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.
Three pains specific to hospitality.
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.
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.
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.
Your typical stack
About R233 484 a year.
Hospitality firms typically run this stack. Click any tool to see the open source replacement and the migration plan.
What we do for hospitality
Savings is just the start.
Hospitalityfirms also come to us for the security, compliance, and build work that goes with the stack swap. Here's what that usually looks like.
The things your sector cares about.
Guest data POPIA handling
Passport numbers, payment cards, meal preferences. Self-hosted keeps the sensitive slice in SA.
PCI-DSS for card payments
Every till that touches a card brings PCI obligations. We isolate payment flows so scope stays small.
Seasonal staff onboarding and offboarding
Open source IAM (Keycloak, FreeIPA) handles high-churn access control without per-user licence penalty.
Free audit. No pitch.
A 30-minute call. We look at your current stack, your headcount, your compliance posture. You get a written assessment with exact Rand numbers. You decide from there.