chucho
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Pricing

Start free. Pay per property for guest services.

Public listings and Chucho Go guides are unlimited and free. Each property gets its guide on your guests' phones, your picks, and answers in English and Spanish. Paid adds the rest, per property, monthly or yearly. The tablet is optional.

Guest guides free for every property · No setup fee · No contract · Cancel anytime

Unlimited listings · Free guest guides for every property

Unlimited listings. Free guest guides for every property.

Write the property once. Its public page answers what guests ask before they book and sends them to your own booking site; Chucho Go carries the same guide onto their phone once they've booked. Nothing expires — when the monthly answers run out, the guide, your picks and your contact details are all still there.

Start free
Guest-guide properties
Unlimited, free
Public listings
Unlimited, free
Chucho Go guide
Included
Host picks
Up to 5
Text answers
100 / month
Voice
15 minutes / month
Languages
English & Spanish
Price
$0 · No credit card

Paid services

What paid adds, per property.

Same price whether you run one property or twelve. Two ways to pay for it, and the same chucho behind both.

Monthly

$39 per property / month

Everything in free, plus the services guests actually spend on. Pay month to month, change or stop whenever you like.

  • Unlimited text and voice answers
  • Ordering from town, with a share of each order back to you where local partners are live
  • Experiences and the living guestbook
  • The portfolio console for every property you run
  • No setup fee, no contract, cancel anytime
Start free

Start free, then choose monthly or yearly billing when you upgrade. Per property · No setup fee · Cancel anytime · The public listing stays opt-in on every plan

Once you arrive · optional hardware

The third act: the welcome, awake on the counter.

The public page and Chucho Go need no hardware. When guests walk in, the same guide can already be awake on a tablet on the counter — greeting them by name, taking dinner from town to the gate, showing the tide at dawn, keeping the guestbook the week writes. Optional, and the one thing here you buy once.

Costa Ballena · Costa Rica

$300 chucho tablet, once per property

BYOD · $0 Any Android tablet you already own

No setup fee We pair it and bring it up for the property

The plain math

Play with your own numbers.

Three dials, your portfolio, on the paid plan. Watch the ledger move — this is the whole arithmetic, with no fine print to come back to.

Move the dials to match your properties. The figures update as you go. It only counts the ordering stream, where local partners are live — tips and upsells sit on top of it. The dials start from a live-property estimate: about two orders a property a week, at a $100 average.

chucho pays you back, per month $0
The subscription ($39 × properties) $0
chucho pays for himself, then keeps going +$0

Based on your dials, with a share of each order going back to you, shown in dollars only. It doesn't include tips, upsells or experiences — or the margin you keep when guests order your partner instead of a delivery app that's already taking a cut.

How hosts earn

Business that shows up at your door.

chucho isn't a cost you carry because it's useful — he keeps a share of what he sells. Four streams, one ledger, all automatic.

Orders · live

Every order carries a share

Guests order real food and drink from town through chucho. On each one you earn, and it lands in your console on its own.

Experiences · share coming soon

Experiences, cut in

Surf lessons, boat days, ATV tours, massages. Guests already book them from the guide or the tablet; the host share on those bookings is next.

Upsells · built in

Charges without the awkwardness

Late checkout, extra cleaning, a provisioned fridge. Bill guests from the tablet, with the split weighted heavily in your favor.

Tips · built in

Tips that reach your people

Guests tip housekeeping and grounds staff right on the tablet. The tip is passed on with only the card fee removed.

Questions

Anything else?

The things hosts ask before they book. If yours isn't here, write to us.

What stays free?

Unlimited public listings, plus each property’s Chucho Go guide on your guests' phones, up to 5 host picks, 100 text answers and 15 voice minutes a month, in English and Spanish. No credit card to start.

How much does chucho cost?

Paid is $39 per property each month, or $399 per property each year — about $33 a month, saving $69. There is no setup fee or contract, and you can cancel anytime. A tablet, if you want one, is $300 once per property.

Is the public listing included?

Yes. Add unlimited public listings for free, without a subscription. Publishing is your choice: each listing shows approved facts and links to your own booking site. Guest guides and tablets have separate limits.

Where does the booking happen?

On your own site. The public page carries a single outbound booking link to the HTTPS URL you confirm. chucho never takes the reservation, holds the calendar, or touches the nightly rate.

Do I need the tablet?

No. It's optional. Everything reaches guests on the phones they already carry, through Chucho Go. If you'd rather have a device waiting in the property, a chucho tablet is $300 once, or bring an Android tablet you already own for nothing.

Do guests need to download an app?

No. Chucho Go opens from a link or a QR code, in the browser they already have. No app store, no account, no phone number.

Do I have to change how I run housekeeping or payments?

No. chucho works alongside you. Tips reach your staff with only the card fee removed, and upsell charges post to your usual payment flow.

What happens if the wifi drops?

chucho keeps answering from local knowledge when the wifi drops. Orders require connectivity, so guests see a clear offline state — never a frozen screen — and pick back up as soon as the connection returns.

Which properties is this for?

Short-term rentals where a guest is handed a home — destination properties most of all. It works whether you host through the big platforms or direct, with staff or as a solo host, with one property or twelve.

What does the income share look like?

The meal is paid to the restaurant or vendor; chucho earns a service share on the order, and part of that share lands in your ledger automatically. For tips, upsells, and experiences, the split works out heavily in your favor.

chucho turns tourists into temporary locals.

Start with free listings and a guest guide.

Write the property once and see it work before you pay for anything. Running a portfolio? Tell us how many, and in twenty minutes we'll walk you through chucho in a live property.

Guest guides free for every property $39 per property/month No setup fee Cancel anytime

Or write to us directly — [email protected]