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Quarters vs Guesty
Quarters is built for furnished lets of one to twelve months. This page sets it beside Guesty: where each is the better buy, what each publishes as a price, feature by feature, and how moving across works.
Which to buy
Where each of them is the better buy.
People weighing the two usually want one of three things: a different way of paying, a simpler tool, or software built for lets that run for months. Plenty of tools answer the first two. The third is the one we are built for.
Guesty is the better buy if…
Your nights come through Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo. Guesty syncs all three on every plan, and 60+ channels on Pro. We have no channel manager.
You price by the night. Guesty has revenue management on Pro and a dynamic pricing add-on on every plan. Mid-term rent is agreed once per tenancy, so we never built one.
You want a booking website built for you. Guesty has a website builder and a booking engine. We give you an API and leave the site to you.
You want guest extras in one place: a guest app, smart-lock management, damage protection. Guesty offers all three and we offer none.
You manage hundreds of listings. Guesty’s Enterprise plan is made for 200 and up.
Quarters is the better buy if…
Your lets run for months and each one is a tenancy: a monthly rent, a deposit and a minimum stay in months, a lease from your own template, a handover at each end.
The productYou want a published price up to 50 units: €10 a unit a month up to 20, €7 from 21. Nothing per booking, and unlimited users.
PricingYou want help moving across. Migration is included from Growth up, with no onboarding fee.
How switching works
Start with your business
Which one is your year?
Twelve units over one year, let two ways: by the month on top, by the night below. Guesty describes itself as “Airbnb & Vacation Rental Software”. Quarters is built for the top one.
By the month · around 40 tenancies a year
In Quarters, each bar is a tenancy: a lease signed in the product, a deposit, a check-in and a check-out, and the clean after it.
By the night · around 1,000 bookings a year
Pricing follows the picture. A fee per booking grows with turnover, which the bottom picture has plenty of and the top one does not, so Quarters charges per unit and nothing per booking.
If your year looks like the bottom one, a short-let tool will serve you better than we can. If it looks like the top one, that is the gap Quarters is built for.
Cost
What each of them publishes.
Guesty’s pricing page lists Lite for one to three listings, with packages from $9 a listing a month. Pro and Enterprise are quoted per portfolio, so they show here as on request and we do not estimate them.
| Quarters | Guesty | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price, billed annually | €10 / unit / mo, up to 20 units | $20 / listing / mo on Lite, for 1–3 listings Costbench breakdownGuesty pricing |
| Billed monthly | €12 / unit / mo | $29 / listing / mo on Lite Costbench breakdown |
| Fee per booking | None, on any plan | 1% per reservation on the $9 pay-as-you-grow Lite plan Costbench breakdown |
| Larger portfolios | €7 / unit / mo for 21 – 50 units; above that on request | Pro (4–199 listings) and Enterprise (200+) on request Guesty pricing |
Guesty publishes in US dollars and we do not convert. Their figures were checked against the linked sources on 27 September 2026. Ours are per unit per month, excluding VAT.
Feature by feature
What both do, and what only Guesty does.
| Quarters | Guesty | |
|---|---|---|
| Rental agreements with e-signature | Drafted from your own template, signed in the product, with an evidence trail | A legacy feature, deprecated and being phased out in favour of their Guest App; available as a paid add-on through an account manager Guesty Help Center: rental agreements |
| Cleaning and handover tasks | An operations board of check-ins, check-outs and cleans, derived from the bookings | Task management for cleaning and maintenance Guesty pricing |
| AI | An assistant that reads and edits your data, on every plan, and asks before each change | An AI suite, including ReplyAI for guest messages Guesty pricing |
| Channel manager | Not offered | Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo on Lite; 60+ channels on Pro Guesty pricing |
| Nightly dynamic pricing | Not offered. Rent is agreed once per tenancy | Revenue management on Pro; the PriceOptimizer add-on on every plan Guesty pricing |
| Website builder | Not offered. A public API and signed webhooks drive your own site, on every plan | Website builder and booking engine; the Advanced Websites add-on on Pro and Enterprise Guesty pricing |
| Guest app, smart locks, damage protection | Not offered | A guest app, plus the LocksManager and Damage Protection add-ons on every plan Guesty pricing |
Guesty’s column shows what their own pages list, checked on 27 September 2026. It is not a list of everything Guesty does. Their pages are the place to check for that.
Switching from Guesty
Two to three weeks, running both.
Migration is included from the Growth plan up, with no onboarding fee. City Retreat switched from Guesty, plus a Google Sheet the whole team edited at once. Read how it went
Comes across
- Properties, with addresses and attributes
- Photos, re-rendered into every size
- Descriptions and amenities
- Rates and deposits
- Future reservations, with status
- Guest records and contact details
- As much booking history as you want
Does not, and why
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Channel connections
We have no channel manager. If Airbnb matters to you, this is the conversation to have before switching, not after.
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Message threads
Guest correspondence is not imported. Keep a copy of what you need before you close the account.
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Automations
Email automations are set up again here. It usually takes an afternoon.
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Historic invoices
Your accounting stays where it is. Keep the exports.
The sequence
Six steps, in this order.
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We pull your portfolio
Day 1Properties, addresses, photos, descriptions, amenities and rates come across from Guesty’s API. Photos are re-rendered into every size a website needs, so nothing has to be uploaded again by hand.
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You check it against reality
Day 1–2Portfolios drift. This is the step where you find the unit that was renamed in 2024 and the two that should have been archived. Better now than in month three.
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Reservations and guests follow
Day 2Every future booking, and as much history as you want. Dates, guests, amounts and status. Past reservations come across as records, not as things that will suddenly email anyone.
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Your lease becomes a template
Day 2–3Your lease turns into a template with fields the reservation fills in. This is usually the step that takes longest.
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Run both for a fortnight
Week 1–2Keep Guesty live while you take real bookings here. Nobody should cut over on a Friday afternoon on faith, and we would rather you didn’t.
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Point your website here and close the old account
Week 2–3Your site switches to our API, availability goes live, and you end your Guesty plan. We are still here if something surfaces in month two.
Worth saying plainly
We will tell you not to switch if you should not.
If most of your nights come through Airbnb or Booking.com, Quarters will make your week harder, and we would rather say so on a call than bill you for three months while you work it out. A customer who leaves angry costs more than one who never arrived.
See it against your own portfolio
Thirty minutes, your units, your contracts. If it is not a fit we’ll say so. We’d rather lose the trial than the reputation.
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