PMS News Desk · Oct 24, 2026 · 3 min read
Airbnb's 30 September release adds AI dynamic pricing, a bulk multi-listing calendar and an AI earnings dashboard for hosts, overlapping squarely with what short-term rental PMSes and pricing tools sell.
InnVest Hotels has extended its Stayntouch deployment with Digital Registration Cards at six Canadian properties, replacing paper check-in forms with tablet-assisted capture. Six of a portfolio of more than 100.
Hostfully connected HostReady for licence and ordinance tracking, Strly for damage waivers and guest verification, and CartStack for abandoned booking recovery. All three went live on 30 September, and none carry stated pricing.
Accor has selected Mews POS as the standard point of sale for food and beverage across its global portfolio. More than 850 Accor properties in over 20 countries already run it. The announcement gives no completion date and no total number of properties in scope.
OwnerRez's 30 September release adds Google Hotels as an official listing channel in public beta, flags Claude and ChatGPT connections as coming, and quietly makes Airbnb's Super Strict cancellation policies grandfather-only.
The former CiiRUS chief executive takes over strategy, operations and product at Expedia Group's vacation rental PMS, with interface modernization and partner integrations named as priorities.
Managers paid directly by Airbnb under co-hosting can now get correct owner statements, with two new columns. The journal timing differs from every other channel, so check your P&L.
OwnerRez's 30 September release adds Automated Expenses, which posts owner-covered costs to statements on a booking trigger, a relative schedule or a recurring calendar. It needs the PM premium feature.
Cloudbeds has joined the Alliance Partner Program at Preferred Hotels & Resorts, becoming a recommended platform for 625 luxury independents across 80 countries. It is a referral channel, not a rollout, and no properties have been named.
The Washington casino resort has expanded to seven Agilysys products, and says connecting the PMS to casino player offers removed the manual entry and spreadsheet tracking that slowed reservations.
From 29 October Vrbo replaces its 5% PMS-connected rate, its 8% pay-per-booking rate and its $699 subscription with one flat 12% commission, and adds a rate parity requirement covering direct sites.
HyperGuest has raised $25m from AMI, the mid-market investment arm of Apax Partners, for the connectivity layer that links hotels to travel sellers and, increasingly, to AI agents. Valuation undisclosed.