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Beds24 vs TicketingHub

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Beds24

Travel

Low-cost, highly configurable channel manager and booking system for technical operators

From
€15.9/month
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
TicketingHub logo

TicketingHub

Travel

Ticketing and booking for tours and attractions with no subscription, only a percentage per booking

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Beds24 support is helpful on how to use the product but slow and thin on genuine defects, and the ticketing system does not accept screenshots or attachments properly, which makes reporting a real bug laborious.; TicketingHub the 3 per cent applies to cash and walk-up sales recorded in the system, not only to online bookings, which operators frequently miss and which makes on-site revenue more expensive than expected.
  • They diverge on capability: Beds24 covers Broad channel connections, TicketingHub covers No monthly fee.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Beds24 and TicketingHub actually diverge.

Attributes where Beds24 and TicketingHub differ
AttributeBeds24TicketingHub
Starting price€15.9/monthOn request
Pricing modelPer month by property and unit countPer booking, 3 per cent of booking value

Identical on both: free tier (No), platforms (Web, iOS, Android), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Travel).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Beds24

  • Broad channel connections
  • Customisable booking page
  • Rate and availability rules
  • Automated messaging
  • Open API
  • Invoicing and payments
  • Multi-property management
  • Access control

Only in TicketingHub

  • No monthly fee
  • Ticket scanning
  • Walk-up sales
  • Booking widget
  • OTA connections
  • Session and capacity management
  • Reporting
  • Multi-currency and language

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Beds24

  • A twenty-unit apartment operator who wants multi-channel distribution for under fifty euros a monthnot TicketingHub
  • A hostel needing Hostelworld and dorm-level bed inventory alongside the major OTAsnot TicketingHub
  • A developer building a custom guest app on top of a booking system with an open APInot TicketingHub
  • An owner with unusual rate logic, such as per-person pricing or seasonal minimum stays, that packaged tools cannot expressnot TicketingHub

TicketingHub

  • A seasonal walking tour company that closes for four winter months and refuses to pay a subscription through themnot Beds24
  • A small attraction wanting door scanning and online booking in one systemnot Beds24
  • A transport operator selling timed boarding tickets with capacity limitsnot Beds24
  • A new experience business unwilling to commit to fixed software cost before it has volumenot Beds24

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Beds24

  • Support is helpful on how to use the product but slow and thin on genuine defects, and the ticketing system does not accept screenshots or attachments properly, which makes reporting a real bug laborious.
  • There is no built-in dynamic pricing engine, so revenue management means paying separately for PriceLabs or an equivalent and accepting a second system to maintain.
  • No website builder is included; the booking page is templated but a marketing site has to be built and hosted elsewhere.
  • Initial configuration is genuinely difficult and largely self-serve, and operators regularly report days rather than hours to get channel mappings and rate rules correct.
  • Housekeeping, task management, smart lock support and any hospitality CRM are absent or require third-party tools, so it is a distribution engine rather than an operations platform.

TicketingHub

  • The 3 per cent applies to cash and walk-up sales recorded in the system, not only to online bookings, which operators frequently miss and which makes on-site revenue more expensive than expected.
  • At meaningful volume the model is expensive: a hundred thousand pounds of ticket revenue costs three thousand pounds a year, well above what a subscription platform with a lower booking fee would charge.
  • The 3 per cent excludes card processing, so the total take on each ticket is materially higher than the headline rate implies.
  • Enterprise discounts exist but are negotiated privately, so the published price is not the price for anyone with scale and there is no way to benchmark what a good deal looks like.
  • The product is a ticketing engine rather than an operations platform, with limited resource scheduling, customer relationship tooling and reseller management compared with the larger competitors.

Pricing, plan by plan

Beds24

€15.9/month
  • Single property$15.9/month
    • One property with one rental unit
    • Channel manager and booking page included
    • All core features, no tier gating
  • Additional property$undefined/month
    • About EUR 3 per extra property added to the account
    • Same full feature set
    • No separate distribution charge
  • Additional unit$undefined/month
    • About EUR 1 per extra rental unit within a property
    • Applies to multi-unit buildings and dorms
    • No revenue share on bookings

TicketingHub

On request
  • Standard$undefined/month
    • No monthly fee and no setup fee
    • 3% taken on every successful booking
    • Applies to website, OTA, card, cash and walk-up sales

Which should you pick?

Choose Beds24 if

  • You need broad channel connections.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android.
  • You also want customisable booking page.
Beds24 review

Choose TicketingHub if

  • You need no monthly fee.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android.
  • You also want ticket scanning.
TicketingHub review

Questions people ask

Is Beds24 or TicketingHub better?
Neither clearly leads. Beds24 starts at €15.9/month and TicketingHub at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Beds24 or TicketingHub?
Beds24 starts at €15.9/month and TicketingHub at On request.
Does Beds24 or TicketingHub run on more platforms?
Both run on Web, iOS, Android, so platform support will not decide this one for you.
What is Beds24 best used for?
Beds24 is most often used for a twenty-unit apartment operator who wants multi-channel distribution for under fifty euros a month, a hostel needing hostelworld and dorm-level bed inventory alongside the major otas, a developer building a custom guest app on top of a booking system with an open api, an owner with unusual rate logic, such as per-person pricing or seasonal minimum stays, that packaged tools cannot express. Of those, a twenty-unit apartment operator who wants multi-channel distribution for under fifty euros a month and a hostel needing hostelworld and dorm-level bed inventory alongside the major otas are not what TicketingHub is typically brought in for.
What can Beds24 do that TicketingHub cannot?
Beds24 covers Broad channel connections, Customisable booking page, Rate and availability rules, Automated messaging. TicketingHub covers No monthly fee, Ticket scanning, Walk-up sales, Booking widget.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Beds24: Why is Beds24 so much cheaper than Lodgify or Uplisting?

Because it does not pay for onboarding, guided setup or a website builder. You configure it yourself from raw settings pages, and that labour is the difference.

TicketingHub: What does TicketingHub cost?

There is no subscription. It takes 3 per cent of every successful booking, plus your card processing separately.

Beds24: Is the channel manager restricted on the cheap plan?

No. Unlike most competitors, Beds24 does not gate distribution behind a higher tier; the price scales with property and unit count rather than feature access.

TicketingHub: Does the 3 per cent apply to cash sales?

Yes. It applies across the board, including cash and in-person walk-up sales entered into the system, which is the detail most operators overlook.

Beds24: Does it include dynamic pricing?

No. You connect PriceLabs or a similar tool, which is an additional subscription.

TicketingHub: At what volume does a subscription platform become cheaper?

Roughly once ticket revenue passes about fifty thousand pounds a year, where 3 per cent begins to exceed a typical monthly subscription plus a lower booking fee.

Beds24: Is there an API?

Yes, a documented REST API, and it is one of the main reasons technical operators pick Beds24 over packaged alternatives.

TicketingHub: Can I negotiate the rate?

Yes for high volume. Enterprise rates are available but are not published, so you will need to ask directly.

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