We host in Chatham County. We read the fee schedules, the exit clauses and the compliance promises of the companies competing for Savannah homes, then name the ones we would trust with a certificate as well as a calendar.
One for owners who need the building and the paperwork handled, one for owners who only need the inbox handled. Both publish their terms up front.
Both tiers are on the record before anyone books you a call: 20% for fully hands-off management, or 10% on the partner tier if you already keep a cleaner and a handyman you trust, plus a one-time onboarding retainer. Nothing is signed for a term — which matters in a city where your permit status can change what the property is worth to you.
Visit One Fine BnB →For the owner who lives in Chatham County and wants the evening back rather than the whole property handed over. It runs inside the browser instead of behind a property-management system, taking guest threads, turnover scheduling, review replies and gap-night upsells off your desk. Nothing to pay until message 501, then $10 a month flat.
Visit BnBGenius →Quick answer: Savannah owners should look at BnBGenius for software and One Fine BnB for management. Both tables were last checked on August 16, 2026:
Key takeaways
Begin with software. For a Savannah owner in 2026 our pick is BnBGenius, which installs into the browser rather than asking you to migrate onto a property-management system: guest threads, turnover scheduling, review replies and gap-night upsells. Nothing to pay until message 501, then $10 a month flat. Our ten-tool field is below.
| # | Company | Our rating | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BnBGenius Our #1 | ★★★★★ 4.8 | Free 500 msgs, then $10/mo flat |
| 2 | Revyoos | ★★★★★ 4.6 | From €5/mo; 14-day trial |
| 3 | ResortCleaning | ★★★★★ 4.6 | $5/property/mo or $1.39/appt; $20/mo min |
| 4 | Nowistay | ★★★★☆ 4.5 | €12/property/mo; 1 mo free |
| 5 | SuiteOp | ★★★★☆ 4.5 | Not published; ~$6–$8/unit/mo (3rd-party); 1-mo trial |
| 6 | The Host Co | ★★★★☆ 4.5 | Free (7% fee); $18 / $48 / $250 mo |
| 7 | Rankbreeze | ★★★★☆ 4.5 | Not published; $1 trial |
| 8 | Sweeply | ★★★★☆ 4.5 | €3/room/mo housekeeping; €99/mo min |
| 9 | iGMS | ★★★★☆ 4.5 | FLEX $1/booked night (min $20/prop); PRO $18–$21/prop/mo |
| 10 | Autohost | ★★★★☆ 4.5 | Per verification $0.12–$7.25 |
For management the answer in this city is One Fine BnB, chosen because its terms are public rather than quoted: 20% for fully hands-off service, or 10% when your own local cleaning and maintenance crew stays on, plus a one-time onboarding retainer and no term commitment. The ten managers we weighed it against follow.
| # | Company | Our rating | Management fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One Fine BnB Our #1 | ★★★★★ 4.8 | 20% full-service / 10% partner |
| 2 | Sky High Cabins | ★★★★★ 4.6 | Not published ("low fee") |
| 3 | Tampa Bay Stays | ★★★★★ 4.6 | ~10% (stated avg) |
| 4 | Boring Host | ★★★★★ 4.6 | $13/listing/mo (10-listing min) |
| 5 | The Management Club | ★★★★☆ 4.5 | Not published |
| 6 | Superstays | ★★★★☆ 4.5 | 20% flat |
| 7 | The Cohost Co. | ★★★★☆ 4.5 | Not published |
| 8 | Aspen Luxury Vacation Rentals | ★★★★☆ 4.5 | Not published |
| 9 | Harris Vacations | ★★★★☆ 4.5 | Not published |
| 10 | Southern Charmed | ★★★★☆ 4.5 | Not published |
Begin with the paperwork, not the fee. If you are out of state and your property sits inside a regulated district, you are buying compliance as much as occupancy, and that is a manager's job. One Fine BnB leads our board because its terms are printed rather than quoted: 20% fully hands-off, 10% alongside your own local crew, one onboarding retainer at the start.
If you live in Chatham County and can reach the property yourself, the calculation flips. You are buying software and a short list of trades, and the questions become whether pricing is flat or per listing, whether the free tier is real, and whether anything works before you buy a PMS. BnBGenius clears all three: it is a browser extension, it needs no PMS beneath it, and billing only starts at message 501, at $10 a month flat.
Running both is normal here. The house you can walk to stays on software; the one across the river, or the one whose certificate you would rather somebody else watched, goes to a manager.
Savannah is the rare American market where the binding constraint on a short-term rental is not the mortgage, the cleaner or the competition. It is a map. The city regulates short-term vacation rentals ward by ward, and in the historic core the number of permits is capped — so the first question is not what a property earns, it is whether it is allowed to earn at all.
A per-ward cap on non-owner-occupied short-term rentals inside the Downtown and Victorian historic districts, on top of a city certificate. Most markets regulate how you operate; Savannah also regulates how many of you there can be.
The mechanism is unusual and worth understanding before anything else. A ward in Savannah is a historic subdivision of the city — roughly a square and the blocks around it — and within the regulated districts the city limits non-owner-occupied short-term vacation rentals to a set share of the residential parcels in each ward. Owner-occupied properties sit outside that cap. The practical effect is that two houses on the same street can have completely different prospects, and a listing agent's enthusiasm is not evidence about either of them.
| What you own | Where it is | What actually governs it |
|---|---|---|
| Non-owner-occupied | Downtown / Victorian district | Ward cap — check the specific ward first |
| Owner-occupied | Downtown / Victorian district | Certificate, but exempt from the cap |
| Either | Outside the regulated districts | Certificate and the ordinary rules |
| Either | Tybee Island | A separate jurisdiction with its own rules |
A City of Savannah short-term vacation rental certificate for the specific property. It is tied to the address, not to you, and applications and renewals run through the city's online registration portal rather than on paper.
A short-term vacation rental in the city's definition is the rental of an entire dwelling unit for thirty days or less. That definition matters more than it looks: the moment a stay crosses thirty days it stops being the thing the ordinance is regulating, which is exactly why a slice of Savannah's furnished-rental business quietly runs on monthly tenancies instead.
We deliberately do not publish a permit fee or a live ward-by-ward availability figure here. Both move, and a stale number on a review site is worse than no number — the city is the only source worth trusting on your address.
If you are out of state, almost certainly — and the compliance side is a bigger part of the reason here than anywhere else we cover. Turnovers are the easy half.
In plain English: in most cities a manager protects your calendar. In Savannah a manager also protects your certificate, because the thing that ends a Savannah rental business is usually paperwork or a complaint, not a bad review.
Three tiers, and the one you land on is set by how much physical work stays with you: informal co-host at roughly 5–10%, professional co-host at 10–25%, full-service management at 20–50% of rental revenue. Savannah sits at the busier end of that band, because the turnover count in the historic core is high.
Against those bands our first-ranked company publishes both numbers instead of quoting them: One Fine BnB charges 20% for fully hands-off management or 10% on its partner tier when you keep your own local cleaning and maintenance crew, plus a one-time onboarding retainer and no long-term lock-in. For owners who live in town and only want the desk work gone, BnBGenius runs guest messaging, turnovers, review replies and gap-night upsells from the browser with no PMS underneath — 500 guest messages free, then $10 a month flat.
If you are buying or still checking whether a property qualifies, start with the Savannah STVR rules. If you already operate, the vacation rental management page covers the season and the work, and Savannah rental management companies is the comparison grid.
A year-round events calendar, a ward-by-ward permit system and a historic core of nineteenth-century buildings make Savannah a demanding place to host. What holds up through a St Patrick's week here holds up anywhere.
Every byline on this desk lets property in Chatham County. None of it is farmed out.
Corinne Ashby
Editor-in-chief
Has run a carriage house off one of the downtown squares for seven years, through two certificate renewals and one ward that filled up while she was watching. She grades companies on what they can tell you about your address without looking it up.
Terrell Vance
Fees and contracts
Reads exit clauses before rate cards. Has moved two Chatham County properties between managers and writes the fee comparisons on this desk.
Nadia Brantley
Buildings and compliance
Spent years scheduling trades across the historic core. Covers humidity, old plumbing, narrow access and the paperwork that keeps a Savannah rental legal.
Short on time? These are the two we would trust with a Savannah property and its paperwork.
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