Kigo

Great company, real people

Vantagens:

Been with them for going on 4 years now and although like all companies they had some growing pains but their ultra positive attitude and work ethic have really made a great product

Desvantagens:

Nothing really, they are adding news api’s and services all the time

An essential tool for short term rental management. Top class Customer Service

Comentários: I have managed +40 properties in Rome with the benefit of a bespoke SaaS, top class customer service, basic functions easy to manage.

Vantagens:

Kigo allows API connections with the majority of the main stream channels for short term rentals. It is pretty easy to use, constantly developed with new upgrades, 24/7 customer service available for your needs. So many features available, you can customize its usage to make it a bespoke SaaS for your business.

Desvantagens:

As it is on-cloud, the common objections are about its responsiveness (very good itself but in some cases, the staff had to fix some delays with connections to portals, probably caused by portals too. These type of issues can prevent rates&avaiability updates depending on the portal you are going to deal with: for e.g., Booking.com does not allow a manual un-lock if the connetcion with Kigo is down for a while (I have experienced this a couple of times in the year). This means that you have to put yourself in touch with the customer service immediately in order to avoid overbookings or reservations with wrong fares. However, this is a common issue you will find working with channel managers and the strength of Kigo is its prompt help provided by his team that you could not find joining others.

Bad UX Design, full of bugs and very slow

Comentários: We were user of Kigo Legacy (the old version) before to migrate to the new Kigo.
The old one was perfect except it was not fully connect with Airbnb API and use Email parsing only. When we decided to migrate to the new one, we expected to get an upgraded release of Kigo 1 fully connected with Airbnb.
Unfortunately, this version is built with a new architecture and from scratch. There is nothing to compare with the old version.
Yes, it brings some interesting features but with full of bugs CONS :
1) Their UI are not user centered, not intuitive, not efficient. When we needed 1 click to execute a task, now we need few more steps.
This application is certainly designed by an IT Expert who don't know what we do in our business ! All screens and cinematics of screens are data centric instead of business centric. 2) I thing the worst point is the pricing. We have more than 50 flats and it's impossible to manage your pricing because they just provide a list of 365 text boxes where you can fill your price day by day for 1 flat.
There is no distinction for W-E / DayOfWeek. Even if they provide a bulk copy function, it's not efficient. 3) There is an optional feature to auto adjust your rates based on the % of occupancy. Monthly fee: 400 .
On paper, it looks nice. But after 2 weeks using it, we saw some wrong pricing and switch it off. Except the bug, there are 2 bad points for this pricing engine :
- With Kigo, we cannot use the new auto pricing of Airbnb which is better than this one because it's based on the whole volume of Airbnb booking in your city to adjust your rates, instead of considering only your own level of occupancy.
- When the engine sets the price, it updates the base price instead of to push a discounted amount. It's bad because Booking.com allows crossed out prices (% of discount displayed)
it could be nice to show the discount when is allowed by the website. It was available with Kigo 1... 4) Functionalities lost since the new kigo :
- cleaning/staffing scheduler
- color flags to tag bookings that we need to follow 5) Don't expect to get some smart statistics to follow up your activites and do some analysis. They provide this kind of bullshit Data Report generated by a BI engine with zero consideration of the important criteria for our business. 6) Kigo API : I'm not going to detail the issues but there are a lot of bugs and very slow.

PROS :
1) Support team is usually reactive

Great project and really helpful for big vendors;needs a few improvements

Comentários: As a 2,5 years user, I have to admit that Kigo has helped a lot in our business.
Especially after the launch of Kigo 2.0, UI has improved significantly, which I think is a key factor for our long partnership.
A few things regarding ease of use that need improvement are certainly the extra charge rules, initial set-up and date-blocking. Apart from that, I think that Kigo offers plenty of features that can be useful for the user such as templates, attachments, property set-up ad payment gateways.
One thing that has really troubled us from day 1, is the channel connectivity, both in terms of channel variety and channel set-up process. I personally think this is a feature that could certainly use some improvement.
Support in general is very helpful, except a few cases, in which however our account manager was always available to help and resolve asap. His help and support since he started as our account manager has been very much appreciated and is one of the reasons we rely on Kigo.
To sum up, we are certainly satisfied in General, but there are surely things that can be very much improved.
Thank you for your services so far,
Best,
George

Vantagens:

Versatility, adaptability, progress, UI, general suport

Desvantagens:

minor dis-functionalities, channel lists and set-up process, part of the set-up.

Without customer service I would left Kigo a long time ago. Kigo is growing but has a lot to learn

Vantagens:

Easy of use. The system has a lot of potential to be the biggest and the best. Learning the needs of the clients and adding that to the system would make it almost perfect. Kigo is growing and learning and getting better in being there for the client.

Desvantagens:

The system isn't open for changes. It takes to much time to adjust or ad something new to the product. Isn't ready for social media or MailChimp. Removing the benefits from the software: Ical, API with software of Kigo, not having a website development department anymore and not learning from the clients. Adjusting to the changes of the rental market.