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Little Hotelier vs Stayntouch

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Little Hotelier

Travel

SiteMinder owned front desk and distribution system for properties under twenty rooms

From
On request
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: Little Hotelier the product is capped by design at small properties, so a hotel growing past roughly twenty rooms faces a migration rather than an upgrade, usually into SiteMinder plus a separate PMS.; Stayntouch quote-only pricing scaled by rooms, with no published rates
  • They diverge on capability: Little Hotelier covers Simplified front desk, Stayntouch covers Mobile check-in.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 30 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Little Hotelier and Stayntouch actually diverge.

Attributes where Little Hotelier and Stayntouch differ
AttributeLittle HotelierStayntouch
PlatformsWeb, iOS, AndroidWeb, iOS, Android, Cloud

Identical on both: starting price (On request), pricing model (quote), 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 Little Hotelier

  • Simplified front desk
  • Channel management
  • Direct booking engine
  • Mobile app
  • Guest communication

Only in Stayntouch

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

Both cover

  • Payments

What people use each for

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

Little Hotelier

  • A ten room guesthouse where the owner works reception and wants OTA sync without a separate channel manager contractnot Stayntouch
  • A hostel needing reliable Booking.com and Hostelworld connectivity more than deep property management featuresnot Stayntouch
  • A rural B and B replacing a spreadsheet and manual OTA extranet updatesnot Stayntouch
  • A small property already comfortable with SiteMinder support and wanting one bill for distribution and front desknot Stayntouch

Stayntouch

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

Where each one falls short

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

Little Hotelier

  • The product is capped by design at small properties, so a hotel growing past roughly twenty rooms faces a migration rather than an upgrade, usually into SiteMinder plus a separate PMS.
  • Reporting is limited to basic occupancy and revenue summaries, which leaves owners exporting to a spreadsheet for anything an accountant or lender asks for.
  • Rate and package logic is simple, so properties with seasonal packages, meal plans or complex tax handling end up adjusting rates manually.
  • The non-distribution integration list is short, so accounting, door lock, POS or CRM tools outside the small supported set have to be handled by rekeying data.
  • Pricing is banded by room count and paid monthly per property, so an operator with three small properties pays three subscriptions with no consolidated view worth the name.

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

Little Hotelier

On request
  • Little Hotelier$undefined/month
    • Monthly subscription banded by number of rooms
    • Booking engine and channel manager included
    • Card processing charged per transaction

Stayntouch

On request

No published plan breakdown. See the Stayntouch review.

Which should you pick?

Choose Little Hotelier if

  • You need simplified front desk.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android.
  • You also want channel management.
Little Hotelier 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 Little Hotelier or Stayntouch better?
Neither clearly leads. Little Hotelier starts at On request and Stayntouch at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Little Hotelier or Stayntouch?
Little Hotelier starts at On request and Stayntouch at On request.
Does Little Hotelier or Stayntouch run on more platforms?
Little Hotelier runs on Web, iOS, Android. Stayntouch runs on Web, iOS, Android, Cloud.
What is Little Hotelier best used for?
Little Hotelier is most often used for a ten room guesthouse where the owner works reception and wants ota sync without a separate channel manager contract, a hostel needing reliable booking.com and hostelworld connectivity more than deep property management features, a rural b and b replacing a spreadsheet and manual ota extranet updates, a small property already comfortable with siteminder support and wanting one bill for distribution and front desk. Of those, a ten room guesthouse where the owner works reception and wants ota sync without a separate channel manager contract and a hostel needing reliable booking.com and hostelworld connectivity more than deep property management features are not what Stayntouch is typically brought in for.
What can Little Hotelier do that Stayntouch cannot?
Little Hotelier covers Simplified front desk, Channel management, Direct booking engine, Mobile app. Stayntouch covers Mobile check-in, Guest self-service, Cloud PMS, Open API. Both handle Payments.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Little Hotelier: Who owns Little Hotelier?

SiteMinder. It is the small property product line of the same company that sells the SiteMinder channel manager.

Stayntouch: What does Stayntouch cost?

Quoted per property by room count; not published.

Little Hotelier: What happens when the property outgrows it?

Most operators move to a fuller PMS and keep SiteMinder for distribution. Expect a data migration rather than a plan change.

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.

Little Hotelier: Does it include a channel manager?

Yes, built on the SiteMinder network, which is the main reason to choose it over other small property tools.

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.

Little Hotelier: Can one login manage several properties?

Each property is a separate subscription and the multi-property view is thin, so operators of more than two or three properties usually look elsewhere.

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