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TrustYou
Guest review aggregation, survey and reputation analytics for hotels
As of 31 August 2026, TrustYou's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. A German reputation platform that collects hotel reviews from across the web, runs semantic analysis on them and pushes summarised scores to distribution channels. Softwr lists it under Travel. TrustYou is made by TrustYou GmbH, available on Web.
Overview
What TrustYou does
TrustYou aggregates guest reviews for hotels from online travel agencies, Google and social channels, applies semantic sentiment analysis to categorise what guests actually complain about, and presents scores benchmarked against a competitor set. It also runs post-stay and in-stay surveys, generates review responses, and syndicates a summarised score and review snippets to booking channels and the hotel website. More recently it has added customer data platform features, unifying guest profiles from reviews, surveys and the property management system. The distinguishing thing is the semantic layer. Rather than reporting an average score, it clusters free text into operational categories, so a general manager sees that breakfast complaints rose in a specific month rather than that the score fell by a tenth. That is the actionable part, and it is what separates TrustYou from a review inbox. The syndicated score also has a distribution effect, since displaying aggregated review content on a direct booking page is one of the few credible levers a hotel has against OTA social proof. Buyers are hotel groups and mid-sized independents in Europe and Asia Pacific, often bought by a marketing or quality function rather than by operations. The trade-off is that reputation software is a category where the underlying data is public and increasingly accessible for free through Google Business Profile and OTA extranets, so the value rests on aggregation, analysis and workflow rather than on access. Hotels that already have a customer data platform will find the newer TrustYou modules duplicate what they own.
What people use it for
- A group quality director tracking which operational category drives score decline across thirty hotels
- An independent hotel putting verified review content on its own booking page to compete with OTA social proof
- A property running post-stay surveys in several languages and analysing them together with public reviews
- A chain standardising review response so individual general managers are not writing replies ad hoc
The honest half
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 TrustYou.
- Pricing is not published at any tier, so a single hotel cannot compare it against cheaper reputation tools without entering a sales process.
- Review syncing is not instant, and delays between a review appearing publicly and appearing in the dashboard undermine the case for using it as an operational alert system.
- Reporting is inflexible next to a general analytics tool, and groups that want a custom cut of the data often export it rather than build the view inside TrustYou.
- The newer customer data platform modules overlap heavily with functionality in modern property management systems and hotel CRMs, so buyers risk paying twice for guest profile unification.
- Much of the underlying review data is now retrievable free through Google Business Profile and OTA extranets, which makes the value proposition rest entirely on analysis and workflow rather than access.
Cross-shopped
What people choose instead of TrustYou
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.
- TrustYouvsMews
Mews: Its guest profile and feedback tooling reduces the need for a separate customer data module
- TrustYouvsSiteMinder
SiteMinder: Reaches the same distribution channels and includes some review visibility within its platform
Pricing
What TrustYou costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
TrustYou platform
On request
- Quoted per property, scaling by portfolio size
- Reputation, survey and customer data modules priced separately
- No public rate card
- Group and chain agreements negotiated centrally
- Annual commitment typical
Capabilities
Features
Review aggregation
Reviews collected from OTAs, Google and social sources into one dashboard
Semantic analysis
Free text clustered into operational categories with sentiment scoring
Competitor benchmarking
Scores compared against a defined competitive set
Guest surveys
Post-stay and in-stay questionnaires feeding the same analytics
Review response tooling
Drafted responses and publishing back to source channels
Score syndication
Aggregated score and snippets displayed on the hotel website and booking channels
Multi-property reporting
Group-level rollups across a portfolio
Customer data profiles
Guest records unified across reviews, surveys and PMS data
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.
How much does TrustYou cost?
It is quoted. Historical directory listings mention entry figures around 75 US dollars a month for a small property, but the vendor does not publish a rate card and group pricing is negotiated.
Does it respond to reviews for me?
It drafts responses and publishes them back to source channels, but a human still approves them unless you configure otherwise.
Is the score syndication worth it?
It is one of the more defensible parts of the product, because showing verified review content on a direct booking page counters the social proof advantage OTAs hold.
Do I need it if I use Google Business Profile?
Google gives you your own reviews free. TrustYou adds cross-source aggregation, competitor benchmarking and category-level sentiment, which is the part you are paying for.
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