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Cloudbeds

Cloudbeds is an easy-to-use hotel management suite that offers hoteliers and hosts a centralized solution to help run their property simply and effectively. With Cloudbeds, you have one login, one system that is always in sync. O...Read more about Cloudbeds

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22 recommendations

WebRezPro

WebRezPro is a cloud-based hospitality property management solution designed specifically for the hospitality and hotel industry. The solution helps a broad range of hospitality segments including hotels, inns, lodges, cabins, cam...Read more about WebRezPro

4.6 (183 reviews)

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Little Hotelier

Trusted by more small, independent properties around the world than any other provider, Little Hotelier is the hotel platform that lets you easily attract more guests, take direct bookings online, understand how your business is p...Read more about Little Hotelier

4.0 (153 reviews)

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ThinkReservations

ThinkReservations provides a fast, professional and comprehensive property management system (PMS) for independent lodging businesses. With a blend of business management solutions, integrated payment processing, US-based cus...Read more about ThinkReservations

5.0 (113 reviews)

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Jurny

Experience the ultimate hospitality transformation with Jurny's free PMS powered by AI. ✅ Unify Your Universe: Consolidate apps, dashboards, fees, and providers in one place with our vertically integrated system. ✅ All-in-One: E...Read more about Jurny

4.4 (30 reviews)

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RoomKeyPMS

RoomKeyPMS is a cloud-based Property Management System that offers front office and property management capabilities, guest relationship management, an online booking engine, housekeeping, and more. The software stores data in the...Read more about RoomKeyPMS

4.3 (83 reviews)

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Skyware

Skyware Guest Management is a cloud-based property management solution designed to serve properties of all types and sizes including hotels, enterprises, resorts, inns, motels and boutiques. Skyware can also be installed as an ent...Read more about Skyware

4.3 (4 reviews)

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Innkeeper's Advantage

Innkeeper’s Advantage is an integrated cloud-based reservation and hospitality property management solution designed for bed and breakfasts, boutique inns and more. Key features include front office management, marketing managemen...Read more about Innkeeper's Advantage

4.9 (20 reviews)

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eviivo

eviivo Suite is an award-winning booking and property management platform, trusted by over 26,000 accommodations globally. It is designed to help accommodation businesses of all types and sizes go further, faster, and simplify wit...Read more about eviivo

4.0 (379 reviews)

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Maestro PMS

Maestro is one of the leading providers of hospitality management systems (HMS) in a Web Browser Based or Windows solution, with flexibility to deploy the feature rich browser version in any environment including cloud-hosted, pri...Read more about Maestro PMS

4.3 (23 reviews)

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ResNexus

AWARD-WINNING RESERVATION SOFTWARE TRUSTED BY THOUSANDS OF PROPERTIES! ResNexus is a cloud-based property management software that helps increase reservations and revenue. As an all-in-one solution, ResNexus provides a beautifu...Read more about ResNexus

4.8 (376 reviews)

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RoverPass

RoverPass is a cloud-based campground booking platform for online reservation management. It is designed for campground and RV park owners across the U.S. The platform includes a dashboard where owners can easily set custom bookin...Read more about RoverPass

4.5 (46 reviews)

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Infor HMS

Infor Hospitality Management Solution (HMS) is a cloud-based property management solution (PMS) adaptive to meet today’s and tomorrow’s hospitality challenges. Infor HMS is used to manage a wide range of properties, and is recomme...Read more about Infor HMS

3.3 (6 reviews)

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Wix

Wix is a cloud-based landing page solution that helps users create and manage websites. The solution provides multiple templates with video backgrounds, fonts and animation. It allows users to customize the website with their own ...Read more about Wix

Acuity Scheduling

Squarespace Scheduling is a cloud-based appointment scheduling software solution that enables business owners to manage their appointments online. The product caters to the needs of small and midsize businesses as well as individu...Read more about Acuity Scheduling

Eventbrite

Eventgrid is a cloud-based event registration and ticketing solution that helps users organize conferences, seminars, festivals, shows, forums and matches. Key features include event management, ticketing and payment modules. ...Read more about Eventbrite

monday.com

monday.com is an award-winning work and project management platform that helps teams of all sizes plan, prioritize, manage, and execute their work more effectively. The platform offers solutions for a wide range of use-cases such...Read more about monday.com

Mindbody

Mindbody is a cloud-based club management and appointment scheduling solution designed for the needs of small to midsize businesses. The product is primarily used by gyms, fitness and personal training centers, salons, spas and ma...Read more about Mindbody

Fresha

Fresha is the world’s only subscription-free booking software for beauty and wellness businesses, trusted by over 100,000 salons, barbershops, spas, and more. Sign up to Fresha for free and manage all of your appointments, staff m...Read more about Fresha

OpenTable

OpenTable helps restaurants do what they do best—better. Whether restaurant owners want to fill more seats, run smoother shifts, build guest relationships, or earn more revenue, OpenTable has easy-to-use solutions. Customers conne...Read more about OpenTable

Buyers Guide

Last Updated: March 16, 2023

What Is Hotel Management Software?

Hotel and hospitality management software are tools that perform essential financial and organizational functions for hotels, motels, resorts and bed & breakfasts, as well as condos, RV parks and other forms of lodging. These functions include reservations, employee scheduling, accounting, property/maintenance management and customer relationship management.

Here's what we'll cover:

Common Features of Hotel Management Software

What Type of Buyer Are You?

Market Trends to Understand

Evaluating Hotel and Hospitality Management Software

Common Features of Hotel Management Software

Hotel property management systems should have strong reporting capabilities, as well as on-board business functions like accounting and employee scheduling. These features should be customized specifically for the hospitality industry to simplify and speed up your management and accounting processes—or, if they are not part of the software itself, should be compatible with the software you have.

Other essential features of hotel software systems include:

Reservations

Hotels need an effective customer-facing site that not only lets their guests book reservations online, but also integrate seamlessly with third-party booking engines. Meanwhile, you need an employee reservations system that facilitates room scheduling and availability, making it easy to identify vacancies, reservations and occupancies visually and/or through custom searches.

Front desk & housekeeping

This includes organizing check-ins and check-outs, coding keycards, scheduling wakeup calls and tracking progress of cleaning staff, assigning them to specific rooms or tasks as necessary.

Point of sale (POS)

POS systems are typically used for restaurants and retail stores. In the hospitality industry it’s used to allow customers to pay for, or charge to their room, products and services like restaurant meals, room service, incidentals like mini-bar items or pay-per-view, Wi-Fi, health club/spa services etc.

Maintenance management 

An essential function, it’s important that hospitality management software tracks the property ownership/rental information (leases, taxes etc.) as well as tracking work orders, scheduling preventative maintenance and communicating with maintenance staff.

Customer relationship management

Hotel CRM software takes all the information you have about a customer and uses it to support customer loyalty and retention. It allows you to monitor guest profiles, activity history and participation in loyalty programs to optimize rewards programs and sales and marketing tactics.

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What Type of Buyer Are You?

Hotel management software buyers typically fall into one of the following categories:

Franchises. Many franchises have specific rules on what hospitality software can be used, while others, such as Holiday Inn, allow their franchisees to make the decision for themselves. Make sure you discuss your software options with the franchise to get their input on which products are recommended and why.

Hotel chains. At the other side of the table, if you represent a brand with multiple properties, you need to determine whether you want a single hotel PMS across them all or allow them to choose for themselves. Ask yourself how much—and what kind of—information you want to gather from each of your properties, and whether it needs to come in automatically or if manual reporting will be sufficient. If you do go with a single unified product, be sure to consider how the needs of each property differ—you may only have one hotel in Las Vegas, but it will need some of the features associated with Casino Management Software, which may necessarily impact your purchase decision.

Large hotels and resorts. The larger the property, the more robust a system you’ll need. Large hotels and resorts typically have lots of different products and services for people to buy, more maintenance requests and more complicated reservation and scheduling needs. It should be worth it to pay more for a robust hotel or resort product that can make all your processes smoother.

Small property owners. A bed-and-breakfast or a hotel with only a few rooms will have much less robust needs than a large resort. If you are just starting out, you may wish to consider a simple, but comprehensive system that includes property management and account capabilities. If you already have software that meets those other needs, be sure your new system is compatible with your legacy hotel management system.

Property managers. If you represent an RV park, a condo or some other form of communal living, you may wish to consider property management software instead of software for hotels. That being said, if there’s a lot of turnover at your property it may be easier to use this category of software, which is designed to handle reservations and accounting for high-turnover environments.

Market Trends to Understand

Software as a Service (SaaS). Most software is moving away from locally installed software and toward Web-based systems that can be accessed anywhere for a monthly fee. This drastically reduces the up-front costs of purchasing a system as well as the ongoing need for an IT infrastructure. The disadvantage is that monthly costs can add up over time, but most businesses prefer the flexibility associated with SaaS systems.

Market fragmentation. Because of the relative ease of developing software, there are lots of new companies entering the hotel management software market. Many of these come from Canada and Europe and are now looking to enter into the U.S. market. Though this will no doubt lead to better costs and quality in the long run, at the moment buying decisions may be even more confusing than they were a few years ago.

Evaluating Hotel and Hospitality Management Software

Pricing for hotel property management software is usually either per room/unit or per user. Keep in mind that for an on-premise system you’ll pay a single fee, likely with an annual maintenance upgrade, while Web-based systems (Software as a Service, or SaaS) will charge on a monthly basis.

Specific questions to ask when evaluating hoteling software include:

  • Does your marketing strategy require customer relationship management (or will it, in the future)?

  • Are you using social media like Twitter and Facebook to communicate with your guests? Does the software support that?

  • Do you already have a property management system in place?

  • Are your guests buying additional products or services from you, requiring a point-of-sale system? Do you already have one? Is it compatible?

  • How extensive is your third-party hotel reservation software system? Is the system compatible with those sites you wish to be associated with?

  • What kind of data do you want to collect about your guests? Does the software store that data? How many records will it let you have?

  • Do you require a solution with large group and event management capabilities?

It’s important to consider whether you need something specific to your type of property (hotel, motel, resort), or something more generic and/or basic.