4Hotel or Zarina Soft Hotelier: which fits a small guesthouse?

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4Hotel or Zarina Soft Hotelier: which fits a small guesthouse?

Zarina Soft Hotelier is the closest local competitor, with an official page that describes Romania-specific functions. It sells a licence, not a subscription. 4Hotel is a monthly subscription, with bookings by room type and the resort tax calculated at check-in. The table below separates what is published from what the vendor claims.

What you are comparing

Zarina Soft Hotelier is a management program for hotels and guesthouses, sold as a licence with unlimited rooms and users (vendor claim). 4Hotel is a monthly subscription: a room-type booking calendar, a front desk with guest records, the resort tax, housekeeping and reports.

What the official pages publish, as of 2026-10-24

Criterion4HotelZarina Soft Hotelier
Payment modelMonthly subscription; the price is on the subscriptions pageLicence (claimed “lifetime”); price not published
Bookings by room typeYes, with an availability check on every bookingNot detailed on the page we checked
iCal sync with Airbnb, Booking, VRBONot confirmed in the verified codeVendor claim
e-InvoicingInvoice draft in 4invoices when the bill is closedClaimed: via SmartBill, FGO or Oblio
Guest registerCSV export of registrationsClaimed: forms under HG 237/2001
Resort taxCalculated at check-in, per person per night or as a percentage of the stayClaimed: local tax as a separate line

Where Zarina is stronger

  • A licence without a monthly subscription (vendor claim).
  • Data on your own server or external hosting, your choice (claimed).
  • Romanian functions described on the page: e-invoicing through three invoicing providers, the HG 237/2001 forms, the local tax.

Where 4Hotel is stronger

  • A monthly subscription: no licence paid up front.
  • Bookings with an availability check by room type, at code level.
  • The resort tax is calculated automatically at check-in and appears on the guest's bill.

What we did not verify

Zarina's prices are not published on the page we checked, and its “See prices” link was not read. The claims about iCal, e-invoicing and the register are the vendor's. Sources consulted on 2026-10-24: https://www.zarinacrm.ro/crm-hotel/ (read directly).