# Rentlio review (2026): is it worth €10 a month? > Croatian PMS, channel manager and booking engine for rentals Checked Nov 12, 2026 · graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Rentlio is a property management system from Croatia with a channel manager and a direct booking engine. Rentlio One is the edition for vacation rentals, Rentlio Plus is for property managers and Rentlio Pro is for hotels. It also sells payment automation, a document scanner, a unified inbox and business reports as separate products. - **Category:** Vacation Rental Software - **Made by:** Rentlio - **Website:** https://rentl.io/en - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want a trial first, because none is listed. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Rentlio is a paid product, starting at €10 per unit / month, plus 2% of direct bookings. - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Rentlio One | €10 per unit / month, plus 2% of direct bookings | For vacation rentals. Excludes VAT; the page shows €15 crossed out. A 2% fee applies to bookings through the booking engine. Includes channel manager, calendar and mobile app. | | Rentlio Plus | Custom | For property managers with a portfolio. Adds team access rights, task automation and tool integrations. Quoted after a meeting. | Read from https://rentl.io/en/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Rentlio before buying. ## Key features - **Channel manager:** Syncs rates, availability and reservations with Booking.com, Airbnb, Expedia and over 100 other channels to avoid double bookings. - **Booking engine:** Lets guests book directly through your own website, with a 2% commission on Rentlio One for each direct booking. - **Document scanning and check-in:** Scans guest documents for check-in, or collects guest data through an online check-in feature. - **Mobile app:** A mobile app for managing bookings and guests, listed on the App Store and Google Play. - **Open API:** Public API documentation for connecting Rentlio to other tools, whether for apartments, multiple properties or a hotel. ## Good for - Small hosts and apartment owners in Southeast Europe - Hosts who want a low per-unit price instead of a larger commission - Property managers who also want a hotel edition available ## Worth knowing - Prices are in euros, exclude VAT, and the pricing page shows a 3-unit example at €30 a month. - Rentlio One adds a 2% commission on each booking taken through its booking engine. - Rentlio Plus and Rentlio Pro, the hotel edition, show no price and are booked through a meeting. - The site is written first for the Croatian market, and the English pricing page still shows a few untranslated words. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Rentlio is a booking system with a channel manager and a direct booking engine, made in Croatia. Rentlio One is cheap at about 10 euros a unit a month, but there's a 2% fee on direct bookings, no trial, and the bigger editions show no price. - **Value for money: B.** 10 euros a unit a month plus 2% of direct bookings, excluding VAT. That's inside the cheaper quarter for one home, but a small portfolio multiplies it per unit. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial are on record in the listing, so there is nothing to try before paying. - **Features: C.** Channel manager, booking engine, guest document scanning and an API. The listing flags that the site is written for the Croatian market first, and the bigger editions are sold by meeting. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Linking channels and setting up units comes first. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android apps, with Booking.com, Airbnb and Expedia links and an open API. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Rentlio'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 - Rentlio's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 14 of the 53 other vacation rental tools we grade, and level with 11. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 43 of 53) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at about $11.17 a month, against a middle price of $19.99 for the category: 11 of the 35 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 4 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.** To replace Rentlio 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. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 28 of the 53 other vacation rental tools grade higher. It costs $134.06 a year. - You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Two-way connections to Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo. - You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Booking.com, Airbnb, Expedia **Tags:** Channel manager, Reports, Public API, Workflow automation ## Alternatives - [Smoobu](https://toolgpa.com/tools/smoobu): Vacation rental channel manager and booking system, priced by unit. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/rentlio-vs-smoobu) - [Beds24](https://toolgpa.com/tools/beds24): Pay-as-you-go channel manager and PMS for rentals and small hotels. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/beds24-vs-rentlio) - [KrossBooking](https://toolgpa.com/tools/krossbooking): Property management with channel manager and booking engine. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/krossbooking-vs-rentlio) - [Lodgify](https://toolgpa.com/tools/lodgify): Vacation rental software with a direct booking website builder. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/lodgify-vs-rentlio) - [Avantio](https://toolgpa.com/tools/avantio): PMS and channel manager for professional vacation rental agencies. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/avantio-vs-rentlio) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://rentl.io/en - https://rentl.io/en/pricing - https://rentl.io/en/channel-manager - https://rentl.io/en/integrations - https://apps.apple.com/hr/app/rentlio/id1122008618?l=hr - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rentlio.app&hl=hr Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/rentlio Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).