Lodgify Helps You Run an Airbnb. TIDY Helps Run It for You.
Lodgify now offers much more than a booking site, including PMS, messaging, pricing, channel, and task tools. TIDY is the management layer across those workflows for 3.9%.
What I would keep in mind about Lodgify
PMS products fundamentally have been around for a long time. PMSs are all kind of commodities, and they all are kind of like a CRM for your property or a tool that lets you track your guests, reservations, and properties. They have a lot of features, for accounting, for tracking your listings, pushing your listings out to channel management, tracking tasks, and things like that.
But at least historically, they're fundamentally not about actually doing stuff. They're designed to be used by human property managers and owners who use it to keep everything organized. That's been the main thing. Now, over time, they have gotten to provide more automations, but that fundamental human constraint is the same.
Now some of them offer more features for more prices, but they're typically expensive. Typically, depending on the features they use and automation you use, you're talking 1% of gross revenue all the way up to maybe 3% of gross revenue for the features. That includes things like pricing optimization. They may have automatic guest messaging.
Automatic guest messaging is a feature that has become pretty much a commodity at this point. Not that everybody does it well, pretty much none of them offer human fallbacks. So the AI messaging is typically there's no human fallback for any of these people, which TIDY does offer.
What Lodgify Still Leaves to the Operator
A broader feature set is still software
Lodgify has more than the website now. It has reservations, channels, guest messages, pricing, and team tasks. That is fine. Those are all useful things if you want to manage the rentals yourself and you want to be organized to do that.
Assigning a task is not the same as completing it
Some products have introduced a few lightweight cleaning things, but these are really trivial things, like, “Oh, when there's a job scheduled, assign it to some pro.” That just simply doesn't work.
The hardest work happens outside the dashboard
Pros are not going to use every app. They mostly don't use apps, and most people don't log in or do anything. There may be availability conflicts. Cleaning, maintenance, restocking, and pro communication are still the hardest part.
Every additional tool still needs somebody to run it
Lodgify can cover a large part of the software stack. The question is not whether it has features. It is how much work you or your staff still have after paying for those features. TIDY charges 3.9% to take on more of that work.
TIDY vs Lodgify
What That Means in Practice
None of them are doing the cleaning, maintenance, organization, or management of pro communication. That's the biggest chunk of the whole thing. Some of them have introduced a few lightweight things, but these are really trivial things, like, “Oh, when there's a job scheduled, assign it to some pro.” That just simply doesn't work.
Again, pros are not going to use apps. They mostly don't use apps, and most people don't log in or do anything. There may be availability conflicts. There are a lot of reasons why the actual cleaning execution is the hardest part of it.
So TIDY has been doing the hardest part for a long time. We've been doing the cleaning and maintenance. Yes, we are more new to the other easier commodity things, like guest messaging, booking, channel management, and pricing optimization. We do use partners like PriceLabs as a part of our stack.
A long feature list does not remove the operator
The question isn't whether Lodgify has a checkbox for messages, pricing, or cleaning tasks. It does. The question is who notices when the workflow breaks and gets the stay back on track. With Lodgify, that's your team. With TIDY, that's part of the service.
Lodgify may be the better fit for a DIY host
If you want to build a direct-booking brand and you want to run the operation yourself, Lodgify may be a good fit. There is nothing wrong with that choice. TIDY is for the person who wants less of the day-to-day management job.
“Lodgify gave me a great booking site. But I was still the property manager — every cleaning, every maintenance issue, every pricing tweak was on me. TIDY took the manager job off my plate.”
— James P.
STR host, 4 properties
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The cleaning piece is not a small detail
But generally speaking, TIDY has been more recent to the things that everybody does. We have been doing the thing that nobody has been doing for a long time, and that is the hardest part of it. That is a very big difference.
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