askng.it vs Quicktext
Factual side-by-side, not editorial. Both tools have been tested at a working European hotel. For opinions, read the individual reviews linked below.
The short version
On our hands-on ratings, askng.it takes it overall, 8/10 against 6/10.
askng.it is built for small and mid-size hotels wanting WhatsApp-led guest messaging with named PMS and door-lock integrations. Quicktext is built for hotels wanting a European AI chatbot with direct booking conversion.
| askng.it | Quicktext | |
|---|---|---|
| Our rating | 8/10 | 6/10 |
| Pricing | Free tier; Standard €4.50/room/month (min €80); Premium €7.50/room/month (min €120) | Now trading as Quinta. Premium from $299/month, based on room count |
| Best for | Small and mid-size hotels wanting WhatsApp-led guest messaging with named PMS and door-lock integrations | Hotels wanting a European AI chatbot with direct booking conversion |
| HQ | Netherlands | France (Paris) |
| Founded | 2019 | 2017 |
| Reviewed by | sophie | thomas |
What each one costs
askng.it pricing
- Free €0
- A real free tier rather than a trial with a countdown on it, which is rare enough in this category to be worth stating plainly.
- Standard €4.50/room/month, €80 minimum
- The tier most properties will land on. At my 80 rooms that's €360 a month, and the minimum only bites below about 18 rooms.
- Premium €7.50/room/month, €120 minimum
- €600 a month at my size. The step up needs to earn that €240 difference against your own numbers, not against the feature grid.
Published per-room rates with the minimums stated, which is what I want from a vendor and don't often get. Do the arithmetic at your own room count before you look at the tier comparison, because per-room pricing rewards small properties and punishes larger ones: the same product costs my 80-room hotel €4,320 a year on Standard. Then add WhatsApp conversation costs, which sit outside the subscription and depend on your volume and markets.
Quicktext pricing
- Premium From $299/month
- The only tier shown, priced on room count. Bundles eleven products under the new Q- naming, Q-Data, Q-Channel, Q-SEO, Q-Sales, Q-Task, Q-Connect, Q-Hub, Q-Automate, Q-Mail and Q-BI, alongside the fourth-generation Velma chatbot.
Two things moved at once. The rebrand Thomas described as half-finished is now complete: quicktext.im redirects permanently to quinta.im and the site brands itself Quinta throughout, so his complaint about both names circulating is out of date. And the headline price moved from roughly €250 a month to $299, quoted in dollars. For a Paris company selling mainly to European hotels that is worth noticing, because you now carry the exchange risk on a monthly subscription. The product names in our review no longer match the vendor's either.
Prices as last verified during each review. Hotel software pricing moves, and per-room rates behave very differently at 20 rooms and at 200, so run the arithmetic at your own room count. Full detail on askng.it pricing and Quicktext pricing.
Common questions
Which is better, askng.it or Quicktext?
On our ratings askng.it scores 8/10 against Quicktext at 6/10. But the better tool is the one that fits your property, so read both reviews before you decide.
How much do askng.it and Quicktext cost?
askng.it: Free tier; Standard €4.50/room/month (min €80); Premium €7.50/room/month (min €120)
Quicktext: Now trading as Quinta. Premium from $299/month, based on room count
Read the full reviews
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askng.it
askng.it is, for all practical purposes, a new product: the February 2026 rebuild of Lacoly, which I ran for a year and rated a 4. I tested the new one in March at my 80-room Amsterdam hotel. It is a different animal, and it earns an 8.
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Quicktext
Quicktext's chatbot still converts direct bookings and still handles multilingual queries well. They've added WhatsApp and a new brand name. Neither fixes the integration problems I flagged previously.