Alternatives to Zarina CRM: what to choose for your travel agency?

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Alternatives to Zarina CRM: what to choose for your travel agency?

If you are evaluating alternatives to Zarina CRM, you are choosing between different types of product: small SaaS panels, cloud suites for agencies in Romania, back-offices with a client portal and ERPs for tour operators. Unlike a licence installed on your own server, all four options below are offered in the cloud, per their sites. Data about competitors comes only from their official sites.

Short answer

  1. You want a monthly subscription instead of a licence and your own server, for a small or medium agency with packages and departures: 4AgencyTravel (from €1/month, 5 users as a plan term).
  2. You want a cloud suite for agencies in Romania, with e-Factura and tourism documents: Travel Office, per the official site.
  3. You want a client portal with card payment or integration with Romanian tour operators: eTrip Agency, per the vendor's statements.
  4. You are a tour operator with XML/API links and external suppliers and accept a setup from €10,000: Travelio ERP.

Options to consider

The list excludes Zarina CRM, the subject of the page. Each option targets a different customer, so choose by your need, not by position.

  • 4AgencyTravel — for small and medium agencies with packages and departures. Strengths: lead, quote with variants, booking pipeline; margin on each line; capacity, waiting list, manifest and rooming list with CSV export; commissions per agent and margin-scheme VAT per booking. Limits: no client portal, no client card payments, no SPV submission, print-ready HTML documents in Romanian, no automatic messages.
  • Travel Office — a cloud suite for travel agencies in Romania. Strengths: low entry price, e-Factura and WinMentor export, tourism documents with PDF/Word export, reports for the Ministry, a free 30-day demo, per the official site. Limits: CRM and pipeline, booking engine and mobile app are not in the summary consulted; setup fee €179–239.
  • eTrip Agency (Trip Solutions Software) — for retail agencies and tour operators. Strengths stated by the vendor: RESCHECK client portal with documents and card payment, integration with the main Romanian tour operators, profitability per user. Limits: e-Factura and CRM are not among the features found on the official site; €400 setup plus €200 training.
  • Travelio ERP — for tour operators, with related products (Light for small agencies, the IBE booking engine). Strengths stated by the vendor: XML/API to tour operators, hotel consolidators and GDS, accounting, website, B2B module. Limits: €50/user/month and setup from €10,000; prices of the other products are not published.

Comparison on criteria

Alternatives to Zarina CRM, per official sites (as of 24 Oct 2026)

Criterion4AgencyTravelTravel OfficeeTrip AgencyTravelio ERP
Target customerSmall and medium agencies, with packages and group departuresTravel agencies in Romania (retail)Retail agencies and tour operatorsTour operators (ERP); Light for small agencies
Published entry price€1/month (Start); Plus €5, Pro €10, Premium €20€13.19–28.79/month, excl. VAT, annual billing€60/month, excl. VAT (4 users)ERP: €50/user/month; other products: on request
Setup feeNo setup fee listed in the plans€179–239 one-off€400 one-off; training €200From €10,000 one-off
Users5 / 25 / 50 / 100 as plan terms1 user in Start-up; extra €5.51–8.39/month4 included; extra €15/monthPriced per user
e-Factura and accounting exportNo SPV submission; a draft invoice in 4invoices on confirmation, which you issue yourselfe-Factura (UBL 2.1 sent to SPV) and WinMentor export, per the official siteNot among the features found on the official siteNot in the summary consulted (accounting listed)
Client portalNoneNot in the summary consultedRESCHECK: bookings, documents, card payment (stated by the vendor)B2B module listed; client portal not in the summary consulted
CRM / pipelineLeads, quotes with variants, conversion to bookingNot in the summary consultedNot among the features found on the official siteClients, suppliers, packages, quotes, stated by the vendor
Hosting modelSaaSCloud (Microsoft Azure, Europe), per the official siteCloud, per the official site100% cloud, per the official site

What to check before switching software

  • Ask both the current and the new vendor what data you can export (clients, suppliers, bookings, payments) and in which format; do not assume a full export exists.
  • Decide the date from which the invoice series changes and how you keep access to old invoices, per your archiving obligations.
  • Run both in parallel for a short period, with real files, before closing the old program.
  • Check which tourism documents your activity requires (contract, voucher, borderou) and whether the new product generates them in the form you need.
  • Ask for a trial or demo and name a migration owner who also trains the agents.

How 4AgencyTravel helps

  • A complete sales flow: lead, quote with variants, booking, with one-click conversions.
  • Cost, price and margin on each service line, with the supplier attached.
  • Departures with capacity, held and confirmed seats, waiting list, manifest and rooming list with CSV export.
  • Supplier contracts and allotments, with usage tracking.
  • Payment schedules (deposit and up to 24 instalments), manually recorded payments, receivables ageing, commissions per agent and margin-scheme VAT per booking.
  • A monthly subscription from €1 (Start, 5 users as a plan term), SaaS with no server to run and no setup fee listed in the plans.
  • It sends no automatic messages, has no client portal and does not submit invoices to SPV: on confirmation it only creates a draft in 4invoices. Generated documents are print-ready HTML, in Romanian, and the receipt is a payment confirmation, not a fiscal receipt.

Sources consulted

eTrip Agency: https://www.etrip-agency.ro/ . Travel Office: https://www.travel-office.ro/ and https://www.travel-office.ro/preturi-abonamente-software-agentie-turism . Travelio: https://www.travelio.ro/ . Zarina CRM: https://www.zarinacrm.ro/soft-crm-agentii-de-turism-si-ticketing/ and https://www.zarinacrm.ro/preturi/ . All consulted on 24.10.2026. 4AgencyTravel: features verified in the product code on 24.10.2026.

Prices and features change. Re-check them on each vendor's site before you decide; anything not in the summary consulted is marked as such, not as non-existent.