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The 5 Best Channel Manager and PMS Tools for Short Term Rentals in 2026

STR Select ranks 5 of the 8 vendors we evaluated for Channel Manager and PMS Tools for Short Term Rentals. The top three are OwnerRez, Uplisting and iGMS. Checked October 18, 2026.

Multi calendar and property management software for short term rental hosts compared on published pricing, model and coverage. Every fact sourced and dated, including where a vendor is quote only.

8 evaluated 5 ranked Last updated: October 18, 2026 Typical cost: $9 to $90 per month for a small portfolio on published tiers, more for 5 plus properties or a quote only plan

Key takeaways

OwnerRez is our top pick for channel manager and PMS software in 2026 because it prices from one published, unified rate with no setup, booking or contract fees. Uplisting is the pick for hosts who want every tier and every add on cost printed before they sign up. iGMS and Smoobu are the published budget options for small portfolios. Guesty is the platform to compare once you outgrow published pricing entirely, since only its smallest tier is public.

How we evaluated Channel Manager and PMS Tools for Short Term Rentals

For Channel Manager and PMS Tools for Short Term Rentals, we scored every vendor on pricing transparency (30%), verified customer feedback (25%), methodology depth (25%) and coverage (20%). Facts checked October 18, 2026, sources linked throughout. No company can pay to change its position or score in Channel Manager and PMS Tools for Short Term Rentals. Full formula on the methodology page.

Channel Manager and PMS Tools for Short Term Rentals side by side

VendorBest forModelPublished pricing
OwnerRez Hosts who want one straightforward published price instead of comparing feature tiers Single published rate that scales with property count, no separate tiers to compare Published from $88 per month for properties, scaling with property count, with unlimited bookings and a 14 day free trial. No setup fees, booking fees or contracts
Uplisting Hosts and small operators who want every tier and every add on cost printed, including the commission alternative to a flat fee Choice of flat monthly tiers or pay as you go commission, published in GBP Independent Host is £40 per month flat for up to 4 properties, or £0 plus 3% commission pay as you go. Operator is £90 per month for 5 properties or 1.5% commission. Manager is £208 per month for 5 properties. All add ons, from guest ID verification to smart locks, are priced separately and published
iGMS Owners with 1 to 20 properties who want a published per property rate that falls as they add listings Per property subscription with an annual discount, or a per booked night option FLEX is $1 per booked night with a $20 per property monthly minimum. PRO is $38 per property per month billed annually, or $48 billed monthly for one property, falling as low as $14.20 monthly at 20 properties. PRO+ is $56 per property per month annually, or $69 monthly for one property
Smoobu Hosts who want a published flat euro or dollar rate and a choice between a booking fee and a slightly higher flat price Flat monthly subscription, with or without a booking commission Professional Prepaid runs $35.92 per month after a 10% discount from $39.91, with 0% booking fee. Professional Flex runs $33.07 per month with a 0.9% booking fee. Teams Pro+ runs $56.45 per month after discount. Multi currency pricing published in USD, EUR and GBP
Guesty Larger operators evaluating a big platform who are ready to talk to sales rather than compare a printed rate Per listing monthly fee on the smallest tier, custom quote above 3 listings Lite starts from $9 per month per listing for 1 to 3 listings, published. Pro, for 4 to 199 listings, and Enterprise, for 200 plus, are both quote only

Pricing is each vendor's own published wording, checked October 18, 2026.

What the published rates add up to

Pricing transparency carries 30% of every score on this page. Each line below starts from the rate a vendor prints on its own pricing page, then multiplies it out so the monthly and yearly cost is visible before you sign up. Every total is arithmetic on that published rate and is labelled as ours, not a quote from the vendor. The rate, the date it was checked and a link to the page it came from sit in the same line. A vendor that prints no rate gets no computed total, because a missing rate is not a price of zero.

OwnerRez: The published starting rate is $88 per month and scales with property count, with no setup, booking or contract fees. The arithmetic: $1,056 a year for the published starting rate. Those totals are arithmetic on the published rate, checked October 18, 2026. Source: OwnerRez pricing page.

Uplisting: Independent Host is a published £40 per month for up to 4 properties and Operator is £90 per month for 5 properties. The arithmetic: £480 a year for one property on Independent Host; £1,080 a year for five properties on Operator. Those totals are arithmetic on the published rate, checked October 18, 2026. Source: Uplisting pricing page.

iGMS: PRO is a published $38 per property per month when billed annually. The arithmetic: $456 a year for one property on PRO billed annually; $190 a month, $2,280 a year for five properties on PRO billed annually. Those totals are arithmetic on the published rate, checked October 18, 2026. Source: iGMS pricing page.

Smoobu: Professional Prepaid is a published $35.92 per month after the 10% discount, with no booking fee. The arithmetic: $431.04 a year for the Professional Prepaid tier. Those totals are arithmetic on the published rate, checked October 18, 2026. Source: Smoobu pricing page.

Guesty: Lite is a published $9 per listing per month for 1 to 3 listings. The arithmetic: $108 a year for one listing on Lite; $27 a month, $324 a year for three listings on Lite. Those totals are arithmetic on the published rate, checked October 18, 2026. Source: Guesty pricing page.

Every rate above is the vendor’s own published wording, checked October 18, 2026. Every monthly and yearly total is arithmetic on that rate, not a vendor quote, and a missing rate is reported as not published.

The ranking

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1. OwnerRez Best overall

Best for: Hosts who want one straightforward published price instead of comparing feature tiers

OwnerRez skips the tier naming game most of this category plays. One published rate, no setup or booking fees, and a 14 day trial to test it. SMS messaging carries a usage fee past 500 outbound segments, which is the one cost that is not flat, and it is disclosed on the same page rather than buried.

Unified published rateNo setup or booking fees14 day trial
PricingPublished from $88 per month for properties, scaling with property count, with unlimited bookings and a 14 day free trial. No setup fees, booking fees or contracts
ModelSingle published rate that scales with property count, no separate tiers to compare
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2. Uplisting Most fully published tiers

Best for: Hosts and small operators who want every tier and every add on cost printed, including the commission alternative to a flat fee

Uplisting publishes more of its pricing surface than any other vendor we evaluated in this category, down to guest identity verification at £1.25 a check and smart lock access at £10 a month. Pricing is published in British pounds, so US hosts should convert at the day's rate rather than treat the numbers as dollars.

Flat or commission choiceAdd ons individually pricedCancel anytime, no contract
PricingIndependent Host is £40 per month flat for up to 4 properties, or £0 plus 3% commission pay as you go. Operator is £90 per month for 5 properties or 1.5% commission. Manager is £208 per month for 5 properties. All add ons, from guest ID verification to smart locks, are priced separately and published
ModelChoice of flat monthly tiers or pay as you go commission, published in GBP
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3. iGMS Best for small portfolios

Best for: Owners with 1 to 20 properties who want a published per property rate that falls as they add listings

iGMS only charges for properties with a confirmed booking that month, and its FLEX plan gives hosts with light booking volume a per night option instead of a flat subscription. The full published range from single property to 20 properties makes it easy to project cost as a portfolio grows.

Charges active properties onlyPer night optionPublished range to 20 properties
PricingFLEX is $1 per booked night with a $20 per property monthly minimum. PRO is $38 per property per month billed annually, or $48 billed monthly for one property, falling as low as $14.20 monthly at 20 properties. PRO+ is $56 per property per month annually, or $69 monthly for one property
ModelPer property subscription with an annual discount, or a per booked night option
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4. Smoobu Published budget flat rate

Best for: Hosts who want a published flat euro or dollar rate and a choice between a booking fee and a slightly higher flat price

Smoobu is a European platform with pricing published in three currencies, which matters if you are comparing against US only tools. The Flex versus Prepaid choice is unusual in this category: pay a touch less flat and accept a 0.9% booking fee, or pay the standard rate and skip the fee entirely.

Multi currency publishedFee or no fee choiceAnnual and 2 year discounts
PricingProfessional Prepaid runs $35.92 per month after a 10% discount from $39.91, with 0% booking fee. Professional Flex runs $33.07 per month with a 0.9% booking fee. Teams Pro+ runs $56.45 per month after discount. Multi currency pricing published in USD, EUR and GBP
ModelFlat monthly subscription, with or without a booking commission
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5. Guesty Compare once you outgrow published pricing

Best for: Larger operators evaluating a big platform who are ready to talk to sales rather than compare a printed rate

Guesty is one of the largest PMS platforms in the industry, and its $9 Lite tier is genuinely published for very small hosts. The moment a portfolio crosses 3 listings, which is most of the market this category serves, pricing becomes a conversation rather than a page, which is why it ranks behind vendors that publish real numbers at that size.

$9/listing published floorLarge platformQuote required past 3 listings
PricingLite starts from $9 per month per listing for 1 to 3 listings, published. Pro, for 4 to 199 listings, and Enterprise, for 200 plus, are both quote only
ModelPer listing monthly fee on the smallest tier, custom quote above 3 listings

Also evaluated

Hospitable

Essentials tier is free with no subscription fee, and extra property fees of $10 to $15 are disclosed. Host, Professional and Mogul monthly rates are generated by an interactive calculator rather than printed on the page, so we could not confirm a flat number, checked September 2026.

Hostaway

Pricing page requires selecting a listing count band before showing a rate. No published number appears without going through that flow, checked September 2026.

Lodgify

Automated and manual fetches of the pricing page both returned a 403 response at the time of research, so pricing could not be independently verified for this page. We are not repeating a number from elsewhere without confirming it live.

What this ranking rests on

For The 5 Best Channel Manager and PMS Tools for Short Term Rentals in 2026, 8 evaluated vendors yield 5 ranked rows, from #1 OwnerRez to #5 Guesty. In the channel managers pms ranking, 5 of 5 rows cite a pricing page (5 domains) and 0 rows link a full profile. The 5 channel managers pms rows describe 5 distinct pricing models and carry 15 chips between them. 0 of 5 rows in the channel managers pms ranking are marked as featured placements. Unranked here: Hospitable, Hostaway and Lodgify. The 5 ranked rows sell from 5 domains: ownerrez.com, uplisting.io, igms.com, smoobu.com and guesty.com. 5 rows carry a badge: OwnerRez (best overall), Uplisting (most fully published tiers), iGMS (best for small portfolios), Smoobu (published budget flat rate) and Guesty (compare once you outgrow published pricing). Each of the 5 rows that state a best fit names its buyer, from OwnerRez at #1 to Guesty at #5. Written verdicts on the channel managers pms rows average 55 words each. The pricing models recorded are single published rate that scales with property count, no separate tiers to compare, choice of flat monthly tiers or pay as you go commission, published in gbp, per property subscription with an annual discount, or a per booked night option, flat monthly subscription, with or without a booking commission and per listing monthly fee on the smallest tier, custom quote above 3 listings. Pricing pages are read from ownerrez.com, uplisting.io, igms.com, smoobu.com and guesty.com. The recorded typical cost for channel managers pms is $9 to $90 per month for a small portfolio on published tiers, more for 5 plus properties or a quote only plan. This ranking carries an updated date of October 18, 2026. 3 unranked vendors carry a written reason: Hospitable, Hostaway and Lodgify. 4 questions are answered below the table for channel managers pms. Chips on the channel managers pms rows include “Unified published rate”, “No setup or booking fees”, “14 day trial” and “Flat or commission choice”. The first row with a pricing line, OwnerRez at #1, states it as Published from $88 per month for properties, scaling with property count, with unlimited bookings and a 14 day free trial. No setup fees, booking fees or contracts. The takeaway for channel managers pms above the table runs 78 words.

Buyer questions

Straight answers from the research behind the ranking.

What does channel manager or PMS software cost?

Published tiers for a small portfolio run about $9 to $90 per month depending on the vendor and property count. Several large platforms only publish their smallest tier and move to a custom quote past 3 to 5 properties.

What is the difference between a channel manager and a full PMS?

A channel manager syncs your calendar and rates across Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com so you do not get double booked. A full property management system adds guest messaging, cleaning coordination, accounting and often a direct booking site on top of that sync.

Why do some of these vendors not publish pricing?

Guesty, Hostaway and Hospitable all gate most or all of their rates behind a quote request, a listing count selector, or an interactive calculator rather than a printed table. We report exactly what each site shows on the checked date rather than filling in a number we cannot verify.

Do these tools include dynamic pricing?

Some add basic pricing suggestions, but a dedicated dynamic pricing tool from our other category will usually out perform a bundled feature. Compare the two categories if pricing strategy matters as much as calendar sync to you.

Sources

Vendor facts for Channel Manager and PMS Tools for Short Term Rentals on this page were read from these URLs, checked October 18, 2026.

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Researched and written by Aaron Whittaker. Updated October 18, 2026. Every fact on this page carries its source. How we rank

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