Pricing
One price per listing, no payment surcharge
Guestbud costs €10 per listing per month, excluding VAT — billed monthly, no minimum term, cancel any time, and only for listings with stays that month. Guest payments go straight to your own Revolut Business merchant account; Revolut charges its standard merchant fees and Guestbud adds no payment fee on top.
What is included
- Guest portal and installable guest app for every booking
- Online check-in, optional EU Digital Identity Wallet
- Tourist-tax collection with the Malta MTA return and custom tax rules
- Refundable security deposits (card hold or payment)
- Channel imports, guest chat via Hostaway and Channex, local calendar
- Users and roles, REST API and webhooks, your own domain with certificate
What you need
A Revolut Business account with merchant payments for card, Revolut Pay, Apple Pay and Google Pay. Card data is entered on Revolut’s checkout and never reaches the guest portal.
Key facts
| Price | €10 per listing per month, excluding VAT |
|---|---|
| Billed listings | Only active listings — a listing with at least one stay checking in that month; listings without stays cost nothing |
| Contract | Monthly, no minimum term; cancel any time, effective at the end of the billing month |
| Included | Setup, custom domain with automatic certificate, email support and all updates — no extra charges |
| Trial | No trial account: try the live demo (sample data, simulated payments) and test payments in Revolut’s sandbox before you go live |
| Payment fees | Revolut’s standard merchant fees on your own account; no extra fee from Guestbud |
| Payments | Tourist tax and deposit are separate payment steps; never combined into one amount |
| Deposits | Card hold (reserved, not charged; 7 days, or 30 days with Revolut extended authorisation; placed from 5 or 28 days before check-in) or a payment refunded after check-out |
| Access release | Door code, Wi-Fi and address after the check-in and every payment step are settled — paid, held, paid in cash or waived; zero amounts are skipped |
| Tourist taxes | Malta eco-contribution built in with the quarterly MTA return; tourist tax, city tax or Kurtaxe rules per country or municipality |
| Countries | Malta built in; German Meldeschein built in; other countries with your own tax rules |
| Integrations | Hostaway, Channex, RentalsUnited, Leviathan PMS, any iCal feed, REST API (OpenAPI 3.1) and signed webhooks |
| Sync | Hostaway, Channex, Leviathan and iCal every 30 minutes; RentalsUnited every 10 minutes with a reservation cache; iCal feeds carry no guest contact details |
| EUDI Wallet | Optional; PID via OpenID for Verifiable Presentations (SD-JWT VC or mdoc) through phone.codeb.io; normal form as fallback |
| Data | A separate data folder per host account; ID photos private to the host; Meldeschein data kept one year from departure (legal retention) and deleted automatically after one year and seven days |
| Guest app | Web page that installs on iPhone and Android; last guide available offline until one day after check-out |
| Privacy | No cookies on the website and in the guest portal, no advertising or analytics trackers; fonts and icons self-hosted; sign-in uses necessary security cookies only; payments use Revolut checkout |
Frequently asked questions
Is VAT included?
No — the price is per active listing per month, excluding VAT where applicable.
Is there a minimum term?
No. You pay monthly and can cancel any time; the cancellation takes effect at the end of the billing month.
Which listings are billed?
Only listings with at least one stay checking in during the month. A listing without stays that month costs nothing.
Is there a free trial?
There is no trial account. The live demo shows the owner dashboard and the guest portal with sample data, and Revolut’s sandbox lets you test payments with test cards before you go live.
Do you take a share of the tourist tax or deposit?
No. The money goes directly to your own Revolut account.
Can I try it first?
Yes — the live demo uses sample data and simulated payments, and Revolut’s sandbox lets you test with test cards.
Read the manuals
- Getting startedSet up your guest portal in 30 minutes: sign up, add a property, connect Revolut payments and send your first guest link. EUDI Wallet check-in included.
- Connect Revolut payments (incl. sandbox and test cards)Connect your Revolut Business merchant account: sandbox keys and test cards, webhook, payment methods, deposits as hold or charge, then go live.
- Deposits, waivers and manual paymentsHold or charge security deposits, release them in full or in part after check-out, waive the tourist tax or deposit with a reason, record cash payments.
- Tourist taxes — Malta eco-contribution, Kurtaxe and moreMalta eco-contribution built in; define any other tourist tax, city tax or Kurtaxe per person, night, stay or % of price with dated rates and caps.
Reviewed 27 October 2026 by the Guestbud team, Aloaha Limited.