Rewst is excellent at cross-tool automation — if all you need is a workflow engine that wires events between your PSA, RMM, and billing tools, Rewst is purpose-built and very good at it. Vectis is broader: the same cross-tool rules engine, plus the daily customer workspace around it — account hubs, timelines, a query builder, a customer portal, and QBR generation. If automation is the only thing you need, look at Rewst first; if you want the rules to live alongside the daily workspace your team operates in, Vectis is the broader fit.
Side by side
Honest values, not green checks everywhere. Where Rewst does something better today, the row reflects that.
When to pick Rewst
Pick Rewst if cross-tool automation is the single thing you are buying. The depth of branching, conditional logic, and the maturity of the workflow engine itself is meaningfully ahead of Vectis's rules engine today, and if your team will live inside the workflow surface rather than a customer-account UI, that's the right shape of tool. Many MSPs run Rewst alongside their PSA and don't need a separate workspace on top of it.
When to pick Vectis
Pick Vectis if you want the daily workspace and the automation to live in the same product. Rules fire from the same UI your team operates in — customer hubs, timelines, the query builder — instead of a separate workflow tab no one opens between incidents. The trade is honest: Vectis's rules engine is lighter on branching depth than Rewst today, but the rules sit alongside the account hub, the portal, and the QBR generator, which is a different product shape.
A concrete shopping decision
Take a 75-customer MSP that wants two things: (1) a Pax8 license-spike alert to open a ConnectWise ticket on the right board, and (2) a single customer page where the dispatcher can see ticket history, backup posture, and contract terms. Rewst handles part one beautifully and isn't trying to solve part two. Vectis handles both — the rule fires from the same workspace where the dispatcher reads the customer hub, on the Growth tier ($1,499/mo) with both features in scope. If the MSP only cares about part one, Rewst is the focused buy; if both, Vectis is one product for both.