Smoobu

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

As of 31 August 2026, Smoobu starts at €29/month. A German short-term rental platform bundling channel manager, website builder, guest messaging and booking system from about €29 per month for one unit. Softwr lists it under Travel. Smoobu is made by Smoobu GmbH, available on Web, iOS, Android.

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Overview

What Smoobu does

Smoobu is a vacation rental management platform from Smoobu GmbH in Berlin, covering channel management across Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo, a unified calendar, a direct booking website builder, automated guest messaging, invoicing and a mobile app. It sits in the segment between a spreadsheet and a full property management company system. The commercially interesting part is the pricing structure. Smoobu offers the same product two ways: Professional Flex at a lower monthly rate with a 0.9% fee on every booking processed, or Professional Prepaid at a slightly higher monthly rate with no booking fee at all. For a single apartment turning over €40,000 a year, the 0.9% fee is roughly €360, several times the difference in subscription price. Vendors rarely make this trade visible, and Smoobu presents the commission plan first. Buyers are individual hosts and small managers with one to about twenty units, heavily in Germany, Austria and the wider EU. The entry price covers a single unit; additional units add roughly €9.60 each per month, so a ten unit portfolio is materially more than the headline suggests. The trade-off against a manager-grade system is that owner reporting, trust accounting and housekeeping dispatch are thin to absent.

What people use it for

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 commission
An owner wanting automated check-in instructions and pre-arrival messages sent per channel without logging into each extranet
A small manager who needs guest invoices that meet German documentation requirements without adding a separate accounting tool
A host testing dynamic pricing through the bundled trial before deciding whether to subscribe to PriceLabs separately

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about 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.

Cross-shopped

What people choose instead of Smoobu

Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.

Smoobuvs
Hostaway
Hostaway: If you manage more than about twenty units and need owner statements and automation depth
Smoobuvs
Guesty
Guesty: If you run a management company and need trust accounting and multi-owner reporting
Smoobuvs
R
RentalsManager
RentalsManager: If you want a simpler rental-focused tool and do not need OTA channel sync

Pricing

What Smoobu costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Professional Flex

€29 /mo

One unit included
0.9% fee on every booking
Channel manager, website builder, messaging
Additional units priced per unit

Professional Prepaid

€31.5 /mo

One unit included
No booking fee
Website builder, invoicing, chatbot, API access
Additional units from about €9.60 per month
10% off yearly, 20% off two-year billing

Teams Pro+

€49.5 /mo

Everything in Prepaid
E-invoicing
Two write-access accounts, extra accounts from about €12 each
Prioritised support
Two months of dynamic pricing included

Capabilities

Features

Channel manager
Two-way calendar and rate sync with Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo and others
Website builder
Direct booking site with its own checkout, included in the subscription
Guest messaging
Templated and triggered messages across channels from one inbox
Unified calendar
All units and channels on one timeline with block and rate editing
Invoicing and e-invoicing
Guest invoices, with electronic invoicing on the Teams tier for EU compliance
Mobile apps
iOS and Android apps for bookings, messaging and calendar on the move

Answered, with sources

Questions people ask

Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.

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.

How many properties does the entry price cover?

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

Does it include dynamic pricing?

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

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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Softwr does not host reviews and shows no star rating for Smoobu, because a rating we did not collect is not ours to publish. What is here is the pricing and platform detail from the vendor’s own pages, limitations we could state concretely, and alternatives a reviewer confirmed people weigh against it. Tell us if any of it is wrong.

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