Travel · head to head
Boostly vs Egencia
Boostly
Travel
Done-for-you direct booking websites and marketing coaching for short-term rental hosts
- From
- On request
- 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: Boostly the dominant cost is the one-off build fee, which is quoted rather than published and typically runs into the thousands, so the monthly figure hosts quote to each other badly understates the commitment.; 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: Boostly covers Custom WordPress site, 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 Boostly and Egencia actually diverge.
Identical on both: starting price (On request), pricing model (quote), free tier (No), 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 Boostly
- Custom WordPress site
- PMS booking widget
- Direct card payments
- Marketing curriculum
- Host community
- Email capture and nurture
- SEO groundwork
- Podcast and content library
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.
Boostly
- A manager with twenty holiday lets who wants to cut OTA commission on repeat guestsnot Egencia
- An owner with a strong local brand in a destination where Airbnb visibility is expensivenot Egencia
- A host who already runs Hostaway and needs a marketing front end rather than another PMSnot Egencia
- An operator building an email list of past guests to drive off-season occupancynot Egencia
Egencia
- A company of several hundred travellers wanting negotiated hotel rates without paying for a high-touch TMCnot Boostly
- A finance team standardising on SAP Concur that wants booking data pre-populating expense reportsnot Boostly
- A multi-country employer needing consolidated duty of care reporting on where staff are travellingnot Boostly
- An organisation moving off a regional TMC and wanting one supplier across Europe and North Americanot Boostly
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
Boostly
- The dominant cost is the one-off build fee, which is quoted rather than published and typically runs into the thousands, so the monthly figure hosts quote to each other badly understates the commitment.
- It is a website and a marketing programme, not a property management system; you still need and still pay for a PMS underneath it.
- Results depend entirely on your own effort producing content and email, and a site with no traffic strategy produces no direct bookings regardless of how well it is built.
- The build is WordPress, which means plugin updates, hosting decisions and the security exposure that comes with the platform, all of which land on you or on a paid maintenance arrangement.
- Coaching and community are a large share of what you pay for, which is poor value for an operator who already has marketing capability and only wants the booking site.
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
Boostly
On request- Boostly direct booking website$undefined/year
- One-off build and setup fee quoted per customer, commonly in the low thousands
- Ongoing platform and support subscription billed monthly or annually
- Marketing programme and community access included
Egencia
On request- Egencia$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 Egencia if
- You need policy and approval engine.
- You work on Web, iOS, Android.
- You also want negotiated rate loading.
Questions people ask
- Is Boostly or Egencia better?
- Neither clearly leads. Boostly starts at On request and Egencia at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Boostly or Egencia?
- Boostly starts at On request and Egencia at On request.
- Does Boostly or Egencia run on more platforms?
- Boostly runs on Web. Egencia runs on Web, iOS, Android.
- What is Boostly best used for?
- Boostly is most often used for a manager with twenty holiday lets who wants to cut ota commission on repeat guests, an owner with a strong local brand in a destination where airbnb visibility is expensive, a host who already runs hostaway and needs a marketing front end rather than another pms, an operator building an email list of past guests to drive off-season occupancy. Of those, a manager with twenty holiday lets who wants to cut ota commission on repeat guests and an owner with a strong local brand in a destination where airbnb visibility is expensive are not what Egencia is typically brought in for.
- What can Boostly do that Egencia cannot?
- Boostly covers Custom WordPress site, PMS booking widget, Direct card payments, Marketing curriculum. Egencia covers Policy and approval engine, Negotiated rate loading, Traveller tracking, Agent support.
Answered from the vendors’ own pages
Boostly: Is Boostly a property management system?
No. It builds direct booking websites and teaches marketing. Your PMS stays where it is and Boostly plugs into it.
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.
Boostly: What does it actually cost?
Pricing is not published. The structure is a substantial one-off build fee, commonly quoted in the low thousands of US dollars, plus a smaller ongoing subscription.
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.
Boostly: Do I own the website?
It is built on WordPress, so unlike a closed platform site you retain something transferable, though moving it off Boostly means taking on hosting and maintenance yourself.
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.
Boostly: Will it replace Airbnb bookings?
Only to the extent you drive traffic to it. The site converts demand you generate; it does not create demand on its own.
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