# Beds24 review (2026): is it worth €15.50 a month? > Pay-as-you-go channel manager and PMS for rentals and small hotels Checked Oct 24, 2026 · graded Oct 24, 2026 by ToolGPA. Beds24 is cloud software for vacation rentals, hotels, B&Bs, hostels and agencies that combines a property management system, a channel manager for 60+ booking sites and a commission-free booking engine. It has no plans: accounts are paid from prepaid credit, with a small base fee, a charge per room and a charge for each channel connection. It has been sold since 2005. - **Category:** Vacation Rental Software - **Made by:** Beds24 GmbH (since 2005) - **Website:** https://beds24.com - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Watch out: prices are in euros, and top-ups under €50 carry a small handling fee. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 24, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 24, 2026, Beds24 is a paid product with a free trial, starting at €15.50 per month for 1 room, paid from prepaid credit. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 14-day free trial of a fully working account, no credit card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Pay as you go | €15.50 per month for 1 room, paid from prepaid credit | A €12.90 base account plus €2.60 per room, with the PMS, booking engine and inbox included. €38.90 a month at 10 rooms, before channel links. | Read from https://beds24.com/en/pricing/pricing on Oct 24, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Beds24 before buying. ## Key features - **Channel manager:** Two-way API connections to Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, Vrbo and 60+ channels, with iCal sync and Google Hotel Ads, TripAdvisor and Trivago links. - **Booking engine:** A commission-free, multi-language booking page or widgets for your own site, with extras, promo codes and a WordPress plugin. - **Front desk PMS:** A drag-and-drop booking calendar, check-in and check-out, inventory controls such as closed to arrival, invoices and customizable dashboards. - **Guest messaging:** A central inbox for two-way Airbnb and Booking.com messages, triggered messages through each stay, and WhatsApp and SMS messages to guests. - **Pricing rules and yield:** Seasonal, occupancy-based and linked prices, gap fillers and a yield optimizer that adjusts nightly rates by availability. - **Agencies and API:** Multi-property and agency functions, owner accounts, multiple users with access control, and an open API. ## Good for - Owners and small hotels who want to pay only for the rooms they have - Mixed portfolios of rentals, B&Bs, hostels and hotel rooms - Agencies that manage properties for several owners ## Worth knowing - Prices are quoted in euros. Payment can be made in dollars and other currencies, and top-ups under €50 carry a small handling fee. - The channel manager costs €0.55 a month per link, one room type on one channel, on top of the room fee. - Extras cost more: extra user logins €2 a month, a private-label subdomain €19 a month, SMS €0.10 each, onboarding from €79. - Billing is prepaid like a phone top-up, with no contract; the account stops after the 14-day trial unless credit is added. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 24, 2026. Beds24 puts a property system, a channel manager for 60+ booking sites and a commission-free booking engine in one account, for rentals, B&Bs, hostels and small hotels. There are no plans: you top up prepaid credit in euros and pay €12.90 a month plus €2.60 a room. Channel links, extra logins, SMS and onboarding all cost extra, and the account stops after the trial unless you add credit. - **Value for money: C.** €15.50 a month for one room, a €12.90 base plus €2.60 a room, which in dollars sits just above this category's cheaper quarter ($15.99). Channel links are €0.55 each on top. At 10 rooms it's €38.90 a month before links. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A 14-day trial of a full account with no card needed. There's no free plan, and the account stops when the trial ends unless you add credit. - **Features: B.** A booking calendar with check-in and inventory controls, two-way links to 60+ channels, a commission-free booking engine, an inbox with WhatsApp and SMS, pricing rules with a yield optimizer, owner accounts and an open API. That covers the whole job. - **Ease of use: C.** No app-store rating on record. You set up rooms, room types and a link for each channel, and pay from prepaid credit, so there's a fair amount to configure. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android, an open API and a WordPress plugin, with links to Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, Vrbo, Google Hotel Ads, TripAdvisor and Trivago. There's no desktop app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Beds24's own pages on 24 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among vacation rental tools - Beds24's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 5 of the 10 other vacation rental tools we grade, and level with 2. - It stands best on features (B, above 2 of 10) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at about $17.37 a month, against a middle price of $22.76 for the category: 2 of the 7 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/vacation-rentals ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Beds24 you would be making two-way connections to Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $208.43 a year. - You could make: Invoicing and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Two-way connections to Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo. - You could not: One mailbox that several people work at once. - You could not: The WhatsApp Business API, which Meta opens only through approved partners. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Airbnb, Booking.com and Expedia among them, and has an API. - You could not: Hooks into the device itself: widgets. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, Vrbo, Google Hotel Ads, TripAdvisor, Trivago, WordPress **Tags:** Channel manager, Shared inbox, Invoicing, WhatsApp messaging, Reports, Public API ## Alternatives - [Smoobu](https://toolgpa.com/tools/smoobu): Vacation rental channel manager and booking system, priced by unit. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/beds24-vs-smoobu) - [Tokeet](https://toolgpa.com/tools/tokeet): Vacation rental PMS priced per rental, now sold as AdvanceCM. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/beds24-vs-tokeet) - [Lodgify](https://toolgpa.com/tools/lodgify): Vacation rental software with a direct booking website builder. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/beds24-vs-lodgify) - [Hostaway](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hostaway): Vacation rental PMS and channel manager for property managers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/beds24-vs-hostaway) - [Guesty](https://toolgpa.com/tools/guesty): Property management software for short-term rental hosts and managers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/beds24-vs-guesty) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 24, 2026: - https://beds24.com - https://beds24.com/en/pricing/pricing - https://beds24.com/en/using-beds24/faq - https://beds24.com/en/company/about - https://beds24.com/en/company/impressum - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/beds24/id1637083171 - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beds24&gl=US&hl=en Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/beds24 Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).