Hotelizer alternative for staff housing
Relyo is a separate system built only for staff housing in hotels and resorts: room planning, inspections, repairs, bills and costs. Hotelizer is a guest PMS from Revplus.
Built for the staff you house
HR, finance, operations and housing work from one record of rooms, inspections, repairs, bills and costs. Grades, your housing entitlement levels, set the room, utility allowance and rent cover each person gets.
Built for the guests you host
Hotelizer is a cloud hotel PMS for reservations, front desk, rate plans, housekeeping, maintenance tasks, invoicing, payments and reporting. Its group Revplus, formerly webhotelier | primalres, also offers a booking engine and a channel manager.
Relyo vs Hotelizer for staff housing
| Feature |  | Hotelizer |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Built for it: Staff accommodation for hotels and resorts.
| Built for it: Guest operations for hotels, as a cloud PMS.
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| Room planning | Built for it: Smart Match proposes a room for each person still waiting.
| Partly, with workarounds: Staff can be booked into rooms as reservations.
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| Grades and housing entitlements | Built for it: A grade sets the room, utility allowance and rent cover.
| Not designed for it: Rate plans and agent contracts, with no staff entitlements described.
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| Seasons and periods | Built for it: Housing runs by period, with stays measured in months.
| Partly, with workarounds: Long staff stays can be booked as reservations.
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| Move-in and move-out inspections and damage | Built for it: Four checkpoints per stay, recorded on a phone.
| Partly, with workarounds: Housekeeping between guest stays.
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| Utility bills and allowances | Built for it: Every bill is checked against the grade allowance.
| Not designed for it: Not designed for bills against staff allowances.
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| Cost per occupant, department and grade | Built for it: Cost per occupant, by property, grade and department.
| Partly, with workarounds: 100+ hotel reports, built around hotel performance.
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| Rent and contracts for the buildings you lease | Built for it: Rent, deposits and leases for the buildings you lease.
| Not designed for it: Contracts are with agents, corporates and tour operators.
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| Repairs reported by your staff | Built for it: Your staff report repairs and can dispute a fix.
| Partly, with workarounds: Task tracking for the hotel's own rooms and teams.
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| Portals for occupants, maintainers and landlords | Built for it: Each group gets its own portal, in any phone browser.
| Partly, with workarounds: Apps for the hotel team and for guests.
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| Operational Signals (automatic checks) | Built for it: 31 rule-based checks in one ranked list of what needs attention.
| Not designed for it: Notifications and task reminders for the hotel.
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- [1] Hotelizer product page (Revplus)
- [2] Hotelizer product site
- [3] Wapp: Hotelizer showcase
- [4] Capterra: Hotelizer PMS reviews
- [5] Capterra Australia: Hotelizer PMS features
- [6] Revplus: group products and figures
- [7] Press release: webhotelier | primalres rebrands as Revplus
- [8] EtherSense workspace app (Revplus)
Choose Hotelizer if…
- You need a guest PMS for direct, corporate and tour-operator business
- You want Hotelizer's Greek e-invoicing, payment links and POS with your reservations
- You want the group's booking engine, channel manager and roompay, plus smart lock integrations
- Your housekeeping team should work from a Housekeeper App in 13 languages
- You want an established Greek PMS used by thousands of hotels
- Your staff housing is a few hotel rooms you are happy to block as reservations
Choose Relyo if…
- You house seasonal or permanent staff in owned or leased buildings
- You want each grade applied the same way, with Smart Match proposing rooms
- You want new damage linked to its stay, and nobody charged for older damage
- You want to catch utility overage and see cost per occupant, department and grade
- You lease staff buildings and need rent, deposits and lease end dates tracked
What Relyo does for the staff you house
Relyo AI reads your bills and leases
The bill scan reads bills from any provider and tells estimated from actual readings. The contract scan reads leases in any language, and a person reviews every result.
- Each bill checked against the grade's allowance
- Split by days stayed, under each grade's policy
- Lease end dates and rent, for the buildings you lease
- The app in English, Greek and French
New damage is linked to its stay
Four checkpoints per stay record each room on a phone. Your team marks new damage on its stay, and nobody is charged for damage that was already there.
- Team and occupant check-in and check-out
- Meter readings with photos, plus room photos and video
- Move-out inspection created 15 days before departure
- Repair costs attributed to the stay, for reporting
Portals for your staff, maintainers and landlords
Occupants, maintainers and landlords each get their own portal. It works in the browser on any phone, with nothing to install.
- Occupants: room, dates, entitlement, bill shares and repair requests
- Maintainers: their own jobs and a Today's plan
- Landlords, for the buildings you lease: stays, tickets, contracts, rent
- Housing team: roles and per-department permissions
Frequently asked questions
Can Hotelizer manage staff housing?
Only in part. A hotel can block rooms for staff as reservations, but the sources we reviewed describe no grades, utility allowances, move-in inspections or cost per person in Hotelizer. Relyo is a separate system built only for staff housing.
Does Relyo replace Hotelizer?
No. Relyo is not a guest PMS. It is a separate system built only for staff housing, and it replaces the spreadsheets, chat groups and room blocks you use for staff today.
Does Relyo connect to Hotelizer or Revplus?
No. Relyo does not connect to Hotelizer, Revplus or any PMS, and it has no HR or accounting integration and no API. Your staff list imports from CSV or Excel (up to 500 rows per file), and we set up your properties with you.
How do Relyo repair tickets differ from Hotelizer's maintenance tasks?
Hotelizer's tasks suit the hotel's own rooms and teams. In Relyo, your staff report repairs from their phone and add photos, and routing rules send each request to the right department or maintainer. Maintainers get their own portal with a day plan, and they log repair costs with receipts.
Can we see what staff housing costs per person, department or grade?
Yes, in Relyo: cost per occupant adds rent for the buildings you lease, utilities including overage, damage and repairs, by property, grade and department. Nobody is charged for damage that was already there. Hotelizer's 100+ reports focus on hotel performance, such as occupancy, ADR and revenue.
Does Relyo work in Greek, and can it read our bills and leases?
Yes. The app works in English, Greek and French, and Relyo AI reads bills from any provider, country or language, and leases in any language. A person always reviews what the AI reads before it is saved.
How much do Hotelizer and Relyo cost?
Relyo starts with a free pilot for selected partners: one building, set up with you by the founders, and pricing is agreed after the pilot. Plans and prices change, so check Hotelizer's current pricing with Hotelizer directly.
Do our staff need to install an app to use Relyo?
No. Relyo works in the browser on any phone, with nothing to install. In the occupant portal your staff see their room, entitlement, rent due and bill shares, complete the move-in checklist and report repairs with photos.
Related pages
See how Relyo runs your staff housing
Book a demo with the founders and ask about the free pilot: start with one building, set up with you.
Free pilot for selected partners: start with one building, set up with the founders.