BookingCenter vs Jonas Chorum

BookingCenter provides property management and reservation software for independent hotels, motels, inns, B&Bs, resorts, and vacation rentals. Cloud-based MyPMS includes front desk booking management, an interactive availability chart, folio controls, customized messaging, and back-office reports. Its booking engine supports templates, HTML APIs, and WordPress solutions for online reservations. The channel manager synchronizes rates and availability in both directions and imports bookings automatically through OTA and GDS connections, including Booking.com, Expedia, TripAdvisor, Airbnb, VRBO, Google Hotels, Sabre, Amadeus, and Travelport. MyGuest provides a mobile-friendly guest concierge and staff tracking for requests and incidents; the AI concierge communicates through SMS, iMessage, and WhatsApp in 14 languages. MyCard is a PCI-compliant payment gateway supporting EMV and contactless payments. MyPMS has a full-featured 30-day free trial, while the desktop PMS has a separate 45-day trial. MyPMS Self-Setup costs $50 a month, with no setup fee and unlimited rooms. MyPMS Concierge Setup costs $1,200, paid once for setup and training, followed by $50 a month. Desktop software supports Windows and Macintosh OS X, but Mac OS X desktop support ended after version 10.13.

Jonas Chorum is a cloud property management system for independent hotels, management companies, chain hotels, and extended-stay properties. Its hotel operations tools cover front desk work, housekeeping, maintenance, rate management, staff messaging, night audits, and security. Rates can use occupancy-based automated tiers or manual adjustments for events and demand changes. Customizable reports offer real-time views of finances, operations, and performance, including RevPAR, ADR, ARR, and occupancy. Chorum CRS includes a booking engine and channel management, and the company says it connects to major OTAs and the GDS. Chorum POS syncs guest and payment data across ordering kiosks, front-of-house staff, kitchen screens, and guest folios. Staff and guest mobile apps support hotel operations and guest functions, while Offline Sync is designed to keep operations running through connectivity problems and synchronize data when internet access is unavailable. Jonas ARC connects Jonas Hospitality products and third-party systems; the company lists 350 integrations. Client support is stated to be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Pricing is available on request.