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DPGO vs Travelport Smartpoint

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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
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Travelport Smartpoint

Travel

Travelport GDS booking desktop for travel agents, now on version 12

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.; Travelport Smartpoint travelport retires older Smartpoint versions on its own schedule, and agencies that do not track release notes can lose sign-on access to Travelport+ or Apollo with little warning.
  • They diverge on capability: DPGO covers AI rate generation, Travelport Smartpoint covers Graphical and cryptic modes.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which DPGO and Travelport Smartpoint actually diverge.

Attributes where DPGO and Travelport Smartpoint differ
AttributeDPGOTravelport Smartpoint
Starting price$18/monthOn request
Pricing modelPer listing per month, per booked night or percentage of booked pricequote
PlatformsWebWindows, Web

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 Travelport Smartpoint

  • Graphical and cryptic modes
  • Multi-GDS content
  • Smartpoint Cloud
  • Automation scripting
  • Marketplace distribution
  • Queue and PNR management

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 Travelport Smartpoint
  • An Airbnb-first operator with eight listings wanting daily rate adjustment without paying a per listing fee for underperforming unitsnot Travelport Smartpoint
  • A manager testing automated pricing against manual rates during a 30 day trial before committingnot Travelport Smartpoint
  • An owner in a competitive city market who needs last-minute discounting rules rather than a static weekend upliftnot Travelport Smartpoint

Travelport Smartpoint

  • A retail agency already on a Travelport segment agreement needing the current supported desktop versionnot DPGO
  • A TMC running mixed cryptic and graphical booking teams on one workspacenot DPGO
  • An agency migrating from an older Smartpoint build after Travelport retired 8.1 to 9.1not DPGO
  • A consolidator wanting Apollo, Galileo or Worldspan content behind a single agent interfacenot 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.

Travelport Smartpoint

  • Travelport retires older Smartpoint versions on its own schedule, and agencies that do not track release notes can lose sign-on access to Travelport+ or Apollo with little warning.
  • Pricing is never published and is folded into a segment incentive agreement, so two agencies of similar size can be paying materially different effective rates with no way to compare.
  • Cryptic command knowledge is still needed for a meaningful share of servicing tasks, so a newly hired agent takes months to reach full productivity.
  • It is a Windows-weighted desktop product, and agencies wanting fully remote or Mac-based teams need Smartpoint Cloud or virtual desktop infrastructure to compensate.
  • Switching to Sabre or Amadeus means retraining staff on a different command language and renegotiating a separate incentive deal, which locks agencies into their existing GDS relationship longer than pure product quality would justify.

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

Travelport Smartpoint

On request
  • Travelport Smartpoint$undefined/year
    • Usually bundled into a GDS segment agreement
    • Distribution and version entitlement managed per country via the Marketplace
    • Segment incentive payments to the agency

Which should you pick?

Choose DPGO if

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

Choose Travelport Smartpoint if

  • You need graphical and cryptic modes.
  • You work on Windows, Web.
  • You also want multi-gds content.
Travelport Smartpoint review

Questions people ask

Is DPGO or Travelport Smartpoint better?
Neither clearly leads. DPGO starts at $18/month and Travelport Smartpoint at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, DPGO or Travelport Smartpoint?
DPGO starts at $18/month and Travelport Smartpoint at On request.
Does DPGO or Travelport Smartpoint run on more platforms?
DPGO runs on Web. Travelport Smartpoint runs on Windows, Web.
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 Travelport Smartpoint is typically brought in for.
What can DPGO do that Travelport Smartpoint cannot?
DPGO covers AI rate generation, Price floors and ceilings, Orphan night handling, Channel push. Travelport Smartpoint covers Graphical and cryptic modes, Multi-GDS content, Smartpoint Cloud, Automation scripting.

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.

Travelport Smartpoint: Do we pay a separate licence fee for Smartpoint?

Usually not directly. It is typically bundled into a GDS segment agreement in which Travelport pays incentives per booked segment.

DPGO: Does it push rates to Airbnb?

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

Travelport Smartpoint: What happened to older Smartpoint versions?

Travelport retired versions 8.1 through 9.1 as of 30 April 2026; agencies must be on Smartpoint 12.0 to keep signing on to Travelport+ or Apollo.

DPGO: Is there a trial?

30 days, with no card required.

Travelport Smartpoint: Is there a browser version?

Yes, Smartpoint Cloud runs in a browser for agents without a managed Windows desktop.

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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