# CiiRUS review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Vacation rental PMS with trust accounting for professional managers Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. CiiRUS is vacation rental management software for professional managers, run as a family-owned company since 2008. The PMS covers reservations, channel connections to Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com, a guest inbox, owner, guest and cleaner portals, direct booking sites, and owner statements with trust accounting. A separate LoveRentals service manages listings and pricing for you. - **Category:** Vacation Rental Software - **Made by:** CiiRUS (since 2008) - **Website:** https://ciirus.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Watch out: LoveRentals lists your properties on the vendor's Airbnb and Vrbo host accounts, not yours. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, CiiRUS has a free plan, and paid plans start at $10 per unit / month and up, on the monthly subscription. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** LoveRentals: the full CiiRUS PMS at no charge when you also use its listing, pricing and guest-messaging service; the vendor says it earns by raising your profit margins. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | LoveRentals | $0 | Free PMS bundled with the LoveRentals service: guest team, reviews, a revenue manager, listing optimization and Wheelhouse pricing. Arranged by talking to the vendor. | | PMS | $10 per unit / month and up, monthly subscription | All PMS features: 100+ connections including Airbnb and Vrbo, AI guest inbox, portals, direct booking website, owner statements and trust accounting. | | PMS + Rev | Custom | The full PMS plus a dedicated revenue manager, listing optimization, promotions and merchandising, with Wheelhouse pricing software included. | Read from https://ciirus.com/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with CiiRUS before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save 15% with yearly billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page has a Monthly and Yearly toggle, with the yearly option marked as saving 15%. Source: https://ciirus.com/pricing ## Key features - **Reservations and unified calendar:** Reservation tools, payment processing, electronic signatures and a unified calendar for all properties. - **Channel manager:** Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com connections, an integration marketplace, an extended OTA network and an open API. - **Guest inbox and automation:** A unified inbox with AI, automation rules, email and SMS templates, a guest portal and reviews management. - **Operations tools:** Housekeeping, maintenance and inspection managers, custom task lists, and portals for owners and service staff. - **Accounting and trust accounting:** Owner statements, trust accounting, payments to owners, vendors and cleaners, QuickBooks integration and tax reports. - **Direct booking website:** A custom direct booking website with an instant book and inquiry engine, plus a DIY editor and SEO tools. ## Good for - Professional managers who need trust accounting inside their PMS - Managers who want a human revenue manager and listing support bundled in - Teams that want onboarding and data migration included at no charge ## Worth knowing - The $10 figure is shown as 'as low as' per unit, and the page does not state the tiers behind it; the page also offers a yearly option that saves 15%. - Onboarding, migration and website development are included in every plan, per the pricing page. - The free LoveRentals option lists your properties on the vendor's own Airbnb and Vrbo host accounts rather than yours. - The page says pricing is flexible for edge cases, so quotes can differ from the headline price. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. CiiRUS is a property system with a channel manager, guest inbox and trust accounting for professional managers. The free LoveRentals route lists your homes on the vendor's own host accounts, and the paid price is only shown as 'as low as' $10 a unit. - **Value for money: B.** $10 per unit a month on the monthly subscription, 'as low as', at the category's cheaper-quarter line. The tiers behind that figure are not stated. - **Free plan and trial: B.** LoveRentals gives the full property system at no charge if you use its listing, pricing and messaging service. That ties you to the vendor's service. - **Features: B.** Reservations, channel manager, guest inbox, operations tools, trust accounting and a direct booking website, with onboarding included. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record, and migration and channel setup come first. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only on record, with Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, QuickBooks and Wheelhouse. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from CiiRUS'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 - CiiRUS's GPA of 2.8 is higher than 53 of the 53 other vacation rental tools we grade. - 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 $10 a month, against a middle price of $19.99 for the category: 9 of the 35 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 CiiRUS 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 is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.8 is higher than 53 of the 53 other vacation rental tools we grade. It costs $120 a year. - You could make: Tasks: an app builder makes this 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: Client trust accounts kept the way bar rules require. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com among them, and has an API. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - 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, Vrbo, Booking.com, QuickBooks, Wheelhouse **Tags:** Channel manager, Shared inbox, AI features, Tasks, Trust accounting, Public API ## Alternatives - [Escapia](https://toolgpa.com/tools/escapia): Vacation rental PMS for larger managers, run by Expedia Group. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ciirus-vs-escapia) - [Streamline](https://toolgpa.com/tools/streamline): Enterprise vacation rental software with trust accounting and AI. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ciirus-vs-streamline) - [Track](https://toolgpa.com/tools/track-hospitality): PMS suite for vacation rental, hotel and resort operators. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ciirus-vs-track-hospitality) - [Barefoot](https://toolgpa.com/tools/barefoot): PMS for vacation rental, resort and corporate housing managers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/barefoot-vs-ciirus) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://ciirus.com/ - https://ciirus.com/pricing - https://ciirus.com/loverentals Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/ciirus Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).