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Regiondo vs Smoobu

Regiondo logo

Regiondo

Travel

Booking software for European tour, activity and leisure operators

From
€59/month
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
Smoobu logo

Smoobu

Travel

All-in-one channel manager and PMS for hosts with a handful of holiday rentals

From
€29/month
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Regiondo a per-ticket fee applies on top of the subscription, so a high-volume operator selling many low-price tickets pays disproportionately compared with one selling few expensive ones.; Smoobu the Flex plan carries a 0.9% fee on every booking, which on an apartment turning over €40,000 a year costs more than the entire annual subscription saving, and the pricing page presents Flex as the cheaper option.
  • They diverge on capability: Regiondo covers Booking widget, Smoobu covers Channel manager.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Regiondo and Smoobu actually diverge.

Attributes where Regiondo and Smoobu differ
AttributeRegiondoSmoobu
Starting price€59/month€29/month
Pricing modelPer month plus a per-ticket feePer unit per month

Identical on both: free tier (No), platforms (Web, iOS, Android), 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 Regiondo

  • Booking widget
  • Session and capacity rules
  • Vouchers and gift cards
  • Point of sale
  • OTA channel manager
  • Resource scheduling
  • Invoicing and tax handling
  • API access

Only in Smoobu

  • Channel manager
  • Website builder
  • Guest messaging
  • Unified calendar
  • Invoicing and e-invoicing
  • Mobile apps

What people use each for

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

Regiondo

  • A German escape room chain selling timed slots and gift vouchers with correct local invoicingnot Smoobu
  • A boat trip operator distributing to GetYourGuide and its own site from one availability poolnot Smoobu
  • A climbing centre allocating instructors and equipment across sessionsnot Smoobu
  • A wine tour business taking both online bookings and walk-up sales at the doornot Smoobu

Smoobu

  • A host with three apartments in Berlin who needs Airbnb and Booking.com calendars kept in sync and wants a direct booking site to cut OTA commissionnot Regiondo
  • An owner wanting automated check-in instructions and pre-arrival messages sent per channel without logging into each extranetnot Regiondo
  • A small manager who needs guest invoices that meet German documentation requirements without adding a separate accounting toolnot Regiondo
  • A host testing dynamic pricing through the bundled trial before deciding whether to subscribe to PriceLabs separatelynot Regiondo

Where each one falls short

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

Regiondo

  • A per-ticket fee applies on top of the subscription, so a high-volume operator selling many low-price tickets pays disproportionately compared with one selling few expensive ones.
  • Regiondo now shares an owner with Rezdy and Checkfront, so evaluating the three against each other is evaluating one company presenting three faces.
  • It was owned from 2019 to 2023 by the parent of Jochen Schweizer and mydays, an experience reseller, and operators who signed during that period were running their bookings through a system owned by a distribution competitor.
  • Strength is concentrated in German-speaking Europe; OTA depth, language coverage and support quality drop noticeably for operators in other regions.
  • The product is deliberately simple, and operations with complex shared-resource constraints across many products find the scheduling model too coarse.

Smoobu

  • The Flex plan carries a 0.9% fee on every booking, which on an apartment turning over €40,000 a year costs more than the entire annual subscription saving, and the pricing page presents Flex as the cheaper option.
  • Pricing is per unit, so a ten unit portfolio pays roughly €31.50 plus nine additional units at about €9.60, and the headline monthly figure covers a single apartment only.
  • Write access is charged per account beyond the included seats, so a cleaner, a co-host and an owner all needing to edit bookings turn into a recurring per seat cost.
  • There is no trust accounting or owner statement generation, so anyone managing units on behalf of third-party owners has to build payout reporting outside the system.
  • Housekeeping and maintenance dispatch is minimal compared with manager-grade platforms, so cleaning coordination happens in WhatsApp or a separate tool once you are past a few units.

Pricing, plan by plan

Regiondo

€59/month
  • Grow$59/month
    • For solo operators and small teams
    • Online sales, booking management and OTA connections
    • Per-ticket fee applies to confirmed bookings
  • Scale$99/month
    • For multi-location businesses
    • Unlimited users
    • API access and fuller customisation

Smoobu

€29/month
  • Professional Flex$29/month
    • One unit included
    • 0.9% fee on every booking
    • Channel manager, website builder, messaging
  • Professional Prepaid$31.5/month
    • One unit included
    • No booking fee
    • Website builder, invoicing, chatbot, API access
  • Teams Pro+$49.5/month
    • Everything in Prepaid
    • E-invoicing
    • Two write-access accounts, extra accounts from about €12 each

Which should you pick?

Choose Regiondo if

  • You need booking widget.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android.
  • You also want session and capacity rules.
Regiondo review

Choose Smoobu if

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

Questions people ask

Is Regiondo or Smoobu better?
Neither clearly leads. Regiondo starts at €59/month and Smoobu at €29/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Regiondo or Smoobu?
Regiondo starts at €59/month and Smoobu at €29/month.
Does Regiondo or Smoobu run on more platforms?
Both run on Web, iOS, Android, so platform support will not decide this one for you.
What is Regiondo best used for?
Regiondo is most often used for a german escape room chain selling timed slots and gift vouchers with correct local invoicing, a boat trip operator distributing to getyourguide and its own site from one availability pool, a climbing centre allocating instructors and equipment across sessions, a wine tour business taking both online bookings and walk-up sales at the door. Of those, a german escape room chain selling timed slots and gift vouchers with correct local invoicing and a boat trip operator distributing to getyourguide and its own site from one availability pool are not what Smoobu is typically brought in for.
What can Regiondo do that Smoobu cannot?
Regiondo covers Booking widget, Session and capacity rules, Vouchers and gift cards, Point of sale. Smoobu covers Channel manager, Website builder, Guest messaging, Unified calendar.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Regiondo: How much does Regiondo cost?

From about 59 euros a month for Grow and 99 euros for the higher tier, with a small per-ticket fee on confirmed bookings and 10 per cent off for annual payment.

Smoobu: Which plan is actually cheaper, Flex or Prepaid?

Prepaid, for almost anyone with real occupancy. The 0.9% booking fee on Flex exceeds the subscription difference once annual revenue passes a few thousand euros.

Regiondo: Who owns Regiondo?

Expedition Software Holding, backed by Vertica Capital Partners, since 2023. Before that it was owned by ProSiebenSat.1 within the Jochen Schweizer mydays group.

Smoobu: How many properties does the entry price cover?

One. Every additional unit adds roughly €9.60 per month.

Regiondo: Does it charge commission on my own website bookings?

Not a percentage commission, but a per-ticket fee applies, so the cost scales with ticket count rather than with revenue.

Smoobu: Does it include dynamic pricing?

Only two months free on the Teams tier. Ongoing dynamic pricing means subscribing to PriceLabs or similar.

Regiondo: Is it a good fit outside Germany?

It works, but the OTA connections, payment methods and support are built around German-speaking Europe first.

Smoobu: Is there a contract?

Billing is monthly, yearly or two-yearly, with 30 days notice required to cancel; longer terms buy 10% or 20% off.

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