At a glance — coverage scores
Percentage of 23 features across booking & traveler management, supplier & procurement, visa & documentation, billing & compliance, and platform & team that each product fully supports.
The only platform here with a dedicated visa-application pipeline and per-traveler passport records for Indian travel agencies.
Polished itinerary builder for bespoke luxury FIT trips — per-user pricing, no visa tracking or India GST invoicing.
Strong advisor CRM and proposal tool — per-user USD pricing, no visa pipeline or passport records.
Closest of the four to a true back office — per-user EUR pricing, no free trial, no visa tracking.
Custom GDS-integrated booking portals — quote-based project pricing, not an out-of-box ops SaaS.
Feature-by-feature breakdown
All 23 features across 5 categories. Green = full support · Orange = partial · Red = not available.
| Feature | Grovia | Tourwriter | Travefy | Ezus | Trawex |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Booking & Traveler Management | |||||
| Single booking record across package tours, flights, trains, buses, hotels, visa-only & combo trips | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial | |
| Booking status pipeline (enquiry → quoted → confirmed → ticketed → completed) | Partial | Partial | |||
| Per-traveler passport & document records (number, expiry, issue place, nationality) | |||||
| Day-by-day itinerary builder (city, accommodation, meals, transport per day) | |||||
| Lead traveler contact & payment-status tracking per booking | Partial | Partial | |||
| Meal/seat preference & frequent-flyer number per traveler | |||||
| Supplier & Procurement | |||||
| Supplier directory across airlines, hotels, DMCs, visa agents, transport, cruise, insurance & activity operators | Partial | Partial | Partial | ||
| Commission % stored per supplier, reused across bookings | Partial | Partial | |||
| Per-booking supplier usage log — quoted amount, paid amount, status & confirmation/PNR number | Partial | Partial | |||
| Supplier status workflow (enquired → confirmed → vouchered → paid → cancelled) | |||||
| Visa & Documentation | |||||
| Dedicated visa-application pipeline per traveler (documents pending → submitted → interview → approved/rejected → collected) | |||||
| Visa type, application mode & destination country tracked per application | |||||
| Government fee & service fee tracked separately per visa application | |||||
| Interview date & expected-by date fields per visa application | |||||
| Billing & Compliance | |||||
| GST-compliant invoicing (CGST/SGST/IGST, HSN/SAC) | Partial | ||||
| Flat monthly price regardless of team size (not per-seat) | |||||
| India-based product, support & onboarding | |||||
| Invoice-to-payment tracking (partial payments against total booking value) | Partial | Partial | |||
| Platform & Team | |||||
| Full business-ops platform in the same subscription (HR/payroll, leads/CRM, support tickets, field ops) | |||||
| Built-in AI assistant included in the plan | |||||
| Mobile app for the internal team (not just client-facing) | Partial | ||||
| Self-serve signup — pricing published, no sales call required | Partial | Partial | |||
| 14-day free trial, no credit card | |||||
What each competitor actually does
An honest look at what each platform is designed for — and where it runs out of road for a travel agency, tour operator, or visa consultant.
Tourwriter is a New Zealand-built itinerary and quoting platform aimed at small, boutique tour operators running bespoke, high-value FIT trips. Its itinerary builder and certified two-way Xero accounting sync are genuinely strong for a specialist niche — luxury custom travel design — but it is priced per user ($99–249/month) which climbs fast for a growing team, has no dedicated visa-application pipeline or per-traveler passport records, and has no India GST-native invoicing.
Travefy is a US travel-advisor platform combining a drag-and-drop itinerary builder, an integrated CRM, client proposals, invoicing, and commission tracking in one subscription, used by over 30,000 travel advisor brands. It's a strong all-rounder for individual advisors and small host-agency teams, but pricing is per user ($39/month plus $35 per extra user), billed in USD with no India GST invoicing, and it has no visa-application workflow or structured per-traveler passport fields — it's built around leisure trip proposals, not ticketing or visa-consulting operations.
Ezus is a cloud back-office platform for travel agencies, DMCs, and tour operators, used by 3,000+ operators across 80+ countries. Of the three global tools compared here, it covers the most back-office ground — itinerary building, a supplier catalog, real-time margin/budget calculation, multi-currency support, and one-click proposals and invoices. It's priced per user in euros (€75–100/month, custom Enterprise above that) with no free trial, has no visa-application pipeline or per-traveler passport records, and its billing is VAT/multi-currency-oriented rather than India GST-native.
Trawex is an India-based travel-technology vendor that builds white-label CRM systems and B2B/B2C travel booking portals for agencies, wiring together GDS and supplier APIs into a custom platform. It's a real option for an agency that wants to build its own branded online booking engine, but it is a customized technology project rather than an out-of-the-box SaaS: pricing is quote-based and project-scoped, not published, and there's no confirmed visa-application pipeline, per-traveler passport records, or GST-native invoicing built in as a standard, ready-to-use feature.
Built for agency operations, not just itinerary proposals
Tourwriter, Travefy, and Ezus are all genuinely good at building itineraries and proposals. Trawex is a real option if you want a custom-built booking portal. None of the four track a traveler's passport details or a visa application from documents-pending to collected — the day-to-day reality for any agency handling international travel or running visa consulting alongside bookings.
Every feature — from supplier usage logs to the visa pipeline to GST-native invoicing — reflects how Indian travel agencies, tour operators, and visa consultants actually operate, at one flat price regardless of team size.
Start Guided Trial — No CardNone of the four track visa applications end to end. Grovia gives every traveler's visa its own record — from documents pending to collected — across every booking.
Every traveler on a booking gets their own passport number, expiry, and nationality record — not a generic CRM contact card.
Quoted amount, paid amount, status, and confirmation number for every supplier line, reused from one directory across every booking.
CGST/SGST/IGST and HSN/SAC built in. None of Tourwriter, Travefy, or Ezus are India GST-native.
Tourwriter, Travefy, and Ezus all charge per user; Trawex is a custom quote. Grovia is one flat price covering up to 10 staff accounts.
HR & payroll, leads/CRM, support tickets, and field ops in the same subscription — none of the four offer this.
Moving from Tourwriter, Travefy, Ezus, or Trawex to Grovia?
We make the switch painless. Import your bookings and supplier list in minutes. Your active trips carry over. And our team onboards you free.
Upload a CSV of your active bookings and supplier directory. Grovia builds your booking pipeline and supplier list automatically.
For bookings with travelers already confirmed, add their passport and document details once — reused across every visa application they need.
Add staff and agent logins, assign roles, and everyone works from the same bookings, suppliers, and visa pipeline — live in minutes.
A Grovia specialist walks you through every feature with your real bookings and travelers. No extra charge — included in the plan.
Frequently asked questions
Is Grovia a GDS or a booking engine like Trawex's portals?
No. Grovia doesn't connect to GDS systems or process live fare searches — you keep booking through your existing suppliers, GDS logins, or OTA extranets. Trawex builds custom white-label booking portals wired to GDS/supplier APIs; Grovia is the operations layer that records what you booked, tracks the traveler and visa details, and bills the client, once the booking is made.
How is Grovia different from Tourwriter or Ezus for a boutique tour operator?
Tourwriter and Ezus are both strong itinerary-building tools, and Ezus in particular covers real back-office ground. Neither has a dedicated visa-application pipeline or per-traveler passport records, and both charge per user (Tourwriter $99–249/user/month, Ezus €75–100/user/month) — Grovia is a single flat ₹1,550/month covering up to 10 staff accounts, with visa tracking and passport records built in.
Can Grovia track visa applications the way a dedicated visa consultant needs?
Yes — this is one of the areas none of the four products compared here cover. Every traveler's visa application gets its own record: destination country, visa type, application mode, and a status pipeline from documents pending through submitted, interview scheduled, approved or rejected, to collected, plus government and service fees tracked separately.
Does Grovia replace Travefy's client-facing proposals?
Not exactly. Grovia's itinerary builder is an internal day-by-day operational record — city, accommodation, meals, transport — not a polished, client-branded proposal document the way Travefy's advisor tools generate. If a beautiful client-facing proposal is your primary need, that's a genuine Travefy strength; if you need booking, traveler, supplier, and visa operations connected to GST billing and the rest of your business, that's what Grovia is built for.
What happens to my existing bookings and supplier list if I switch?
You import them. Upload a CSV of your active bookings and supplier directory, and Grovia builds your booking pipeline and supplier list from it, with a free onboarding call included — no separate migration fee.
Do I need a credit card to try Grovia?
No. The 14-day guided trial requires no credit card. Ezus, by comparison, offers no free trial at all.