Uplisting vs Amenitiz
This article examines Uplisting vs Amenitiz by concentrating on the main features that a hospitality management software should offer. The data has been collected from Uplisting’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, Uplisting has a rating of 4.8, with the highest score for Value for Money and Customer Service.
Trustpilot introduces Uplisting as a Poor tool with a 2.4 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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Uplisting automatically collects the payment using Stripe 3D Secure Links. It automatically pre-authorises and releases the security deposit amount that you have set for your Booking.com and HomeAway guests.
Even if it is a channel collect, the guests will receive a link on the OTAs’ chatbox where they give you their payment information, and the amount will be pre-authorised and released based on the timeline you have set for each property.
Uplisting decides whether to hold or collect the security deposit amount based on the length of the guests’ stay.
In the end, the guests will go through the verification process. They are asked to upload a picture of their passports, driving licences, or identity cards. They can easily use their phone cameras to take a photo if needed.
The Security Deposit and Guest Identity Verification are premium add-ons, available for an additional fee.
Uplsting allows you to add your rental agreement, personalise it with dynamic content like guest names, and automatically send it to guests for signing. You can track the status and access the signed contract as a PDF.
You can ask guests to use their contact information for further marketing, and the consent will be GDPR-compliant.
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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Once you create your Uplisting account and connect to Airbnb, you can have all your listings imported to Uplisting, including prices, availability, bookings, and listing content.
You can set different OTAs rates that you are linked to and check the prices published on each in your calendar.
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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.
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Uplisting helps you automate your cleaning management.
- Uplisting gives limited access to your housekeepers.
- For each of your bookings, a corresponding turnover band is created which shows the property name, property address, existing guest name, check-out time and date, and the number of guests checking in and out.
- Your housekeepers will get updated about any changes in the information above, booking modifications, and cancellations via email.
- The housekeeper can decide whether to accept the turnover or not, and the host will get notified about it upon refreshing the platform or via email.
- Different housekeepers can be assigned to one or more properties of yours, which means they can only check the information about the chosen properties.
- You can leave notes for your cleaners about each booking.
- You can keep track of the time each housekeeper starts and ends his/her task.
- Your housekeepers have a cleaning schedule automatically created based on the bookings.
- You can also have cleaning teams defined in the system.
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.
You can automatically send your check-in instructions to your guests, using automated messages based on the trigger rules you choose in Uplisting.
Regarding guest details and payment, the process is automated for direct bookings, and for channel bookings, the guests’ information will get updated.
Uplisting’s integration with RemoteLock enables you to connect with various smart locks and automate guest access to your property.
Uplisting also generates a security deposit link for all your bookings. Still, as they believe some of the guests may not expect to pay a security deposit, you can easily copy-paste or email the link to the ones you wish to.
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.
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- Uplisting direct booking website contains all of your listings’ information, including pictures, availability, and prices.
- The website is hosted securely, so you do not need to hire developers or buy a domain name.
- Direct bookings automatically block your dates on Airbnb, Booking.com, and other platforms.
- Uplisting gives you the chance to have a domain name without having to pay for that.
- Uplisting direct booking website automatically represents all your properties as they are shown on Airbnb.
- The website is mobile responsive.
- It integrates with WordPress through Zapier.
- You can manually book on behalf of guests.
- You can collect payments through Stripe and make safe payments with 3-D Secure Links.
- There are no booking-related charges for direct bookings.
- Its integration with Google Vacation Rentals simplifies the sharing of your properties, pricing, availability, and restrictions on Google.
- 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.
- Amenitiz integration with Google Hotel simplifies the sharing of updated rates and availability of your vacation rentals.
Uplisting does not have the option for defining and pushing weekly and/or monthly rates.
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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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Automated Guest Messages are designed to keep your guest informed from booking to check-out. You can make a unique tone of voice for the message templates. You can enable automated messages as below:
- New Booking
Sent when a booking is confirmed (sent within 10 minutes of booking). - One week before check-in (based on check-in time)
This message is sent out if the guest books less than 7 days before check-in, but not if they book on the day of check-in. - Reminder of upcoming stay
Sent 72 hours (3 days) before check-in (based on check-in time). - Check-in instructions
Sent 24 hours (1 day) before check-in (based on check-in time). - Day of check-in
Sent 1 hour before check-in (based on check-in time). - First morning of stay
Sent at 10 am on the day after check-in (first morning of guest stay). - Before check-out
Sent 16 hours before check-out (based on check-out time). - After check-out
Sent 24 hours (1 day) after check-out (based on check-out time).
Unified Inbox centralises guest communications.
Automated Review enables you to leave reviews for guests and increases the number of guests who will leave a review for you.
Enquiry auto-responder can respond instantly. You can also delay the response to up to 60 minutes to respond manually.
Saved replies can speed up guest messaging.
- 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.
Uplisting provides you with a certain set of data about your guests. Using Uplisting, you can have records of
- Guest lists
- Guest name
- Phone number and email address
- Number of guests
- Booking site confirmation code
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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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Uplisting has a mobile app for IOS and Android. Using the mobile app, you
- Get notifications for every new guest message from Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo (HomeAway), and direct bookings.
- Have all guest messages in one place.
- Can use pre-filled response templates to save time. You can easily select a template from your phone when responding to a guest.
- Can pull the guest’s booking data into the message with personalised snippets.
You can help the guests in real-time by answering back to them, changing the arrival time, sending them your pre-set templates, or stopping the automated email messaging for that particular guest.
You can also call the guests.
You can change the reservation’s status, booking type, and booking site.
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.
Uplisting helps you manage different Airbnb and Booking.com accounts from one central system, meaning that the properties may also be in different locations.
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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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Uplisting Action Screen, which is like a to-do list, will show you the list of your check-ins and check-outs weekly.
- Uplisting Action Screen is very mobile-friendly and is also printable.
- You can use Actions to track guests.
- You can mark guests as checked-in or checked-out for guest management, which is visible on the main Action view. It is helpful in arranging cleaning and other tasks.
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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.
Uplisting gives access to your invited owners.
Its owner portal gives owners access to action and calendar screens with certain limitations. For instance, the owners can see the bookings and unavailability; they can also create blocked dates. However, they cannot see guest contact details or messages.
Their owner portal is a paid add-on and available for an additional fee.
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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
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Uplisting collects all the payments using 3D Secure Links through Stripe. If you do not wish to use a Stripe account for all your properties, you can decide which ones you want to connect to your account, enabling guests to pay while booking from your website.
Uplisting verifies whether the guest’s credit card is valid or not. If it is not, Uplisting will automatically mark the card as invalid on Booking.com, and the same thing happens for your direct website bookings.
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.
Uplisting provides you with some reports which can be filtered by date range and/or listing.
You can use Uplisting reports for
- Client invoicing: you can quickly calculate client invoices by filtering the invoice list to an individual property on a monthly basis.
- Task scheduling and operations: it gives you a list of cleanings, maintenance tasks, and welcomes.
- Accounting reports: these include a price breakdown for all bookings, and you can work out your earnings and tax deductibles (cleaning, booking site commission).
- Performance analysis: you can find more about your average daily rate and nightly occupancy, the average length of stay, and nights sold.
You can also export all your reports in CSV.
Uplisting allows you to track expenses and create Owner Statements and Custom Management Fee Formulas for an additional fee.
Uplisting offers integration with Key Data, a trusted data & analytics provider of real-time vacation rental market data for the short-term rental industry.
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.
Uplisting offers integration with Wheelhouse, PriceLabs, and Beyond for dynamic pricing.
Uplisting pushes your rates to all the channels you are linked to in real-time. You can set different markup percentages for any OTAs and see the final price published to each channel separately under your default rate, which is applied to your website and used by the admin.
You can also check promotions and last-minute discounts from your Uplisting account.
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.
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Training
- In-Person
- Live Online
- Webinars
- Documentation
Support
- 24/7 (Live Rep)
- Business Hours
- Online
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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.
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Uplisting does not have any dashboards for analytics like occupancy or rates yet.
However, as you may be managing other people’s properties, Uplisting provides you with a management fee report per booking.
The management fee is included in each booking price breakdown, reports, and the Zapier app’s webhooks.
As Uplisting offers integration with Zapier, you can have your account connected to Xero, ZohoBooks, etc. for your accounting.
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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Uplisting’s unified inbox displays all your guest messages in a single feed. You can quickly view and reply to messages from your Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo, and direct booking website, even if you are using multiple accounts!
In Uplisting unified inbox, you can:
- Close & star guest messages
- Filter guest messages
- Change message ordering
- Save replies as templates
- Reply to your multiple accounts’ messages using your mobile phone
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
Uplisting pricing starts at 16 GBP ($20.00) per month, and there is 0% commission. Minimum subscription is 80 GBP/m ($100/m) for 5 listings.
Their Enterprise Plan allows you to pay a custom price based on your needs. The custom pricing will apply when you have 30+ listings.
Uplisting does not have a free version, but it offers a free trial.
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.
Uplisting vs AmenitizWhich Property Management System to Choose
Uplisting is a well-known Vacation Rental Management Software. The system sets automated messages and helps you get connected to multiple booking channels. Uplisting automatically pulls your listings from Airbnb and pushes your data to Booking.com, HomeAway, and Vrbo. Thus, it can be one of your choices if you manage your properties using these channels only.
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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