# Breezeway review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Task scheduling and guest messaging for rental property operations Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Breezeway is an operations platform for vacation rental and hospitality teams. It turns reservation data from a property management system into scheduled cleanings, inspections and maintenance tasks, with mobile checklists for field staff. Guest messaging, digital guidebooks and smart-lock control are sold on top of the operations plans. - **Category:** Vacation Rental Software - **Made by:** Breezeway - **Website:** https://www.breezeway.io - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want a PMS, as it takes reservations from yours. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Breezeway has a free plan, and paid plans start at $19.99 per unit / month. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** The first property runs free, with checklists, the mobile app and automatic cleaner scheduling and payment. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Freemium | $0 | First property only: checklists, mobile app in 12+ languages, and cleaner scheduling and payment. | | Host Essentials | $19.99 per unit / month, billed monthly | For hosts with fewer than 5 properties. Messaging, Guide and Assist are paid add-ons. | | Operations Pro | Custom | Task workflows, work orders, inventory, owner reporting, vendor tools and task payments. Sold by quote. | | Operations + Guest Experience | Custom | Operations Pro plus AI guest messaging, upsells, Guide welcome books and the Assist call team. Add-ons priced a la carte. | Read from https://www.breezeway.io/breezeway-pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Breezeway before buying. ## Key features - **Task scheduling and workflows:** Schedules cleanings, inspections and maintenance from check-ins, check-outs and reservation changes pulled in from the property management system. - **Checklists and mobile app:** Customizable checklists in a mobile app for Android and Apple, in 12+ languages, with offline syncing for use without WiFi. - **Maintenance and inventory:** Work-order tracking, supplies monitoring and a live property operations dashboard sit in the Operations plans. - **Guest messaging and Concierge:** An AI-assisted guest inbox with reply templates and triggered texts. Concierge, an add-on, answers guests around the clock. - **Digital guidebooks and Assist:** Branded welcome books, plus Assist, a 24/7 call-center team that responds to guests on the host's behalf. - **Smart locks:** A paid add-on for remote lock and unlock, shared entries and alerts for low battery, disconnected locks and failed code creation. ## Good for - Vacation rental managers coordinating cleaners and maintenance across many units - Hosts with one property, since the first one is free - Operators who also want guest messaging and guidebooks tied to the same task data ## Worth knowing - The pricing page shows Host Essentials as "$19.99/unit/month" in the text and as "Starts at $19 / month" on the card. - Plans for larger portfolios have no published prices and are sold by quote, with volume discounts at 5+ properties. - Guest messaging, Guide, Assist, Concierge and Smart Locks are add-ons, and Concierge needs the Operations + Guest Experience plan. - Breezeway pulls reservations from a property management system and does not replace one. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Breezeway schedules cleanings and maintenance from your reservations, and the first property is free. It doesn't replace a PMS, and guest messaging, Guide, Assist and smart locks are paid add-ons. - **Value for money: C.** Host Essentials is $19.99 a unit a month, about the middle of the category. Bigger portfolios are quoted. - **Free plan and trial: B.** The first property is free, with checklists, the mobile app and cleaner scheduling and payment. One host could live on that. - **Features: C.** Task scheduling, checklists, work orders and inventory, plus messaging and guidebooks. It pulls reservations from your PMS rather than replacing it. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. You connect your PMS and build checklists and workflows. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android apps, with Airbnb and Vrbo listed. No desktop app is listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Breezeway's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among vacation rental tools - Breezeway's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 36 of the 53 other vacation rental tools we grade, and level with 10. - It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 50 of 53) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $19.99 a month, against a middle price of $19.99 for the category: 17 of the 35 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 6 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/vacation-rentals ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of Breezeway you could make: job scheduling, tasks, inventory and reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 2 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.4 is higher than 36 of the 53 other vacation rental tools we grade. It costs $239.88 a year. - You could make: Job scheduling, tasks, inventory and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. 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, Vrbo **Tags:** Job scheduling, Tasks, Inventory, Reports, AI features ## Alternatives - [Turno](https://toolgpa.com/tools/turno): Cleaning scheduling and payments for short-term rental hosts. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/breezeway-vs-turno) - [Properly](https://toolgpa.com/tools/properly): Cleaning scheduling, photo checklists and managed rental operations. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/breezeway-vs-properly) - [Guesty](https://toolgpa.com/tools/guesty): Property management software for short-term rental hosts and managers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/breezeway-vs-guesty) - [Hostaway](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hostaway): Vacation rental PMS and channel manager for property managers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/breezeway-vs-hostaway) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.breezeway.io/breezeway-pricing - https://www.breezeway.io Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/breezeway Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).