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Hotel & BnB property management softwareRoom types, rate plans, meal plans — without the OTA tax.

A BnB is a community; its rooms are units. Direct sells them the way hotels do — by room type with allocation at check-in — with EP/CP/MAP/AP rate plans and housekeeping that runs itself.

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Is this for you?

A good fit if
  • You run a small property directly and want bookings, rates and housekeeping in one place
  • You want the accommodation tax handled as a line on the booking rather than a monthly reconstruction
  • You would rather own the guest relationship than rent it from a marketplace
Look elsewhere if
  • You need full hotel PMS depth — night audit, complex yield management, POS and F&B integration
  • You run enough rooms that a dedicated hospitality suite is genuinely warranted
  • Your brand mandates a specific central reservation system

Your module mix

Subscribe to exactly these — nothing else to pay for. Your application arrives with this mix pre-selected, and your organisation is provisioned with it on approval.

Short Term Rentals
CORE FOR YOU

Pools are your room types: sell 'Deluxe Double', assign room 204 at the desk. Rate plans carry meal plans and extra-guest pricing; direct bookings are commission-free.

Caretaking
CORE FOR YOU

Checkout auto-creates the turnover work order. Housekeeping rosters, attendance and consumable stock (soap below reorder level shows up red) live beside the bookings.

Fitouts
OPTIONAL

Room refurbishments, quoted per room and invoiced on confirmation.

Leasing
OPTIONAL

Monthly long-stay rooms on the same calendar.

Property Sales
OPTIONAL

If the property itself trades, the pipeline is there.

This is the actual product

Real screenshots from a live portfolio — the screens your team would work in every day.

dpms.ca/stay/bookings
Every booking, at the stage it is in
Every booking, at the stage it is in

Enquiries, tentative holds, confirmed, allocated, checked in and past — a tab each. A pool booking that still needs a unit picked waits in Confirmed until someone picks one.

dpms.ca/people/staff
The attendance matrix
The attendance matrix

Month × staff with nine day codes — presents, absents, double shifts, leave — per department, with vendor attribution for outsourced crews.

Direct vs Cloudbeds-class hotel PMSs

Hotel-native inventory
WITH DIRECT

Room-type selling with check-in allocation is the core model, not a workaround — overselling is blocked by the database itself.

ELSEWHERE

Vacation-rental tools bolt room types onto listings.

Housekeeping is not an afterthought
WITH DIRECT

Turnovers appear at checkout with priority and assignee; same-day back-to-backs stay sellable.

ELSEWHERE

A WhatsApp group and a whiteboard.

GST-ready books
WITH DIRECT

Taxes, 30+ currencies and FX-true ledger entries from day one.

ELSEWHERE

Export and pray.

Rooms/beds/venues as sellable types
Auto-turnover on checkout, non-blocking for same-day sales
Meal-plan rate plans (EP · CP · MAP · AP)

Guides for hotel & bnb operators

Florida

Florida vacation rentals: licence, preemption and three taxes

Florida is one of the few states that licenses vacation rentals itself — and one of the few that stops its cities doing the same, unless they were already doing it in 2011.

Toronto

Location à court terme à Toronto : l'enregistrement

Toronto encadre la location à court terme par un enregistrement obligatoire plutôt que par un permis discrétionnaire — et les règles diffèrent nettement selon que vous louez le logement entier ou une chambre chez vous.

Ontario

La taxe d'hébergement municipale en Ontario

Il n'existe pas une taxe d'hébergement ontarienne mais une par municipalité : le taux, ce à quoi il s'applique et la personne qui doit la remettre varient d'une ville à la suivante.

Toronto compliance

Toronto STR registration: what applies to you

Toronto regulates short-term rentals through mandatory registration, not a discretionary licence — and the rules differ sharply depending on whether you're renting a whole unit or a room in your own home.

Toronto compliance

Toronto's Municipal Accommodation Tax, explained

MAT applies to almost every short stay in Toronto, and the rate has moved twice in the last fourteen months — as of 8 August 2026 it's back down to 6%, after a temporary jump to 8.5%.

Ontario tax

Municipal Accommodation Tax across Ontario

MAT is set city by city, and almost nothing about it is uniform — not the rate, not the stay length that triggers it, not how often you remit. Rates below are taken from each municipality's own published pages, not from an aggregator.

Ottawa compliance

Ottawa short-term rental host permits

Ottawa permits short-term rentals only in your principal residence, under a two-year host permit — with one significant exception for rural properties that Toronto has no equivalent of.

Mississauga compliance

Mississauga short-term rental licences

Mississauga licenses short-term rentals in your principal residence only, for $283 a year, with a 180-night annual cap and two requirements — a police check and $2 million of liability cover — that take longer to obtain than the licence itself.

Ontario tax

HST/GST on Ontario rental income

Long-term residential rent is exempt from HST. Commercial rent is taxable. Short-term stays under 30 days are treated as a commercial activity by the CRA — and the $30,000 small-supplier threshold combines every property you operate, not just one.

Multi-line portfolio

The maintenance-week problem, solved

Two identical villas in the same community will never book identically. Per-listing accounting turns that into an owner-relations problem; pooling turns it into a non-issue.

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