Travel · head to head
Beds24 vs Egencia
Beds24
Travel
Low-cost, highly configurable channel manager and booking system for technical operators
- From
- €15.9/month
- Rated
- -
Egencia
Travel
Corporate online booking and travel management from Amex GBT for mid-market and enterprise programmes
- From
- On request
- Rated
- -
The short version
- Each has a real cost: Beds24 support is helpful on how to use the product but slow and thin on genuine defects, and the ticketing system does not accept screenshots or attachments properly, which makes reporting a real bug laborious.; Egencia pricing is per transaction and offline touches cost several times an online booking, so a programme with many complex multi-leg itineraries pays far more than the headline online fee suggests.
- They diverge on capability: Beds24 covers Broad channel connections, Egencia covers Policy and approval engine.
- Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Beds24 and Egencia actually diverge.
Identical on both: free tier (No), platforms (Web, iOS, Android), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Travel).
What each one covers
Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.
Only in Beds24
- Broad channel connections
- Customisable booking page
- Rate and availability rules
- Automated messaging
- Open API
- Invoicing and payments
- Multi-property management
- Access control
Only in Egencia
- Policy and approval engine
- Negotiated rate loading
- Traveller tracking
- Agent support
- Concur Expense integration
- AI booking assistant
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
Beds24
- A twenty-unit apartment operator who wants multi-channel distribution for under fifty euros a monthnot Egencia
- A hostel needing Hostelworld and dorm-level bed inventory alongside the major OTAsnot Egencia
- A developer building a custom guest app on top of a booking system with an open APInot Egencia
- An owner with unusual rate logic, such as per-person pricing or seasonal minimum stays, that packaged tools cannot expressnot Egencia
Egencia
- A company of several hundred travellers wanting negotiated hotel rates without paying for a high-touch TMCnot Beds24
- A finance team standardising on SAP Concur that wants booking data pre-populating expense reportsnot Beds24
- A multi-country employer needing consolidated duty of care reporting on where staff are travellingnot Beds24
- An organisation moving off a regional TMC and wanting one supplier across Europe and North Americanot Beds24
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
Beds24
- Support is helpful on how to use the product but slow and thin on genuine defects, and the ticketing system does not accept screenshots or attachments properly, which makes reporting a real bug laborious.
- There is no built-in dynamic pricing engine, so revenue management means paying separately for PriceLabs or an equivalent and accepting a second system to maintain.
- No website builder is included; the booking page is templated but a marketing site has to be built and hosted elsewhere.
- Initial configuration is genuinely difficult and largely self-serve, and operators regularly report days rather than hours to get channel mappings and rate rules correct.
- Housekeeping, task management, smart lock support and any hospitality CRM are absent or require third-party tools, so it is a distribution engine rather than an operations platform.
Egencia
- Pricing is per transaction and offline touches cost several times an online booking, so a programme with many complex multi-leg itineraries pays far more than the headline online fee suggests.
- It is now a service tier inside Amex GBT rather than an independent supplier, so a competitive process that shortlists both Egencia and Amex GBT is not really two bids.
- Regional content and service quality are uneven, and companies with travellers in smaller markets often find local fares and hotels missing from the tool and end up going offline.
- Implementation to load negotiated rates and configure policy typically runs months, and rate loading errors surface as travellers seeing the wrong prices rather than as a clean failure.
- Because the platform underwent a relaunch on new architecture, customers migrating from the older Egencia stack have faced feature parity gaps and retraining during the transition.
Pricing, plan by plan
Beds24
€15.9/month- Single property$15.9/month
- One property with one rental unit
- Channel manager and booking page included
- All core features, no tier gating
- Additional property$undefined/month
- About EUR 3 per extra property added to the account
- Same full feature set
- No separate distribution charge
- Additional unit$undefined/month
- About EUR 1 per extra rental unit within a property
- Applies to multi-unit buildings and dorms
- No revenue share on bookings
Egencia
On request- Egencia$undefined/year
- Per-transaction booking fees, online and offline rates differ
- Optional annual platform or management fee
- Implementation and rate loading charges
Which should you pick?
Choose Beds24 if
- You need broad channel connections.
- You work on Web, iOS, Android.
- You also want customisable booking page.
Choose Egencia if
- You need policy and approval engine.
- You work on Web, iOS, Android.
- You also want negotiated rate loading.
Questions people ask
- Is Beds24 or Egencia better?
- Neither clearly leads. Beds24 starts at €15.9/month and Egencia at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Beds24 or Egencia?
- Beds24 starts at €15.9/month and Egencia at On request.
- Does Beds24 or Egencia run on more platforms?
- Both run on Web, iOS, Android, so platform support will not decide this one for you.
- What is Beds24 best used for?
- Beds24 is most often used for a twenty-unit apartment operator who wants multi-channel distribution for under fifty euros a month, a hostel needing hostelworld and dorm-level bed inventory alongside the major otas, a developer building a custom guest app on top of a booking system with an open api, an owner with unusual rate logic, such as per-person pricing or seasonal minimum stays, that packaged tools cannot express. Of those, a twenty-unit apartment operator who wants multi-channel distribution for under fifty euros a month and a hostel needing hostelworld and dorm-level bed inventory alongside the major otas are not what Egencia is typically brought in for.
- What can Beds24 do that Egencia cannot?
- Beds24 covers Broad channel connections, Customisable booking page, Rate and availability rules, Automated messaging. Egencia covers Policy and approval engine, Negotiated rate loading, Traveller tracking, Agent support.
Answered from the vendors’ own pages
Beds24: Why is Beds24 so much cheaper than Lodgify or Uplisting?
Because it does not pay for onboarding, guided setup or a website builder. You configure it yourself from raw settings pages, and that labour is the difference.
Egencia: Is Egencia still sold under its own name?
Yes. Amex GBT bought it in 2021 and kept the brand, relaunching it in 2026 with a conversational AI assistant and a Concur Expense integration.
Beds24: Is the channel manager restricted on the cheap plan?
No. Unlike most competitors, Beds24 does not gate distribution behind a higher tier; the price scales with property and unit count rather than feature access.
Egencia: How is it different from Amex GBT itself?
Egencia is the more self-service, lower-touch tier of the same company, aimed at mid-market programmes; Amex GBT proper is the high-touch enterprise service.
Beds24: Does it include dynamic pricing?
No. You connect PriceLabs or a similar tool, which is an additional subscription.
Egencia: Does it replace an expense system?
No. It books travel and feeds data to expense tools such as SAP Concur; you still need an expense product.
Beds24: Is there an API?
Yes, a documented REST API, and it is one of the main reasons technical operators pick Beds24 over packaged alternatives.
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