Cleaning and Turnover Software for Short-Term Rentals: 6 Tools Compared

Checkout is at 10:00. Check-in is at 15:00. In between sits a five-hour window in which about a dozen things have to happen. Your cleaner needs to know today is her day. She needs to know it's the second-floor unit, not the third. She needs to notice the toilet paper is gone. And you need to find all of this out before the next guest arrives, not after.

Most hosts run this on WhatsApp. It works fine with one property. At three it becomes a part-time job. At eight it becomes a real problem.

Below are six platforms that automate the turnover cycle, from the booking calendar through to paying the cleaner. Pricing and features were checked in August 2026. Listings in this category change often, so always confirm on the vendor's pricing page before you subscribe.

Quick comparison

The short answer

With one or two properties and a cleaner you already trust, Turno's free tier covers almost everything you need. From three properties up, particularly with an in-house team, Breezeway gives you the strongest quality control. Doinn makes the most sense in Europe if you want to buy cleaning and laundry alongside the software.

1. Turno

Turno (called TurnoverBnB until 2022) does two jobs at once. It schedules cleans by reading your booking calendar, and it runs a marketplace where you can find cleaners in your area.

The mechanics are simple. You connect Airbnb, Booking.com or your PMS, and every checkout automatically generates a job assigned to the right cleaner. She gets a notification in the app, works through the checklist with mandatory photos wherever you've required them, flags any problems, and gets paid automatically once the job is marked complete. Turno estimates that a host spends around five minutes on each manual payment to a cleaner, so automating that step recovers over forty hours a year.

The marketplace is the real draw. The network covers more than 25,000 cleaners who specialise in short-term rentals across the United States, Canada and Europe, and the platform syncs calendars with over 20 channel managers and PMS platforms. European coverage is good in tourist cities and thin in smaller towns, so check your area before you count on it.

Pricing. The paid plan is $10 per property per month billed monthly, or $96 per property billed annually. Turno is free if you manage a single property with non-marketplace cleaners, and billing is tied to properties rather than cleaners, so you can have as many cleaners as you like on that one property and stay on the free tier. If you work exclusively with cleaners found through the marketplace, the subscription is free even across multiple properties. Watch the payment fees, which fall on the host and carry a $1.50 minimum per transaction.

Limitations. The interface is built for the US market, and several reviews note that the suggested price ranges shown to cleaners when bidding are unrealistic outside the United States. Maintenance handling is basic compared with Breezeway.

Best for. Hosts with 1-10 properties, especially anyone who still needs to find a reliable cleaner.

2. Breezeway

Breezeway is the most heavily engineered platform of the six, and you can see it in both the feature set and the price.

Founded in Boston in 2017 by the team behind FlipKey (later acquired by TripAdvisor), it now serves more than 3,500 clients and coordinates operations across over 265,000 properties in 85 countries. In March 2026 it took a growth investment from Resurgens Technology Partners to expand the platform and its AI capabilities.

What separates it from Turno is the depth of quality control. Checklists are conditional: if a cleaner flags a stain on the sofa, the system automatically opens a maintenance ticket and assigns it to the right person. You can schedule preventive work (air conditioning filters, smoke alarm checks) that generates itself on a fixed cycle. And you get a live view of which properties are guest-ready and which aren't.

Users consistently praise the customisation and the support, while flagging task search, bulk-editing properties, and a time-consuming onboarding as weak points. That last one is real. Breezeway is not a tool you configure in an afternoon.

Pricing. The Operations platform starts at $19.99 per unit per month, with Guest Messaging, Guide and Assist sold as separate add-ons. The first property is free with full access to the operations platform, and from five units up the price is custom, quoted after a demo.

Limitations. It costs four times what Turno does per unit and demands real setup time. On three apartments it's overkill.

Best for. Property managers with in-house teams and at least ten units, where the cost is justified by the hours saved.

3. Doinn

Doinn deserves particular attention in Europe for two reasons: the platform is localised into several European languages, and it doesn't just sell software, it sells the service too.

It began as a housekeeping platform for vacation rentals, offering cleaning, laundry and linen rental delivered by professional companies across more than 20 European cities, with calendar sync and an API for automatic integration. It now claims over 1,000 business customers and integrates directly with your PMS to generate cleaning and maintenance tasks from bookings in real time.

That dual nature solves a concrete problem. If you open a second apartment in another city, you don't restart the search for a cleaning company from scratch. You buy it through the platform, at the same standard.

One customer sums up the benefit by saying Doinn ended their reliance on WhatsApp groups, which they describe as a black hole of contradictory information. The quote is obviously vendor-selected, but the problem it describes will be familiar to anyone coordinating more than two cleaners.

Pricing. Quotes are generated based on business type, location, and the number of properties or services. The entry tier is aimed at 1-15 properties, the next level at portfolios above 26 properties, and above 100 properties you move to a bespoke quote.

Limitations. Provider coverage clusters in major cities. The quote-based model makes it hard to compare cost without talking to a salesperson.

Best for. European hosts and property managers who want to outsource cleaning and laundry while keeping one interface.

4. Operto Teams

Operto Teams, founded in Vancouver in 2018 and previously known as VRScheduler, is part of the wider Operto ecosystem for smart property automation. It assigns and tracks work for cleaners, inspectors and maintenance staff, often triggered automatically by PMS events or by signals from smart devices such as check-ins.

Drag-and-drop scheduling is the feature users mention most: you see the whole week's workload on one grid and move jobs by dragging them. It also does hours tracking and payroll calculation, which is missing from almost every direct competitor.

The less obvious advantage is the integration with smart locks and thermostats from the rest of the Operto suite. If you already run those devices, the cleaner's access code generates and expires on its own.

Pricing. Quote only, after a sales demo.

Limitations. Reviews flag a steep learning curve for new users. There's no self-service entry plan.

Best for. Operators running a large in-house team who also need payroll and inspections handled.

5. Properly

Properly bets on one idea: make sure the person cleaning can see exactly what the room looked like when it was perfect.

Launched in 2014 to help owners and managers monitor turnovers, it lets you build visual checklists for staff, standard operating procedures, and remote inspections across your properties. The checklists are photographic. For each task the cleaner sees a reference image of the expected result rather than a written description. That difference matters when your cleaner doesn't share a language with you.

Properly claims its services cut cleaning errors by 80%, and pairs the checklists with a marketplace of vetted cleaners, training, real-time inspection and preventive maintenance plans. That figure comes from the vendor, so treat it accordingly.

Pricing. Quote-based, according to how many properties you run.

Limitations. Building photographic checklists means an upfront session photographing every room the way you want it left. Budget a couple of hours per apartment, and expect to redo them when you change the furniture.

Best for. Anyone struggling with inconsistent quality across different cleaners, or working with staff who turn over frequently.

6. ResortCleaning

This is the longest-running housekeeping product in the category, live since 2008, with PMS integration, automatic task scheduling, a staff mobile app and inventory management.

Its orientation differs from the other five. ResortCleaning is built as much for cleaning companies as for property managers. The platform covers service provider invoice management, access to a provider network, and custom development options. If you're a company servicing fifty apartments across twenty different owners, this is the right shape.

Pricing. Three plans: Industry User at $5 per property per month, Inventory User at $7 per property per month with an $80 monthly minimum, and Enterprise at custom pricing.

Limitations. The interface shows its age, and that monthly minimum makes it poor value below about twelve units.

Best for. Cleaning companies and portfolios above 20 units.

What it actually costs

The subscription is the small part of the bill. Underneath sit three line items that almost no pricing page highlights.

Payment fees first. Turno's minimum works out at around $1.50 per transaction. With eight apartments turning over three times a week each, that's roughly a hundred dollars a year that never appears on the pricing page.

Then setup time. Breezeway and Properly take days, not hours, to run properly. Costed at your own hourly rate, that upfront investment often exceeds the first year of subscription.

Finally the exit cost. Checklists, reference photos and task history rarely export in a format you can use anywhere else. Before you commit, ask explicitly what you're allowed to take with you.

For scale, the cleaning itself: a professional cleaning company typically charges an hourly rate that varies widely by region and service level, with monthly costs for a single apartment running into the hundreds. The software is a fraction of that, which is why the business case rests on coordination hours saved rather than on any direct saving.

Do I need this with one apartment?

Probably not, at least at first.

With one property and a fixed cleaner, a shared calendar and a well-written checklist cover about 90% of the need. Turno's free tier is still worth setting up, because it costs nothing and gives you automatic calendar sync, but don't expect it to change your life.

The threshold where software starts paying for itself sits around three properties, or your second cleaner. That's the point where you stop being able to hold in your head who does what and when.

The checklist comes before the software

There's a recurring mistake at this stage: buying a tool in the hope it will fix a process that doesn't exist yet. If your cleaning checklist lives in your head rather than on paper, digitising it achieves nothing, because there's nothing to digitise.

The right order is the reverse. Write the checklist, use it for two or three turnovers, fix it where it breaks. Then pick the tool that hosts it best.

If you're starting from zero, GuestIntro's cleaning checklist generator produces a room-by-room list in a few minutes, free and without signing up.

And there's a half of the turnover none of these six tools covers: the guest-facing half. Your cleaner can leave the apartment immaculate, but if the guest can't find the WiFi password, can't work out the induction hob, or doesn't know where the recycling goes, they'll message you anyway. A digital guest manual closes that side, and there's a version built for property managers running multiple units.

The perfect turnover is the one you never notice. The guest walks in, finds everything ready, works everything out alone. The tools on this page handle the first part. The second part needs a different tool.