OwnerRez vs Amenitiz
This article examines OwnerRez vs Amenitiz by concentrating on the main features that a hospitality management software should offer. The data has been collected from OwnerRez’s and Amenitiz’s websites and help articles. We also checked their reviews at Capterra to find the aspects that the actual users are emphasising.
Guest Review
In Capterra, OwnerRez has a rating of 4.9, with the highest score for Customer Service, Features, and Value for Money.
Trustpilot introduces OwnerRez as an Average tool with a 2.8 TrustScore.
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In Capterra, Amenitiz has a rating of 4.1, with the highest score for Customer Service.
Trustpilot introduces Amenitiz as an Excellent tool with a 4.6 TrustScore.
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While working with OwnerRez, you do not need to worry about the bookings that come from OTAs to which you have an API connection, as everything will automatically be visible in your account.
You can enable push notifications through the OwnerRez’s Web App to receive alerts, such as a new booking notification, on all your devices.
However, you may face some difficulties if your booking is direct. Then, everything should be done manually. Here are the steps:
- Create the booking and enter guest details.
- Activate payment collection and enter their card information.
- Schedule the security deposit.
- Reach out to guests for further information, such as photo ID and signing of the terms and conditions (through the Renter Agreements feature).
After taking these steps, the booking will be created, and it will resemble one created automatically.
Amenitiz’s integration with Chekin streamlines guest data collection by automatically storing it in your Amenitiz admin. Once guests complete the online check-in form, their information – such as names and contact details – is seamlessly saved in your account.
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The full API integration is only available for Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. In addition, you will have full access to all API integrations if you have five or more properties.
When you open the window for each channel synchronisation, you can see the list of your listings with Sync Status, Listing Status, the last time a booking was made for each property, and the last time the information changed or synced again.
Amenitiz offers XML connection with more than 150 channels from OTAs to property listing sites.
By using Amenitiz:
- You can get spotted online with their Google Hotel integration.
- You can update your pricing strategy with Amenitiz PriceAdvisor.
OwnerRez offers several ways to keep the cleaners posted about the latest housekeeping tasks:
- Custom Cleaner iCals
Using iCal integration, you can create a custom calendar for your property, export all your bookings there, and share the link with your cleaners.
- Portal Access
With login details, your cleaners can access your calendar, notes, and guest details based on the levels of access you define.
(This feature is available only if you use the Property Management Premium Feature.)
- Custom Trigger Emails
You can create a trigger email in OwnerRez to be sent out after each departure so that the cleaner knows about the latest check-outs.
- Third-Party Alerts
If you turn on Third-Party Alerts for each property and put in the cleaner’s name/email address, the system will email the assignee automatically each time a booking hits, gets cancelled, or changed.
- Stay Report
The stay report shows you who is arriving, departing, and staying. This report can be printed and sent to your cleaners as a schedule.
With Amenitiz cleaning management solution, you can:
- Change room status (Deep clean, Tidy up, Clean).
- Create multiple accounts for cleaning staff.
- Assign units or rooms, modify assignments by date ranges, and plan future cleanings.
- Add comments for occupied rooms.
- Send the housekeeping report by email and download the report in PDF.
On the housekeeping mobile app, staff can access the room assigned to them and update their status.
OwnerRez is integrated with eRentalLock and a couple of other door lock companies for self check-ins. It can automatically generate codes for your many different door locks, including numeric sequence locks and Wi-Fi locks – each time a booking is created. However, you still need to inform the guest about the code. For that, you can create an email template within the system with your preferred trigger rule. Based on that, OwnerRez will automatically send an email to your guests to enter the property without your presence.
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With Chekin integrated into Amenitiz, you can manage key tasks, such as sending registration links and remote access codes. These can be scheduled to be sent via email or sent directly through Airbnb’s centralised inbox.
Amenitiz integration with Vikey also simplifies guest check-in by sending guests a link for online check-in, collecting data and payment, and giving keyless access to guests.
OwnerRez offers hosted websites for its customers for an extra charge.
If you have one property, the fee for having a hosted website would be $10.00 per month, which may differ based on the number of your listings.
The website includes:
- A page per property
- A booking engine
- An availability calendar
- Your different rate plans for the season
- Images and videos
- Reviews
- Amenities
- Property location
- Google Vacation Rental Structured Data
- Amenitiz website reflects all reservations made through your website in your central calendar.
- You can set how and when you want to collect payments.
- You can create promotions and loyalty programmes.
- Their website is mobile-friendly and compatible with all devices.
- You can add keyword-rich ALT texts and Metadata to your website photos and meta titles and meta descriptions.
- Amintiz integrates with Google Analytics, enabling you to track website performance.
- You can create your own blog, linked with your website.
OwnerRez does not include an extended stay option. It means you cannot define different monthly and/or weekly rates.
Extending your guest stay for your direct bookings can be done manually by changing the dates, the charges, and payment collection.
If a booking is coming from an OTA and the guests stay longer in your properties, the change should be made on the OTA webpage directly, even if you use API integration.
Amenitiz:
- Allows you to define Weekly, Monthly, or Non-refundable rate plans.
- Enables you to apply Linked or Independent restrictions on rate plans.
- Allows you to determine sales terms for your rate plans.
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OwnerRez has an option in their check-out process called renter agreement. A signing link can also follow this agreement, which is highly recommended for bookings that come from different OTAs.
There is a suggested renter agreement, but you can create as many agreements as you want and customise them as a host.
After the signature link is used, you can ask your guests or a particular group of them to verify their contact information for you. This way, you will restore your guests’ details even when the booking comes from a listing site.
OwnerRez’s integration with Besty AI automates guest messaging and interactions.
- You can create emails which will be automatically sent to your guests.
- The confirmation email is sent to guests who booked on Amenitiz booking engine.
- Email language is determined by the country selection made by your guests, as well as the availability of translations.
- Amenitiz allows you to craft templates and use their centralised inbox to seamlessly send personalised messages to your Booking.com guests.
OwnerRez creates a profile for each of your guests regardless of the sources or channels they come from.
To have an organised CRM, you have the option to merge your contacts or team them up.
OwnerRez’s guest CRM shows you the guests’ history, including the number of their previous bookings with a summary, payments, contact information, and some tags.
By creating different tags, you can highlight some characteristics or ideas about the guests, such as great, never again, breakfast, extra bed, and rental boats. The reason for having tags on the CRM level and booking level is to help the owner. The owner will keep in mind the key points that may seem minor but have a considerable impact on their hosting quality to turn the guests into loyal ones or prevent an annoying person from returning to the property again.
Amenitiz’s integration with Chekin streamlines guest data collection by automatically storing it in your Amenitiz admin. Once guests complete the online check-in form, their information – such as names and contact details – is seamlessly saved in your account.
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OwnerRez does not seem to have a particular feature dedicated to your maintenance issues. You can create manual tasks if needed.
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OwnerRez supports mobile phones and tablets. Their web version is mobile responsive, meaning that you can work with the system the same way you do from your PC. It can also be installed as an app on your mobile devices.
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Amenitiz provides a mobile version of their platform through which host can:
- Directly manage the payments for reservations if they use AmenitizPay.
- Block a room from the mobile application.
- Add extra charges via the app.
Housekeepers and staff can access the room attributed to them and update their status on the mobile app.
You can use OwnerRez internationally. They allow for multiple currencies, which can be set per property. You can have multiple different credit card processors to accept different currencies, as well.
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Amenitiz provides a multi-currency functionality for hosts who have different currencies on OTAs and want to use their local currency on their website and booking engine.
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OwnerRez can help you manage your housekeeping to some extent, but it needs manual interference and supervision (it will not be done automatically).
However, it is clear that some more extensive operations with more complex scheduling involved, including housekeeping, maintenance, and other support staff, need an advanced solution. To meet this, OwnerRez has partnered with ResortCleaning and VRScheduler.
Amenitiz offers a suite of features designed to streamline operations:
- Provides a single interface to manage reservations, housekeeping, and rates, reducing the need to switch between multiple tools.
- Enables you to access up-to-date information through the dashboard reporting.
- Amenitiz integration with Chekin and Vikey simplifies and automates the check-in process.
OwnerRez’s PM (Property Management) area gives you a wide variety of options, provided that you use the Premium plan. You can configure owners and assign the properties that you manage for those owners, including some settings like your commission.
You can grant portal access to owners to see your calendar. You can also generate monthly owner statements so that owners can see their booking earnings and the expenses you have charged them. In addition, your grand total for the month will be calculated.
Property managers can assign specific access to property owners through the “Team” section in Amenitiz.
- Permissions include managing inventory, reservations, or specific accommodations.
- Access can be limited to particular properties or tasks.
- Owners receive an email with log-in credentials after setup
- You can directly collect payments. You can configure payment methods in the financial settings to accept credit cards, cheques, or PayPal.
- You have integration with Quickbooks for your accounting. All the invoices will get generated automatically using Quickbooks’s integration with all the data needed, such as taxes, add-ons, etc.
- You can generate partial payment links, meaning the system generates two invoices for you. It is also possible to set reminders for the guests, which will be sent to them via email.
- Regarding security deposits, OwnerRez offers its optional Damage Protection programme with an insurer called RentalGuardian. The other possible ways are either to hold a security deposit or to have a Refundable Damage Deposit or “RDD.” These can be created manually in the system.
- They offer API integrations with Payeezy, Authorize.net, Bambora, Lynnbrook, Stripe, and more payment processors for payment collection. You can check them out on their website.
Amenitiz offers an online payment solution tool named AmenitizPay, through which you can:
- Automate payments and set rules for scheduling transactions.
- Manage payments from various devices.
- Link Booking.com and Expedia payouts to AmenitizPay.
AmenitizPay also offers a bluetooth terminal that ensures easy reconciliation, wherever you are.
- OwnerRez offers various reports which can be exported to Excel/CSV files.
- The booking summary report helps you compare your booking percentage over different periods. You can also compare property by property.
- You can apply other filters like Airbnb or channel bookings only.
- You can also have a Line Item Pivot report where you have the list of all your bookings on a list with all the information you may want to check.
Amenitiz enables you to create customised reports using the Report Builder.
The Dashboard overview is divided into two sections:
Monthly Stats:
- New bookings: Total bookings received since the start of the month.
- Month-to-date charges: Includes nights sold, extras, and taxes, even if unpaid.
- Year-to-date (since January): Aggregates charges from all bookings during the year, excluding cancelled ones.
Daily Activity:
- New bookings, Check-ins, Check-outs, and Stay-overs are listed for the day.
Using OwnerRez, you can define seasonal rates and spot rates. You can have the rates applied to only random days in a month, certain days repeatedly, or the entire month. The rate plans from one property can also be batch copied to a destination property.
Under rate rules, you can create last-minute discounts.
OwnerRez also offers integration with Beyond and PriceLabs for dynamic pricing.
Amenitiz PriceAdvisor adjusts your rates based on demand, seasonality, or competitors.
Regardless of the location of your properties, you can choose various competitors and rates.
You can also determine the ideal price at the right time by taking into account the public holidays in the locations of your guests.
Once you sign up, the OwnerRez’s support team will reach out to schedule a free 1-hour 1:1 call.
OwnerRez has a ProConnect (Concierge) Setup apart from support documents and asking for help.
The OwnerRez team will go through your account’s onboarding process entirely by themselves based on the information you provide for them. At some points, like the part for website setup, your presence will be needed.
There would be a charge for this service based on the number of your properties. The service will only be available for your existing listings, not the ones you add later on. It is also good to know that Concierge Setup is not an express service, and it might take 3 to 6 weeks to complete.
Amenitiz offers comprehensive customer support and training. Their support includes a help centre with articles, as well as direct assistance for troubleshooting via email, phone, and chat.
Training resources are available to help users understand features.
OwnerRez offers a Line Item Pivot where you have the list of all your bookings on a list with all the information you may want to check. You can see your booking data, rent price, cleaning, surcharges and discounts, taxes, host fees, charge totals, transaction totals, and PM totals. You can export these to Excel, as well.
Remember that this information will be generated for each booking, not for your organisation, like the monthly profit report in total.
However, OwnerRez can generate monthly owner statements to see their booking earnings and the expenses you have charged them. In addition, the total of the month will be calculated.
OwnerRez integrates with Quickbooks for your bookkeeping tasks.
Having PM services (calculating commissions, generating owner statements and recording expenses) and integrating QuickBooks require an extra fee to be paid to OwnerRez on your base plan.
Amintiz enables you to set accounting codes linked to different charges or transactions. This aids in tracking expenses, simplifying transaction identification, reducing errors in accounting reports, and facilitating data entry for accountants.
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OwnerRez does not have a Unified Inbox beyond Airbnb messaging. However, you can have your Airbnb and Vrbo messages sent to OwnerRez automatically, and you can answer them back from your OwnerRez account directly.
You can have your enquiries forwarded into OwnerRez from Vrbo or TripAdvisor, but your replies will be sent out as a traditional email to the guest.
Some pre-set email templates can be sent out to guests automatically using the triggers. They can be turned off for the bookings that you may choose from your list. You can also create your email templates based on your needs.
Amenitiz offers an Airbnb centralised inbox designed to enhance guest interactions and streamline OTA management. This requires a direct connection between Amenitiz and Airbnb.
Amenitiz Inbox allows you to communicate with your guests who have booked through Booking.com.
Pricing
OwnerRez pricing starts from $40 (31 GBP) per month. The more properties you have, the less you will pay. However, the default plan only includes Channel Management and Digital Signatures. If you want to have the Property Management feature (to calculate commissions, generate owner statements, and record expenses), QuickBooks integration, hosted website, and SMS messaging, you need to include them in your base plan and pay extra for each. OwnerRez does not have a free version, but they offer a 14-day free trial.
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Amintiz offers three pricing plans. Its pricing varies depending on the total number of rentals and subscription period:
- Presence: £45/rental/month for the monthly plan.
- Sales Pro: £64/rental/month for the monthly plan.
- Ultimate+: £74/rental/month for the monthly plan.
While the Presence plan includes the website builder, the AmenitizPay and PriceAdvisor are only available for Sales Pro and Ultimate+ subscribers.
OwnerRez vs Aminitiz: Which Property Management System to Choose?
OwnerRez will help you manage your properties as there are lots of features available for each aspect of managing a short-rental business. There are also so many integrations that can be used. However, you need to keep in mind that, to have some of the features, you need to pay an extra amount per property to have them activated. OwnerRez can be an excellent solution for small and large multi-location companies and those who work with Vrbo, Booking.com, and Airbnb.
Amenitiz offers a user-friendly interface, a comprehensive PMS, and an integrated booking engine that simplifies reservations and payment processing. The platform also provides website creation tools. However, its relatively high pricing may be seen as steep for smaller operators or those seeking basic features, as some users have noted that the range of features is limited compared to the investment.
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