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Lodgify vs Spotnana

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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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Spotnana

Travel

Travel-as-a-service infrastructure that other travel management companies and fintechs build on

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.; Spotnana it is infrastructure, not a branded product a company books through directly, so an employer cannot simply sign up and start booking travel; they must go through a partner that has built on Spotnana.
  • They diverge on capability: Lodgify covers Website builder, Spotnana covers Unified content API.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Lodgify and Spotnana actually diverge.

Attributes where Lodgify and Spotnana differ
AttributeLodgifySpotnana
Starting price$16/monthOn request
Pricing modelPer month by property count and planquote
PlatformsWeb, iOS, AndroidWeb, API

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 Spotnana

  • Unified content API
  • White-label booking UI
  • Policy and approval engine
  • NDC servicing
  • Traveller and duty of care data
  • Partner reporting

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 Spotnana
  • A manager consolidating Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com calendars to stop double bookingsnot Spotnana
  • A rural property with weak OTA visibility that relies on repeat direct guestsnot Spotnana
  • A host adding rental agreements and deposit collection to bookings taken off-platformnot Spotnana

Spotnana

  • A travel management company wanting to modernise its booking stack without building NDC connectivity itselfnot Lodgify
  • A corporate card or expense fintech wanting to offer travel booking without becoming a travel agencynot Lodgify
  • An enterprise wanting a single API across GDS and NDC content for an internal booking toolnot Lodgify
  • A TMC consolidating multiple legacy GDS relationships behind one modern content layernot 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.

Spotnana

  • It is infrastructure, not a branded product a company books through directly, so an employer cannot simply sign up and start booking travel; they must go through a partner that has built on Spotnana.
  • Pricing is entirely undisclosed and structured partner by partner, so there is no way to benchmark cost without already being in a sales process.
  • A company evaluating a partner's travel feature is really evaluating Spotnana one layer removed, and problems in Spotnana's content or uptime become the partner's problem to explain, with limited transparency into where a fault originated.
  • As a comparatively young infrastructure provider next to Sabre, Amadeus and Travelport, its content depth and edge-case servicing in some markets and with some carriers still lag the incumbent GDS networks.
  • Because multiple competing brands (TMCs, card issuers, expense tools) run on the same underlying platform, a company cannot assume switching partner brand meaningfully changes its underlying travel content or reliability.

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

Spotnana

On request
  • Spotnana$undefined/year
    • Platform licensing to TMCs, card issuers and fintechs, not published
    • Usage-based or per-booking components depending on partner agreement
    • Implementation and integration engineering typically required

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 Spotnana if

  • You need unified content api.
  • You work on Web, API.
  • You also want white-label booking ui.
Spotnana review

Questions people ask

Is Lodgify or Spotnana better?
Neither clearly leads. Lodgify starts at $16/month and Spotnana at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Lodgify or Spotnana?
Lodgify starts at $16/month and Spotnana at On request.
Does Lodgify or Spotnana run on more platforms?
Lodgify runs on Web, iOS, Android. Spotnana runs on Web, API.
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 Spotnana is typically brought in for.
What can Lodgify do that Spotnana cannot?
Lodgify covers Website builder, Channel manager, Booking engine, Unified inbox. Spotnana covers Unified content API, White-label booking UI, Policy and approval engine, NDC servicing.

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.

Spotnana: Can our company buy Spotnana directly?

Generally no. It sells to travel management companies, card issuers and fintechs who then offer travel booking to end customers under their own brand.

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.

Spotnana: Which products run on Spotnana?

Center's travel booking and Expensify's travel offering are both built on Spotnana, among other TMC and fintech partners.

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.

Spotnana: Does it publish pricing?

No, pricing is negotiated per partner and not published.

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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