A free channel manager
that stays free.

Ours is, and the test is whether the free plan has a countdown, a listing cap, a read-only mode or a commission. It has none of those. Unlimited properties sync over iCal with Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo and anything else publishing a feed, you get one calendar across all of them and a commission-free booking page, and no card is asked for at any point. What free does not do is move prices or land instantly.

With ours, exactly one thing: iCal carries dates and nothing else, and each platform reads it on its own timetable rather than the moment something changes. That is the whole catch, and it is a property of the method rather than a restriction we added. Everything else in the product (the calendar, the booking page, the inbox, the apps, the team logins) is on the free plan.

Every booking platform will publish your taken dates as a calendar file, and subscribe to one you publish back. We read each of your channel feeds every 15 minutes and hand out a feed of your whole calendar for them to read. No integration or partner approval is needed on either side, which is why it can be free, and why it is slower than a direct connection.

As many as you have. There is no property-count check anywhere in the product, so there is no number at which the free plan stops working. Hosts run whole portfolios on it.

No, and there is no card on file waiting to be charged when something expires. Adding a payment method is a thing you do if and when you upgrade a specific listing.

Yes. The inbox is not a paid feature, enquiries and messages from your own booking page arrive there on free. What the paid connection adds is Airbnb and Booking.com conversations landing in the same place instead of in each platform’s own app.

One thing: the direct two-way channel connection, at $10 AUD per listing per month for the listings you switch it on for. That is the only thing in the product that checks whether you are subscribed. Everything else works the same whether you pay us or not.

On one property on one platform, no, the platform is your calendar. The moment there are two, something has to keep them honest, and doing it by hand works right up until the evening you forget. That is the job a free plan does well: it is not fast, but it never forgets, and it costs nothing to find out whether you needed it.

You can, and that is genuinely the same mechanism we use, Airbnb will subscribe to another platform’s feed and block those dates. What it will not do is give you one calendar across every property and channel, keep three or four platforms in step with each other rather than just with Airbnb, or let your cleaner see the result. If two channels is all you have, Airbnb’s own import may be enough, and we would rather say so.

We are not going to promise our pricing never changes, because nobody can keep that. What we will say is narrower and keepable: we will not put a card requirement, a countdown, a listing cap or a read-only mode on the free plan, and we will never take a percentage of a booking. Those are the four things that turn a free plan into a trap.

Yes, and we take 0% of them. Every listing gets a booking page on the free plan, guests pay through your own Stripe account at Stripe’s rates, and the money never passes through us. It is the highest-margin channel you have and it costs nothing to run.

Because the two plans cost us genuinely different amounts to run. Reading a calendar file on a schedule is cheap. A direct channel connection is a real per-listing arrangement with real costs behind it, which is what the $10 pays for. The free plan is not a loss we are recovering with a countdown, it is simply the cheap half of the product.

It stays yours and stays readable. No export fee, no archive lock, no read-only penalty after a period of not paying. If you leave, you leave with everything.