Upbridge and Lodgify.
Lodgify is a PMS with a website builder so you can sell direct. Upbridge connects to Lodgify and runs what happens inside the house.
Which one should I pick, Upbridge or Lodgify?
Lodgify gives you your own site to sell direct and stop depending on Airbnb, and that's something we don't do. Upbridge connects to Lodgify, reads its calendar and takes care of each house between bookings: cleanings with room-by-room photos, inventory that goes down after each stay and the guest guide, which we build for you. If you already have Lodgify, you can keep it and add Upbridge.
What each one does, today.
Lodgify facts come from their site. Upbridge facts are what you can use today in Mexico.
| Topic | Lodgify | Upbridge |
|---|---|---|
| Bookings and channels | Unified calendar with Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com, plus your own direct booking site. | Your bookings stay where they already are. You connect Lodgify, we read its calendar and we write nothing back. |
| Cleaning checklists | Their higher plans include team and operations tools. | Room-by-room checklist on the phone, with photos and comments. When it is done you get a report with the time. The calendar checkout can create the task. |
| Inventory | We did not find it on their site. | Inventory per house that deducts itself after each stay, on the products you configured. If something drops below the minimum, you get an alert in the app, by email and on WhatsApp. |
| Guest guide | We did not find it on their site. | We hand it to you finished, with that house’s check-in. The guest opens a link and downloads nothing. Guides are free, as many as you want. |
| Guest check-in | We did not find it on their site. | Online check-in with ID verification. The guest uploads their ID before arrival, and you turn on a PIN and a contract if you want them. |
| AI | We did not find it on their site. | Cleo, our AI operations assistant, works inside WhatsApp. She reads your team’s WhatsApp chats, builds the tasks and assigns them. You write to her and ask for things the way you would ask anyone on your team, without opening the app. She only sees the chats you add her to, the same as anyone new on your team; she does not touch the rest of your WhatsApp. |
| Price | Four flat-fee plans with no booking commission. The amounts differ by source, so check their page. | Message David on WhatsApp. |
| Who we are | A European company with customers in many countries. | A small team. If your operation needs something different, you tell us and we make it fit. |
What Lodgify has that we do not.
- The direct booking site. If you want to depend less on Airbnb, they do that and we do not.
- A channel manager across portals.
What we do have.
- Room-by-room photo checklists, in Mexican Spanish.
- Inventory per house that deducts after each stay.
- We hand you the guest guide finished, with check-in and ID verification.
Does Upbridge replace Lodgify?
No. Lodgify keeps your bookings and your site. You connect it and we take care of the cleaning and the inventory.
Do you have AI?
Yes, and it lives on WhatsApp. You write to it the way you write to anyone on your team. It reads your team’s chats, builds the tasks and assigns them, and if you want to know how a house is doing, you ask it and it answers.
Are the guides free?
Yes, guest guides are free, and we’ll build as many as you want.
Want to see it with one of your properties?
Send David a WhatsApp and we’ll show you how Cleo organizes your team with one of your properties. We build the guest guide for free, for as many properties as you want.