Compare Cloudbeds and Protel Air - Nov 2022

Shlomi Lavi

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - Cloudbeds or Protel Air?

Protel Air is more expensive to implement (TCO) than Cloudbeds, and Cloudbeds is rated higher (93/100) than Protel Air (69/100).

Looking for the right Hotel Management solution for your business? Buyers are primarily concerned about the real total cost of implementation (TCO), the full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, and the pros and cons. In this article we compare between the two software products:

Cloudbeds Vs. Protel

Cloudbeds: Running a hospitality business is a full-time job. Switching between your tools takes you away from your guests. With Cloudbeds, you have one log in, one system that is always in sync.

Protel: Developing hotel management solutions since 1994, protel was the first to offer a windows-based PMS that same year. With bookatonce, protel was also the world‘s first to offer a web-based PMS back in 2009. Today, protel hotel management systems are used in more than 80 countries in around 11,000 hotel businesses and schools of all sizes – 4,000 of ...

Who is more expensive? Cloudbeds or bookatonce-com?

The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Hotel Management software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance and support and other related services. When calculating the TCO, it's important to add all of these ”hidden costs” as well. We prepared a TCO (Total Cost) calculator for Cloudbeds and bookatonce-com.

Cloudbeds price starts at $75 per user/month , On a scale between 1 to 10 Cloudbeds is rated 2, which is much lower than the average cost of Hotel Management software. bookatonce-com price starts at $35 per month , When comparing bookatonce-com to its competitors, the software is rated 2 - much lower than the average Hotel Management software cost.

Bottom line: Cloudbeds cost is around the same cost of bookatonce-com.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared Cloudbeds Vs. Protel Air based on some of the most important and required Hotel Management features.

Cloudbeds: We are still working to collect the list of features for Cloudbeds.

bookatonce-com: We are still working to collect the list of features for bookatonce-com.

Target customer size

Cloudbeds's typical customers include: SMBs, Customers of the software include property businesses of all sizes and a wide range of types.