Free tool · Pricing comparison
Your current pricing against Cardinal's, on your own numbers
Most property management systems advertise one number and bill another. Enter the figures from your invoice and compare your annual cost to Cardinal's, on your own booking volume.
The plan you are on today
Your year
What you pay every month
What you pay per booking
How your guests pay
$3,780
a year less on Cardinal, on these numbers
The gap widens with every reservation you add, and again with every rate increase.
Break-even point
338 reservations a year
- Below that
- your current pricing is cheaper.
- Above that
- Cardinal is cheaper.
Cardinal, at $189 a month
$3,240
a year, all in
$3.60 per reservation
- Subscription
- $2,268
- Per-reservation fees
- $0
- Commission on bookings
- $0
- Card platform fee (0.5%)
- $972
Your current plan
$7,020
a year, all in
$7.80 per reservation
- Subscription
- $0
- Per-reservation fees
- $2,700
- Commission and platform fees
- $4,320
- Your software, as a share of room revenue
- 3.25%
- Cardinal, on the same revenue
- 1.5%
Both columns are prices rather than predictions: yours from your invoice, ours published on our pricing page, our own 0.5% card fee included in our column rather than left off it. If your numbers say your current plan is cheaper, so does this.
One question worth asking before you compare anything
Is the per-booking fee charged to you, or added to your guest's total at checkout? If the guest pays it, your own booking page quotes a higher total than your OTA listing does, which works against the one job a direct channel has.
Five more, and how the three billing models differ →That gap is a published price, not an estimate.
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