An Avantio alternative for owners with 1-10 properties

Avantio is one of Spain’s longest-standing PMS platforms: channel manager, full management and websites for professional vacation-rental agencies and property managers. It’s a serious platform, and precisely because of that it’s sized for large portfolios: implementation projects, quote-based pricing and features designed for teams managing dozens or hundreds of properties. If you own between 1 and 10 rentals, that power works against you: you pay — in money and learning curve — for machinery you’ll never use. The right-sized alternative is a simple, transparent direct-booking system built for you: Kanarix.

Kanarix vs Avantio: quick comparison

What Avantio does well

Let’s be fair: Avantio has been in the industry for many years and is a reference among Spanish vacation-rental agencies. It offers a complete PMS with a channel manager connected to dozens of portals, booking and team management, owner statements and corporate websites. For an agency managing 50 or 200 properties with its own staff, that level of tooling makes complete sense.

Where it falls short for a small owner

Pricing isn’t public: the process runs through a demo, a custom quote and an implementation project — normal for enterprise software, but oversized for someone with two apartments. Much of its functionality — multi-user, owner statements, portfolio accounting — is designed for teams, not an individual. And the learning curve is that of a professional PMS: powerful, but demanding. For 2-5 properties, it’s like buying a truck to do the groceries.

How Kanarix is different

Kanarix is built for exactly the opposite case: owners with 1 to 10 vacation rentals. We build you a custom direct-booking website with your brand (0% commission on direct bookings), a simple dashboard for pricing, calendar and bookings, and a guest portal with digital check-in that collects the traveller registration data. It includes deposit/balance splits and a card-hold security deposit, paid extras like late check-out, and automatic pre-arrival and post-stay guest emails. All live in about 2 weeks.

Transparent pricing, no sales call needed

With Kanarix you know the price before talking to anyone: a one-time €490 setup, €49 per month for the first property and €15 per month per extra property, with one month free on annual billing and a 60-day money-back guarantee. No hidden modules, no custom quote and no implementation project to invoice.

When Avantio (or another enterprise PMS) is the right choice

If you manage more than 20 properties, have a team, need to pay out third-party owners and want deep real-time connections with many OTAs, a PMS like Avantio is a reasonable choice — and Kanarix doesn’t aim to cover that ground. Our calendar sync with the portals runs via iCal, designed to reduce the double-booking risk for small portfolios, not to operate as an agency channel manager.

Who Kanarix is for

For owners with 1-10 vacation rentals — especially in the Canary Islands and the rest of Spain — who want a professional direct channel with Spanish compliance handled (traveller registration, tourist tax) without becoming PMS operators. You manage prices and availability from a clear dashboard; we take care of the design, the tech and the maintenance.

How to switch without losing bookings

Switching models doesn’t mean turning off what already works overnight. The move happens in steps, in parallel, and is usually ready in about 2 weeks:

• ✓You share your properties, photos, seasonal pricing and rules. We build the custom site with your brand.
• ✓We connect calendars via iCal with Booking, Airbnb and any portals you already use, so booked dates block automatically and the double-booking risk is kept to a minimum.
• ✓We turn on online payments (card, Bizum, Apple Pay and Google Pay) straight to your account, with no portal holds.
• ✓We launch your site and you start taking direct bookings, keeping the portals as a discovery channel.
• ✓Over time, you reconvert guests who arrived via a portal into direct bookings on their next stays.

What Kanarix includes (and you don’t pay extra for)

• ✓Custom design with your brand — not a generic template.
• ✓Ongoing support included in the price, also after launch.
• ✓Calendar (iCal) sync with Booking and Airbnb to reduce the double-booking risk.
• ✓Secure online payments (card, Bizum, Apple Pay and Google Pay) straight to your account.
• ✓Multilingual site optimised for local SEO and AI search.

Pricing is transparent: a one-time €490 setup, €49 per month for the first property and €15 per month per extra property, with one month free on annual billing and a 60-day money-back guarantee. Your system is live in about 2 weeks.

Frequently asked questions

Is Kanarix a PMS like Avantio?

Not exactly. Kanarix is a direct-booking system: a custom website, a management dashboard and a guest portal. Calendars sync with Booking and Airbnb via iCal to reduce the double-booking risk, but it isn’t an enterprise channel manager and doesn’t include agency accounting.

How much does Avantio cost?

Avantio doesn’t publish pricing: it works with custom quotes depending on portfolio size and modules, and it’s aimed at agencies and professional managers. Kanarix publishes its price: a one-time €490 setup plus €49 per month for the first property and €15 per extra property.

Can I move from Avantio to Kanarix?

If you manage a small number of properties, yes. We build your new site in parallel in about 2 weeks and connect calendars via iCal with your current channels, so the move doesn’t cut off any booking channel.

What if I grow past 10 properties?

Each extra property costs €15 per month, so pricing scales predictably. If you reach the point of needing owner statements and team management, an Avantio-style PMS may be the right tool — and we’ll tell you so honestly if that’s your case.

How much does Kanarix cost, and what guarantee do I get?

A one-time €490 setup, €49 per month for the first property and €15 per extra property, with one month free on annual billing. There’s a 60-day money-back guarantee so you can try it risk-free.