What does Axus do better than Viaondo?
Axus is built for advisors who work with many suppliers and partners, and it covers several things Viaondo doesn’t do:
- Collaboration with DMCs and suppliers. You can invite any DMC or travel planner, anywhere, to work with you on the same itinerary from start to finish.
- Supplier content. Axus gives you access to over 4 million images, travel42 destination guides, a global accommodation search, port-by-port cruise schedules and a Google-powered search for restaurants, spas and golf courses.
- GDS and back-office connections. It imports PNRs from your GDS, parses confirmation emails through AwardWallet, connects with CRM systems such as ClientBase and offers an API. In Viaondo, bookings come in from documents you upload.
- An app in the stores, plus web and PDF. Travelers use the Axus app for iOS and Android, a web view link or a PDF. You can also request your own branded app in the stores. Viaondo is a web app only.
- Messaging and flight alerts. Travelers can message you in the app, and Axus sends push notifications for changes and confirmed flight updates.
- Content translation and proposals. Axus can translate itinerary content with AI and lets you draft proposals and E-Pages.
How is Axus priced?
Axus charges per seat: $35/month, or $329/year billed annually, which Axus puts at 21% less than paying monthly. DMCs and tour operators, consortia and larger teams get pricing on request, and so does a branded app in the stores. The trial lasts 14 days with no credit card.
One seat costs less than Viaondo’s US$50/month. Three seats cost $105/month, or $987/year billed annually, against US$50/month or US$500/year for the whole agency on Viaondo, plus VAT where it applies.
When is Viaondo the better choice?
Viaondo is the better choice when you want the client to open the trip with no credentials and the team to share one price:
- You want clients to open the trip without credentials. With Viaondo, a private link opens the traveler app in the browser. Your client has no UserID or passcode to type and nothing to download from a store.
- You work as a team. One price for the agency instead of one per seat. Details on pricing.
- You care where your data lives. Viaondo’s database and files are stored in the EU. Axus says its platform is operated from the United States and data is stored and processed there.
- Your clients speak other languages. Axus translates itinerary headings into six languages and its App Store listing shows English. Viaondo’s app and dashboard work in ten, including Dutch, Polish, Turkish and Swedish.
Who should stay on Axus?
Stay on Axus if you build itineraries together with DMCs and other planners, or if your bookings come from a GDS: Viaondo has no shared editing with outside partners and no PNR import. The same goes if you rely on its destination content and image library to fill trips, or if your clients chat with you inside the app and expect flight update alerts.
A solo advisor also pays less there, at $35/month or $329/year for one seat. Moving to Viaondo makes sense for a team of two or more that writes its own trip content and wants clients to open the trip from a link.
How does your client open the trip?
According to Axus, the first published itinerary sends the traveler an email with a UserID and passcode, a web preview link and an invite to download the app. In Viaondo, you share a group link with the whole trip, or a personal link for each traveler with their own documents and seats.
How are bookings loaded?
Both tools use AI to read booking documents. AxusBuilder reads pasted text, PNRs, PDFs or images, and adds GDS PNR import and vendor connections. In Viaondo, booking import puts each flight, hotel, train, transfer or activity into the trip’s draft with its local time and the document it came from, and lists anything it couldn’t be sure of under To confirm.
How do you move from Axus to Viaondo?
Viaondo doesn’t connect to Axus, so you start from your documents rather than from your Axus itineraries or PNRs. Upload the PDFs, screenshots or confirmation emails of your next departures, check what’s listed under To confirm and publish. If you used Axus content for descriptions, write your own or duplicate a past Viaondo trip.
Trips already in progress can finish in Axus, so no traveler loses the app mid-trip. Start with the 14-day free trial, or open the example app to see what your client will receive.