# Chekin review (2026): is it worth €3.95 a month? > Online guest check-in, ID checks and legal reporting for rentals Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Chekin is a guest check-in platform for vacation rentals, apartments, hotels and campsites. Guests complete registration online, and the tool handles identity scanning, legal reporting to authorities in some countries, tourist taxes and digital guidebooks. Higher plans add self check-in with digital keys, a branded guest app and e-invoicing. - **Category:** Vacation Rental Software - **Made by:** Chekin - **Website:** https://chekin.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Watch out: prices are in euros and the page does not say if they are monthly or annual. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Chekin is a paid product with a free trial, starting at €3.95 per property / month, from. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** Free trial offered; its length is not stated on the pricing page. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Basic | €3.95 per property / month, from; monthly or annual basis unclear | Online check-in, legal compliance, iCals, deposits and damage protection, tourist taxes, payments, upsells and unified inbox. | | Premium | €5.95 per property / month, from; monthly or annual basis unclear | Basic plus one premium feature of your choice: identity verification, self check-in, branded app, guidebooks or e-invoicing. | | Enterprise | €7.95 per property / month, from; monthly or annual basis unclear | Basic plus all premium features; the pricing page also offers custom plans. | Read from https://chekin.com/en/pricing/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Chekin before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Annual billing saves up to 20%** (Other savings): The pricing page offers an Annual option that it says saves up to 20% compared with monthly billing. Source: https://chekin.com/en/pricing/ ## Key features - **Online check-in:** Guests fill in their details and documents before arrival, with OCR scanning of IDs and custom communications. - **Legal compliance:** Guest data is sent to authorities where integrations exist; the page lists Spain, Italy, Greece and Portugal, with France, Germany and UAE coming. - **Identity verification:** Biometric ID matching is a premium feature, included in full on the Enterprise plan. - **Self check-in and digital keys:** Remote property access through keyless integrations, offered as a premium feature and shown on the integrations page. - **Payments and damage protection:** Deposits, tourist taxes, upsells and damage protection plans are handled in one place, with transaction fees listed on the page. - **Unified inbox and guidebooks:** A guest inbox with AI replies, plus digital guidebooks and a white-label guest app on the premium tiers. ## Good for - Managers in Southern Europe who must report guests to authorities - Portfolios that want ID checks before arrival - Hosts who collect deposits and tourist taxes online ## Worth knowing - Prices are in euros; the page does not make clear whether the figures shown are monthly or annual rates. - A minimum subscription of 3 units applies to some tiers and 20 units to others, per the page. - Transaction fees apply: deposits 1.5% + €0.30, and damage protection from $2.50 per booking. - Legal reporting covers only the countries the page lists; call, WhatsApp and SMS carry channel fees. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Chekin handles online guest check-in, ID checks and legal reporting for rentals, from about 3.95 euros a property. The page does not say whether prices are monthly or annual, and fees and unit minimums apply. - **Value for money: B.** From 3.95 euros a property, under 60% of the category's $10 cheaper quarter, but the page does not say if that is monthly or annual and some tiers carry minimums. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A free trial is offered, but its length is not stated and there is no free plan. - **Features: C.** Online check-in, legal reporting, ID verification, digital keys, payments and a guidebook. Legal reporting covers only the countries listed. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record, and properties and local legal rules must be set up. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only on record, with Airbnb, Beds24, Hostfully, Smoobu, Lodgify, Hospitable, Nuki and Guesty. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Chekin's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among vacation rental tools - Chekin'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 value for money (B, above 43 of 53) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at about $4.41 a month, against a middle price of $19.99 for the category: 2 of the 35 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 1 tool scores higher and costs less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/vacation-rentals ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Chekin you would be making one mailbox that several people work at once. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. 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 $52.96 a year. - You could make: Invoicing: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: One mailbox that several people work at once. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Airbnb, Beds24 and Hostfully among them. - 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, Beds24, Hostfully, Smoobu, Lodgify, Hospitable, Nuki, Guesty **Tags:** Invoicing, AI features, Shared inbox ## Alternatives - [Autohost](https://toolgpa.com/tools/autohost): Guest ID verification and fraud screening for rentals and hotels. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/autohost-vs-chekin) - [Enso Connect](https://toolgpa.com/tools/enso-connect): AI guest messaging, check-in and upsells for rentals and hotels. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/chekin-vs-enso-connect) - [Touch Stay](https://toolgpa.com/tools/touch-stay): Digital guidebooks with an AI chatbot for rental guests. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/chekin-vs-touch-stay) - [Operto](https://toolgpa.com/tools/operto): Guest access, messaging and housekeeping for rentals and hotels. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/chekin-vs-operto) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://chekin.com/en/pricing/ - https://chekin.com/en/integrations/ - https://chekin.com/en/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/chekin Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).