Wheelhouse

Dynamic pricing and market data for short-term rental operators

As of 31 August 2026, Wheelhouse starts at $19.99/month. A revenue tool that sets nightly rates for holiday rentals, offered either at 1% of revenue or a flat $19. Softwr lists it under Travel. Wheelhouse is available on Web, iOS.

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Overview

What Wheelhouse does

Wheelhouse is a dynamic pricing and market intelligence product for short-term rental hosts and managers. It ingests local supply, demand, booking pace and competitor rate data, then sets and pushes nightly prices to Airbnb, Vrbo and connected property management systems. Alongside the pricing engine it sells market reports and a mapping tool, Dynamic Sets, for grouping and analysing comparable listings. The distinguishing choice is that pricing strategy is exposed rather than hidden. Users adjust aggressiveness, minimum and maximum prices, orphan gap handling, seasonal shaping and last-minute discounting directly, and can see the market data behind a recommendation. Competitors tend to present a single recommended number. That transparency is what attracts professional managers, and also what makes the product harder to leave switched on and ignore. Buyers are hosts with one to a few listings and managers with dozens. The commercial detail worth checking is the plan choice: Pro Flex costs 1% of revenue with a $2.99 monthly minimum, and Pro Flat costs $19.99 per listing per month, falling to $16.99 at ten or more listings. A listing earning $3,000 a month costs $30 on Flex and $19.99 on Flat, so high-performing units should be on the flat plan and low-occupancy ones on the percentage plan. Wheelhouse does not make that arithmetic for you.

What people use it for

A host with two cabins in a seasonal market who wants rates shaped by booking pace rather than a fixed summer and winter rate
A manager with sixty units wanting one pricing strategy applied across a portfolio with per-unit floors
An owner with a low-occupancy listing who prefers to pay 1% of revenue rather than a fixed monthly fee in quiet months
An analyst benchmarking a new acquisition against neighbourhood occupancy and ADR before setting an offer price

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 Wheelhouse.

The two plans cross over at roughly $2,000 of monthly booking revenue per listing, and Wheelhouse does not flag which plan is cheaper for you, so most users are on the wrong one.
Dynamic Sets, the tool for defining accurate comparable sets, is charged separately at $12.99 per set per month, so genuinely good market analysis costs more than the pricing engine itself.
Data quality depends on local listing density, and in thin or rural markets the recommendations become unreliable because there are too few comparables to model against.
Rate pushes depend on channel and PMS connections, and a lag or failed sync means a stale price sits live on the OTA with no obvious alert to the operator.
The strategy controls that make it attractive to professionals also mean the tool underperforms if left on defaults, so an operator who wanted to set and forget will not get the benefit they paid for.

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What people choose instead of Wheelhouse

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.

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Hostaway
Hostaway: If you want pricing bundled inside a property management platform rather than as a separate tool
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Guesty
Guesty: If you manage at scale and want revenue tooling inside one enterprise platform
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DPGO
DPGO: If you prefer a per booked night or 0.5% of booked price model to a per listing fee

Pricing

What Wheelhouse costs

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

Pro Flex

On request

1% of booked revenue
$2.99 minimum monthly fee
Billed at reservation time, refunded on cancellation
Volume discounts above 50 listings
30 day terms with cancellation anytime

Pro Flat

$19.99 /mo

$19.99 per listing per month
$16.99 per listing at 10 to 49 listings
Custom pricing above 50 listings
No revenue percentage

Dynamic Sets

$12.99 /mo

$12.99 per set per month
Navigator mapping interface
Eighteen filter categories for comparable selection

Capabilities

Features

Dynamic nightly pricing
Rates recalculated daily against local supply, demand and booking pace, pushed to channels
Strategy controls
User-adjustable aggressiveness, minimum and maximum rates, orphan night and last-minute rules
Market reports
Neighbourhood level occupancy, ADR and revenue benchmarking, available without a paid plan
Dynamic Sets
Mapping and filtering tool for defining comparable listing sets, priced separately per set
Channel push
Direct rate updates to Airbnb and Vrbo and through connected property management systems
Portfolio view
Rate and performance overview across listings for managers with multiple units

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 should I be on?

Flat below about $2,000 of monthly revenue per listing is the more expensive option; above that Flat is cheaper. Compare 1% of your actual monthly booking revenue against $19.99.

Does it push prices to Airbnb directly?

Yes, and to Vrbo, plus through connected property management systems.

Is there a free option?

You can create an account and see market reports without paying, but rate automation requires a paid plan.

Is there a contract?

No lock-in. Flex is billed at reservation time and refunded if the booking cancels.

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