Compare AppFolio and Smart Hotel - Mar 2022

Shlomi Lavi

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - AppFolio or Smart Hotel?

Smart Hotel is more expensive to implement (TCO) than AppFolio, and AppFolio is rated higher (95/100) than Smart Hotel (78/100). AppFolio offers users more features (27) than Smart Hotel (0). There is a clear winner in this case and it is AppFolio!

Looking for the right Property Management solution for your business? Buyers are primarily concerned about the real total cost of implementation (TCO), the full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, and the pros and cons. In this article we compare between the two software products:

AppFolio Vs. Smart Hotel Software

AppFolio: AppFolio provides cost-effective, web-based property management software that allows residential property managers to more effectively market, manage and grow their business. Our online property management software includes complete accounting and property management functionality with the ability to email work-orders, owner statements and resident...

Smart Hotel Software: The Smart Hotel Software property management system is developed and distributed by Smart Hotel Software Inc. Formerly known as UniResMan Software Inc., we have been an application software developer for more than 15 years providing business intelligence software for the Small and Medium sized Business (SMB) market. Our products are sold and sup...

Who is more expensive? AppFolio or Smart Hotel?

The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Property Management software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance and support and other related services. When calculating the TCO, it's important to add all of these ”hidden costs” as well. We prepared a TCO (Total Cost) calculator for AppFolio and Smart Hotel.

AppFolio price starts at $1.40 per unit/month , On a scale between 1 to 10 AppFolio Property Manager is rated 2, which is much lower than the average cost of Property Management software. Smart Hotel price starts at $500 per month , When comparing Smart Hotel to its competitors, the software is rated 4 - lower than the average Property Management software cost.

Bottom line: Smart Hotel is more expensive than AppFolio.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared AppFolio Vs. Smart Hotel based on some of the most important and required Property Management features.

AppFolio: this software is considered "feature-rich" with more than 10 important features, here is a partial list: Automatic Data Backup, Automatic Property Mapping, Customizable Applications, Easy Data Migration, Email Owner Statements, Events Calendar, Excel Export, File Management.

Smart Hotel: We are still working to collect the list of features for Smart Hotel.

Target customer size

The web-based property management software is best for medium and small business owners. The software is a viable solution for small and medium businesses as well as large enterprises.