Boom vs. OwnerRez (2026): the power user's toolkit vs. the AI-native PMS

Let us start by conceding the thing most comparison pages hide. OwnerRez is inexpensive, it is honest about it, and a lot of very capable operators love it for exactly that.

Its pricing page reads like a support forum in the best way. Unlimited bookings, emails and payments. A channel manager that is “entirely free.” No setup fees, no booking fees, and on contracts: “It's 2026 for Pete's sake.” Then the boxed items it calls Premium Features — Property Management, QuickBooks, Hosted Sites, the WordPress plugin, SMS and Rezzy AI — each “charged monthly per property based on a different pricing table,” and each, in its own words, for “power users.”

That word is the whole product. OwnerRez was built by and for people who enjoy the levers: triggers, auto-responders, custom rules, a WordPress plugin with a listing API. If that is you, it is a remarkably deep tool for the money.

A toolkit is priced by the tool. A crew is priced by the work. The question this page asks is which one your month actually needs.

This is not a page that claims OwnerRez cannot do things. Between the base account, the six Premium Features, a damage-protection resale and a hundred-company integrations directory, it reaches a great deal. That is why the table below says Premium, Partner or Per booking rather than a red cross — and why its AI row gets a real tick, because Rezzy really does answer guests.

But every one of those levers is pulled by you. The pricing table is chosen by you, the trigger is written by you, the pricing partner is wired in by you, the owner statement is generated by you at month-end from a module you switched on. Boom was built the other way round: the guest, the stay, the task, the cost and the owner are one system, and an agentic manager does the pulling.

Here is the comparison. Anything marked Premium or Per booking comes from OwnerRez's own pricing page and its Costs & Fees article, checked in September 2026 and listed at the end of this article.

Premium Features on OwnerRez, each with its own pricing table

per property per month for Rezzy AI — guest messaging only

$13–79

per booking for OwnerRez's resold damage protection

80%

of guest messages answered by Boom's AI — and the task, offer and statement with them

01Capability by capability

Start with the AI rows. OwnerRez earns a tick there — read what it covers.

Rezzy AI is a real guest-messaging agent, sold per property. It answers guests and opens tasks. It does not price, sell, or post to an owner's books. The rest of the table asks the power user's own question: is it in the base fee, or on one of the other tables?

Capability	OwnerRez Base fee + Premium Features	Boom One AI-native PMS
Artificial intelligence where most operators decide
AI drafts a guest reply for a person to send	PremiumRezzy AI · $9 per property	✓
AI writes review responses	✗not on the pricing page	✓100% of reviews answered
AI resolves the guest conversation end to end	PremiumRezzy “can respond to all guest messaging”	✓up to 90% · 40+ languages
AI opens the task that conversation created	Premium“automatically create tasks when follow-up is needed”	✓
AI makes the upsell offer — and charges it	✗	✓
AI posts the result to the owner statement	✗	✓
AI handles owner & team communication	✗guest communication only	✓
One model with the whole business in context	✗Rezzy knows availability, payments, policies, guests	✓AI-native architecture
An agentic manager that acts before you ask	✗Ask Rezzy answers when asked	✓BAM — risks, gaps & opportunities
Bookings & distribution
Rates, availability & reservations	✓	✓
Channel distribution	✓free — Vrbo, Airbnb, Booking.com, Google by API	✓40+ channels, one calendar
Direct booking website & booking engine	PremiumHosted Sites, or WP Plugin + Integrated Sites	✓included
AI discovery that matches guests to properties	✗	✓
AI lead capture & booking follow-up	✗inquiries via triggers & auto-responders	✓+25% direct conversion
Guest membership & loyalty layer	✗	✓first of its kind
Communication
Unified inbox & automated messages	✓email included · SMS is a Premium Feature	✓
CRM — guest profiles, history & segments	✓CRM	✓CRM & guest chat
Call centre — inbound guest calls answered	✗not part of the platform	✓Call center — a Boom App
Guest experience
Guest Portal — arrival, check-in, requests	✗not on the pricing page	✓included
Smart upsells & in-stay offers	✗not on the pricing page	✓
Operations
Reservation & property workflows	✓triggers & auto-responders	✓
Housekeeping, inspections & readiness	Partner“Housekeeping Services” integrations	✓built in, field-ready
Maintenance, contractors & escalations	✗not on the pricing page	✓
Tasks auto-created from guest conversations	PremiumRezzy AI	✓
Smart locks & access — codes issued per stay	Premium$4 per lock per month, direct integrations	✓Locks & smart home — a Boom App
Document storage — leases, contracts, photos	✓digital signatures, signed PDFs — free	✓filed to the unit, owner and stay
Revenue & finance
Payments & booking activity	✓no booking fees	✓
AI dynamic pricing	Partner“Dynamic Pricing” integrations	✓365 days repriced
Trust accounting	✗	✓included — industry first
Automated accounting — books that close themselves	PremiumQuickBooks Integration	✓
Owner portal & statements	PremiumProperty Management — “generate owner statements”	✓live P&L, in real time
Damage protection on every reservation	Per bookingresold via RentalGuardian · $13–$79 a booking	✓BoomGuard, built in
Guest damage waiver attached to the stay	Per booking	✓Insurance — a Boom App
Leadership
Reports & dashboards	✓reporting	✓ask for any report
One platform, one contract, one support desk	✗one invoice — seven pricing tables	✓

Premium is OwnerRez's own label — “Premium Features” on its pricing page — for Property Management, QuickBooks Integration, Hosted Sites, the WordPress Plugin, SMS Messaging and Rezzy AI, each priced on its own per-property table in the Costs & Fees article; door locks are priced per lock in the same article. Per booking is how that article prices damage protection, which OwnerRez resells through RentalGuardian. Partner rows follow the categories on OwnerRez's integrations page. Where a capability appears on none of those pages we say so rather than assert it does not exist. Checked September 2026 — see sources.

Every capability in the Boom column is part of the platform or one of the thirteen Boom Apps — which also run on top of OwnerRez if you are not ready to move. See how.

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Notice what the Premium pills have in common. They are not exotic features. They are the manager's features — owner statements, the books, the website, the AI — and OwnerRez is careful to say why they are boxed: “most users do not need them for basic booking management.”

That is a true sentence about a host. It is a false sentence about a manager, for whom owner statements are not a premium feature but the reason the business exists. So the question is not whether OwnerRez can be assembled into a manager's system. It can, cheaply. It is who does the assembling, and what is still missing when they finish.

02Six pricing tables, one account

Cheap is not the same as light.

Add up OwnerRez's own tables for a 30-property account with the manager's Premium Features switched on and you get a number most vendors would be embarrassed to compete with. We are not going to argue with the number. We are going to point at what it does not contain.

On OwnerRez

A base table plus a table per Premium Feature, a per-lock table, a per-booking protection tier and a partner for pricing. All of it configured, connected and reconciled by you.

On Boom

One system where the statement, the website, the AI, the pricing and the protection are already wired to each other — and a manager that runs them.

See what one system does →

30 properties, from OwnerRez's own tables

Base fee — sliding scale, 30 properties$256

Property Management — owner statements$67

Hosted Sites — direct booking website$72

QuickBooks Integration$43

Rezzy AI — 30 × $9$270

SMS — one number$15

Per month, before locks, protection and a pricing partner$723

Boom has revealed inefficiencies in our old way of working that we didn't even notice.

Simon Pyne — Founder, PureServiced · Plymouth, 71 properties

03Rezzy answers the guest. Boom runs the business.

The best AI in this table that isn't ours still stops at the inbox.

Credit where it is due: Rezzy AI is the most capable competitor AI on any of our comparison pages. By OwnerRez's own description it knows your availability, payments, cancellation policies and guest history, “can respond to all guest messaging,” creates tasks when follow-up is needed and reads guest sentiment. That is a guest agent, not a drafting tool.

And then it stops, because the system stops. Rezzy cannot make the late-checkout offer and charge it, because upsells are not on the platform. It cannot post the result to an owner, because the owner statement is a separate Premium Feature. It cannot reprice, because pricing is a partner. It cannot message your owners or your cleaners at all.

Boom's AI has the whole business in one model — the guest, the stay, the task, the price, the cost and the owner — so it finishes what Rezzy starts: answer, task, offer, charge, statement, and a note telling you what it did.

A guest agent

Answers the guest and opens the task. Everything past the inbox — the offer, the charge, the price, the owner — is a lever somebody else still pulls.

An agentic manager

Answers, acts, sells, charges, posts to the books and watches the whole portfolio for the next thing — with every action logged and reversible.

✓Up to 90% of routine guest, owner and team communication handled end to end

✓40+ languages, day and night — no night shift, no follow-the-sun rota

✓Upsells offered, charged and posted to the owner inside the conversation

The difference is not the model. It is that on Boom the AI owns the ledger, the task list and the rate it is acting on.

See the AI in action →

2:47 AM — while your team sleeps

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“Hi — our flight lands at 11 PM, is late check-in okay?”Answered in 8 seconds, in Portuguese

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Door code + directions sent — arrival instructions personalised to the bookingHandled by AI

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Late checkout offered and taken — €45 added, charged, and posted to the owner statementRevenue created, not just saved

Guests get an answer in under a minute at 3am, in their own language. We stopped staffing nights entirely.

Simon Pyne — Founder, PureServiced · Plymouth, 71 properties

04What the price buys, and what it doesn't

$723 a month is a bargain. Here is who it is a bargain for.

OwnerRez's price assumes a person who will do the configuring, the connecting and the reconciling. That person is usually the owner of the business. Here is what that costs a 30-property portfolio managed for owners:

The person who owns the levers

Triggers to write, a pricing partner to wire in, a lock table to maintain, a QuickBooks sync to reconcile — the standing cost of being your own systems team:

Configuration & integration upkeep6 hrs / week

Who does itthe principal

Value of that hour$60 / hr

A year of being the crew$18,720 / year

The owner month-end

The Property Management feature generates the statement. It does not reconcile a trust account, chase the contractor invoice, or answer the owner who asks why March paid less:

Owners30

Reconciliation & queries / owner30 min

Hours / month15 hrs

Bookkeeper cost$35 / hr

Trust reconciliation, year-end+40 hrs / yr

Finance hours a year$7,700 / year

Around $26,000 a year of a principal's and a bookkeeper's time to run a $723-a-month toolkit — before a single upsell nobody in the system was built to make. That is the trade: the cheapest software, and the most expensive operator.

05The levers nobody pulled

Every one of these is a setting somebody meant to get to.

A toolkit only does what it has been configured to do. Each item below is a lever OwnerRez offers, in a table you have paid for, that was not pulled this month because the person who pulls them was busy.

Boom does not wait for the setting. The AI notices, acts, and tells you.

Stop being the crew →

Five levers, one busy principal

A trigger for the new cleanerthat was never written, so the old one still gets the message

A pricing partner's rate changethat the owner statement cannot explain back

A per-booking protection tierset once, never revisited as the portfolio changed

A QuickBooks sync that driftedand the month-end that absorbed the difference

A guest who would have paid for late checkoutand was never asked, because no lever exists to ask

Boom connects the chainguest → stay → task → offer → charge → owner → follow-up — without a setting

06Meet BAM

A power user watches the settings. BAM watches the business.

BAM is Boom's Business Agentic Manager — part of the platform, not a Premium Feature. It watches conversations, bookings, operations, maintenance, finance and owner activity all at once, and brings you the next thing to do.

Ask Rezzy will answer a question. BAM brings you the questions you should have asked — and, when you let it, the answers already done.

See BAM on your portfolio → Try BAM on your OwnerRez

BAM — this morning's brief

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3 stays flagged for late-checkout offers — $420 potential this weekendOpportunity spotted

⚠️

Owner statement anomaly at Garden Villa — contractor invoice never landedFollow-up drafted

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Occupancy pacing 9% behind for November — reprice suggestion ready to reviewNothing missed

07Operators, in their own words

Operators who stopped being the crew.

From Plymouth to Malta to northern Sweden — press play and hear the operators who handed the levers to the system, in their own words.

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Boom has revealed inefficiencies in our old way of working that we didn't even notice.

Simon PyneFounder, PureServiced — Plymouth, 71 properties · 30% YoY growth

From streamlining complex accounting processes to simplifying guest communication, Boom has brought clarity, efficiency, and automation to our fast-growing business.

Joakim ThörnCEO, Guestly Homes — 1 to 105 properties in 3 years

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We're now in a position to attract creatives and true hospitality lovers to our team, because it is no longer a call center. It is really a space to create magic for travelers.

Sab MulliganHead of Teams, Zzzing — Malta, 20 to 360 properties

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Boom's support has been leagues ahead of any PMS we've used before. You don't feel like just another subscription. You're dealing with people who care and really want to help you succeed.

Dean McLuckieFounder, Euphoric Leisure — 100+ properties

08The honest verdict

There is a version of this decision where OwnerRez is the right answer.

More than one, in fact. OwnerRez has earned a fiercely loyal following by being deep, fair and cheap, and a good share of the people who read this page should stay exactly where they are.

Stay on OwnerRez if

You are the power user it was built for

You host your own properties, or a handful for people you know, and owner statements are a monthly courtesy rather than the business.
You enjoy the levers — triggers, rules, the WordPress plugin, the listing API — and configuring them is time you would spend anyway.
Price is the first filter. OwnerRez will win that filter against almost anyone, and its channel manager is free.
You are US-based, run on QuickBooks, and Rezzy answering guests is as much AI as your week needs.

Move to Boom if

You would rather run the business than the toolkit

You manage for owners at scale and need trust accounting, live owner P&L and statements that reconcile themselves — none of which is on OwnerRez's tables.
You want AI that goes past the inbox: pricing, upsells, tasks, owner and team communication, and posting to the books — not a guest agent alone.
You want an agentic manager reading the whole portfolio, because the levers you meant to pull are the ones costing you money.
You want onboarding done with a dedicated team in 1–4 weeks, not a system you assemble yourself from six tables and a partner directory.
You operate across borders or currencies, or run guesthouses, aparthotels and mid-term stays alongside short-term rentals, and want one system for all of it.

09Switching from OwnerRez

A well-configured toolkit is the easiest thing to migrate.

OwnerRez accounts are usually immaculate, because a power user built them. That makes the data easy. The work is translating the rules you wrote into behaviour the system already has — and adding the finance that was never there.

Kickoff & audit

We map your properties, channels, rates and workflows — and read every trigger, auto-responder and Premium Feature you have switched on, so nothing you built is lost.

Data migration

Listings, bookings, guests, rates and history come across. Your OwnerRez record moves with you, not away from you.

Team training

Hands-on sessions for front desk, operations and finance — including trust accounting and owner statements that reconcile without a month-end.

Connect & reconcile

Channels, payments and accounting connect and balance. We verify every calendar and every opening balance together.

Go live & switch off the tables

You switch with 24/7 support at your side — then turn off the Premium Features, the lock table and the partner subscriptions you no longer need.

Full onboarding takes 1–4 weeks with a dedicated team. One portfolio migrated 250 properties in a single week.

Switching PMS for 250 properties is not easy, but Boom's support team were there 24/7, even during the weekend, making sure that no opportunities were missed in the switch. In the end, it only took one week! That was really impressive.

Maria — Operations Manager, a 250-property portfolio

10Staying on OwnerRez? Read this bit.

Keep OwnerRez. Take the AI anyway.

You do not have to migrate to act on any of this. BAM and the Boom Apps run on top of OwnerRez through a read-only connection. Nothing moves, nothing changes for your team, and you cancel nothing. It is the quickest way to put an agentic manager on top of a toolkit — and to find out which levers you have been leaving unpulled.

Step 01

One read-only connection

The Boom team connects your OwnerRez account for you — read-only, no migration, no credit card, nothing changed on the OwnerRez side.

Step 02

BAM reads your portfolio

Twenty-four months of reservations, your listings, rates and availability, guest messages and reviews, and your payouts, fees and expenses.

Step 03

You ask it anything

Occupancy, P&L, a guest thread from March, which cleaner keeps running late — answered in seconds, with the rows it used shown.

Step 04

Then you let it act

Write access is granted per action — pricing, messaging, tasks — and every automated action is logged, attributed and reversible.

And what it will never do

Change a price without your approval Message a guest without your approval Cancel, modify or create a booking Move money, or write anything back to OwnerRez

Start here

BAM on your OwnerRez

Free14-day trial · no credit card

The Business Agentic Manager, reading your live portfolio. An intelligent agent, not a chatbot — and read-only until you decide otherwise.

BAM Chat — ask anything; it already knows
BAM Studio — describe a report, get it owner-ready
BAM Playbooks — write the rule once, it runs
BAM Optimizers — rates, min-stays, gap nights, fees

Connect read-only →

Real AI, on your OwnerRez

Then add the tools

Boom Apps

$10–$20per door / month · cancel any time

Keep OwnerRez. Choose the tools you need — every one powered by BAM, every one working with the PMS you already run.

Ops · $10 — CRM & guest chat, task management, field ops, reviews manager
Pro · $20 — adds dynamic pricing, guest experience, direct booking site, accounting & statements, analytics, storage
Each tool trialled and switched on independently
Start in co-pilot mode — your team approves every message and rate change

Build your stack →

For an OwnerRez operator the usual first two are dynamic pricing and guest experience — the two levers that are a partner and a blank on the toolkit today — running on the account you already pay for.

Questions we get asked.

What's the main difference between Boom and OwnerRez?+

OwnerRez is an à la carte toolkit for the owner-operator: a per-property base fee that covers unlimited bookings and a free channel manager, plus six Premium Features — Property Management, QuickBooks Integration, Hosted Sites, the WordPress plugin, SMS Messaging and Rezzy AI — each priced on its own per-property table, with damage protection resold per booking and dynamic pricing supplied by integration partners. You configure and connect all of it. Boom is an AI-native PMS: owner statements, trust accounting, the website, pricing, protection and the guest experience are one system, and an agentic manager runs them.

Isn't OwnerRez much cheaper than Boom?+

Per month, usually yes, and we say so on this page: summed from OwnerRez's own tables, a 30-property account with the manager's Premium Features switched on comes to about $723 a month before locks, protection and a pricing partner. The comparison that matters is the whole month — the principal's hours spent configuring and reconciling, the bookkeeper's hours at owner month-end, and the upsell revenue no lever exists to make. On a portfolio managed for owners, that is usually where the money is. We will run the comparison against your actual account.

How does Boom's AI compare to Rezzy AI?+

Rezzy AI is a capable guest-messaging agent: OwnerRez says it knows your availability, payments, cancellation policies and guest history, can respond to all guest messaging, creates tasks when follow-up is needed and analyses guest sentiment, for $9 per property per month. It stops at the inbox, because the platform does: it does not price, make or charge an upsell, post to an owner statement, or communicate with owners and staff. Boom's AI does all of those, because on Boom they are one system, and BAM then watches the whole portfolio for the next thing to do.

Does OwnerRez do owner statements and trust accounting?+

Owner statements are part of OwnerRez's Property Management Premium Feature, which its pricing page describes as “calculate commission, generate owner statements and record expenses.” Trust accounting does not appear on its pricing page or in its Costs & Fees article. Boom includes owner statements with a live P&L per owner, trust accounting and automated accounting on every plan.

I run five of my own properties on OwnerRez. Should I switch?+

Probably not. OwnerRez was built for exactly that, it is priced for it, and if you enjoy configuring your own system it is hard to beat. Boom earns its keep when there are owners to report to, staff and contractors to coordinate, and enough volume that an AI which runs the business — not just the inbox — changes the shape of your week. If you are heading that way, the fastest first step is to connect BAM read-only on top of OwnerRez and see what it finds.

How hard is it to migrate from OwnerRez to Boom?+

OwnerRez accounts are usually well organised, which makes the data straightforward. Listings, bookings, guests, rates and history come across in a structured five-step onboarding — kickoff and audit, data migration, team training, channel and payment validation, then go-live with 24/7 support. We read every trigger and auto-responder you built so the behaviour carries over. Most portfolios are live in 1–4 weeks.

Can I keep OwnerRez and still use Boom's AI?+

Yes. BAM and the Boom Apps run on top of OwnerRez through a read-only connection that the Boom team sets up for you — nothing migrates and nothing changes for your team. BAM reads your reservations, listings, rates, guest messages, reviews and payouts, answers questions about them, and can then be granted write access one action at a time. OwnerRez operators usually start with dynamic pricing and guest experience, the two capabilities that are a partner and a blank on the toolkit today.

Sources & method

OwnerRez's published pricing page — the per-property sliding scale; Channel Management, Team Access and Digital Signatures marked “Included in Price!”; the boxed “Premium Features” (Property Management, QuickBooks Integration, Hosted Sites, Integrated Sites + WP Plugin, SMS Messaging, Rezzy AI) and the page's own explanation that they are so called “because most users do not need them for basic booking management. They provide an additional level of functionality for power users.” Checked September 2026.
OwnerRez's Costs & Fees support article — the base pricing table ($40 for the first property, sliding to $2 each above 200); the per-property tables for Property Management, QuickBooks, Hosted Sites and the WordPress plugin; SMS at $15 per number; Rezzy AI at $9 per property; door locks at $4 per lock; and damage protection resold through RentalGuardian at $13–$79 per booking by tier. The description of Rezzy — that it “can respond to all guest messaging,” will “automatically create tasks when follow-up is needed and analyze guest sentiment” — is from the same article. Checked September 2026.
OwnerRez's integrations page, whose categories include Dynamic Pricing, Housekeeping Services, Insurance and Accounting, and which describes “over 100+ companies” integrated. Rows marked Partner follow those categories. Checked September 2026.
The 30-property bill in section 02 is arithmetic on those published tables: base $256; Property Management $67; Hosted Sites $72; QuickBooks $43; Rezzy AI $270; SMS $15. If OwnerRez changes a table the total changes with it — tell us and we will update the sum.
Where a capability appears on none of those pages — a guest portal, in-stay upsells, maintenance workflows, AI review responses — the table says so rather than asserting that OwnerRez lacks it. Tell us if we have missed a published feature and we will change the cell.
Boom platform figures — 20,000+ properties, 30+ countries, up to 90% of routine messages handled, +25% direct bookings, 1–4 week onboarding — are Boom's own product and customer numbers. Every customer quote on this page is published in full on our case studies page.
The hours model is illustrative. It uses only the assumptions printed inside each calculation — weekly upkeep, owner count, minutes per statement, hourly values — so you can substitute your own. Ask us and we will run it against your portfolio instead.
Trademarks and product names belong to their respective owners and are used here to identify the products being compared. OwnerRez has not reviewed or endorsed this page. If you believe anything here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.

About this comparison Written and maintained by the Boom team. We compete with OwnerRez for the operators who are outgrowing it, and we admire it more than most of the systems on these pages — read it with both in mind, and hold us to the sources above. We re-check every competitor claim each quarter and date the page when we do.

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