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Revinate vs ThinkReservations

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Revinate

Travel

Hotel guest data platform, email marketing and messaging built on PMS profile data

From
On request
Rated
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Full reviewWebsite
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ThinkReservations

Travel

Property management and booking system for North American inns, B&Bs and small hotels

From
On request
Rated
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Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Revinate pricing is not published and is quoted per property scaled by room count with a monthly floor, so small properties often find the minimum higher than the campaign revenue they can realistically generate.; ThinkReservations no pricing is published anywhere, so you cannot compare it against Cloudbeds or Little Hotelier without first sitting through a sales call and extracting a quote.
  • They diverge on capability: Revinate covers Guest profile resolution, ThinkReservations covers Reservation calendar.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Revinate and ThinkReservations actually diverge.

Attributes where Revinate and ThinkReservations differ
AttributeRevinateThinkReservations

Identical on both: starting price (On request), pricing model (quote), free tier (No), platforms (Web), 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 Revinate

  • Guest profile resolution
  • Segmented email campaigns
  • Revenue attribution
  • Ivy messaging
  • Reservation sales
  • Multi-property database

Only in ThinkReservations

  • Reservation calendar
  • Direct booking engine
  • Channel management
  • Integrated payments
  • Yield rules
  • Reporting

What people use each for

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

Revinate

  • An independent resort with fifteen years of dirty PMS profiles that wants a usable marketing database out of themnot ThinkReservations
  • A hotel group proving that direct email campaigns produced enough room nights to justify cutting OTA spendnot ThinkReservations
  • A property automating pre-arrival texts so front desk staff are not answering the same parking and check-in questions by phonenot ThinkReservations
  • A casino resort segmenting a large guest database by spend and recency for targeted offersnot ThinkReservations

ThinkReservations

  • A fourteen room inn moving off a spreadsheet and a phone diary that needs breakfast counts and minimum stay rules handled nativelynot Revinate
  • A B&B selling gift certificates and packages that wants them redeemable in the same system that takes the bookingnot Revinate
  • An owner of three small New England properties wanting one login and consolidated occupancy reportingnot Revinate
  • A campground or cabin operator needing nightly and multi-night rules plus OTA distribution without buying a separate channel managernot Revinate

Where each one falls short

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

Revinate

  • Pricing is not published and is quoted per property scaled by room count with a monthly floor, so small properties often find the minimum higher than the campaign revenue they can realistically generate.
  • Value depends on database size and quality; a hotel with a few thousand contacts and mostly OTA business will not recover the licence cost through email revenue.
  • The platform is sold as several products including marketing, messaging and reservation sales, so the quoted figure often covers less than a buyer assumes and the full stack costs considerably more.
  • Profile resolution quality depends on how the PMS was operated, and a property with poor data capture at check-in gets a cleaner database that is still missing email addresses for most guests.
  • It is hotel-specific, so a group with mixed accommodation including serviced apartments or vacation rentals will find parts of the model and integrations do not fit those units.

ThinkReservations

  • No pricing is published anywhere, so you cannot compare it against Cloudbeds or Little Hotelier without first sitting through a sales call and extracting a quote.
  • The product is built for North American operations, so European tax handling, guest registration requirements and local OTA mix are not supported and it is effectively unsellable outside the region.
  • There is no revenue management or dynamic pricing, so rates rely on manual seasonal and day of week rules that go stale unless someone actively maintains them.
  • Payment processing is bundled, which is convenient but means the effective card rate is negotiated inside a software deal rather than shopped separately, and operators rarely check it against a standalone merchant account.
  • There is no native point of sale, spa or restaurant module, so an inn with a dining room runs a second system and reconciles revenue by hand.

Pricing, plan by plan

Revinate

On request
  • Revinate$undefined/month
    • Guest data platform and profile resolution
    • Segmented email marketing with revenue attribution
    • Ivy automated guest messaging

ThinkReservations

On request
  • ThinkReservations$undefined/month
    • Property management system
    • Direct booking engine
    • Channel management to major OTAs

Which should you pick?

Choose Revinate if

  • You need guest profile resolution.
  • You also want segmented email campaigns.
Revinate review

Choose ThinkReservations if

  • You need reservation calendar.
  • You also want direct booking engine.
ThinkReservations review

Questions people ask

Is Revinate or ThinkReservations better?
Neither clearly leads. Revinate starts at On request and ThinkReservations at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Revinate or ThinkReservations?
Revinate starts at On request and ThinkReservations at On request.
Does Revinate or ThinkReservations run on more platforms?
Both run on Web, so platform support will not decide this one for you.
What is Revinate best used for?
Revinate is most often used for an independent resort with fifteen years of dirty pms profiles that wants a usable marketing database out of them, a hotel group proving that direct email campaigns produced enough room nights to justify cutting ota spend, a property automating pre-arrival texts so front desk staff are not answering the same parking and check-in questions by phone, a casino resort segmenting a large guest database by spend and recency for targeted offers. Of those, an independent resort with fifteen years of dirty pms profiles that wants a usable marketing database out of them and a hotel group proving that direct email campaigns produced enough room nights to justify cutting ota spend are not what ThinkReservations is typically brought in for.
What can Revinate do that ThinkReservations cannot?
Revinate covers Guest profile resolution, Segmented email campaigns, Revenue attribution, Ivy messaging. ThinkReservations covers Reservation calendar, Direct booking engine, Channel management, Integrated payments.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Revinate: What does Revinate cost?

It is not published. Expect a per property monthly figure scaled by room count with a minimum, and confirm which products are inside that number.

ThinkReservations: How much does ThinkReservations cost?

It is not published. Pricing is quoted per property, generally scaled by room count, after a sales conversation.

Revinate: Does it replace my email tool?

Yes for guest marketing, because it is built on merged PMS profiles rather than a contact list you upload.

ThinkReservations: Is the channel manager an extra subscription?

No. OTA connectivity is part of the platform rather than a separately priced module, which is the main saving against a PMS plus channel manager pairing.

Revinate: Will it work with a small database?

Poorly. The economics depend on having enough guest records with usable email addresses to generate attributable revenue.

ThinkReservations: Does it work outside the United States?

In practice no. Tax, payments and support are built around North America.

Revinate: Is Ivy included?

Not necessarily. Messaging is priced separately from the marketing platform; confirm in writing.

ThinkReservations: Can it handle more than one property?

Yes, small portfolios are supported, but it is designed for a handful of properties rather than dozens.

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