Your hospitality accounting solution should bring your portfolio's operations together, connect the systems your team relies on, and give your people the tools and support to run the operation confidently.
Discover an M3 alternative that combines the convenience of a cloud platform with the operational depth, flexibility, and human support to back it up. Aptech is built for the realities of hotel operations and revenue growth.
with drill-down access to vouchers and check details, automate distributions, and reconcile bank activity and deposits. Add invoice automation to streamline AP workflows, scan and store invoices and supporting files such as vendor contracts, certificates of insurance, and W-9s, and handle intercompany distributions with ease. The system also supports check printing, ACH payments, fully automated payment processing, 1099 processing, and exports to Excel or CSV.
and ownership groups to streamline back-office processes, reduce manual work, and ensure financial accuracy across multi-property portfolios.
with strong audit trails and built-in financial controls. Capabilities include automated bank reconciliation, positive pay, forward- and backward-looking trend reports by day or period, drill-down financial statements and reports, multi-company property comparison reporting, daily revenue journaling, anomaly detection, PMS uploads, integrations with PMS and payroll systems, and exports to Excel or CSV.
with intercompany transactions, shared services, and customizable structures.
Secure, hosted deployment for streamlined operations and consolidated reporting.
with secure, cloud-hosted technology.
by incorporating statistics directly into financial statements. Users can enter statistical values during invoice entry and GL transaction uploads, include statistical details in budgeting and forecasting, and access daily revenue and productivity reporting for more informed decision-making.
Custom chart of accounts supported as well.
with reporting available in HTML, PDF, and Excel formats. The system supports 12th Edition charts and financials, along with daily, monthly, and trend reporting. Users can customize reports with multiple timeframes and flexible row and column definitions, schedule reports automatically, use a flexible report writer, and drill down to the source document for deeper detail.
based on intercompany and shared services support. Output formats, report writer, scheduler, and drill-down are not specified.
to help you seamlessly run your operations.
for accurate, seamless data flow, no duplicate entry.
including P&L data, daily PMS and time clock data, general ledger financials, budgets and forecasts, competitive set data from Smith Travel and TravelClick, and guest satisfaction data. The platform supports integrations through API connections and/or SFTP file transfers for flexible, centralized reporting.
for accurate, real-time data flow.
The platform is optimized for fast, efficient analysis, scales to support both small and large organizations, and offers customizable categories to fit your reporting needs.
consolidated from connected PMS, POS, and payroll systems. Architecture is not specified.
plus generate long-term projections for strategic planning.
based on budget variance dashboards. Not confirmed.
for better decision-making.
as stand-alone tools or integrate with Aptech’s other solutions for a complete back-office solution.
with a familiar Excel-like interface powered by a SQL database. Model-based calculations help eliminate user errors and reduce the spreadsheet issues common in manual planning and reporting workflows.
Aptech streamlines financial processes to deliver accurate insights and efficient operations. Its intuitive interface and robust capabilities make it easy to adapt as your business grows, ensuring you maintain control and achieve financial excellence across every level of your organization.
Accounting Core grows with your business at every stage.
with greater control over user input. Role-based security by property and/or department helps ensure the right people have access to the right data.
with the flexibility to create custom reports as needed. Users can perform ad hoc analysis to quickly slice and dice data, and an AI assistant built into the application supports deeper reporting and data analysis.
from one version of a budget or forecast to another and use as a baseline for scenario planning.
at a point in time for comparison reporting and forecast accuracy.
Whether you’re managing a single property or an entire portfolio, Aptech streamlines financial processes to deliver accurate insights and efficient operations. Its intuitive interface and robust capabilities make it easy to adapt as your business grows, ensuring you maintain control and achieve financial excellence across every level of your organization.
Ability to store forecasts at a point in time for comparison reporting and forecast accuracy.
12th Edition chart and financials available, custom chart of accounts supported as well.
Simplify onboarding with a familiar Excel-like interface powered by a SQL database. Model-based calculations help eliminate user errors and reduce the spreadsheet issues common in manual planning and reporting workflows.
Ideal for single-property or multi-property accounting. Secure, hosted deployment for streamlined operations and consolidated reporting.
Build dynamic budgets that adapt to changing conditions.
Ability to copy data from one version of a budget or forecast to another and use as a baseline for scenario planning.
Aptech and M3 both help hotel management companies and ownership groups run multi-property accounting in the cloud, but they differ in how much of the back office they document. This section shows where Aptech gives hotel finance teams an edge, where M3 is strong, and what to confirm before you decide.
M3 handles complex portfolios with intercompany transactions, shared services, and customizable structures. It integrates with 70+ PMS, POS, and payroll providers, which cuts duplicate entry across properties. However, M3's published materials don't document end-to-end invoice automation, USALI edition support, or detailed forecasting workflows. Aptech documents all three across a connected suite of accounting, business intelligence, and budgeting and forecasting.
Aptech treats accounts payable (AP) as a complete workflow, not a single automated step. With end-to-end invoice automation, your team can:
For example, a management company paying a shared linen vendor across 12 properties can split one invoice across every entity, pay it by ACH, and track it for year-end 1099 reporting, all in one system. M3's published materials describe streamlined back-office processes but don't specify invoice automation, check printing, ACH, or 1099 processing.
Aptech's General Ledger (GL) is built to catch problems early, not just record transactions.
The result is a ledger that actively guards your cash. M3's materials focus on intercompany and shared services structure and don't detail these controls.
USALI (the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry) is the standard owners, lenders, and asset managers expect. Aptech supports the 12th Edition chart and financials, plus custom charts of accounts. Its flexible report writer and scheduler produce consolidated multi-company statements in HTML, PDF, and Excel, and every figure drills down to the source document.
M3 offers consolidated multi-entity financials, but its published materials don't name a USALI edition or specify output formats, report writing, scheduling, or drill-down. Confirm these during your evaluation.
Budget variance dashboards show where you stand. Planning teams also need control over how the budget gets built. Aptech's Forecasting and Budgeting solution delivers:
M3's published materials don't document these forecasting workflows.
Aptech builds an AI Assistant directly into the application for deeper reporting and data analysis. Ad hoc tools let you slice and dice data on the fly, so you can compare labor costs across a region or isolate one market segment's average daily rate (ADR) trend without waiting on a custom report. Aptech also pulls in competitive set data from Smith Travel and TravelClick, along with guest satisfaction data. M3 offers dashboards and self-service reporting, but its materials don't specify AI-assisted or ad hoc analysis.
Familiar on Day One, Accurate Every Day
Aptech pairs the look and feel of Excel with the security and structure of a SQL database. Your team starts in a familiar interface, while model-based calculations remove the broken formulas and version errors common in spreadsheet planning. Onboarding is faster, and the numbers hold up under scrutiny.
Aptech has been a pioneer of hospitality software technology, delivering innovative solutions for over 50 years in an effort to connect people with computers and information to solve significant problems in the hospitality and service industries.
