Jonas Chorum vs Visual Matrix PMS

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.

Visual Matrix PMS is a cloud-deployed property management system available on the web. Its listed capabilities include multi-property support, a channel manager, a direct booking engine, housekeeping, and POS integration. There is no free plan. Visual Matrix PMS for two concurrent users costs $378 a month, billed annually. VM Core Plus costs $450 a month, billed annually, and includes unlimited concurrent users. The Visual Matrix PMS integrations/customizations option costs $506 a month, billed annually; its price is estimated based on actual interfaces. That plan lists additional integrations and customizations, standard hardware interfaces, single sign-on, and a ProfitSword interface. The stated starting price is $378/mo (annual). The clearest capacity distinction in the listed plans is between the two-user option and VM Core Plus, which allows unlimited concurrent users. The integrations/customizations option sets out additional interface capabilities and its own annual-billed monthly price.