Hotel CRM Software

Top 10 Most Recommended Systems

Eloqua

Eloqua's marketing automation tool is a great resource for hospitality professionals looking to source more guests and keep existing ones coming back. It is one of the highest rated demand generation solutions on the market.

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Salesforce.com

With companies like Millennium & Copthorne leveraging Salesforce.com for their sales team, this Cloud-based CRM is perfect for hospitality businesses of all sizes. This system optimizes sales across territories and properties.

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TrackerRMS CRM

Manage leads to successful opportunities with TrackerRMS's CRM solution. Cloud-based and affordable, it's a great solution for businesses of almost any size or industry looking to improve their sales process--including hotels.

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inContact Hosted Call Center Software

Hotels, motels, B&Bs and businesses in the hospitality industry rely on inContact for their call center needs. This hosted system comes complete with features like speech-enabled IVR and blended predictive dialer.

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HubSpot

HubSpot provides helps hotels manage their inbound marketing with features for tracking website conversions as well as scoring and nurturing leads. Their marketing analytics helps evaluate organic and paid search investments.

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Freshdesk

Freshdesk simplifies customer support by centralizing all customer interactions into a single, affordable, web-based solution. Phone calls, emails, web chats and even social media outreach is fully supported in this solution.

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Marketo Lead Management

Marketo offers one of the most advanced marketing automation systems on the market. With their lead nurturing and sales management tools, hospitality professionals can attract new customers and improve guest retainment.

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Salesnet

Salesnet has been a pioneer in customer relationship management software since it's beginning in 1999. Salesnet provides strong sales and lead management capabilities that can be customized to meet hospitality industry needs.

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Five9 Virtual Call Center

Whether you have 10 or 100 agents, Five9 offers effective and efficient call management for hotel call centers. This solution is flexible, scalable and can easily integrate into existing CRM systems.

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Pardot

B2B sales are a breeze with Pardot’s solution. Lead scoring and email marketing tools help you generate, nurture and manage your prospective clients until they’re ready for your sales team to close the deal.

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What is Hospitality CRM Software?

Hospitality, hotel and resort customer relationship management (CRM) software supports businesses in addressing two major challenges: growing customer loyalty and improving customer satisfaction. The hotel industry remains under intense pressure to maintain adequate occupancy levels, as well as grow share of wallet through the promotion of dining, spa, and other complementary services. Hospitality firms rely on this technology to maintain and grow market share and profitability.

Hospitality-specific Functionality

In addition to core customer relationship management functionality, hospitality industry programs will include the following features that tailor it to the industry:

Full Integration Many solutions for the hospitality industry combine relationship management with other features, specifically property management, hotel management and central reservation systems (CRS) that manage the entire reservation and check-in process. If you’re not getting a fully integrated solution, it’s important to select a program that can connect to your other systems to maximize efficiency and effectiveness.
Loyalty Management Use the profile to maintain detailed information on guests, including contact info, activity history, participation in promotional or loyalty programs, and even detailed preferences for VIPs. You can then leverage this information to set up loyalty programs designed to keep guests returning.
Sales Activity Management Sales activity management is especially important for facilities that host a substantial number of private or corporate events. This would include event-triggered campaign marketing and capabilities for permission-based marketing campaigns.
Dedicated Hospitality Applications Typical hospitality applications include concierge help desk, incident management, room service, and tools to manage events, catering, and group sales.

Evaluating Hospitality, Hotel & Restaurant Software

Hospitality CRM software can be divided into several segments: hotel, resort, casino, travel, and restaurant. Specific programs are available for each of these segments, and there are also systems broad enough to address all segments of the hospitality industry. For example, CRM software for casinos has specific functionality for player contact management and analytics that provide information on game and player trends within the casino. Solutions for travel organizations, such as an airline, would have specific loyalty program capabilities that could track mileage and trigger promotions and upgrades when customers reach certain pre-determined point levels.

Specific questions to ask when evaluating hospitality industry CRM software are:

  • Would you benefit more from a generic hospitality CRM solution or one with a more specific focus, such as hotel management?
  • What kind of customer data do you want to collect? Does the software store that data? How many records will it let you have?
  • Do you already have property management and centralized reservations systems, or do you want those capabilities included?
  • Are you using social media like Twitter and Facebook to communicate with customers? Does the software support that?
  • Do you require a solution with large group and event management capabilities?

Recent Events You Should Know About

Similar to the traditional customer relationship management market, the biggest shift in hospitality software is a move to the cloud. This type of solution is hosted off-site and delivered via the Internet. Hotel software systems with this deployment model typically cost less because they don’t require properties to have their own servers. And as a result, more businesses are able to afford the technology.

Also in recent years, hotel systems have started to go mobile. Developers have recognized that users continue to work on the go. So, they’ve launched mobile application and mobile site versions of their hotel automation programs. Below are recent announcements from the top lodging software makers.

  • Libra OnDemand - Hospitality systems maker Libra OnDemand recently released “Responsive Design,” an email feature update that customizes displays for tablets and other mobile devices. This includes communications such as reservation confirmations, pre-arrival communications, thank you emails and survey requests. The correspondence will no longer be hard to read, squashed or require a lot of scrolling. The SaaS mobile application also provides tools for users to communicate with guests through social media. The update is part of the company’s suite of applications for sales, marketing, loyalty programs and event planning.

  • Sage Act! - Sage also recently announced new mobile and e-marketing capabilities. The new app-style product turns your Android, iPhone or iPad into a virtual office. Users can access contacts, activities and calendars from anywhere they use their device. The company at the same time released Sage ACT! Premium Mobile and Sage E-marketing for ACT!.

    Also recently, the company formed a partnership with sales tax automation provider Avalara. The new Avalara Accountants Resource Center provides Sage Accountants Network (SAN) members access to educational resources on how to best service small businesses. Users can access white papers on the latest sales tax trends, webcasts, a tax form library and sales tax calculation tools.

  • Maximizer - Maximizer updated its customer relationship management system this year with the goal of easing navigation and enhancing integration. Developers added a “My Work Day” feature that lets users add additional data to contact pages; including social media information, notes, custom fields and links to external documents. The company also added a new mobile app, which syncs in real-time with the software through an Internet browser.

  • Microsoft Dynamics CRM - The company announced the beta release of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013--the company’s first ERP solution for Windows Azure. The product is designed for small and mid-market businesses to optimize operations and control costs. Earlier this year, the company made a service update to its offerings, including the ability to access the app virtually on Windows Phone 7, the iPad, iPhones, Android and Blackberry devices.

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