Airbnb Turnover Software: The Alternatives to Turno, and What Each One Costs

Airbnb turnover software puts the right cleaner into the right property between two bookings and proves the work was done. One phrase, four separate jobs underneath it: reading the booking calendar, dispatching the cleaner, recording proof of completion, and moving the money. Very few products do all four.

Properly appears below as one option among several. For the product on its own — what it costs, on what basis, and where its user reviews live — read our Properly review.

This page weighs Turno against us. For the product on its own — what it costs at one, three and ten properties, with the billing basis named — read our Turno review.

The alternatives to Turno that publish a figure are Breezeway at $19.99 per unit a month, Properly from $12.99 per property a month, ResortCleaning at $5.00 per property a month on a $20 monthly minimum, and NowIStay at $3 or $15 per property a month depending on the tier. At 3 properties those come to $59.97, $38.97, $20 and $45. Turno itself stays at $0 for a host whose cleaners all come from its marketplace.

I work on the product side at BnBGenius, which sits at the narrow end of this category: it opens cleaning and repair tasks after a checkout, and it does not find, schedule or pay a cleaner. For the wider shortlists I keep separate guides to cleaning apps for hosts and vacation-rental task management software.

What is Airbnb turnover software?

My test for the category is a Monday with 3 departures: the tool should show which homes need service, who accepted each job, which cleans finished, and what is still unpaid. A product that answers two of those four questions is one part of the turnover, not the whole of it.

1. Calendar scheduling: a departure on the reservation calendar creates or proposes a cleaning job.
2. Dispatch: the job reaches a named cleaner, who accepts or declines it.
3. Proof of completion: the cleaner ticks the requirements, records a finish time, or supplies photos.
4. Payment: the host, manager or cleaning company records or sends the money.

Each product is built around a different pair of those jobs. Turno is built around finding the cleaner and paying the cleaner. Breezeway is built around scheduling, inspection and maintenance for a team you already have. Properly is built around instruction and evidence, room by room. ResortCleaning is the software a cleaning business runs its own schedules and invoicing on. NowIStay puts cleaning coordination beside guest communication.

BnBGenius covers one corner. After a guest checks out, it opens the cleaning task and the repair task. We do not sync calendars, dispatch cleaners, run a cleaner marketplace, pay cleaning teams, collect completion photos, sell direct bookings, set prices with a pricing tool, or keep owner accounting. If the turnover itself is the problem, that is a real gap and one of the rows below is the purchase, not us.

The boundary in practice: the cleaning task and the repair task go out after the checkout, and that is where our part stops. We do not choose the plumber, route anyone to the property, or pay the invoice. Those jobs sit in maintenance tracking, sharing a calendar with a cleaner and managing a cleaning team without text chains.

What was TurnoverBnB, and is it the same product as Turno?

Same product, new name: TurnoverBnB became Turno. Anything written about TurnoverBnB applies to Turno, so treat the two names as 1 product on a shortlist. What it does and what it costs is a whole article on its own, and I keep it in a head-to-head comparison rather than repeating it here.

The question that decides your shortlist is not which name you found. It is whether you have a cleaner. With 1 property and no cleaner, you have a hiring problem, and a marketplace is the thing that solves it: that case is the subject of our guide to replacing a cleaning marketplace. With the same property and a cleaner you trust, you have a scheduling, proof or backup problem, and everything below is about those.

What are the real alternatives to Turno?

A single score would be dishonest here. At 3 properties, one host needs a cleaner found, the second needs a photograph of every room, the third needs an invoice raised to a cleaning company. So the table is what each company publishes and what it leaves out.

Read our own row as a limit rather than a claim. BnBGenius is not a property management system and is not trying to become one: no channel manager, no direct-booking engine, no dynamic pricing, no owner statements. If any of those is the thing you are missing, start with our channel-manager guide, the pricing-tools comparison or the accounting-software guide instead of this page.

Two of the five I have put against our own product in more detail: operations software versus host automation and AI co-hosting versus host automation.

Which apps can cleaners use instead of Turno?

A cleaner reads this list differently from a host. The questions are what the platform takes out of each payment, when the money lands, and who keeps the client afterwards. Two of the five publish terms for cleaners at all; the other three publish none.

Two rules in the Turno column are easy to miss and expensive to learn late. A cleaner cannot take themselves off a project once they have accepted it; only the host can remove them. And in the United States, since 1 May 2023, buying and renewing a background-check badge every year is mandatory for marketplace work, the provider is Accurate Background, and Turno does not publish what the badge costs.

Properly states the commission question in its own words: “no hidden fees or commission charges. You keep 100% of what you earn”. Training and certification are free too. The trade-off is the opposite of Turno’s: the client sets the payment terms, not the platform, so a slow-paying client stays slow.

ResortCleaning belongs in the table only to be ruled out. It is the software a cleaning business runs on, the business buys it, and the business pays the cleaner; there is no marketplace and no cleaner-facing terms anywhere on it. Breezeway and NowIStay are in the same position for now: work reaches a cleaner through the manager who already runs them, not through a listing.

Three answers I would get in writing before the first job, because none of the five publishes them: what a same-day cancellation pays, who absorbs a payment dispute, and whether supplies, laundry and travel sit inside the posted price or outside it.

BnBGenius is absent from that table for a reason. We do not list cleaning jobs, recruit cleaners or send anyone a payment, so there is nothing here for a cleaner to join.

Which is the cheapest option for one to three properties?

The cheapest option is a shared calendar and a standing arrangement with one cleaner: $0 in software. With 1 property, 1 cleaner and no overlapping departures it holds, and our guide to sharing a rental calendar with a cleaner is that whole workflow.

It breaks in three places: a second cleaner appears, the first one needs backup, or one departure moves twice in a week. A calendar shows that a guest left. It does not show that anyone accepted the job, finished the last room, noticed the cracked blind, or got paid.

Here is the arithmetic at 3 properties, each line from the vendor’s own published figure:

Two rows deserve a second look. ResortCleaning is the only one where the arithmetic loses to a floor: three properties calculate to $15 and you pay $20, so its per-property figure only begins to matter above four. And the two Turno rows are the same product at $0 or $30, decided entirely by where the cleaner came from.

BnBGenius is not a row in that table, and putting it there would be a category error. It does not schedule a cleaner, prove a clean happened, or pay anybody. Our own arithmetic for the same 3 listings is in the last section, next to what it does and does not buy.

Choose by the missing workflow, not by the smallest number. If the gap is telling a trusted cleaner about departures, stay at $0. If the gap is inspection evidence, buy an inspection product. If the gap is paying a team spread across town, buy a tool that moves money. The wider stack around this decision is in apps for hosts and the automation software comparison.

Do any of the alternatives include a cleaner marketplace?

Of the five, 1 is built as a marketplace, and that is Turno. It is the single feature that keeps hosts on it after they have outgrown everything else about it.

Properly lists marketplace access as included for service providers, which is not the same thing as a deep pool of cleaners in your town. ResortCleaning is not a marketplace at all; it is the cleaning business’s own software. Breezeway’s job board for cleaners is marked coming soon, so today it dispatches the team you bring to it. NowIStay has none.

Coverage is local, and this is where a feature list misleads by omission. A platform can have 20 cleaners bidding in a metro and 0 in a lake town two hours away. Those two numbers are an illustration, not a claim about anyone’s network: search the actual address, look at the actual candidates, and confirm they are free on your actual departure days before you pay for anything.

If the search comes back with 0 suitable cleaners, hire directly:

1. Ask nearby hosts and small local lodging operators for referrals.
2. Call established residential and commercial cleaning businesses.
3. Pay for a trial clean against the property’s real checklist.
4. Keep the best one and name a backup before you need a backup.

The trial is the part people skip. Being listed on a platform proves nothing about linen staging, consumable counts, damage photos or a narrow window between one checkout and the next check-in, and those are the four things that go wrong first.

We do not have a marketplace and will not imply otherwise: BnBGenius does not find, vet, schedule, dispatch or pay cleaners. If finding the person is your problem, we are the wrong purchase. If the person already exists and the task needs to exist after every checkout, that is the slice we cover. Hosts building a remote operation can pair this with our guide to managing rentals remotely and the complete cleaning checklist.

How do you check a turnover actually happened?

Proof answers one question: can I catch a serious miss before the next guest opens the door? A ticked box proves that someone ticked a box.

My standard for a compact rental is 8 photos: the made bed, the toilet and shower, the bathroom sink, the kitchen counters, the inside of the refrigerator, the living area, the entry, and the locked door on the way out. One extra photo per additional bedroom and bathroom in a larger home. Those are my operating counts, not a vendor statistic.

Budget about 2 minutes for those 8 photos, provided the app does not demand repeat uploads or annotations. A requirement of 40 near-identical photos is theater: it buys upload time and hides the two images that mattered. I would rather have one clear shot of an open refrigerator than five of a closed one.

• Specific: the requirement names a room or a surface, not “the property”.
• Current: the image belongs to this turnover, not to the last one.
• Reviewable: a host can spot the miss in seconds, not minutes.
• Proportionate: it documents real risk without turning the cleaner into a photographer.

Where the products sit on this: Properly is built on it, room-by-room instruction with the photo as the evidence, and it also lists Real-Time Inspection at $5 per inspection. Breezeway carries operational checklists and inspections for the team you already employ. Turno’s checklists ride along with the marketplace job. The choice follows from whether you need a visual standard, a field-operations record, or a cleaner attached to the checklist.

BnBGenius collects no cleaning photos and offers no inspection checklist. A task created after a checkout is not evidence that anyone arrived, and I would rather write that plainly than let a comparison table imply otherwise. If verification is what you are buying, buy it from a product that does it, or put the photo requirement into what you agree with the cleaner.

Keep repair evidence separate from cleaning evidence. A clean-room photo may happen to show a cracked blind, but the repair still needs an owner, a deadline and its own completion record, which is the second workflow in our maintenance tracking guide.

Which one fits three listings and one cleaner?

Malika runs 3 units in Austin on Airbnb, works with 1 cleaner, has no overlapping departures, and pays the cleaner directly. Three conditions decide her shortlist: whether she needs to find a cleaner, whether payment has to run through the software, and whether she needs photographs.

She needs none of the three, so her honest answer is the cheapest one. A shared calendar and a standing agreement cost her $0, and that holds until the day a second cleaner appears or a departure moves twice in a week.

If she did need discovery or in-platform payment, Turno is the answer and we are not: $30 a month across her 3 properties with her own cleaner, or $0 while every cleaner comes from the marketplace. If she needed mandatory room photos, she would put Properly and Breezeway against her own inspection list, not against a price.

What she can buy from us is narrower. BnBGenius Pro is $10 per month, so her 3 units come to $30 a month, and the first 500 messages are free with every feature and no card. A unit is one rented home: the same home listed on Airbnb and VRBO is still 1 unit, though Malika’s three are on one platform. For that, BnBGenius answers guest messages on Airbnb and VRBO around the clock, asks the guest for a review, and opens the cleaning and repair tasks after each checkout.

It installs as a Chrome extension in about 5 minutes and reads her own dashboard in her own browser: no API keys, and no password handed to anybody, including us. It is also not a property management system, and the list is short and public: no channel manager, no calendar sync, no direct-booking engine, no pricing tool, no owner accounting, no SMS, and nothing outside Airbnb and VRBO.

My thresholds, in the order I would apply them:

• 1 cleaner, no payment through the tool, no photo requirement: stay on the $0 calendar arrangement.
• No cleaner yet: buy a marketplace. A task tool will not conjure a cleaner in your town.
• 2 or more cleaners on overlapping jobs: you need formal acceptance and a named backup, not a cheaper subscription.
• Payment must run through the software: drop every option that does not move money, ours included.
• Photos are mandatory: buy an inspection product; we do not produce that evidence.
• Cleaning and repair tasks after checkout are the whole gap: that narrow slice is what we cover.

For Malika, I would not buy marketplace access because it appears on a feature list. She already has the cleaner. Decide which of scheduling, acceptance, inspection, payment or task creation is genuinely missing, and the category picks itself before the monthly arithmetic gets a vote.