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Menazil or Guesty, for rentals in Egypt?
Both are rental management software. Guesty is bigger, older and works across many countries. Menazil is built for running rentals in Egypt: the money you actually collect in cash and InstaPay, Arabic, and brokers. Below are the differences with sources — including where Guesty is the better choice for you.
The differences
| Topic | Menazil | Guesty |
|---|---|---|
| Taking payment in Egypt | Cash, InstaPay and bank transfers are recorded against the booking, reviewed by a second person, and carried into the owner statement. | Card processors only — GuestyPay, Stripe, Merchant Warrior (Australia) and Hyp (Israel). GuestyPay's country list does not include Egypt, and Stripe does not onboard Egyptian merchants. |
| Arabic | Egyptian Arabic first, right-to-left everywhere, with an English version of every page. | Guesty's help centre lists the dashboard languages as English, Spanish, Italian, French and Portuguese. Arabic is not among them, and support for several other languages was removed. |
| Brokers | A broker registers a client, the client stays theirs for 90 days, and the commission is recorded in their name with a portal and a CSV they can check. | No broker role. Commission to a third party is tracked outside the software. |
| How a booking arrives | A broker's Arabic WhatsApp message is read into a booking — unit, dates, nightly rate, deposit, services — with whatever is missing listed for you. | A unified inbox for the booking channels it connects to. |
| Where guests come from | menazil.net is a public site that sends availability requests to the team that runs the home. | Software for managing demand you already have; it does not bring guests itself. |
| Channel manager | iCal in and out on a schedule: dates block each other, nothing else moves. This is the honest limit of what we do today. | A real two-way channel manager across 60+ sites: rates, content, availability, reservations and guest messages. Better than ours. |
| Starting | Free for 2 properties, no card, 5% booking commission. | A 14-day trial of Lite (1–3 listings), then paid. Lite has no owner portal, no accounting and no payment processing. |
What ten units cost
Our Pro plan is EGP 5,000 a month for up to 20 properties, with a 4% booking commission. Guesty quotes Pro privately; published sources put it at $40–72 per listing per month, plus about 1% per reservation and a one-time setup fee. For ten units that is roughly $400–720 a month.
One thing to know up front: our commission is a percentage of bookings, so at a high enough season volume that percentage can cost more than a Guesty subscription. If that is your situation, talk to us before deciding — better that we do the arithmetic with you than that you discover it later.
When Guesty is the better choice
- Your bookings come mostly from Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo, and you need rates, photos and descriptions pushed to all of them from one screen.
- You answer guests inside the channels and want that messaging in one inbox.
- You want prices moved automatically by a pricing engine rather than suggested for you to approve.
- You run outside Egypt, where card processing and English-language support are what you need.
Sources
- Guesty pricing
- Guesty payment processors and supported countries
- Guesty dashboard languages
- Menazil plans and prices
Checked on 5 October 2026. If something has changed on Guesty's side, tell us and we will correct it.