6 Best Vacation Rental Turnover Cleaning Software for 2027

The category decision comes first

A turnover cleaning tool schedules the clean that happens between one guest's checkout and the next arrival, assigns it to a cleaner, and keeps proof that the work was done. Pick a dedicated turnover tool (Properly, Breezeway, Turno or Operto Teams) if your booking data already flows and your pain is dispatch and proof. Pick a property management platform with built-in cleaning tasks (Hostaway, or Guesty with its Keepers cleaning service) if you are choosing your first system or want one vendor to own bookings and cleaning. Most small operators should settle the category first, then check one thing before comparing brands: whether the tool reads checkout changes from the booking system on the plan they would actually buy.

TL;DR: Dedicated turnover tools win on dispatch and proof. Built-in PMS tasks win on keeping everything in one system. Neither removes the need to check the integration tier and the cleaner pay terms in writing.

Key Takeaways

• Standard plan on Properly: $12.99 per property per month according to Properly (2026). Direct PMS API links sit on the higher Pro tier, not on Standard.

• Breezeway's own pricing page shows two different figures for its Host Essentials plan, so get a written quote before you budget.

• Guesty publishes a starting Lite rate and a free trial, and markets its Keepers cleaning service with no host fee; we could not verify that claim beyond Guesty's own page.

• Turno's pricing page could not be read during our review, so this guide prints no Turno price and estimates none.

• Operto Teams publishes no prices, and its pricing is available only through a demo.

• A software subscription does not cover cleaner pay, payment-processing fees or inspection charges, so model those lines separately.

How we evaluated these tools

We built this as an informed buyer's guide from public pages. We did not run any trials, and nothing here describes hands-on use. Each criterion carries a weight that reflects how often it decides whether a turnover goes wrong for a small operator. The weights are our judgment, not measured data, so change them if your portfolio is different.

We included six products: Turno, Breezeway, Properly, Operto Teams, Hostaway and Guesty with its Keepers service. Hostaway and Guesty are full property management platforms, so we judge them on their built-in cleaning tasks rather than their whole feature sets. Turno's own site did not load for us, so its entry rests on 2026 third-party listings, and we say so wherever it matters.

Feature matrix, normalized

"Yes" means the vendor page or a cited page says so. "Not stated" means the pages we opened did not say so, which is not the same as the feature being absent. Ask each vendor in writing before you rely on a gap in this table.

Pricing and cost lines

Pricing checked October 27, 2026.

"Quote-based" means the vendor's own page gave no figure, and we did not estimate one. Third-party sites in this category disagree with each other and with some vendor pages, so we used a figure only when we could read it on the vendor's page.

A subscription is only one line of cost. An operator comparison published September 7, 2026 separates the software subscription, host payment fees, inspection services and cleaner pay into distinct cost lines, according to Rakidzich (2026). That author also sells courses and coaching, so treat the article as one input rather than a neutral benchmark.

Vendor profiles

Each profile separates published facts from our read. Published facts come from the pages cited in this guide. Our read is judgment.

Properly

Published facts: Properly's pricing page lists a Standard plan with autoscheduler, photo checklists, Airbnb and iCal sync, and a service provider marketplace. Its Pro plan adds direct API integration with Guesty, Hostaway and other PMS platforms. Properly also sells managed services priced per active property, which are service contracts rather than software subscriptions.

Our read: Properly is the best fit for an operator who wants photo checklists and a cleaner marketplace and already runs Hostaway or Guesty, provided the Pro tier is what you buy. The limitation is that Standard connects to bookings through calendar sync, which is not the same as a PMS API link. Confirm which one you get before you sign.

Implementation: Start on the free trial, connect your booking source on the tier you intend to buy, and then check how a changed booking reaches the cleaning task. Evidence: Properly pricing page.

Breezeway

Published facts: Breezeway's pricing page lists a free starting option for a single property and a Host Essentials tier. It says its Operations tiers and its Concierge and smart-lock add-ons are quote-based. The feature list covers task scheduling and workflow automation, maintenance and work order tracking, inventory monitoring, a real-time dashboard and owner reporting. Its developer index lists task endpoints such as list-tasks, create-task and close-task, plus a subscription API for webhooks, at Breezeway developer index.

Our read: Breezeway fits best when maintenance, inventory and owner reports matter as much as cleaning. Its limitation is that the figures on its own page conflict, and Hostaway's comparison table describes Breezeway as "higher cost, more complex to set up." That is a competitor's claim, and we present it as one. Evidence: Breezeway pricing page.

Implementation: The developer index suggests a team with a developer can plan a task sync, but confirm on the quote whether a PMS connection is included at your tier.

Operto Teams

Published facts: Operto Teams is the housekeeping product in Operto's suite. Its page describes staff scheduling and payroll reports, customized checklists that can require photo or video uploads, inventory with reorder thresholds, owner billing for replacements with timestamped proof, and maintenance tracking. Operto says it connects to over 150 third-party solutions according to Operto (2026).

Our read: Operto Teams fits operators who want inventory, linen and owner billing in the same tool as housekeeping. Its limits are that it publishes no prices and does not describe booking-channel integrations in detail. Confirm the connection list during the demo the vendor offers, and ask for a sample owner report before you commit.

Turno

Published facts: Third-party 2026 listings describe Turno as a cleaning management tool for scheduling, cleaner payments, inventory alerts and finding cleaners through a marketplace. Turno's own pricing page did not load for us, so we cannot state its plan prices. An operator comparison says marketplace payments must run through Turno and that a subscription does not remove payment-processing fees.

Our read: Turno fits an operator who wants cleaner sourcing, scheduling and payments in one place. It is the least verified profile in this guide. We could not confirm its pricing, photo proof or PMS connections from its own site, so treat any claim about them as unconfirmed until Turno states it in writing.

Implementation: Get the price in writing, then confirm the payment path for cleaners before you commit.

Hostaway

Published facts: Hostaway's cleaning-task page says a checkout triggers a cleaning task, and the task can be assigned to a cleaner based on availability. Its blog lists three task statuses: pending, in progress and done, according to Hostaway (2026). Hostaway's API documentation lists api.hostaway.com/v1/reservations as the reservations list endpoint, and it names unified webhooks for reservation created and reservation updated events.

Our read: Hostaway fits an operator who is choosing a PMS and wants the cleaning task to start from the reservation without a second vendor. The limitation is that the cleaning-task claims come from Hostaway's own marketing, and we found no statement that the cleaning feature is free of charge. Ask for that in writing. Evidence: Hostaway cleaning task page.

Guesty with Keepers

Published facts: Guesty's pricing page lists a Lite plan with a free trial and quote-based Pro and Enterprise tiers, with the figures shown in the pricing table above. Keepers, Guesty's marketplace cleaning service, finds and schedules cleaners, sets their pay, spot-checks their work and handles payments. When connected to Guesty, each guest checkout becomes a scheduled cleaning job. Keepers' page says it carries no host fee and is available in North America.

Our read: Guesty with Keepers fits an operator who already runs Guesty and wants cleaning handled inside the same system. The limitation is that Keepers' page does not say which Guesty plan or listing count it requires, so confirm that before you commit. Evidence: Guesty pricing page and Keepers page.

Which tool fits which operator

Use this table to match each tool to the situation it suits and to the condition that would rule it out.

Who this is for

This guide is for an owner or operations lead at a small property management business who is close to choosing a tool and wants a direct answer by category, then by fit. If your business is a cleaning company that dispatches crews for clients rather than turnovers for rentals, a cleaning-company scheduling comparison covers that side more directly.

Red flags: you have no booking source to connect and no plan to add one; you need a staffed crew with guaranteed coverage, which is a service contract rather than software; or the only price you can get is a sales call you have not scheduled.

Where the workflow pain lives

A proposed, configurable workflow starts at the booking system. The trigger is a checkout date change, an extension or a cancellation in the PMS. The action creates, moves or cancels the matching cleaning task in the turnover tool, through that tool's API or an import file. The output is a daily exception list for the operations lead: every turnover without an assigned cleaner by a set time, and every booking change that touched a clean already on the calendar. Prerequisites are API or webhook access on the PMS, which Hostaway documents for reservation created and reservation updated events, and task write access in the cleaning tool, which Breezeway's developer index covers with task endpoints. Human review points are a person approving any cancellation that would remove a paid clean, and a person reassigning a turnover when the assigned cleaner becomes unavailable. US Tech Automations would configure the trigger, the exception list and the approval step, but it would not decide which cleaner gets the job.

A second proposed flow covers proof of work. The trigger is a cleaner marking a checklist complete with before-and-after photos in the cleaning tool. The action copies the completion status and photo links into a per-property log, and the output is an owner-ready summary that a manager reviews first. The prerequisite is that the cleaning tool exposes checklist and photo data by export or API. Hostaway's blog describes status tracking, but we did not confirm an export path for every tool in this guide. The review point is a manager checking any flagged item, such as damage or a missing item, before an owner sees it. US Tech Automations could route the flagged items and hold the owner message until review, but the photo judgment stays with a person.

The alternative many operators weigh is stitching these steps together in Zapier, Make or n8n, or building them in-house. Those tools can keep run histories, retry failed steps, send errors to a separate branch and keep audit evidence when they are configured for it. The buyer still has to design and own the observability, the idempotency (so a repeated webhook does not create two cleanings), the escalation paths, the access controls for lock and guest data, and the maintenance when an API changes. A proposed US Tech Automations design would set those controls up front and show them in the exception list, but it needs the same PMS and cleaning-tool access, and the operator keeps ownership of the credentials.

When NOT to use US Tech Automations

Skip a custom workflow layer if any of these describes you. Your turnover tool may already sync your booking source on the plan you are buying, and the only missing step is a daily check that a person can do in a minute. You may run Hostaway or Guesty, whose built-in task features already cover your cleaners. Or your booking source and cleaning tool may expose no API or export at all, which leaves a workflow nothing to read. In each case a configured tool beats a custom layer, and an extra system is one more thing to maintain.

Decision checklist

• Name the booking source and confirm it is on the plan you would buy. Properly's Pro tier is the one that lists direct PMS API integration.

• Get every cost line in writing: subscription, cleaner pay, payment fees and inspections.

• Check the trial terms, including whether a card is required.

• Confirm that photo proof and owner reporting exist on the tier you choose, not only in marketing copy.

• Ask how a changed booking reaches the cleaning task, and who sees the change first.

Common mistakes

• Comparing starting prices without cleaner pay, payment fees or inspection charges.

• Treating a calendar sync as a PMS integration. Properly's Standard tier lists Airbnb and iCal sync, while Pro lists direct API integrations.

• Choosing by feature list instead of by the tier that includes the feature.

• Reading "not stated" on a vendor page as "not available." Ask in writing.

• Skipping the cleaner payment path, which decides who is accountable when a clean is missed.

Worked example: four units in one month

Consider an illustrative operator with four units that each turn over four times a month, which is 16 turnovers. These inputs are assumptions for the example and describe no real customer. On Breezeway's Host Essentials tier, Host Essentials on Breezeway: $19.99 per unit per month according to Breezeway (2026). The software line is therefore 4 × $19.99 = $79.96 a month, or about $5.00 per turnover ($79.96 ÷ 16). That figure excludes cleaner pay, payment fees and any quote-based add-ons. If the booking source is Hostaway, the reservation records that drive each checkout trigger would come from api.hostaway.com/v1/reservations, the reservations list endpoint in Hostaway's API documentation. The first check is whether Breezeway's plan reads that feed, which the pages we opened do not confirm.

Common questions

Which tool has the lowest listed starting price?

Breezeway's free option for a single property costs nothing, and among paid plans Guesty's Lite has the lowest listed starting rate on the vendor pages we opened, but Guesty is a full property management platform rather than a turnover tool, so compare the whole subscription. Properly's Standard plan and Breezeway's Host Essentials tier are priced per property, so compare per-unit figures before you conclude anything.

Does Turno publish its prices?

Turno's own pricing page did not load during this review, so we print no Turno figure and do not estimate one. Third-party listings report differing amounts, and we did not use them because they are not the vendor's own page.

Is a calendar sync the same as a PMS integration?

No. A calendar sync carries booking dates, while a direct PMS integration can carry the reservation record that drives a cleaning trigger. Properly lists Airbnb and iCal sync on Standard and direct integration with several PMS platforms on Pro.

Should I buy a managed cleaning service instead of software?

Choose a managed service if you need a crew with accountability, because a software subscription does not include cleaners. Properly sells managed services priced per active property, and those are contracts, so compare them with your staffing costs rather than with a software plan.

What should I verify before I trust a built-in cleaning feature?

Verify it in a live walkthrough and get the tier that includes it in writing. Hostaway's cleaning-task claims come from its own marketing, so treat them as claims until you see the workflow working on your own properties.

Bottom line

Choose the category first: a dedicated turnover tool if your booking data already flows and the problem is dispatch and proof, or a PMS with built-in tasks if you are starting out. Confirm the tier that connects your booking source, get every cost line in writing, and shortlist two. If you want to see how a configured workflow would handle the trigger, exception list and approval steps described above, see how US Tech Automations configures this.