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Checkfront vs Xola Comparison (2026)

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Overview

Checkfront is an online booking system that enables businesses to handle their inventories, centralize reservations, & process payments. Checkfront manages tours, activities, & rentals. Checkfront offers plugins to popular CMS products like Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla! & Movable Type.

Xola is the only unified booking, sales, and marketing platform for tour and activity businesses. Manage every kind of booking (online, over the phone, in perso

  • Platforms supported
  • Web-based
  • iPhone app
  • Android app
  • Windows Phone app
  • Typical customers
  • Freelancers
  • Small businesses
  • Mid size businesses
  • Large enterprises
  • Customer support
  • Phone
  • Online
  • Knowledge base
  • Video tutorials
  • Platforms supported
  • Web-based
  • iPhone app
  • Android app
  • Windows Phone app
  • Typical customers
  • Freelancers
  • Small businesses
  • Mid size businesses
  • Large enterprises
  • Customer support
  • Phone
  • Online
  • Knowledge base
  • Video tutorials

Video & Screenshots

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Pricing

Starting from

225

Per month

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

Starting from

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No pricing info

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

User reviews

4.5

318

5

4

3

2

1

197

89

20

9

3

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
76%
would recommend this app

4.7

575

5

4

3

2

1

445

105

20

2

3

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
86%
would recommend this app

Pros

“I had to export all the data to a database daily in order to see everything.”
DJ

Derek J.

Owner

“It is the one that consistently comes out on top, but it seems it's moving more and more to %fee option which is what we were avoiding with competitors. ”
KP

Krista P.

CFO

“No warning, just a revised invoice for the next 12 months.”
MC

Matthew C.

Owner Manager

Pros

“Xola application is easy to use every time, often daily, I use the Xola application on my Android cell phone.”
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Dorothy Y.

Ghost Tour Guide

“Even a well-oiled machine has a few squeaks:”
DT

Donald T.

CEO

“Love the need updates and the easy access to customer service”
TN

Tiffanie N.

Spa manager

Cons

“For instance, if you used Square instead of Stripe, customer were not able to book directly from the Google search results page.”
DJ

Derek J.

Owner

“I can't risk the key element of my booking system failing so had to pull the plug on Checkfront and return to my previous provider.”
MH

Mark H.

Director

“Customer support wasn't great (aside from having to wait til the end of the day (GMT) before they we're available) with workarounds for bugs being the order of the day.”
MH

Mark H.

Director

Cons

“Limited connections to other tools, making it harder to sync calls with appointments”
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Nikita V.

Marketing Manager CRM

“Lack of POS integration, our business is moving to sell more onsite with our guests, pre gratuity is huge in our space and XOLA lacks features for pre gratuity except to do an ADD on which auto charges taxes and the booking fee on gratuity.”
AO

Andrew O.

owner

“I can only imagine the challenges of working with this customer service representative.”
LH

Liliia H.

owner

  • Vendor responds to reviews
  • Last reviewa year ago
  • Vendor responds to reviews
  • Last review17 days ago

Key features

  • Total features97
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Accounting
  • Activities Booking
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Appointment Management
  • Attendance Management
  • Attendee Management
  • Availability Indicator
  • Availability Management
  • Barcode/Ticket Scanning
  • Billing & Invoicing
  • Billing Rate Management
  • Booking Management
  • Booking Notes
  • CRM
  • Calendar Management
  • Calendar Sync
  • Central Reservation System
  • Channel Management
  • Client Management
  • Communication Management
  • Confirmations/Reminders
  • Contact Management
  • Credit Card Processing
  • Customer Accounts
  • Customer Data Management
  • Customer Database
  • Customer History
  • Customer Support
  • Customizable Branding
  • Customizable Forms
  • Customizable Reports
  • Customizable Templates
  • Data Import/Export
  • Data Synchronization
  • Discount Management
  • Document Management
  • Drag & Drop
  • Dynamic Pricing
  • Electronic Payments
  • Email Marketing
  • Email Reminders
  • Email Templates
  • Employee Management
  • Event Calendar
  • Event Management
  • Event Scheduling
  • Event Ticketing
  • For Vacation Rentals
  • Front Desk Management
  • GDS/OTA Integration
  • Geographic Maps
  • Group Reservations
  • Guest Check-in/Check-out
  • Guest Communications
  • Historical Reporting
  • Inventory Management
  • Invoice Management
  • Itinerary Creation
  • Kiosk Ticketing
  • Maintenance Management
  • Mobile Access
  • Mobile Ticketing
  • Multi-Currency
  • Multi-Day Booking
  • Multi-Language
  • Multi-Location
  • Online Booking
  • Online Payments
  • Online Registration
  • Online Reservations
  • Online Signing
  • Onsite Ticketing
  • Package Creation
  • Payment Processing
  • Permit Management
  • Point of Sale (POS)
  • Pricing Management
  • Promotions Management
  • Quotes/Estimates
  • Rate Management
  • Real-Time Data
  • Real-Time Updates
  • Registration Management
  • Reminders
  • Rental Management
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Reservations Management
  • Resource Management
  • Revenue Management
  • Room Booking
  • SMS Messaging
  • Search/Filter
  • Site Reservation Management
  • Social Media Integration
  • Supplier Management
  • Third Party Booking
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Ticket Reservations
  • Transaction History
  • User Management
  • Vendor Management
  • Waiver Management
  • Website Integration
  • Website Management
  • Total features69
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Accounting
  • Activities Booking
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Appointment Management
  • Attendance Management
  • Attendee Management
  • Availability Indicator
  • Availability Management
  • Barcode/Ticket Scanning
  • Billing & Invoicing
  • Billing Rate Management
  • Booking Management
  • Booking Notes
  • CRM
  • Calendar Management
  • Calendar Sync
  • Central Reservation System
  • Channel Management
  • Client Management
  • Communication Management
  • Confirmations/Reminders
  • Contact Management
  • Credit Card Processing
  • Customer Accounts
  • Customer Data Management
  • Customer Database
  • Customer History
  • Customer Support
  • Customizable Branding
  • Customizable Forms
  • Customizable Reports
  • Customizable Templates
  • Data Import/Export
  • Data Synchronization
  • Discount Management
  • Document Management
  • Drag & Drop
  • Dynamic Pricing
  • Electronic Payments
  • Email Marketing
  • Email Reminders
  • Email Templates
  • Employee Management
  • Event Calendar
  • Event Management
  • Event Scheduling
  • Event Ticketing
  • For Vacation Rentals
  • Front Desk Management
  • GDS/OTA Integration
  • Geographic Maps
  • Group Reservations
  • Guest Check-in/Check-out
  • Guest Communications
  • Historical Reporting
  • Inventory Management
  • Invoice Management
  • Itinerary Creation
  • Kiosk Ticketing
  • Maintenance Management
  • Mobile Access
  • Mobile Ticketing
  • Multi-Currency
  • Multi-Day Booking
  • Multi-Language
  • Multi-Location
  • Online Booking
  • Online Payments
  • Online Registration
  • Online Reservations
  • Online Signing
  • Onsite Ticketing
  • Package Creation
  • Payment Processing
  • Permit Management
  • Point of Sale (POS)
  • Pricing Management
  • Promotions Management
  • Quotes/Estimates
  • Rate Management
  • Real-Time Data
  • Real-Time Updates
  • Registration Management
  • Reminders
  • Rental Management
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Reservations Management
  • Resource Management
  • Revenue Management
  • Room Booking
  • SMS Messaging
  • Search/Filter
  • Site Reservation Management
  • Social Media Integration
  • Supplier Management
  • Third Party Booking
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Ticket Reservations
  • Transaction History
  • User Management
  • Vendor Management
  • Waiver Management
  • Website Integration
  • Website Management

Integrations

  • Total integrations28
  • Adyen
  • Constant Contact
  • Drupal
  • Google Ads
  • Google Analytics 360
  • Google Calendar
  • Google Drive
  • Google Maps
  • Google Workspace
  • HubSpot CRM
  • Joomla
  • Meta for Business
  • Nutshell
  • PayPal Enterprise Payments
  • PayPal Payments
  • QuickBooks Online
  • QuickBooks Online Advanced
  • RightSignature
  • Salesforce Sales Cloud
  • Slack
  • Smartwaiver
  • Square Point of Sale
  • Squarespace
  • Stripe
  • Twilio
  • WordPress
  • Worldpay for Enterprise
  • Xero
  • Zapier
  • Zoho CRM
  • authorize.net
  • Total integrations13
  • Adyen
  • Constant Contact
  • Drupal
  • Google Ads
  • Google Analytics 360
  • Google Calendar
  • Google Drive
  • Google Maps
  • Google Workspace
  • HubSpot CRM
  • Joomla
  • Meta for Business
  • Nutshell
  • PayPal Enterprise Payments
  • PayPal Payments
  • QuickBooks Online
  • QuickBooks Online Advanced
  • RightSignature
  • Salesforce Sales Cloud
  • Slack
  • Smartwaiver
  • Square Point of Sale
  • Squarespace
  • Stripe
  • Twilio
  • WordPress
  • Worldpay for Enterprise
  • Xero
  • Zapier
  • Zoho CRM
  • authorize.net

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