Revy is a genuine managed service. Their team runs your pricing strategy using dynamic pricing software, makes daily manual adjustments, conducts an initial listing audit, and provides a dedicated advisor, all on a 5% commission on your gross revenue. For operators who want to hand off their pricing and align incentives with their provider, Revy's shared success model is a straightforward proposition.
Otamiser covers the same pricing function. But revenue management for STR portfolios has more layers than pricing alone, and the gap between the two services shows up in three specific places: OTA distribution optimization, daily ranking intelligence, and the pricing model itself.
Revy's service focuses on pricing execution. Their team learns your property and market, conducts a listing audit to identify quick wins, implements a custom pricing strategy, makes daily optimizations, and consults on additional listing and revenue opportunities. They pay for the dynamic pricing software themselves, included in the 5% commission. The shared success model means Revy only earns more when you do, a genuinely aligned structure.
What Revy's service doesn't include: the OTA distribution layer that determines how strong the demand signal your pricing works from actually is. Their listing audit identifies quick wins. That's different from continuously managing the channel configuration, listing content, Booking.com promotional setup, and platform-specific settings that drive algorithmic placement on each OTA, and different from monitoring OTA ranking daily to catch visibility problems before they cost bookings.
We start one layer earlier. Before configuring pricing, we assess every listing's performance across Airbnb, Vrbo, and Booking.com, the channel configuration, listing content, photo strategy, Booking.com promotional setup, and platform-specific settings that determine where your listings appear in search. We fix what's suppressing visibility, then build a pricing strategy on top of that foundation. While running both, we monitor OTA ranking daily across your portfolio. When we see a listing's position declining, we diagnose the specific factors driving it and act before it costs bookings.
Pricing management, OTA distribution optimization, and ranking intelligence, as one connected service.
Revy's commission model is well-designed for alignment, both parties benefit when revenue grows. But the economics change significantly as portfolio revenue scales.
At $10,000/month in gross revenue: Revy charges $500/month.
At $30,000/month in gross revenue: Revy charges $1,500/month.
At $60,000/month in gross revenue: Revy charges $3,000/month.
Otamiser charges a flat fee starting at $850/month for up to 16 listings, scaling down per listing as the portfolio grows. For portfolios generating strong revenue per listing, the flat model often costs significantly less than a percentage of gross. For smaller, lower-revenue portfolios, Revy's percentage model can be more accessible.
The model you choose affects how your costs scale. That's worth calculating directly against your portfolio's actual numbers before making a decision.
Revy's listing audit identifies what to fix. OTA distribution management fixes it, and keeps fixing it as algorithms shift, seasons change, and search behavior evolves.
On Airbnb: listing content matched to guest search behavior, photos sequenced and captioned for the season, availability and booking window settings dialed in for algorithmic performance, policy settings configured for rank.
On Booking.com: Booking.com rewards commission structure and promotional tier, not listing quality the way Airbnb does. Genius tier setup, rate plan mix, and promotional timing are the levers that determine visibility on the platform, and we manage all of them as part of every engagement.
On Vrbo: content strategy, availability optimization, and review management calibrated to a platform with different visibility mechanics than Airbnb.
Revy consults on listing and revenue opportunities. We manage the distribution layer continuously.
Revy monitors daily pricing performance and makes manual adjustments. What their service doesn't include is daily OTA ranking monitoring, the forward-looking signal that tells you where your revenue is heading 30 days before it shows in your bookings.
When a listing starts losing visibility, rank drops before reservations follow. We track ranking daily across your entire portfolio and monitor the specific factors driving each listing's position, pricing competitiveness, booking pace, listing quality, availability settings. When we see a decline, we diagnose what's causing it and act before it costs bookings.
Most operators think they have a pricing problem. They actually have a visibility problem. A pricing service, however well run, can't catch a ranking problem it isn't monitoring.
70-80% of clients see ranking improvements within 30 days. Typical revenue recovery: 15-20% above pre-engagement baseline. The service pays for itself within the first month for most clients.
"After the first month, there has never been a month where Otamiser hasn't delivered more than 10% YoY ANR growth and in some months it's been nearer 50%. You absolutely know what you are doing." Corin Craig Jackson, Managing Director · The Heim
"In order to still outperform the market, you really need to focus on ranking optimization. Over the last few years, we really see the results of that. On average, we are outperforming our market by 20%. And it's mainly thanks to our ranking optimization." Dennis Goedheid, Founder & CEO · Casiola
Otamiser Revenue Management starts at $850/month for up to 16 listings, scaling down with portfolio size. That covers everything: OTA distribution assessment and optimization across all channels, daily ranking monitoring and diagnosis, pricing tool configuration and management, monthly strategy calls, a dedicated revenue manager, and monthly performance reporting.
Revy charges 5% of your gross revenue. They pay for the dynamic pricing software within that commission. The model is straightforward: as your revenue grows, so does Revy's fee. That alignment has genuine value, but it also means the cost scales with your revenue rather than your portfolio size. At high revenue per listing, the flat model typically costs less. At lower revenue levels, the percentage model can be more accessible.
Revy's 5% model seems well-aligned. Why consider Otamiser?
The shared success model is genuinely well-designed for alignment. The question is scope. Revy manages pricing. Otamiser manages pricing, OTA distribution optimization, and daily ranking monitoring. If your listings are underperforming algorithmically on Airbnb, Vrbo, or Booking.com, which is true for most portfolios, the distribution and ranking layers are what Revy doesn't include. That's often where the larger revenue opportunity sits.
Both services manage pricing and use dynamic pricing software. What's actually different?
Both services manage pricing with daily optimization. Otamiser also manages the OTA distribution setup that determines the demand signal pricing works from, channel configuration, listing content, Booking.com promotional setup, and monitors OTA ranking daily to catch visibility problems before they affect bookings. Revy does an initial listing audit and consults on opportunities. Those are different levels of ongoing management.
How does the pricing model comparison work at our portfolio size?
Multiply your monthly gross revenue by 5% to get Revy's monthly cost. Compare that to Otamiser's flat fee at your portfolio size. For most portfolios generating $170+ per listing per month in gross revenue, the flat model comes out ahead. The crossover point depends entirely on your revenue per listing.
How quickly do we see results?
70-80% of clients see ranking improvements within 30 days. Revenue impact typically shows within the first full month, tracked in your monthly performance report.
What happens if we already have a pricing strategy we're happy with?
We review it, keep what's working, and build a full revenue strategy around it, adding the OTA optimization and ranking layers on top. Your existing pricing setup is the starting point.
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