RMS Cloud vs Tera

RMS Cloud is a cloud-native property management platform for hotels, motels, holiday parks, campgrounds, and serviced apartments. It brings property management together with reservations, front desk operations, financials, housekeeping, and maintenance. Its booking and revenue tools cover OTA distribution, direct bookings, upsells, reservation management, and yield optimization; guests can book, manage, and pay online. Reporting ranges from quick performance snapshots to accounting and operations views. The open API supports real-time, two-way exchange for inventory, rates, booking engines, POS, and CRM systems, and the maker lists more than 100 technology partners. RMS advertises 530+ API endpoints, a developer sandbox, documentation, and dedicated API support. Accelerate includes accounting and financials, batch invoicing and statements, reporting and analytics, housekeeping, and maintenance. Elevate adds multi-site and enterprise management and API access; owner and trust accounting is an optional add-on. RMS Cloud is paid, has no free plan, and provides plan pricing by quote. The maker is based in Keilor Park, Victoria, Australia, and says it has supported hospitality operators globally since 1983.

Tera combines admissions, residential operations, student records and alumni engagement for Australian residential colleges. Admissions tools handle online applications, review and interview workflows, offers, document collection and intake trends. Student records can bring together application, accommodation, academic, engagement and participation information. Residential operations include room and bed management, occupancy, arrival and departure records, and vacation accommodation planning. Online forms support conditional logic, file uploads and payments, and can be shared with applicants, students, staff, alumni or external participants without an account. Automations can send application, interview, offer and acceptance communications, and connect to Microsoft 365 mailboxes to send and record correspondence. Dashboards support intake comparisons, occupancy forecasting and demographic reporting. Quad is an online portal where applicants, students and alumni can apply, pay fees, complete forms and view residency information. Tera supports multi-factor authentication, passwordless sign-in, configurable permissions and audit trails. The maker says data is hosted in Australia and colleges retain ownership and can export records in standard formats. Pricing information is provided through a demo enquiry; no amount is listed.