Will I lose my Lodgify website if I switch?

No — your domain points wherever you tell it to. Aura includes a booking engine for direct bookings. If you want a full marketing site (the bit Lodgify's website builder gives you), you can keep using your existing site and just swap the booking widget out, or move to a dedicated site builder you can take with you anywhere.

How long does migration take?

Most operators move in a weekend. Bookings live in the OTAs (Booking.com, Airbnb, etc.) and flow into Aura when you reconnect them. Past guest data imports via CSV. Property + room + rate setup with AI assistance takes about 20 minutes.

Will my OTA listings break?

Distribution runs through a channel manager either way. Connection to each OTA is re-established once during migration — same channel manager that Lodgify uses behind the scenes is also available to Aura, and switching is a permissions reset, not a re-listing.

What about the Lodgify website builder?

Aura focuses on the PMS + booking engine + back-office. For pure marketing-site building (testimonial pages, photo galleries), tools like Webflow or even WordPress with a booking-engine embed are more powerful than Lodgify and integrate with Aura via a simple iframe.

aura

Aura vs Lodgify

Looking for a Lodgify alternative?

Aura is the flat-fee PMS for every property type running on Lodgify — vacation rentals, villas, boutique hotels, B&Bs, condo-hotels, multi-property groups. Same core features, no per-listing surcharge, typically 50–70% less per month.

Whether you run a single villa, a 20-property portfolio, or a hotel that happens to be on Lodgify, the per-listing pricing model adds up. Aura's flat-fee model is materially cheaper above 3 listings and scales linearly into the hundreds of rooms.

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aura · Villa Marbella · Calendar

Villa Marbella· 4 rooms · LKR/USD

2 weeks1 month3 months

Unit

2 May

Sat

3 May

Sun

4 May

Mon

5 May

Tue

6 May

Wed

7 May

Thu

8 May

Fri

Family Room

FAM

BTom Anderson · 3n

$75

$60

AEmma Walker · 4n

Room 1

STD

$50

DMichael Smith · 5n

$40

Room 2

STD

Owner block

$50

ERachel Johnson · 6n

Room 3

STD

$50

ADavid Brown · 7n

PaidDueOwner blockBBooking.comAAirbnbEExpediaDDirect

aura · Villa Marbella · Calendar

Villa Marbella· 4 rooms · LKR/USD

2 weeks1 month3 months

Unit

2 May

Sat

3 May

Sun

4 May

Mon

5 May

Tue

6 May

Wed

7 May

Thu

8 May

Fri

Family Room

FAM

BTom Anderson · 3n

$75

$60

AEmma Walker · 4n

Room 1

STD

$50

DMichael Smith · 5n

$40

Room 2

STD

Owner block

$50

ERachel Johnson · 6n

Room 3

STD

$50

ADavid Brown · 7n

PaidDueOwner blockBBooking.comAAirbnbEExpediaDDirect

Cost comparison

How much you'd save

Adjust to your property size. Side-by-side monthly cost.

Properties

Rooms total

rooms

1 property×8 rooms total

Note: Per-listing pricing across Starter/Professional/Ultimate tiers. Starter starts at ~$16/mo for 1 listing; Professional and Ultimate scale per-rental with additional features.

Aura

$36

/ month

Lodgify

$104

/ month approx.

You'd save $68/mo ($816/yr, 65% less) by switching to Aura at this size.

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Aura: $12/property + $3/room/mo — exact, no plan tiers.

Lodgify:✓ Verified · 2026-05-07— source:www.lodgify.com/pricing

Actual cost varies by plan, region, and negotiated discounts.

Balanced view

What Lodgify does well — and where Aura wins

Lodgify is genuinely good at

Polished website builder

Lodgify ships a hosted website + booking widget that looks professional out of the box. If you have no site at all, that's genuinely useful on day one.

Long track record in vacation rentals

Lodgify has been around since 2012 and has thousands of customers. The product is stable, the support team is experienced, integrations to major OTAs are mature.

Strong content + onboarding

Their academy and help docs are comprehensive. New operators with no prior PMS experience tend to ramp quickly.

Where Aura is materially better

Multi-property is the design centre

One account holds every property. Cross-property reporting, shared rate templates, unified inbox, single owner-statement run for all units at once.

Per-unit owner statements built in

Every booking attributes revenue to the unit. OTA commission deducts automatically. Your management fee runs as a rule. Statement PDFs generate on the 1st and email themselves.

Flat fee — predictable cost as you grow

Add a property: $12/mo. Add 10 rooms: $30/mo. No per-listing surcharge, no plan-tier jumps, no surprise upgrades when you hit the 5-listing wall.

Stripe-based payments, no platform cut

Direct bookings settle straight into your Stripe account. Aura doesn't take a percentage of any transaction, ever — the flat subscription is the only money we touch.

Where Lodgify commonly frustrates operators

Per-listing pricing punishes growth

Each additional listing adds the same per-room cost. A 4-property portfolio with 12 rooms total costs the same as 12 separate single-listing accounts, with no multi-property discount.

No native owner-statement workflow

Vacation rental managers running properties on behalf of owners get no per-unit revenue attribution, no automated commission split, no owner portal. It's a spreadsheet job.

Limited multi-property reporting

Looking at occupancy or revenue across multiple listings means jumping between dashboards or exporting CSVs and merging by hand.

Booking-engine widget is rigid

If you already have a website, Lodgify's embeddable booking widget is harder to style than newer competitors. Custom-domain hosting is fine; deep customisation is not their strength.

Built into every Aura plan

Owner statements, automated.

Per-unit revenue attribution. Monthly statement generation. OTA commission deducted automatically, management fee applied, PDF + CSV per owner — emailed in one click.

The most-asked-for capability Lodgify doesn't have, and the reason multi-property operators switch fastest.

See how owner statements work

aura · Owner statement · April 2026

Management fee rule20% split

Drag to recalculate owner splits instantly

Owner

Sarah Johnson

Period

Apr 2026

UnitNightsGrossMgmt feeNet payout

Penthouse 4B18$3,420.00−$684.00$2,736.00

Suite 2A14$2,100.00−$420.00$1,680.00

Studio 1F22$1,540.00−$308.00$1,232.00

Total Net Payout$5,648.00

54 reservations · 3 OTAs · 1 currencySent · Apr 30

Side by side

Aura vs Lodgify

Feature-by-feature. We don't hide what the competition does well — balanced comparisons rank better on Google and earn more trust.

Feature	Aura	Lodgify
Pricing model	Flat $12/property + $3/room	Varies — see pricing source
% of revenue taken	0%	Varies
Channel manager (300+ OTAs)	Included on paid plans	Typically included
Booking engine + payments	Included, no commission	Included or extra
Digital check-in + ID capture	Yes	Add-on or absent
Per-unit owner statements	Yes	No
Multi-property, one account	Yes	Often paid upgrade
Full audit log + CSV export	Yes	Partial
AI-guided setup	Yes	No
Per-listing pricing model	No	Yes Lodgify's model; Aura is flat-fee
Website builder	Booking engine + landing pages	Full website builder
Vacation-rental focus	Hybrid — hotels + rentals	Vacation-rental-first
Channel-manager included	Yes	Yes

Lodgify information is based on public pricing pages and operator reviews as of 2026. Plans, prices, and features change — verify the latest on the vendor's site before deciding.

aura · Channel manager

Live OTA Connections · 4 properties

BBooking.com47 bookingsLive

AAirbnb12 bookingsLive

EExpedia8 bookingsLive

AAgoda3 bookingsLive

VVrbo6 bookingsLive

HHotels.com—Live

+ 280 more channels available · one bill, no per-channel fees

One inventory, every channel

Channel manager included.

Booking.com, Airbnb, Expedia, Agoda, Vrbo + 280 more. Real-time ARI sync (sub-30-second propagation). No separate channel-manager subscription, no per-channel surcharge.

See the channel-manager feature

Common questions

Switching from Lodgify

About Lodgify

Lodgify (founded 2012, HQ Barcelona) is a vacation-rental-focused PMS with website-builder and booking-engine features. Strong for solo operators with 1–3 listings; per-listing pricing makes it costly above 5.

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