This list covers six HiJiffy alternatives for hotels: Estevano, Asksuite, Canary Technologies, Duve, Akia and Mews. Estevano is our product and comes first. Everything about the others comes from their own website, linked next to each entry with the date we checked it, 23 October 2026.
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[ 01 / 05 ] ·The list
Six options for your hotel
Estevano comes first because it is ours. The rest follow in order of how close they are to what you are replacing.
1. Estevano
An AI concierge for hotels: it looks after guests in their own language through the hotel's app, with nothing to download, and over the phone with Estevano Voice.
Best for
Hotels and resorts that want every in-stay request to reach the right department as a ticket with a priority and a status, with room service and restaurant and spa bookings inside the chat.
Limitation
It does not bring in messages from social media or OTAs, and the only PMS it connects to is Oracle OPERA Cloud; on any other PMS you start without integration.
Pricing
No amounts published: priced per room per month, set in each proposal.
Source: this website and the product running in production.
A guest management platform for hotels that covers arrival, stay and departure, with messaging, upsells and AI voice.
Best for
Hotels that want to digitise arrival and departure (mobile check-in, kiosk, mobile key and smart checkout) and sell extras through messaging that needs no app download.
Limitation
The pages we checked do not cover restaurant or spa bookings inside the conversation.
Pricing
No amounts published: Core, Advanced and Pro plans with custom pricing.
The rows are the same as in the one-to-one comparisons.
Estevano, HiJiffy and other alternatives compared point by point, based on each vendor's website as checked on 23-oct-2026
What to look at
Estevano
HiJiffy
Canary Technologies
Duve
Guest languages
Yes: 6 in the app; on voice, those the hotel picks
Yes: Up to 132 by plan (3 on Basic)
Yes: Translation in 100+, on Advanced and Pro
Yes: AI in 100+; auto translation in up to 20
Routes each request to the right department
Yes: Ticket with priority and status
Yes: Assigns requests to the department
Yes: AI service ticket creation, on Advanced
Not published: Escalates to a team member
Room service
Yes: Menu, hours and order status
Yes: As a request type
Yes: Mobile food and drink ordering
Yes: Digital menus and ordering
Restaurant and spa bookings
Yes: Inside the chat
Yes: From the virtual concierge
Not published
Not published: Mentions spa booking in the app, no detail
AI phone calls
Yes: Estevano Voice, add-on in Essentials
Not published: Voice notes; calls via its Bookline.ai integration
Yes: AI Voice
Not published
WhatsApp
Yes: Confirmations and notices; guests who write in get the app link
Yes: On Premium; add-on on Pro
Yes: Alongside SMS
Yes: At extra cost
Social media and OTA messages
No
Yes: Social media, Booking.com, Expedia and Airbnb
Yes: OTAs, WeChat and LINE
Yes: Airbnb and Booking.com
Online check-in
On request (custom integration)
Add-on on Premium
Yes: Mobile, tablet and kiosk
Yes: On every plan
Guests get in without downloading anything
Yes: From the room QR code or a link
Yes: Web chat and messaging
Yes: App-less messaging
Yes: From a link or a QR code
The hotel's own app in the stores
Yes: On Enterprise
Not published: Embeds in the hotel's app
Not published: Focuses on app-less messaging
Not published: Its app is web-based, no app store
Oracle OPERA Cloud connection
Yes: Read-only, via OHIP
Yes: OPERA Cloud via OHIP
Yes: OPERA Cloud via OHIP, two-way
Yes: OPERA Cloud via OHIP, two-way
Other PMSs
No: Ask us; also works without integration
Yes: 100+ integrations
Yes: Long list: protel, Mews, Cloudbeds and more
Yes: Mews, protel, Cloudbeds, Apaleo and more
Yes
No
Not published
Add-on
Akia, Mews and Asksuite have no one-to-one comparison: you will find them in the list above and in the guide to the best digital concierge software.
[ 03 / 05 ] ·Resorts
For a resort with several outlets
Each outlet has its own menu and opening hours, and every order has to reach the right team.
Estevano
Each outlet has its own menu and opening hours, room service and restaurant and spa bookings happen inside the chat, and every request reaches the right department as a ticket. This is how Santo Domingo Bay, in the Dominican Republic, runs.
Its virtual concierge takes room service requests and restaurant and spa treatment bookings, and assigns them to the right department.
Canary Technologies
Publishes mobile food and beverage ordering.
Duve
Its app offers digital menus and mobile ordering, for places such as the pool bar, room service or the lobby café.
[ 04 / 05 ] ·Questions
Questions about HiJiffy alternatives
What are the alternatives to HiJiffy for a hotel?
This list has six: Estevano, Asksuite, Canary Technologies, Duve, Akia and Mews. Estevano is our product and focuses on in-stay requests. Asksuite focuses on direct bookings, Canary on arrival and departure, Duve on online check-in and its web app, Akia automates messaging and the phone, and Mews is a PMS with guest tools.
Which HiJiffy alternatives answer the phone with their own AI voice?
Estevano, with Estevano Voice, which answers the hotel's phone in up to 6 languages and gets guests' requests done. According to their websites, Canary has AI Voice and Akia has AI Voice on its Max plan. HiJiffy presents an integration with Bookline.ai on its website, whose voice assistant answers calls (checked on 23-oct-2026).
Which HiJiffy alternative handles in-stay requests?
Estevano sends every guest request to the right department as a ticket with a priority and a status, and the team follows it from a console. According to their websites, Canary creates AI service tickets on its Advanced plan and Akia creates tasks for the team. HiJiffy also says it assigns requests to the right department.
Which HiJiffy alternatives publish their prices?
In this list, Duve publishes prices from a minimum monthly package, just as HiJiffy publishes starting prices. Canary, Akia and Asksuite publish no amounts, and Mews prices per room with a quote for each hotel. Estevano publishes no amounts either: it is priced per room per month, set in each proposal.
1. Estevano