Smoobu
Vacation Rentals · Apartments · Villas · Cabins · B&Bs
German vacation rental platform combining channel manager, booking engine and website builder for hosts with a handful of units. Publishes its price in euros: about EUR 29 a month for the first unit and from EUR 9.60 for each one after, with a 14-day trial and no setup fee.
- Free trial
- 14 days
- Setup fee
- No setup fee
- Multi-property
- No
- Features
- 8/14
Features
- Channel Manager
- Booking Engine
- Payments
- Reporting
- Mobile App
- Open API
- Multi-Property
- Guest Messaging
Support: Email, Chat
Smoobu: built for hosts with a handful of units
Smoobu is a German vacation rental management platform that bundles a channel manager, a booking engine, a website builder and guest messaging into one subscription. It is aimed squarely at hosts and small managers rather than agencies.
Pricing
Smoobu publishes its rates, which is uncommon here. Three plans are shown for the first unit:
- Professional Flex — about EUR 29 a month, plus a 0.9% fee on each booking
- Professional Prepaid — about EUR 35 a month, no booking fee
- Teams Pro+ — about EUR 55 a month, no booking fee, two write-access accounts
Each additional unit costs from EUR 9.60 a month, and extra write-access accounts start around EUR 12. Paying annually takes 10% off and a two-year commitment 20%. There are no setup or onboarding fees, and the trial is 14 days with no card required.
Two things to know before you model the cost. Portfolios above 20 units leave the published pricing entirely and are quoted individually, so the per-unit rate above only holds at the small end. And the cheapest plan carries a booking fee, so a busy property can pay more on Flex than on Prepaid.
Smoobu prices in euros, so the dollar columns in the comparison table here are left blank rather than converted at a rate that would go stale.
What it does
The channel manager syncs Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo and others; the booking engine and website builder cover direct bookings; guest messaging automates the arrival sequence. There is a mobile app and an API.
Who it suits
Hosts running somewhere between two and twenty units who want one predictable subscription and no sales call. Larger managers hit the 20-unit ceiling and end up in a quote anyway.
How Smoobu compares to the other 33
Every system here is recorded on the same axes, so these are positions in the field rather than opinions. We publish no user ratings, because we have no reviewers.
- On features it lists 8 of 14, below the field median of 10 — 29th of 34.
- What it lacks that most peers ship: Rate Management, Invoicing and Multi-Currency.
- A 14-day free trial, which puts it among the 13 of 34 systems here that publish one.
Smoobu: common questions
- Does Smoobu offer a free trial?
- Yes, 14 days. Only 13 of the 34 systems tracked here publish a free trial at all.
- What does Smoobu not do that most PMSs do?
- Rate Management, Invoicing and Multi-Currency — each of those is offered by most of the 34 systems tracked here and is not listed for Smoobu.
- What are the best Smoobu alternatives?
- The closest are Beds24, Hospitable, Lodgify, OwnerRez and Tokeet — each serves the same property types. Compare any of them against Smoobu side by side below.
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