner-run B&Bs, inns and hotels up to 80 rooms that want a clear, fixed bill | Inns and boutique hotels that want hands-on onboarding and phone support |
Every plan and limit is on our hotel PMS pricing page. For the full cost math, read our ThinkReservations pricing breakdown.
Why innkeepers look for a ThinkReservations alternative
ThinkReservations earns its good reviews. The reasons owners still shop around are usually about cost clarity and speed, not about the calendar.
You can't compare a price you can't see
With a quote-based vendor, the first number arrives after a call. That makes it hard to compare three systems on a Sunday evening, which is when most innkeepers actually do this work. Our plans are listed in full: Inn at $49 a month for up to 10 rooms, Hotel at $149 for up to 30 rooms and Boutique at $499 for up to 80 rooms, with twelve months for the price of ten when you pay yearly.
The first-year bill includes more than the subscription
Directories report a one-time setup and onboarding fee of about $500 to $2,000 for small properties, and data migration charged separately by volume. Roommaster estimates the first year for a 6 to 8 room B&B at roughly $1,700 to $2,800 all in. On Innkeeper, the same property pays $490 for a year on the Inn plan, and there is no setup fee to add on top.
Some owners want to click, not call
If you like a guided onboarding and a named person on the phone, that is a real strength of ThinkReservations. If you would rather open the product, import your bookings and be live by the weekend, a self-serve system fits better. Our Boutique plan still includes an onboarding session and a data import from your current PMS for teams that want help.
Automation gaps show up at scale
In Hotel Tech Report's review summary, automation is the area where ThinkReservations scores lowest with hoteliers. Innkeeper sends confirmation, pre-arrival and post-stay emails automatically from the Hotel plan and drafts replies to guest messages, so a two-person front desk spends less time typing the same answers.
How to move from ThinkReservations to Innkeeper
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Export your data
Export your future reservations and guest list from ThinkReservations as CSV files. Keep ThinkReservations 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 ThinkReservations side by side.
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Switch over
Disconnect the channels from ThinkReservations, confirm they are live in Innkeeper and end your old subscription at the close of its billing month.
Who should pick Innkeeper, and who should stay on ThinkReservations
Innkeeper fits bed and breakfasts, country inns, guesthouses and independent hotels with up to 80 rooms where one or two people run reservations and the owner signs the software bill. If that describes you, our pages on inn management software and bed and breakfast software walk through the daily routine in detail.
Stay with ThinkReservations if its support team is the reason you sleep at night, if you rely on its gift certificate, retail or door lock setup, or if you run a mixed property with vacation rentals and want one vendor who has done that many times. Switching systems has a real cost in time, and it is only worth it if the savings and the day-to-day fit are clear.
ThinkReservations alternative questions
What is the best alternative to ThinkReservations?
For a B&B or inn that wants a published price, the best ThinkReservations alternative is a PMS that includes a channel manager and a commission-free booking engine with no setup fee. Innkeeper does this from $49 a month for up to 10 rooms. Cloudbeds, Little Hotelier, ResNexus and WebRezPro are other systems innkeepers compare.
How much does ThinkReservations cost?
ThinkReservations does not publish prices and quotes each property after a demo. Directories report about $100 to $250 a month for a small B&B, plus a one-time setup and onboarding fee of about $500 to $2,000. Payment processing is billed separately per transaction.
Does ThinkReservations have a free trial?
No self-serve free trial is reported. You request a demo, share your property details and receive a custom quote. Innkeeper lets you open a live demo of the full calendar, channel sync and invoicing without an account or a sales call, then create an account when you are ready.
Can I import my reservations from ThinkReservations?
Yes. Export future reservations and guests from ThinkReservations as CSV and upload them to Innkeeper, where they land on the calendar with their guest profiles. On the Boutique plan we run the import with you in an onboarding session, so nothing is retyped by hand.
Is Innkeeper cheaper than ThinkReservations?
For most small properties, yes. A 10-room inn pays $490 a year on Innkeeper's Inn plan with no setup fee. Reported ThinkReservations costs for a similar property are about $1,200 to $3,000 a year, plus onboarding. At 30 rooms and up the gap narrows.
Innkeeper plans for properties leaving ThinkReservations
Hotel
Monthly
$149
- Yearly
- $1,490
- Rooms
- up to 30 rooms
Boutique
Monthly
$499
- Yearly
- $4,990
- Rooms
- up to 80 rooms
No setup fee, no booking commission and no contract on any plan. Full details on the hotel PMS pricing page.
See your price before the sales call
Create your account, import your ThinkReservations bookings and run every channel from one calendar for one published price.