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MAGTOS vs the alternatives.

Most travel businesses run on a subscription SaaS stack or a pile of cobbled-together tools. Here is how owning one operating system differs — structurally, not on price alone.

	MAGTOS	SaaS subscription stack	Build / cobble your own
Ownership	You own the deployment, data and credentials.	The vendor owns the platform; you rent access.	You own it — and everything that breaks.
Pricing model	One-time license. No per-seat tax.	Recurring per-seat or per-booking fees, forever.	Your engineering time, indefinitely.
Scope	Storefront, admin, finance, POS, sourcing — one system.	Usually one slice; you buy several and integrate.	Whatever you have had time to build.
Finance	Double-entry core with jurisdiction packs, built in.	Often bolted on or exported to a separate tool.	A spreadsheet, or a lot of custom work.
Money-path integrity	Displayed price equals charged price, guaranteed.	Depends on how the tools were integrated.	As correct as your last edge case.
Data isolation	Forced Row-Level Security in the database.	Shared multi-tenant; you trust the vendor.	Your responsibility to design and prove.
Lock-in	None — it runs on your infrastructure.	High — leaving means migrating everything.	Locked to whoever built it.
Time to running	Provisioned and handed over as your own instance.	Fast to sign up, slow to integrate the pieces.	Months to years.

This compares structural models, not named products. MAGTOS is a single-business license today; a multi-tenant edition is planned.