An honest GraceSoft review, and when Malvavisco fits instead.
Looking for a GraceSoft alternative? Start with what GraceSoft does well, taken from its own pages. GraceSoft has sold hotel software since 1999, and it sells its Easy InnKeeping system to dude ranches with packages, a booking engine and a channel manager. Malvavisco is newer and built around running the stay: horses and wranglers, guides, the kitchen and the bill, in English, Spanish or Portuguese. We wrote this page, and we say when GraceSoft is the better choice.
What is the best GraceSoft alternative?
It depends on what you want to change. If families book all-inclusive weeks online, or you sell on Booking.com and Airbnb, stay with GraceSoft or look at The Flybook. If the hard part is the week itself (which horse and wrangler go on each ride, what the kitchen cooks, what each family owes), try Malvavisco. If you mainly want a low published price, ReservationKey starts at $41 a month.
What GraceSoft does well
From GraceSoft’s own website, checked on 23 October 2026.
GraceSoft sells one system, Easy InnKeeping, to hotels, B&Bs, vacation rentals, campgrounds and condos, and has a page for dude ranches. Its ranch page describes a hotel-style system shaped around packaged, multi-day stays.
- Packages and online booking. Package bookings of 3, 4, 5 or 6 nights or weekly stays with fixed arrival rules, activity and add-on upsells, and a mobile-friendly booking engine on your website (source).
- Guides and itineraries. Guide and activity scheduling, daily programs and auto-generated guest itineraries, with pre-arrival registration and digital check-in and check-out (source).
- Quotes and payments. Quotes and secure payment links from its CRM, reservations confirmed automatically once paid, card processing, refunds and email and text from one inbox (source).
- Channels. Booking.com, Expedia, Airbnb and Vrbo with rates and availability kept in sync, included from its Premium plan (source).
- Store and housekeeping. A retail point of sale for merchandise, gear, food and add-ons that posts charges to guest folios, and real-time housekeeping dashboards (source).
- Guest signatures. SignPad collects guest signatures on tablets or phones and saves the signed documents to the reservation (source).
- Switching to it. GraceSoft says it imports your historical and future reservations when you move to it (source).
- Track record and support. Founded in 1999, in the cloud since 2005, with 24/7 support and guided onboarding (source).
It is a broad system. What its ranch page leaves out is the ranch itself: it names guides and activities, but not horses, rider forms or meal planning.
How much GraceSoft costs
As shown on GraceSoft’s pricing page on 23 October 2026.
GraceSoft doesn’t publish plan prices; it quotes on request, like Malvavisco. Its pricing page lists four plans and what each adds:
| Plan | Best for, in GraceSoft’s words | What it adds |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | Hotels and independent properties | Booking engine with a free five-page website, card processing, group reservations, specials and packages |
| Advanced | Growing hospitality businesses | Housekeeping, payment links, auto payment, self check-in, night audit, mobile app |
| Premium | Multi-channel property management | Booking.com, Airbnb, Vrbo and Expedia “with no extra commission fees”, gift certificates, door locks |
| Platinum | Enterprise hospitality management | PriceLabs, QuickBooks and CRM |
- The point of sale, Easy WebPOS, is a separate module quoted on request; hardware is bought separately.
- Below Premium, the channel connection is a separate module, also quoted.
- Devices with a published price: a card swipe device for $99 and an e-signature pad for $199.
- Plans list “Flexible cancellation”; no contract length is stated.
- A smaller Lite edition for small hotels and vacation rentals takes payments through Stripe and charges a 1% booking fee on Vrbo and Airbnb bookings.
Source: gracesoft.com/pricing. Malvavisco doesn’t publish prices; it quotes after a demo.
Malvavisco and GraceSoft, row by row
Malvavisco wrote this comparison. GraceSoft’s column comes from its own website, checked on 23 October 2026, with a link for each row. Its details may have changed since.
| Feature | MalvaviscoLodge software | GraceSoft |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Remote lodges in the Americas where a stay includes guided days, meals and a bar: guest ranches, fishing and hunting lodges, eco lodges | Hotels, B&Bs, vacation rentals, campgrounds, condos and dude ranches; trusted since 1999Source |
| Guest online booking | No: staff enter bookings from email, phone and agents | Yes: a booking engine with a free five-page website in every planSource |
| Packages and weekly stays | No package prices: a nightly rate plus per-person prices for rides and extras; included items show as Included on the bill | Packages of 3 to 6 nights or weekly stays, with fixed arrival rulesSource |
| Guides, horses and activities | Each horse is an asset with its own calendar row and overlap checks; wranglers and guides are assigned by skill and language | Guide and activity scheduling, daily programs and auto-generated itineraries; horses not mentionedSource |
| Kitchen | Included meals planned per stay, a daily dietary brief, kitchen tickets from preparing to ready to served | Food sold through the point of sale; no meal planning mentionedSource |
| Bar and store | Point of sale on the booking’s bill, with stock counts, supply orders and supply receipts | Easy WebPOS posts charges to guest folios; a separate module, quoted on requestSource |
| Channel manager | No: no connection to Booking.com, Airbnb or Expedia | Booking.com, Expedia, Airbnb and Vrbo; included from the Premium plan, a separate module below itSource |
| Card processing | No: staff record cash, transfer and card-terminal payments with receipts. Mercado Pago links in Argentine pesos are built but not yet live | Card processing in every plan; payment links and auto payment from the Advanced planSource |
| Waivers and e-signatures | No: guests cannot sign waivers or forms in Malvavisco | SignPad guest signatures on tablets or phones, saved to the reservation; a $199 signature padSource |
| Staff interface language | English, Spanish or Portuguese, set per workspace | “Multi Language” listed in every plan; the languages are not namedSource |
| Offline | No: needs an internet connection; the kitchen screen disables its buttons when its data goes stale | “Offline Data” listed in every plan, without saying what works offlineSource |
| Price | Not published; quoted after a demo | Not published; quoted on request, with the point of sale quoted separatelySource |
When to choose each
Stay with GraceSoft, or choose it, if…
- Families book and pay online, including 3- to 6-night or weekly packages
- You sell on Booking.com, Expedia, Airbnb or Vrbo and need rates and availability kept in sync
- You want card processing, payment links and guest signatures in the same system
- You want housekeeping dashboards and 24/7 support
- You also run a hotel, a campground or vacation rentals, which GraceSoft covers too
Choose Malvavisco if…
- Your team works in Spanish, or in Spanish and English
- You want each horse scheduled like a boat or a truck, with overlap checks, and wranglers assigned by skill and language
- The kitchen needs a daily dietary brief and tickets built from the meals included in each stay
- The bar or the store should charge to the family’s bill, with stock counts and supply orders
- You bill in pesos, reais or other currencies and want each one reported on its own
What GraceSoft’s pages don’t cover
Its dude ranch page doesn’t mention horses, rider forms or meal planning. Its plans list “Multi Language” without naming the languages, and “Offline Data” without saying what works without a connection. If any of that matters, ask GraceSoft during its demo. For a wider field, see the best guest ranch software comparison and our ReservationKey comparison, or how Malvavisco runs a guest ranch or an estancia.
GraceSoft reviews and alternatives
For a ranch that sells packaged weeks online and through Booking.com, Airbnb or Vrbo, it covers a lot: a booking engine, 3- to 6-night and weekly packages, guide and activity scheduling, itineraries, card processing, guest signatures, housekeeping and a store. It fits less well if horses, rider details and the kitchen are where your week goes wrong, because its ranch page doesn’t mention them.
GraceSoft doesn’t publish plan prices. Its pricing page lists four plans (Basic, Advanced, Premium and Platinum) quoted on request. The point of sale is a separate module, the channel connection is separate below Premium, and devices include a $99 card swipe device and a $199 e-signature pad.
For running the ranch or lodge week, yes: bookings, cabins, guides and wranglers, horses and boats, the kitchen, the bar, payments and reports. It does not replace GraceSoft’s booking engine, channel manager, card processing, package prices or guest signatures.
Yes, for free. Our team sets up your cabins, rates, services, guides, horses and staff roles, enters every upcoming booking with its deposits, loads your guest list and rebuilds your emails. Past bookings stay in GraceSoft, so keep its export.
Its plans list “Multi Language” but its pages don’t say which languages. Malvavisco’s staff app runs in Spanish, English or Brazilian Portuguese, and we publish pages for estancias and ranches in Spanish.
Both are hotel-style systems with a booking engine and a channel manager. ReservationKey publishes a flat price from $41 a month and keeps to reservations, payments and channels. GraceSoft quotes on request and adds guide scheduling, itineraries, housekeeping and a store. See our ReservationKey comparison.
