Is Revinate or Shiji better?

Neither clearly leads. Revinate 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, Revinate or Shiji?

Revinate starts at On request and Shiji at On request.

Does Revinate or Shiji run on more platforms?

Revinate runs on Web. Shiji runs on Web, iOS, Android.

What is Revinate best used for?

Revinate is most often used for an independent resort with fifteen years of dirty pms profiles that wants a usable marketing database out of them, a hotel group proving that direct email campaigns produced enough room nights to justify cutting ota spend, a property automating pre-arrival texts so front desk staff are not answering the same parking and check-in questions by phone, a casino resort segmenting a large guest database by spend and recency for targeted offers. Of those, an independent resort with fifteen years of dirty pms profiles that wants a usable marketing database out of them and a hotel group proving that direct email campaigns produced enough room nights to justify cutting ota spend are not what Shiji is typically brought in for.

What can Revinate do that Shiji cannot?

Revinate covers Guest profile resolution, Segmented email campaigns, Revenue attribution, Ivy messaging. Shiji covers Daylight PMS, Infrasys POS, Payments, Distribution.

Travel · head to head

Revinate vs Shiji

Revinate

Travel

Hotel guest data platform, email marketing and messaging built on PMS profile data

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: Revinate pricing is not published and is quoted per property scaled by room count with a monthly floor, so small properties often find the minimum higher than the campaign revenue they can realistically generate.; 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: Revinate covers Guest profile resolution, Shiji covers Daylight PMS.
Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Revinate and Shiji actually diverge.

Attributes where Revinate and Shiji differ
Attribute	Revinate	Shiji
Platforms	Web	Web, iOS, Android

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 Revinate

Guest profile resolution
Segmented email campaigns
Revenue attribution
Ivy messaging
Reservation sales
Multi-property database

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.

Revinate

An independent resort with fifteen years of dirty PMS profiles that wants a usable marketing database out of themnot Shiji
A hotel group proving that direct email campaigns produced enough room nights to justify cutting OTA spendnot Shiji
A property automating pre-arrival texts so front desk staff are not answering the same parking and check-in questions by phonenot Shiji
A casino resort segmenting a large guest database by spend and recency for targeted offersnot Shiji

Shiji

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

Where each one falls short

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

Revinate

Pricing is not published and is quoted per property scaled by room count with a monthly floor, so small properties often find the minimum higher than the campaign revenue they can realistically generate.
Value depends on database size and quality; a hotel with a few thousand contacts and mostly OTA business will not recover the licence cost through email revenue.
The platform is sold as several products including marketing, messaging and reservation sales, so the quoted figure often covers less than a buyer assumes and the full stack costs considerably more.
Profile resolution quality depends on how the PMS was operated, and a property with poor data capture at check-in gets a cleaner database that is still missing email addresses for most guests.
It is hotel-specific, so a group with mixed accommodation including serviced apartments or vacation rentals will find parts of the model and integrations do not fit those units.

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

Revinate

On request

Revinate$undefined/month
- Guest data platform and profile resolution
- Segmented email marketing with revenue attribution
- Ivy automated guest messaging

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 Revinate if

You need guest profile resolution.
You also want segmented email campaigns.

Revinate 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 Revinate or Shiji better?: Neither clearly leads. Revinate 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, Revinate or Shiji?: Revinate starts at On request and Shiji at On request.
Does Revinate or Shiji run on more platforms?: Revinate runs on Web. Shiji runs on Web, iOS, Android.
What is Revinate best used for?: Revinate is most often used for an independent resort with fifteen years of dirty pms profiles that wants a usable marketing database out of them, a hotel group proving that direct email campaigns produced enough room nights to justify cutting ota spend, a property automating pre-arrival texts so front desk staff are not answering the same parking and check-in questions by phone, a casino resort segmenting a large guest database by spend and recency for targeted offers. Of those, an independent resort with fifteen years of dirty pms profiles that wants a usable marketing database out of them and a hotel group proving that direct email campaigns produced enough room nights to justify cutting ota spend are not what Shiji is typically brought in for.
What can Revinate do that Shiji cannot?: Revinate covers Guest profile resolution, Segmented email campaigns, Revenue attribution, Ivy messaging. Shiji covers Daylight PMS, Infrasys POS, Payments, Distribution.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Revinate: What does Revinate cost?

It is not published. Expect a per property monthly figure scaled by room count with a minimum, and confirm which products are inside that number.

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.

Revinate: Does it replace my email tool?

Yes for guest marketing, because it is built on merged PMS profiles rather than a contact list you upload.

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.

Revinate: Will it work with a small database?

Poorly. The economics depend on having enough guest records with usable email addresses to generate attributable revenue.

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.

Revinate: Is Ivy included?

Not necessarily. Messaging is priced separately from the marketing platform; confirm in writing.

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.

Revinate vs Shiji

Revinate

Shiji

The short version

Where they differ

What each one covers

Only in Revinate

Only in Shiji

What people use each for

Revinate

Shiji

Where each one falls short

Revinate

Shiji

Pricing, plan by plan

Revinate

Shiji

Which should you pick?

Choose Revinate if

Choose Shiji if

Questions people ask

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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