What Sion is
Sion, now part of Bilt, manages the whole commission lifecycle: booking feeds from GDS and suppliers, statement matching, advisor payout statements, and follow-up. It serves more than a thousand agencies and integrates with consortia such as Virtuoso. Pricing is by conversation with sales. sioncentral.com
Side by side
| Aspect | Sion | MarginShield |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | End-to-end commission management platform | Reconciliation and recovery over your export |
| Getting data in | GDS and supplier feeds, plus file import with mapped columns | CSV from any system; you map the header once |
| Advisor payouts and splits | Yes, with statements | No. Not a payroll tool |
| Shortfall list per booking | Yes | Yes, to the cent, per currency |
| Recovery casework | Yes, with supplier follow-up | Yes: case, claim, partial and full recovery |
| Currencies | Optional USD conversion column on export | Never converted, never combined |
| Time to first result | Onboarding with the Sion team | A trial and one file, the same afternoon |
| Pricing | Contact sales | $149, $399 or $999 a month, on the page |
| Trial | Demo | 14 days, full Growth plan, no card |
Choose Sion if
- You are a host agency or consortium member paying out to many advisors and need statements and splits.
- You want GDS bookings to arrive without anyone exporting anything.
- You have someone whose job is commissions and want one system for all of it.
Choose MarginShield if
- You have a back office or bookkeeper who already produces a booking export, and you want to know what is short this month.
- You want a price on the page and a result before a sales call.
- You reconcile in more than one currency and will not accept a blended total.
Or both
MarginShield reads an export, so it sits beside whatever you use to book. Several agencies will keep their CRM or their sheet for the day-to-day and run the audit separately, monthly, from an export. The other comparisons: Tern and a spreadsheet. The guide explains the method whichever you pick.