ZipBook
ZipBook is a web service for villa, homestay, hotel, and short-term rental owners who want a direct booking site.
What ZipBook is
ZipBook is a web service for villa, homestay, hotel, and short-term rental owners who want a direct booking site. It supports direct reservations, online payments, custom domains, and channel management. Owners can import an Airbnb or supported Vrbo-family listing, or start a site from scratch. Two-way calendar synchronization with Airbnb and other channels is described through iCal feeds. The dashboard brings together bookings, payment status, guest details, pricing, calendars, reviews, SEO, sitemaps, themes, and branding. ZipBook says it supports more than 100 payment providers across 43 countries or regions, including PayPal, Stripe, Wise, Revolut, and Klarna. Hotels and resorts can migrate room types, amenities, galleries, and pricing into a booking site with CMS and payment integration. A new site starts with a 30-day free trial, and preview signup does not require a credit card. Plans are 30.00 USD, 500.00 USD, or $5,000 a year, billed annually as one-time payments, depending on listing capacity.
Good
- Direct booking engine and channel manager
- Imports Airbnb or supported Vrbo-family listings
- Two-way calendar syncing through iCal
- Supports 100+ payment providers
- 30-day trial without a credit card
Watch out
- No free plan
- Clients must maintain independent data backups
- Clients handle payment disputes and refunds
- Listed property limit is three
Who it suits
ZipBook suits accommodation owners who need direct reservations, payment collection, and channel calendars on the web. It supports up to three properties in the listed property limit.
Verdict
ZipBook combines booking-site creation, channel synchronization, and payment collection for accommodation businesses. Its trial and broad payment-provider support are useful, while clients retain responsibility for backups and payment operations.
Plans and prices
From ZipBook's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | Free | Unlimited invoices · unlimited vendors and customers · Square or PayPal payments · basic reports · 1 bank account |
| Smarter | $15 a month | Starter features · recurring auto-billing · automated reminders · multiple bank accounts · time tracking · 5 team members · per month |
| ZipBook STR Basic | $30 a year | Up to 3 listings or sites · 100k credits · 30d refresh · Annual · one-time |
| Sophisticated | $35 a month | Smarter features · smart tagging · account reconciliation · locked books · secure document sharing · insightful reports · unlimited users · per month |
| ZipBook STR Professional | $500 a year | Up to 25 listings/sites · 1M credits · 7d refresh · Annual · one-time |
| ZipBook STR Platinum | $5,000 a year | Up to 1000 listings/sites · 10M credits · 1d refresh · Annual · one-time |
| Accountant | Priced on request | Client-account time tracking · financial-package export · firm co-branding · bulk transaction editing · client dashboard · data migration |
The facts
Each one read from ZipBook's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Accounting
- The accounting module includes bank connections, reconciliation, chart of accounts, auto-categorization, project accounting and financial statements.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Account protection
- Optional two-factor authentication can be enabled through support.checked 15 Oct 2026
- API documentation warning
- The developer portal warns that its API documentation may be outdated and that future changes can break compatibility.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Backups and access
- The company says it keeps rolling backups and lets administrators restrict team-member data access with permissions.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Calendar sync
- The site describes two-way calendar syncing with Airbnb and other channels using iCal feeds.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Dashboard
- The owner dashboard manages bookings, payment status, guest details, pricing, calendars, reviews, SEO, sitemaps, themes, and branding.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Data responsibility
- The privacy policy and terms say clients are responsible for maintaining independent backups of operational and booking data.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Funding news
- A July 20, 2016 release announced a $2 million seed round led by Peak Ventures, with Pelion Venture Partners, Liquid 2 Ventures and angel investors participating.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Help center
- The help center organizes documentation into invoices, transactions, reports, contacts, tracking, accountant FAQs, account administration and general FAQs.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Hotel migration
- For hotels and resorts, ZipBook says it can migrate room types, amenities, galleries, and pricing into a booking site with CMS and payment integration.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The product connects with payment and business tools including Square, PayPal, Stripe and Gusto.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Invoicing
- Users can create invoices and estimates, send PDFs, use multiple currencies, add taxes and discounts, and automate recurring billing.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Licence
- Wikipedia identifies ZipBooks Accounting as proprietary software rather than open source.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: feature depth
- TrustRadius reviewers say ZipBooks is less full-featured than QuickBooks.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: inventory
- CPAAdvisor identifies missing inventory functionality as a limitation for product-selling businesses.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: mobile availability
- TechRadar lists the absence of an Android app as a drawback, while CPAAdvisor says the mobile app was discontinued and the product is browser-only.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Listing setup
- Owners can import an Airbnb or supported Vrbo-family listing, or create a site from scratch.checked 4 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Browser delivery
- The Chrome listing says ZipBooks requires no download or installation and is accessed online.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company size and founding
- LinkedIn lists ZipBooks as privately held, founded in 2015, with 11–50 employees.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- G2 lists the company headquarters location as Lehi, Utah.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Legal entity and ownership
- Crunchbase identifies the legal name as Phlo, Inc., lists founders Jaren Nichols and Tim Chaves, and records an acquisition by Divvy.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Maker
- The terms identify On2AI Systems, a proprietary MSME business, as ZipBook's operator.checked 4 Oct 2026
Money
- Free-trial length
- The Chrome listing advertises a 30-day free trial for paid plans.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: auto-billing reliability
- A Trustpilot reviewer reported recurring Square auto-billing failures that required disconnecting and reconnecting the integration.checked 15 Oct 2026
