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DPGO vs Stayntouch

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DPGO

Travel

Dynamic pricing for short-term rentals with three billing models including pay per booked night

From
$18/month
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
Stayntouch logo

Stayntouch

Travel

Cloud property management system for independent hotels

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: DPGO the 0.5% and per booked night plans are invoiced every two weeks, which produces twenty six variable invoices a year and is awkward for anyone doing simple monthly bookkeeping.; Stayntouch quote-only pricing scaled by rooms, with no published rates
  • They diverge on capability: DPGO covers AI rate generation, Stayntouch covers Mobile check-in.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which DPGO and Stayntouch actually diverge.

Attributes where DPGO and Stayntouch differ
AttributeDPGOStayntouch
Starting price$18/monthOn request
Pricing modelPer listing per month, per booked night or percentage of booked pricequote
PlatformsWebWeb, iOS, Android, Cloud

Identical on both: free tier (No), 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 DPGO

  • AI rate generation
  • Price floors and ceilings
  • Orphan night handling
  • Channel push
  • Market dashboard
  • Three billing models

Only in Stayntouch

  • Mobile check-in
  • Guest self-service
  • Cloud PMS
  • Open API
  • Housekeeping
  • Payments

What people use each for

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

DPGO

  • A host with a strongly seasonal cabin who wants pricing automation that costs almost nothing in the off seasonnot Stayntouch
  • An Airbnb-first operator with eight listings wanting daily rate adjustment without paying a per listing fee for underperforming unitsnot Stayntouch
  • A manager testing automated pricing against manual rates during a 30 day trial before committingnot Stayntouch
  • An owner in a competitive city market who needs last-minute discounting rules rather than a static weekend upliftnot Stayntouch

Stayntouch

  • Hotels wanting to check guests in away from a fixed desknot DPGO
  • Properties reducing lobby queuing at peak arrivalnot DPGO
  • Independents replacing an on-premise PMS with cloudnot DPGO

Where each one falls short

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

DPGO

  • The 0.5% and per booked night plans are invoiced every two weeks, which produces twenty six variable invoices a year and is awkward for anyone doing simple monthly bookkeeping.
  • Market analytics are thin compared with larger competitors, so you get a recommended rate without much tooling to interrogate why or to define your own comparable set.
  • The integration list is shorter than PriceLabs or Wheelhouse, so operators on less common property management systems may have to push rates manually or not at all.
  • Recommendation quality drops sharply in low-density markets where there are too few comparable listings for the model to learn from, and there is little warning when this is the case.
  • It is a pricing engine only, with no length of stay optimisation across a portfolio or channel-level yield strategy, so professional managers usually run it alongside other tools rather than instead of them.

Stayntouch

  • Quote-only pricing scaled by rooms, with no published rates
  • Mobile-first depends on property-wide wireless coverage that many older hotels do not have
  • A smaller vendor than the major PMS providers, with a narrower integration ecosystem
  • Strongest in North America, with less coverage elsewhere

Pricing, plan by plan

DPGO

$18/month
  • Pay as You Go$undefined/month
    • 0.5% of booked price
    • 30 day free trial, no card required
    • Invoiced every two weeks
  • Flat Fee$18/month
    • $18 per listing per month
    • 30 day free trial
    • All pricing and market features included
  • Fixed$undefined/month
    • $1 per booked night
    • Costs nothing on unbooked nights
    • 30 day free trial

Stayntouch

On request

No published plan breakdown. See the Stayntouch review.

Which should you pick?

Choose DPGO if

  • You need ai rate generation.
  • You also want price floors and ceilings.
DPGO review

Choose Stayntouch if

  • You need mobile check-in.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android, Cloud.
  • You also want guest self-service.
Stayntouch review

Questions people ask

Is DPGO or Stayntouch better?
Neither clearly leads. DPGO starts at $18/month and Stayntouch at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, DPGO or Stayntouch?
DPGO starts at $18/month and Stayntouch at On request.
Does DPGO or Stayntouch run on more platforms?
DPGO runs on Web. Stayntouch runs on Web, iOS, Android, Cloud.
What is DPGO best used for?
DPGO is most often used for a host with a strongly seasonal cabin who wants pricing automation that costs almost nothing in the off season, an airbnb-first operator with eight listings wanting daily rate adjustment without paying a per listing fee for underperforming units, a manager testing automated pricing against manual rates during a 30 day trial before committing, an owner in a competitive city market who needs last-minute discounting rules rather than a static weekend uplift. Of those, a host with a strongly seasonal cabin who wants pricing automation that costs almost nothing in the off season and an airbnb-first operator with eight listings wanting daily rate adjustment without paying a per listing fee for underperforming units are not what Stayntouch is typically brought in for.
What can DPGO do that Stayntouch cannot?
DPGO covers AI rate generation, Price floors and ceilings, Orphan night handling, Channel push. Stayntouch covers Mobile check-in, Guest self-service, Cloud PMS, Open API.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

DPGO: Which billing model is cheapest?

It depends on occupancy. At $1 per booked night you pay $18 only if a listing is booked eighteen nights a month, so low-occupancy listings should use Fixed or Pay as You Go and high-occupancy ones the flat fee.

Stayntouch: What does Stayntouch cost?

Quoted per property by room count; not published.

DPGO: Does it push rates to Airbnb?

Yes, directly, and to Vrbo and through supported property management systems.

Stayntouch: What does mobile-first actually change?

Check-in happens on a tablet anywhere in the property or on the guest's own phone, rather than at a fixed counter, which changes both queuing and front-desk staffing.

DPGO: Is there a trial?

30 days, with no card required.

Stayntouch: What does it need to work well?

Reliable property-wide wireless. A mobile-first PMS is only as good as the network it runs on.

DPGO: Does it handle minimum stay rules?

It sets nightly rates and orphan gap pricing. Length of stay strategy is limited compared with a full revenue management system.

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