Sector · Hospitality

Your PMS and POS are bleeding the same wound.

Hotel PMS and restaurant POS software charge rent every month for systems that sit on a till. Self-hosted property management (Nextcloud + Odoo Hotel), POS (Openbravo, uniCenta), and guest messaging run full-service operations at a fraction of the cost.

R 233K

Typical annual licence spend

Across 7 common hospitality tools

R 210K

Recoverable each year

After self-hosted OSS migration

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Sector pain points we cover

From licensing to compliance to access control

The hospitality stack, on the books

Tap a tool. See the open-source swap and the saving.

Bars show what the typical hospitality firm spends annually on each licence. The sage portion is what the hosted open-source equivalent costs.

Typical Hospitality stack

7 tools · R 233K/yr in licences

● Migrate to OSS · save 90%
Proprietary
Hosted OSS

Replace

Opera PMS

Hotel PMS · R 78K per year

With

QloApps / HotelDruid

Self-hosted on your infra

Annual savings

R 70K

After hosting · approx 90% reduction

See migration brief →

Current annual spend

R 233K

Estimated OSS hosting

R 23K

Annual savings

R 210K

Tap any tool to see the open-source replacement and the per-tool saving

Where the hospitality bleed starts

Three things we hear on every hospitality discovery call.

01

PMS + channel manager double-dipping

Your PMS charges per room, your channel manager charges per listing, your booking engine takes a cut. Three subscriptions for one reservation.

02

POS licence per till, per month

Four tills times R1k per month is R48k per year per restaurant. Self-hosted uniCenta or Openbravo POS costs a server, runs on any hardware.

03

Guest data scattered across foreign vendors

Booking.com, Expedia, your PMS, your CRM — all holding slices of guest info outside SA. POPIA gets ugly fast.

How we handle the hospitality edges

The sector-specific things we get right.

01 · Concern

Guest data POPIA handling

Passport numbers, payment cards, meal preferences. Self-hosted keeps the sensitive slice in SA.

02 · Concern

PCI-DSS for card payments

Every till that touches a card brings PCI obligations. We isolate payment flows so scope stays small.

03 · Concern

Seasonal staff onboarding and offboarding

Open source IAM (Keycloak, FreeIPA) handles high-churn access control without per-user licence penalty.

What we bring to a hospitality engagement

The services your sector usually starts with.

See your numbers, not the industry average. 30-minute audit, on us.

Send us the licence list. We'll run it against the open-source map and quote a migration window for your hospitality stack. The audit is on us.