A Flexkeeping alternative for Opera hotels and hotel cleaning companies
ARPCLEAN is housekeeping software for hotels on Oracle Opera Cloud and for the cleaning companies that service them. If you are comparing Flexkeeping with other options, this page sets out the facts side by side so you can decide what fits your operation.
Who looks for a Flexkeeping alternative
Flexkeeping is an established hotel operations platform used by more than 1,000 properties, and since September 2025 it has been a Mews company. Flexkeeping has said it remains independent and continues to support other PMS, including Oracle Opera. Teams still review their options for their own reasons. Two groups tend to find ARPCLEAN a closer fit:
Opera Cloud hotels that want a light start.
You export the housekeeping reports you already run in Opera and email them. There is no interface project to schedule.
Cleaning companies that service several hotels.
You bill the hotel per room and pay your staff per hour. You need the month-end invoice and the payroll run to come from the same work record.
What ARPCLEAN does differently
From the Opera task sheet to the cleaner's phone.
Send three XML reports from Opera Cloud to your ARPCLEAN inbox. Floors, rooms and room types are created from the first file. Check-outs, stayovers, in-room tasks and rush rooms are assigned and show up on the team leader's screen and on each cleaner's phone, in that cleaner's language.
One record, two money lines.
A finished room carries the price agreed with the hotel and the minutes owed to the cleaner. Hotel billing and payroll preparation read the same event, so the two cannot disagree. The month-end stops being a reconstruction.
Built for a contractor with many hotels.
Central Management puts a portfolio of properties under one contract and one payer, with room capacity shared across them.
The hotel controls what leaves Opera.
The hotel decides which fields go into the report and can leave the guest name out.
Side by side
Information from each company's public website, checked on 24 September 2026.
| Topic | Flexkeeping | ARPCLEAN |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | Housekeeping, maintenance, collaboration and quality suites for hotel departments | Housekeeping operations plus hotel billing and staff payroll preparation for cleaning companies |
| Oracle Opera | Integrates with Oracle/OPERA | Opera Cloud XML reports by email, no interface project. API setup available at no extra charge |
| Other PMS | Mews, Cloudbeds, RMS Cloud, Apaleo, Shiji | Manual tasks from day one, or a PMS connection set up within a week at no charge |
| Payroll | "Currently does not manage payroll for housekeeping staff" | Payroll preparation from completed room tasks |
| Pricing | One-time setup and onboarding fee plus a monthly subscription by number of rooms. Prices not published | Published: from €249 per hotel per month (100 rooms included), or from €499 per month for a portfolio of 5 properties. Excl. VAT |
| Trial | Demo on request | 30 days per hotel on real data, no credit card |
| Mobile app | iPhone and Android | Native iOS and Android with offline support |
| Languages | Auto-translation into 240+ languages. Onboarding and support in 7 languages | App in 13 languages, task notes translated between them |
| Multi-property | Central control and analytics across properties | Central Management: one contract, shared room capacity |
| Getting started | Set-up in as little as 24 hours, onboarding in 2 days | Trial starts when the first task sheet arrives |
When Flexkeeping may be the better fit
If you need maintenance, guest-service and quality workflows across every hotel department in one tool, or you run Mews and want housekeeping inside it, Flexkeeping covers more departments than ARPCLEAN does. ARPCLEAN focuses on housekeeping and on the money side of contract cleaning.
How switching works
Create your company account and invite two people.
In Opera Cloud, export the housekeeping XML reports and email them to your ARPCLEAN inbox. Your hotel structure is built from the first file.
Run one real shift on one hotel: check the room import, the assignments and your team's languages.
Enter your hotel room rates and your staff hourly rates, then follow one finished room through to the invoice and the settlement.
Add the next hotels when the first one runs.
You can keep your current tool running while you test. The 30-day trial starts when your first task sheet lands.
Questions about switching
Yes. Opera Cloud XML reports are sent by email or uploaded manually. An API connection is also available, set up at no extra charge.
No. Exporting three XML reports and emailing them is enough to see a live hotel.
Yes. The Central Management plan covers a portfolio under one contract and one payer, from €499 per month for 5 properties and 500 rooms.
ARPCLEAN prepares payroll from completed room tasks, using the minutes and hourly rates you set. The same records produce the hotel invoice.
The hotel chooses the fields in the Opera report and can produce it without guest names. The field-by-field list is on our What data page.
No. ARPCLEAN is an independent company.
Start your 30-day trial with three Opera XML reports.
Flexkeeping and Mews are trademarks of their respective owners. Oracle and OPERA are trademarks of Oracle. ARPCLEAN is not affiliated with or endorsed by them. Competitor information comes from their public websites as of 24 September 2026 and may have changed.