Flat-rate vs per-room hotel software: what changes for your hotel.
Most hotel software bills per property per month. The question is whether that monthly bill is fixed (flat-rate) or multiplied by room count (per-room). The difference looks small at signup and grows into something significant by year three. Here's the maths, at the property level, side by side.
Per-property maths, at three property sizes
* Calculated at €5/room/month — a midpoint of the typical €3–9/room/month industry range. Your actual per-room bill may be higher or lower depending on which tools you replace.
Why the gap exists
Per-room pricing comes from the enterprise PMS world, where vendors needed a way to price a 200-room hotel differently from a 20-room one. The maths makes sense for the vendor: bigger customer, bigger bill. For the small-and-medium-property segment, it creates a structural penalty for success — every room you add raises a fixed monthly cost.
Flat-rate pricing is the opposite bet: the value to a small hotel does not scale linearly with room count, so the price shouldn't either. Stanzera is built around this — €20/month per property, regardless of whether you're at 8 rooms or 49. If you run three properties, you pay €60. If you run ten, you pay €200. Per-property keeps the maths fair to the customer; flat-within-property keeps it fair to the vendor.
Where flat-rate stops working
Flat-rate is the better deal up to the per-property room cap (50 on Stanzera). Above that, the maths flips: a 200-room hotel needs the per-room model because the software actually has to do more — load balancing, dedicated support, often channel-manager integrations. We're not pretending flat-rate scales infinitely within a single property. We're pretending it scales well for the 5–50 room segment where it's currently being ignored.
If a single property is over 50 rooms, email us and we'll size a custom tier — with the same flat-rate philosophy, not per-room. Multi-property chains stay on €20-per-property at any number of sites, no matter how many they grow to.
What flat-rate doesn't cost you
€20/month per property doesn't mean a stripped-down product. The standard subscription includes everything: bookings, cleaning, payments, issues, multi-property support (each at €20), multi-currency, eight languages, unlimited staff, all future updates, email support, EU hosting, GDPR-native data handling. There's no "Starter" tier with missing features. There's one tier: complete.
See the offer in full
The home page lays out exactly what €20/month unlocks, plus answers to the questions most hotel owners ask before signing up.