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Powerful and Easy to Use Vacation Rental Management Software

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Last updated: March 2026

BrightSide overview

What is BrightSide?

BrightSide PMS is a cloud-based platform for vacation rental agencies and property management companies.

BrightSide is perfect for small and large businesses alike. Whether you have five properties or five hundred, we have a solution.

Our monthly subscription includes portals for guests, owners, and maintenance teams to manage rates, reservations, housekeeping, accounting, employees, and more.

Our software offers detailed reports on reservations, accounting, discounts, travel insurance, advance fees, and tax requirements.

With the electronic signature capture and online credit card processing tools, payments and contract signing can be carried out directly within the platform.

Additionally, users can track reservation sources and manage guest reviews and feedback for marketing purposes.

BrightSide PMS has a direct API integration with Google Vacation Rentals, Vrbo, Airbnb, Booking.com, and more.

If you are currently using another property management software and move to BrightSide, we can perform a data conversion so you don't lose all the historical data.

Starting price

160 /
per month

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Pros & Cons

Customer Support

Pricing

Integrations

BrightSide’s user interface

Ease of use rating:

BrightSide pros, cons and reviews insights

To determine these pros and cons insights, we analyzed responses from 

Overall rating

Reviews sentiment

 
 
3-4(2)
5(26)

What do users say about BrightSide?

Unfortunately, they don't have an app for this software which makes working out in the field difficult.

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Who uses BrightSide?

Based on 28 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Midsize Businesses

Enterprises

Top industries

Hospitality
Real Estate
Consumer Services
Leisure, Travel & Tourism

Use cases

Hospitality Property Management
Vacation Rental
Channel Management
Hotel Management

BrightSide's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from BrightSide users:

Online booking
Payment processing
Reservations management
Housekeeping management
Channel management
Marketing automation
Guest experience management
Owner statements
Work order management
Contact management

All BrightSide features

Features rating:

Accounting
Activity dashboard
Activity tracking
Alerts/Notifications
API
Availability management
Billing rate management
Booking management
Calendar management
Channel analytics
Channel management
Commission management
Contact management
Content management
Credit card processing
CRM
Customer database
Customizable branding
Customizable reports
Customizable templates
Data import/export
Data synchronization
Discount management
Dynamic pricing
Electronic payments
Email management
Email templates
Employee management
For vacation rentals
Front desk management
GDS/OTA integration
Guest check-in/check-out
Guest communications
Guest experience management
Housekeeping management
Inventory control
Inventory management
Invoice management
Lead management
Maintenance management
Marketing automation
Multi-Channel distribution
Multi-Channel management
Multi-Channel marketing
Multi-Location
Multi-Property
Online booking
Owner statements
Partner portal
Payment processing
Performance metrics
Point of sale (pos)
Price/Margin management
Promotions management
Property management
Rate management
Ratings/Reviews
Real-Time notifications
Real-Time updates
Reminders
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & statistics
Reservations management
Revenue management
Reviews management
Search/Filter
Single property
Task management
Template management
Third-Party integrations
User management
Website management
Work order management

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BrightSide pricing

Value for money rating:

Starting from

160

Per month

Pricing details
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Free trial
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Pricing range

User opinions about BrightSide price and value

Value for money rating:

To see what individual users think of BrightSide's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“At the end of the day many of the software solutions on the market today serve the technical needs of a VRM company, but the customer support and follow through is the what REALLY sets BrightSide apart.”
TT

Todd T.

CMO

“What set's them apart is the ease of use, the fact that is full of features and the price is just right.”
JM

John M.

President /CEO

BrightSide integrations (19)

Integrations rated by users

We looked at 28 user reviews to identify which products are mentioned as BrightSide integrations and how users feel about them.

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Elavon

Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

Merchant services for debit/credit card processing with a secure vault.

NC

Noelle C.

Administrator

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Vrbo

Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

I use this to synchronize bookings

IN

India N.

Host

BrightSide support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Phone Support
Email/Help Desk
Chat
FAQs/Forum
Knowledge Base

Training options

In Person
Webinars
Live Online
Documentation
Videos

BrightSide FAQs

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