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What does hotel scheduling and labor management software cost?
Last reviewed 2026-08-26.
For an independent hotel, expect $60–$200 per property per month for tools that actually fit, with hotel-enterprise systems running far higher once implementation fees are counted. Most hotel-specific vendors won’t print a price — you’ll get a quote after a sales call — which is itself useful information about who they’re built for.
Here’s the landscape as of August 2026. Competitor prices change; verify on their sites.
Generic workforce apps (per user or per location)
| Tool | Published price signal | The catch for hotels |
|---|---|---|
| Homebase | Free–$99.95 per location/mo | No rooms, no housekeeping — full comparison |
| Deputy | A few dollars per user/mo | Per-user meter × hotel turnover; no rooms |
| When I Work | A few dollars per user/mo | Scheduling only |
| Connecteam | Free ≤10 users; tiered hubs | Generic forms, not room workflows |
| QuickBooks Time | ~$20 base + per user/mo | Payroll-side tracking only |
Per-user pricing deserves a hard look at a hotel: hospitality turnover runs 70–80% a year, so seats churn constantly, and the pricing punishes the exact behavior you want — every housekeeper on the clock in the system.
Hotel-specific systems (mostly quote-only)
- Hotel Effectiveness (Actabl): entry points from around $99/mo, but sales-led with custom quotes and an implementation process — see the comparison.
- UniFocus: enterprise quotes plus implementation fees; built for 150+ room portfolios.
- Optii: per-room pricing with onboarding costs reported from $1K up to $30K; housekeeping optimization for 60+ room hotels.
- ALICE, Quore, HotSOS: quote-only, per-room, aimed at branded service-driven hotels.
Notice the pattern: the tools built for hotels don’t publish pricing, and the tools that publish pricing aren’t built for hotels.
ProfitClock (published, per-room banded)
- Core — from $69/property/mo, covering the first 28 rooms, then a declining per-room rate — $99/mo at 40 rooms ($79.20 annual): time & attendance with front-desk kiosk, scheduling, housekeeping & task management, daily labor flash email, and configurable overtime rules (daily, weekly and double-time thresholds, each switchable off) computed on the property’s own calendar day.
- Smart — from $109/property/mo, same shape — $157/mo at 40 rooms ($125.60 annual): adds per-occupied-room reporting, overtime-risk warnings in the morning email, a detailed payroll export, and import files for ADP Workforce Now, Paychex Flex and Gusto alongside the direct Gusto sync (calibrated labor standards in build).
- Portfolio — from $93/property/mo at 3+ properties (annual) — $133.80/mo at 40 rooms: everything in Smart plus per-property access scoping, cross-property dashboards, and an official Docyt accounting partnership (named regional roles and the direct integration in build).
No per-user fees, no implementation fees, ever. Full pricing details, with a room-count calculator.
How to think about the cost
The subscription is rarely the real number. A 40-room motel running $30K/month payroll on manual time tracking loses an estimated 5–10% of payroll to time theft and punch padding — $18,000–$36,000 a year, or roughly 10–20× any subscription on this page. Price the leakage first, then the software: labor leakage calculator.
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