Optimise Your Airbnb Without Handing Over Full Control

Yes. If you want to manage a property properly across multiple booking platforms, a channel manager is essential. It helps keep your calendars, rates, minimum nights, booking rules, guest messaging, and platform integrations organised in one place. Without one, you create more manual work, more room for mistakes, and a much higher risk of sync issues, pricing errors, or double bookings. For owners who want to operate professionally, a channel manager is not really optional.

Yes. If we are managing your pricing, dynamic pricing software is necessary. PriceLabs allows us to adjust your rates based on demand, seasonality, local events, booking pace, lead time, day-of-week performance, and market conditions. Static pricing leaves too much money on the table at the wrong times and can also hurt occupancy when rates are not adjusted fast enough. To manage pricing effectively and strategically, we need a proper dynamic pricing tool in place.

Yes. These are separate software subscriptions and are paid in addition to our service. We structure things this way intentionally because it protects you. If we were ever to step away, or if you ever chose to manage the property yourself, your software stack would still be yours and your property would still be operational. You are not renting access to our private system. You are building a real setup that stays with you.

As a guide, PriceLabs is roughly USD $30 for the first property and OwnerRez is roughly USD $55. Pricing is subject to change. As you add more properties, your total software cost usually increases, but the per-property value generally improves because software providers often discount more heavily at higher volumes. These tools should be seen as part of the operating cost of running a serious short-term rental business properly.

We prefer OwnerRez because it is one of the most powerful and well-priced channel managers available. It gives us more control, stronger functionality, deeper configuration options, and better operational flexibility than many simpler alternatives. For owners who want more than just a basic syncing tool, OwnerRez gives a much stronger long-term foundation. It is particularly useful when you want to build proper systems, manage multiple channels well, and keep more control over how your property is run.

Yes. We recommend it and all of our clients use it. IntelliHost’s Revenue IQ can be a very powerful addition when it is used properly because it adds another layer of revenue insight and pricing intelligence to the property. On its own, software does not create results, but when combined with the right setup and strategy, it becomes a very strong tool. For owners who want to take pricing performance seriously, it is highly recommended.

No, you do not. Our Airbnb course is included for free and is valued at $7,500, and it is designed to show you exactly how to do the setup yourself. That said, setup is not just about clicking buttons. It is about understanding why things are configured in a certain way and how those decisions affect performance, automation, guest experience, and long-term scalability. If you skip most of the lessons, the setup can still take you at least 30 hours, and even then you may not properly understand the reasoning behind the structure. The VA option exists to save you time and reduce mistakes.

Our VA support for channel manager setup, listing setup, and PriceLabs setup is $30 per hour, with an average build time of around 20 to 30 hours. During that process, we can help connect and structure your property across major OTAs and booking channels including Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Google, direct bookings, and other relevant platforms. The goal is not just to get you live, but to get you live with a system that is structured properly from the start.

The honest answer is that you need to be fairly involved, especially at the beginning. No one knows the property as well as the owner does. Your input helps shape what should be included in the listing, what needs to be improved in the property, how it should be maintained, what will create a better guest experience, and where there may be opportunities to increase revenue. Most property managers only focus on basic management. We are trying to build a stronger and more sustainable short-term rental business using strategies that many others simply do not use, and that requires real owner insight during setup.