Smily
Smily is a paid vacation rental platform available through web and API access.
What Smily is
Smily is a paid vacation rental platform available through web and API access. It combines distribution, property management, payments, guest communication, tasks, and performance tools in one system. Its channel manager synchronizes listings, calendars, and prices across more than 1,000 websites to help prevent double bookings. The property management system keeps bookings, guest details, payments, communication, and performance together. Smart Replies drafts inbox and review responses using booking, guest, and property context, while leaving sending to the user. Smily also provides a website builder for branded rental sites and direct bookings. App Center connections include Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo, PriceLabs, and Zapier. The service is designed for owners and managers handling a few properties through hundreds or thousands. Monthly charges use the higher of a fixed fee or 1.2% of gross booking value, with a property-based minimum.
Good
- Synchronizes listings across more than 1,000 websites
- Centralizes bookings, guests, payments, and performance
- Drafts contextual inbox and review replies
- Includes branded direct-booking website builder
- Monthly subscription includes support and maintenance
Watch out
- No free plan is available
- Listed plan costs €2,287 a month
- 2,000+ properties require contacting Smily
Who it suits
Smily suits vacation rental owners and managers needing centralized distribution, bookings, guest communication, payments, and direct-booking tools. It also fits operators managing portfolios from a few properties to hundreds or thousands.
Verdict
Smily brings channel management, property operations, guest messaging, and direct bookings into one paid platform. Its listed pricing and property-based charging model should be reviewed carefully before choosing it for a portfolio.
Plans and prices
From Smily's own pricing page, checked 9 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Smily vacation rental software | €2,287 a month | Minimum based on number of properties · For 2000+ properties, contact Smily · Setup fees from €690 · For [Input] properties; displayed as €2287 per month, with 30% savings shown against €3267. The page says it charges the higher of the fixed fee or 1.2% of gross booking value. Setup fees start at €690. |
The facts
Each one read from Smily's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Cancellation Protection availability
- Cancellation Protection is available for Airbnb and Booking.com, while direct booking website and Google Vacation Rentals support is described as coming next.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Channel manager
- Smily says its channel manager synchronizes listings, calendars, and prices across more than 1,000 websites and helps prevent double bookings.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Direct bookings
- Smily offers a website builder for branded vacation rental websites and direct bookings.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Guest messaging
- Smart Replies drafts inbox and review responses using booking, guest, and property context, and replies are not sent automatically.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Smily lists Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo, PriceLabs, and Zapier among its App Center connections.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Pricing limits
- The pricing page says the monthly charge is the higher of a fixed fee or a 1.2% commission on gross booking value, with a minimum based on property count; 2,000+ properties must contact Smily.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Property management
- Its PMS centralizes bookings, guests, payments, communication, and performance in one system.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Security
- Smily says sensitive data is encrypted at rest and in transit, card processing applications adhere to PCI-DSS Level 3, and it does not store card numbers on client devices.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Support
- The pricing page says the monthly subscription includes customer support, hosting, security, maintenance, and updates.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Target users
- Smily describes the product as designed for vacation rental owners and managers, including operators managing from a few properties to hundreds or thousands.checked 9 Oct 2026
- What it does
- Smily is an all-in-one vacation rental platform for managing distribution, payments, guest communication, tasks, and performance.checked 9 Oct 2026
The company
- Company
- Smily says BookingSync, the company behind Smily, is a French startup; its About page says the first investment round was raised in early 2014.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- Névache, Francechecked 28 Sep 2026
