Smoobu

Avantages

Pas grand chose . Ni plus ni moins qu un autre logiciel.

Inconvénients

augmentations de tarifs exagérées répétées , 50 % d'augmentation en janvier 2023
20 % d'augmentation en janvier 2025
Ne vous fiez surtout pas a leurs prix !

Avantages

Le fait d'administrer les chambres et la maison au complet
Bref, je loue une chambre et la maison au complet n'est plus disponible et vis versa

Inconvénients

Pas d'accès téléphonique (boîte vocale) a partir de l'Amérique

Avantages

Smoobu dispose d'une bonne intégration aux plateformes de locations courte durée ainsi qu'à différents partenaires.

Inconvénients

L'interface utilisateur n'est pas très intuitive est pas très agréable.
Le système de design du site internet n'est pas franchement très convivial.

Avantages

Le guide voyageur est super.
Facilité de connecter des applications tierces

Inconvénients

Impossible de connecter plusieurs comptes stripe
Pas d appli pour les femmes de menage
Imprecisions sur les données tarifaires des resas sur l export

Avantages

La gestion de plusieurs biens simultanément sur des plateformes différentes (Booking, Airbnb, Abritel...)Facilité d'utilisation incroyableSupport d'aide réactif et compétent

Inconvénients

Il manque la possibilité (par le biais d'une ligne "note" sur le planning) de pouvoir inscrire les événements, animations, activités, de la ville où se situe le bien et qui influent sur le prix des locations.Cela faciliterait le choix des tarifs en amont de la saison (Fête du lac, Festival du Film d'Animation, Congrès des Médecins, Maxi Race ...).

Avantages

Synchronisation des plannings avec les plateformes

Inconvénients

Impossibilité de répondre avec l adresse gmail.

Avantages

Simple et efficace, bon marché mais pas de support ni d'assistance, ils vous envient des emails avec des tutos.

Inconvénients

PAS DE SUPPORT EFFICACE
Smoobu a des problèmes financiers car depuis 2 ans que je travaille avec eux leur effectifs diminuent sans cesse. Maintenant il ne répondent plus au téléphone. Répondent uniquement par email et envoient des tutos et des videos. NE PAS TRAVAILLER AVEC EUX.

Avantages

Après 15 jours de période d'essai du Channel Manager et un soutien sans faille du service support technique notamment Antoine et Marie, j'ai décidé de faire confiance a Smoobu. Logiciel simple d'usage et qui se paramètre facilement. Au début je me suis posé la question si Smoobu valait le coup pour seulement 1 appartement. En faite il faut résonner en nbr de plateforme sur lequel se trouve votre appartement. Moi c'est 4 et c'est vraiment utile. Je suis a 1 semaine d'utilisation et je ne regrette pas mon choix c'est pour cela que je souhaite partager mon point de vue de jeune client.

Inconvénients

Le temps d'adaptation avant de maitriser le logiciel. Sans aide cela aurait été dur.

Avantages

Facilité d'utilisation, gain de temps pour la gestion des clients et le SAV

Inconvénients

Le temps de tout bien paramétrer, cela m'a mis 1 semaine.

Avantages

smoobu est simple, facile et pratique
intuitif

Inconvénients

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Avantages

The programme is well structured, very intuitive and easy to use. I built my homepage with Smoobu quickly and despite the fact that there are no different graphics or layout options, the site is impressive and loads easily on all devices. The support guys are very helpful and respond on time.

Inconvénients

The difficulty of managing several bank accounts.

Avantages

It help to intergate all my property across all platform and really save lots of time with the monitor of inventory availability

Inconvénients

There are a few time when the system fail to sync with other platform and we end up having to sort out all the double booking with lot of hassle. But generally their customer service are very fast to response and also help to resolve the issue.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Smoobu

Avantages

I love everything for set up to auto management for bookings

Inconvénients

I dont have any cons for Smoobu, love it

Avantages

Links calendars (Airbnb, Booking.com and others)
Guest guide (but can send link only, not a hyperlinked text ie: View our Guest Guide
Auto messaging
Contact list (incl. email addresses (only with few, not all guests) and phone numbers) of past guests.
Website builder, including booking system and payment gateway
Invoices
Can link with other applications
Shows metrics
Reasonably priced

Inconvénients

• Messaging: No option to archive messages currently.
• No push notifications from Airbnb & Booking to the Smoobu app when a guest (Airbnb) sends an enquiry only (before they book) I do not receive this into my Smoobu messages.
• when a guest books and the booking confirmation email is sent, it does not appear in my Smoobu message inbox either so I dont see the communication trail.
• Attachments on messages, it is not possible as portals like Airbnb and Booking.com block messages with these.
• As we are still sending messages through their connections, we have to abide by their rules.
• For now, it's just text for messaging - which is why we offer the Guest Guide as a workaround to help you
• Cannot re-order item in Guest Guide
• Font size formating in Guest Guide does not work for me

Avantages

I have used Smoobu for 4 years now for my 6 listings and use it as a booking engine on my own website. It works wonderfully. I love the ease of use as a user and to set up. It has many great features from the automated guest messages, guidebook, booking engine, etc. I have used for several client’s websites as well.

Inconvénients

There are a couple features I wish it had, mostly to do with pricing/discount options to offer so I could offer the same options that I do on Airbnb.
I wish that you could set up discounts fo specific dates. Unfortunately any discounts set up apply to all dates.
I do wish the pricing sync with VRBO had been fixed by now.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi choisir Smoobu 

Pourquoi passer à Smoobu

Avantages

Price is the best. It does basic things like it will keep all your listings in sync. Forget about centralized messaging, because certain things just won't sync like VRBO. But for small operators 1-5 peroperties it works great, and price you can't beat

Inconvénients

no full API integration with VRBOlack of SMS automationsCustomer Service doesn't existi, you can create a ticket they will answer next week

Avantages

What we like most about the software: ease of use, communication templates/scheduling of messages, ability to update rates and they immediately update across all connected OTAs, ability to set % increases on OTAs over our direct book rates, Digital Guest Guidebook (& how easy it is to customize regarding what guests see before, during & after their stays), & the ability to nest units. There's more to like out the software, but these are the top items on our list.

Inconvénients

Always looking for more features, but what they already have far exceeds previous channel managers I've used.

Avantages

The platform is very easy to use, very good explained videos to use in any step your in. I'm very satisfied
about what they offer and the improvement they have made and expanded many offers is a high-quality product.

Inconvénients

They have to improve the Statistic and metrics of the properties and bookings. They could add so much more info here they are not. Invoices do not generate correctly. The Payment details on reservations do not include the COMISION imported of the channel, so it's very different from what the payment show in smoobu and in the other Channels like booking.com, Airbnb, Expedia. They Have to take the same information on those channels and adjust them to make it clear and have no difference between the channels.

ALSO need to do a MAX Update to the Website Builder.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi choisir Smoobu 

Logiciel antérieur 

Pourquoi passer à Smoobu

Avantages

Very attractive. It has a very clean feel to it and nicely visual

Inconvénients

There were quite a few issues that I thought they may over time address, but I'd have to say the absolutely most shocking shortcoming of this software was an inability for guest who comes to your website to get an itemized quote. I actually called and arranged a VERY early morning conference call with this European based company.... and this is just one of the crazy, head scratching things about this software. It allows you to imbed a link from them to your own company website for guests to get a quote; but this is a total quote.... No itemized quote. So if you've got a $1000 refundable deposit, guests don't know that, its just this HUGE total, without details on cleaning fee, taxes, options, refundable deposit, etc. From here, the guests can contact you for the itemized quote and book. What the heck? why can't they book on line? why can't they see an itemized quote? This is just one of the things that Smoobu knew hosts would want, but that they didn't bother to do right.... and unfortunately one of so many half way done things .... I guess so they could add it to their feature list, but it is completely useless. Just having an itemized quote and booking the guest later would have been a huge help, but they couldn't be bothered to do this.... and with refundable deposits in one HUGE total ... hosts will have to clutter their websites with explanations.

Avantages

Firstly, for someone who has hardly used a channel manager, the learning curve is always going to be a thing no matter which service you decide to use. This was the case for me, after reading countless reviews I decided to trial Smoobu and am now a paid user.

And when the learning curve is unavoidable, Smoobu truly shines with their CUSTOMER SUPPORT - it is definitely one of their best features. Their chat team works in German-time (and they are not available 24/7), but it was definitely handy when you're based overseas. Their e-mail support team I find are VERY experienced, fast, helpful, patient, understanding and respectful - I seriously only have praise for them! They truly helped a novice channel manager user like myself troubleshoot, configure, and set up the optimal solution that works best for my particular business size and workflow.

Regarding the SOFTWARE FEATURES, I think we always tend to want more, and more of the available features offered more seamlessly and automated, so I don't think it's even fair to expect EVERYTHING, and the simplicity of Smoobu's software - both in UI and UX, once you get a grip on it, is a HUGE asset that eliminates and minimises all the headaches we go through as owners and managers.

And finally - PRICING. Based on my own research I think their overall quality offering is astounding vis a vis the cost. I am thoroughly impressed with the service and am grateful that I found something I am happy to pay for and proud to continue using!

Inconvénients

EMAIL SUPPORT > CHAT SUPPORT: Though chat support is easier to access, for an actual conundrum or a multilayered question you're facing I would definitely go through their e-mail support since they can constructively engage with your problems (maybe also because they have more time to respond?), and you really feel that they are there to help you! But the chat team is great too for small questions you might have (but sometimes they disconnect in the middle of a question - but don't be discouraged and take that to e-mail or maybe call though I haven't tried that personally!)

GOOD DESIGN BUT NOT YET MIND-BLOWING: It is minimal, clean and ticks all the right boxes in terms of UI / UX and it is not at all problem for internal admin use, but for someone who comes from a creative industry background (e.g. used to the intuitive approach of Apple products and have done consumer-facing communication work) I do think their consumer-facing features (like their new GUEST APP and WEB EMBEDDABLE BOOKING TOOL) can be further reimagined based to align themselves with consumers who are spoiled by Apple, Google et al. providing great design to the mainstream. So in sum, based on a philosophy that good design → looks great and ALSO heightens practicality.

TWO-WAY SYNCS VS iCAL SYNC: Not a con but a note - with Airbnb when you sync via their two-way sync it makes it impossible to view or edit your calendar on Airbnb. It's great but I found it easier to iCal sync like the rest of the platforms!

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi choisir Smoobu 

Logiciel antérieur 

Avantages

easy to manage calendar, quick synchronization with different platforms, excellent editing for automatic messages, good options for shared information, perfect to create different prices.

Inconvénients

Nothing to say, don't have something that I like least!

Avantages

Great service and prompt help from [sensitive content hidden]. Would highly recommend

Inconvénients

No Cons at all , really good relationship

Avantages

I've been using Smoobu for over 2 years now, and I've got to say, their customer service is top-notch. Talking to real people instead of bots is a nice touch. They're quick to respond and always helpful.The host solution is a game changer, making it so much easier to manage my property across multiple sites. It saves me from double bookings and lets me adjust rates and availability all at once. Plus, the automated messages and website creation are a big help.I really like the financial stats feature, it gives me a quick look at my earnings across different platforms. The dashboard's cool too.

Inconvénients

It'd be great if the financial stats could factor in the commissions from the different platforms. I know it's a big ask, given the different commission rates, but it would be a helpful addition. I would also have an ability to block individual apartments leaving the entire property open for bookings by groups.

Avantages

Smoobu is probably the Channel Manager with the best 'Features/Price' ratio.
We state that after we have done seriously evaluations for two years.
It has all functionality a small - middle accommodations managing service will be needing.
The subscription is very reasonable too.
They haven't stoped improving since I know them and they have the perfect support :)

Inconvénients

There are some minor functionality issues with the user interface.
This does not affect the functionality, it is just that sometimes one can not but notice that some things could be a bit more 'up to date' in the user interface.

Avantages

Once it's set up, it is absolutely indispensable and critical to organize and coordinate a vacation rental.

Inconvénients

Nothing really... All questions are answered quickly and they continue to add additional features.