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Lodgify vs Sabre Red 360

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Lodgify

Travel

Direct booking website builder and channel manager for vacation rental owners and small managers

From
$16/month
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
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Sabre Red 360

Travel

Agency booking workspace over the Sabre GDS for air, hotel, car and rail

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Lodgify the 1.9 per cent booking fee on Starter and Professional applies to direct reservations, the exact bookings you built the site to win, so an owner turning over 200,000 dollars direct pays around 3,800 dollars a year on top of the subscription unless they move to Ultimate.; Sabre Red 360 the commercial deal is a multi-year segment volume commitment, so an agency that moves bookings to airline direct connects can end up paying shortfall penalties on volume it no longer books through Sabre.
  • They diverge on capability: Lodgify covers Website builder, Sabre Red 360 covers Graphical and cryptic modes.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Lodgify and Sabre Red 360 actually diverge.

Attributes where Lodgify and Sabre Red 360 differ
AttributeLodgifySabre Red 360
Starting price$16/monthOn request
Pricing modelPer month by property count and planquote
PlatformsWeb, iOS, AndroidWindows, 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 Lodgify

  • Website builder
  • Channel manager
  • Booking engine
  • Unified inbox
  • Automated messaging
  • Rental agreements
  • Multi-calendar
  • Damage deposits

Only in Sabre Red 360

  • Graphical and cryptic modes
  • Air shopping and ticketing
  • Red App Centre
  • Queue management
  • Multi-content hotel
  • Automation scripting

What people use each for

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

Lodgify

  • An owner with three holiday cottages who wants a branded site to cut Airbnb commissionnot Sabre Red 360
  • A manager consolidating Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com calendars to stop double bookingsnot Sabre Red 360
  • A rural property with weak OTA visibility that relies on repeat direct guestsnot Sabre Red 360
  • A host adding rental agreements and deposit collection to bookings taken off-platformnot Sabre Red 360

Sabre Red 360

  • A retail agency whose consultants work by cryptic entry and will not accept a forms-only booking toolnot Lodgify
  • A TMC that needs queue-driven ticketing and quality control across thousands of daily PNRsnot Lodgify
  • A consolidator negotiating a segment incentive deal and wanting the agent desktop bundled innot Lodgify
  • An agency adding NDC airline content without abandoning its existing GDS servicing workflownot Lodgify

Where each one falls short

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

Lodgify

  • The 1.9 per cent booking fee on Starter and Professional applies to direct reservations, the exact bookings you built the site to win, so an owner turning over 200,000 dollars direct pays around 3,800 dollars a year on top of the subscription unless they move to Ultimate.
  • Operations tooling is thin: there is no real housekeeping scheduling, task assignment or owner statement generation, so managers past roughly twenty units outgrow it.
  • Prices shown are annual-commitment rates; paying monthly costs substantially more, which makes the headline figure misleading for anyone unwilling to commit for a year.
  • The website templates are constrained, and heavy design customisation means editing within a narrow theme system rather than having real control over layout or markup.
  • Payment processing is effectively tied to a small set of gateways, so operators in markets without local acquiring support may struggle to take payments in their own currency without extra cost.

Sabre Red 360

  • The commercial deal is a multi-year segment volume commitment, so an agency that moves bookings to airline direct connects can end up paying shortfall penalties on volume it no longer books through Sabre.
  • NDC content behaves differently from classic EDIFACT content inside the workspace, and servicing an NDC order often means leaving the normal exchange and refund workflow.
  • Cryptic entries remain necessary for a meaningful set of tasks, so training a new consultant to productive speed takes months rather than days.
  • It is a desktop-weighted product on Windows, which makes it awkward for agencies running fully remote or Mac-based teams without virtual desktop infrastructure.
  • Pricing is never published and is entangled with incentive economics, so two agencies of similar size can be on materially different terms with no visibility of each other.

Pricing, plan by plan

Lodgify

$16/month
  • Starter$16/month
    • Billed annually, higher month to month
    • Website builder and booking engine
    • Channel manager
  • Professional$42/month
    • Billed annually
    • Payment automation
    • More integrations and higher limits
  • Ultimate$103/month
    • Billed annually
    • No booking fee on direct reservations
    • Priority support

Sabre Red 360

On request
  • Sabre Red 360$undefined/year
    • Typically bundled into a GDS segment agreement
    • Segment incentive payments to the agency
    • Volume commitments and multi-year terms

Which should you pick?

Choose Lodgify if

  • You need website builder.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android.
  • You also want channel manager.
Lodgify review

Choose Sabre Red 360 if

  • You need graphical and cryptic modes.
  • You work on Windows, Web.
  • You also want air shopping and ticketing.
Sabre Red 360 review

Questions people ask

Is Lodgify or Sabre Red 360 better?
Neither clearly leads. Lodgify starts at $16/month and Sabre Red 360 at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Lodgify or Sabre Red 360?
Lodgify starts at $16/month and Sabre Red 360 at On request.
Does Lodgify or Sabre Red 360 run on more platforms?
Lodgify runs on Web, iOS, Android. Sabre Red 360 runs on Windows, Web.
What is Lodgify best used for?
Lodgify is most often used for an owner with three holiday cottages who wants a branded site to cut airbnb commission, a manager consolidating airbnb, vrbo and booking.com calendars to stop double bookings, a rural property with weak ota visibility that relies on repeat direct guests, a host adding rental agreements and deposit collection to bookings taken off-platform. Of those, an owner with three holiday cottages who wants a branded site to cut airbnb commission and a manager consolidating airbnb, vrbo and booking.com calendars to stop double bookings are not what Sabre Red 360 is typically brought in for.
What can Lodgify do that Sabre Red 360 cannot?
Lodgify covers Website builder, Channel manager, Booking engine, Unified inbox. Sabre Red 360 covers Graphical and cryptic modes, Air shopping and ticketing, Red App Centre, Queue management.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Lodgify: Does Lodgify charge commission on direct bookings?

Yes on the two lower tiers. Starter and Professional take 1.9 per cent of each direct booking; the Ultimate plan removes it.

Sabre Red 360: Do we pay a licence fee for Sabre Red 360?

Usually not directly. It is bundled into a GDS segment agreement in which Sabre pays your agency incentives per segment, so the negotiation is over volume commitments and incentive rates.

Lodgify: At what point is Ultimate cheaper than Professional?

Roughly once your direct booking revenue passes about 38,000 dollars a year, at which point the 1.9 per cent fee exceeds the price difference between the plans.

Sabre Red 360: Can corporates buy it to book their own travel?

No. It is an agent workspace. Corporates buy a TMC or an online booking tool such as GetThere, Egencia or TravelPerk instead.

Lodgify: Is Lodgify a full property management system?

No. It is a website, booking engine and channel manager. Housekeeping, task management and owner accounting are largely absent.

Sabre Red 360: Does it handle NDC?

Yes, Sabre distributes NDC offers from a growing airline list, but servicing NDC orders follows a separate flow from classic GDS bookings.

Lodgify: Can it run a hotel?

It is designed for whole-unit vacation rentals. Room-level hotel inventory, folios and night audit are not part of the product.

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