Is Medius or Shiji better?

Neither clearly leads. Medius starts at On request and Shiji at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.

Which is cheaper, Medius or Shiji?

Medius starts at On request and Shiji at On request.

Does Medius or Shiji run on more platforms?

Both run on Web, iOS, Android, so platform support will not decide this one for you.

What is Medius best used for?

Medius is most often used for a mid-market finance team where most spend arrives as an invoice with no purchase order to match against, a group with several legal entities on different erps that wants one ap process across all of them, reducing invoice fraud exposure with automated detection of supplier bank detail changes, replacing a scanning bureau and a shared ap inbox with automated capture and exception-based review. Of those, a mid-market finance team where most spend arrives as an invoice with no purchase order to match against and a group with several legal entities on different erps that wants one ap process across all of them are not what Shiji is typically brought in for.

What can Medius do that Shiji cannot?

Medius covers Invoice capture and coding, Matching and exception handling, Fraud and anomaly detection, Supplier payments. Shiji covers Daylight PMS, Infrasys POS, Payments, Distribution.

Accounting · head to head

Medius vs Shiji

Medius

Accounting

Accounts payable automation and supplier payments for mid-market finance teams, Marlin Equity owned

From: On request
Rated: -

Full review Website

Shiji

Travel

Enterprise hospitality platform covering PMS, point of sale and payments, owned by a Chinese listed group

From: On request
Rated: -

Full review Website

The short version

Each has a real cost: Medius the sourcing, contract and procurement modules are considerably less developed than the AP core, so buying Medius as a full source-to-pay suite means accepting weak upstream tooling.; Shiji chinese ownership and a Shenzhen listing raise data residency and supply chain questions that must be settled during procurement, and in United States government or defence-adjacent accounts they can end the evaluation outright.
They diverge on capability: Medius covers Invoice capture and coding, Shiji covers Daylight PMS.
Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Medius and Shiji actually diverge.

Attributes where Medius and Shiji differ
Attribute	Medius	Shiji
Category	Accounting	Travel

Identical on both: starting price (On request), pricing model (quote), free tier (No), platforms (Web, iOS, Android), user rating (Not yet rated).

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 Medius

Invoice capture and coding
Matching and exception handling
Fraud and anomaly detection
Supplier payments
Approval workflow
ERP integration

Only in Shiji

Daylight PMS
Infrasys POS
Payments
Distribution
Guest engagement
Open API access
Regional data centres
Multi-language and multi-currency

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Medius

A mid-market finance team where most spend arrives as an invoice with no purchase order to match againstnot Shiji
A group with several legal entities on different ERPs that wants one AP process across all of themnot Shiji
Reducing invoice fraud exposure with automated detection of supplier bank detail changesnot Shiji
Replacing a scanning bureau and a shared AP inbox with automated capture and exception-based reviewnot Shiji

Shiji

An international luxury group replacing Opera across dozens of properties without moving to a small cloud vendornot Medius
A resort with a dozen restaurants and bars needing one point of sale across all outletsnot Medius
An Asia Pacific group requiring native multi-currency, multi-language operation across marketsnot Medius
A hotel company consolidating PMS, POS and payment onto a single vendor contractnot Medius

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Medius

The sourcing, contract and procurement modules are considerably less developed than the AP core, so buying Medius as a full source-to-pay suite means accepting weak upstream tooling.
Pricing is quote-only and driven by invoice volume, so a business with many low-value invoices pays disproportionately relative to the spend being controlled.
Payments are billed on transaction volume separately from the AP subscription, which is easy to omit from a cost comparison against a licence-only AP tool.
Private equity ownership since 2017 has produced an acquisition-driven product line, so payments and adjacent capability come from bought-in technology rather than the original platform.
ERP integration depth varies sharply by system, and organisations on less common or heavily customised ERPs face integration work that lengthens the implementation.

Shiji

Chinese ownership and a Shenzhen listing raise data residency and supply chain questions that must be settled during procurement, and in United States government or defence-adjacent accounts they can end the evaluation outright.
Pricing is entirely quoted with no published figures at any product level, so comparing Shiji against Oracle or Mews on cost requires a full sales engagement.
The portfolio is partly assembled from acquisitions, and the degree of integration between products varies, so a group buying several Shiji modules should test the joins rather than assume them.
Implementation timelines at enterprise scale run to many months and require interface development that is charged on top of licence, which is a substantial hidden budget line.
It is not a realistic option below roughly the mid-scale group level; a single independent hotel will not get sensible pricing or attention.

Pricing, plan by plan

Medius

On request

Medius AP Automation$undefined/year
- Two packaged AP automation tiers
- Priced by invoice volume and entity count
- Sourcing, contracts and procurement modules sold separately

Shiji

On request

Shiji Enterprise Platform$undefined/year
- Quoted per property and per portfolio
- PMS, POS and payments priced as separate lines
- Implementation and interface development charged separately

Which should you pick?

Choose Medius if

You need invoice capture and coding.
You work on Web, iOS, Android.
You also want matching and exception handling.

Medius review

Choose Shiji if

You need daylight pms.
You work on Web, iOS, Android.
You also want infrasys pos.

Shiji review

Questions people ask

Is Medius or Shiji better?: Neither clearly leads. Medius starts at On request and Shiji at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Medius or Shiji?: Medius starts at On request and Shiji at On request.
Does Medius or Shiji run on more platforms?: Both run on Web, iOS, Android, so platform support will not decide this one for you.
What is Medius best used for?: Medius is most often used for a mid-market finance team where most spend arrives as an invoice with no purchase order to match against, a group with several legal entities on different erps that wants one ap process across all of them, reducing invoice fraud exposure with automated detection of supplier bank detail changes, replacing a scanning bureau and a shared ap inbox with automated capture and exception-based review. Of those, a mid-market finance team where most spend arrives as an invoice with no purchase order to match against and a group with several legal entities on different erps that wants one ap process across all of them are not what Shiji is typically brought in for.
What can Medius do that Shiji cannot?: Medius covers Invoice capture and coding, Matching and exception handling, Fraud and anomaly detection, Supplier payments. Shiji covers Daylight PMS, Infrasys POS, Payments, Distribution.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Medius: Is Medius a procurement suite or an AP tool?

Primarily an AP automation platform with procurement modules attached. If sourcing is your main requirement, look elsewhere.

Shiji: What do you actually buy from Shiji?

Most commonly Daylight PMS, Infrasys point of sale, or both, plus payments. The group name covers a wider portfolio than any one hotel purchases.

Medius: Who owns Medius?

Marlin Equity Partners, which acquired it in 2017 and has funded several bolt-on acquisitions since.

Shiji: Does Chinese ownership matter?

It can. For United States government-adjacent business and some corporate accounts it triggers data residency and supply chain review, so raise it at the start of procurement rather than at contract stage.

Medius: How is it priced?

By quote, driven by invoice volume and entity count, with payments billed separately on transaction volume.

Shiji: Is Shiji an alternative to Oracle Hospitality?

Yes, and that is largely its positioning at the enterprise end, particularly in international luxury groups where Infrasys already has deployment.

Medius: Does it replace our ERP?

No. It sits alongside the ERP and posts approved invoices into it.

Shiji: Can a single hotel buy it?

In principle, but the commercial model, implementation cost and support structure assume a group, and small properties are better served elsewhere.

Medius vs Shiji

Medius

Shiji

The short version

Where they differ

What each one covers

Only in Medius

Only in Shiji

What people use each for

Medius

Shiji

Where each one falls short

Medius

Shiji

Pricing, plan by plan

Medius

Shiji

Which should you pick?

Choose Medius if

Choose Shiji if

Questions people ask

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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