What do you like best about Lodgify?
The team makes the product.
This is a leading rental management tool, and I have tried a few, the differences are really minimal.
So why am I leaving 10 stars? The team.
The team proactively reached out to me when one of my rentals were having issues, did not mention that I had made a mistake during the enrollment, and generally were supportive of me and my business.
Something will go wrong. When you choose any product. It's just a fact of life. What matters here is that it is resolved before you even think to check your email. I don't know how, I thought their enrollment was automated (it is, I had just mistyped something) -- nevertheless, a real person picked it up as fast as an automated system would.
No, I'm not kidding, I'm being paid for this review, but as a technology professional, I could not tell, nor did I expect, that a real person picked up my request within a minute. Not to put any pressure on you Lodgify :) If you enter all the details correctly, it will just work, but if not, it will just work.
They knew the intricaties of the Booking.com system I was using, and despite Booking.com being trash, they managed to work around it. I don't even open the awful Booking.com app. I just use Lodgify. It lets me actually charge a guest's card. Booking.com... does not, even though that's the minimum you would expect. Lodgify makes up for the inadequacies of Lodgify, but does charge a fee unless you are on the pro plan, though having lost about a hundred before I started Lodgify, I don't mind paying this, knowing I can upgrade to fee-free if I make a certain amount of bookings, it's all about saving time, and I definitely save that 1% in stress and time.
I don't even use the excellent Airbnb app, I just have Lodgify installed, I have never needed more. At first I didn't trust it fully (as you shouldn't) and checked all apps, but after a while, as there were no issues, and everything was synced quickly, I decided to stop checking Airbnb and Pulse apps. I LOVE having a single-pane-of-glass to manage my business.
When you open up the TypeForm page to link a connection, suspend judgement for a moment, it looks like a survey that is picked up by a real person, and you think you'll have to wait for a few hours. THIS IS AUTOMATED. So rest assured, it will be added within 5 minutes.
Unless, of course, like me, you fat finger something, then a person will pick it up and remedy it if they know what you mean, but they are very careful, they double-check everything. That being said, they will not ask useless questions.
tl;dr amazing team, product is automated, product makes up for the no-doubt-awful systems you will be linking into it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about Lodgify?
There is a 1% fee on top of the Stripe fee when using Stripe. I don't think it costs them anything to do, yet they charge for it. I would not mind a flat fee, but I don't think they should be entitled to a percentage.
HOWEVER, and this is a big HOWEVER: I do not understand how Booking.com works, I think if a person must make the payment manually, a Lodgify employee, as there needs to be a captcha, it makes sense to charge, though unfortunately I must still make the statement that it should not be a percentage.
I suppose it assures people that they will always make 99%, and this may not always be the case when they use a flat fee, so it may all balance out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.