You are choosing between real options.
So here they are, described fairly — including the parts where they beat us. A comparison page that only flatters the vendor who wrote it is worth nothing to the person reading it.
Or, at the category level
Most properties are not choosing between two brands — they are choosing between three shapes of answer.
A channel manager on its own
Distributes your rooms and stops there. The moment you want one booking record, real occupancy numbers or a front desk, you are buying a second system and paying someone to keep the two in step.
An all-in-one suite
You take all of it or none of it. The migration is the product decision — rooms, rates, guest history and channel mappings all rebuilt before you can take a booking, and priced for a hotel larger than most.
Spreadsheets and the OTA extranets
Free until the night two guests book the last room. Every rate change is typed once per channel, and nobody can tell you what your ADR was last March.
Bring your shortlist.
Tell us who else you are looking at and we will show you exactly where we are the better answer and where we are not.
Everything above describes what each product is designed to do, checked against each vendor’s own published material. We do not quote their prices, because those are negotiated and regional and we would get them wrong. If you think something here is unfair or out of date, tell us and we will fix it — a comparison page we have to defend is worth more to us than one that flatters us.