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innRoad is a cloud-based property management system designed to meet the needs of hospitality businesses of all sizes including hotels, motels, resorts, B&Bs, lodges and campgrounds. innRoad provides tools to help users manage hospitality... Read more
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Cloudbeds is a cloud-based hotel management solution suitable for small to midsize hotels, vacation rentals, hostels and B&Bs. Key features include front office management, central reservations, housekeeping management, online booking... Read more
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WebRezPro FrontRunners 2019
WebRezProFrontRunners 2019
WebRezPro is a cloud-based 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, campgrounds, hostels... Read more
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Little Hotelier is an all-in-one property management and guest acquisition solution for the small hotels, guesthouses and bed and breakfasts, 30 rooms and under. At its core it is a property management system (PMS) that handles the... Read more
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RMS FrontRunners 2019
RMSFrontRunners 2019
RMS is a cloud-based property management solution for hotel, motel, RV park, campground and other outdoor hospitality businesses. Apart from its core property management features, the solution also offers channel management, a point... Read more
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SkyTouch Hotel is a cloud-based hotel management system that controls all aspects of a hotel property with an easy-to-use Hotel Property Management System (PMS), automated rate and group management tools, detailed reporting, an integration... Read more
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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 customer... Read more
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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
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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 enterprise... Read more
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Easy InnKeeping reservation software integrates all aspects of reservation, online booking, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Point of Sale (POS), credit card processing, OTA’s and guest management into ONE easy to use hotel... Read more
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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 management,... Read more
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protel PMS is a global hospitality platform designed to serve both individual hotels and multi-property hotel groups. Main features include Front Office Management, Channel Management, GDS, Analytics and Customer Relationship Management. The... Read more
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BananaDesk is a cloud-based property management platform designed for small to medium sized hostels, hotels and B&Bs. It has a built in channel manager that connects to Booking.com and Hostelworld, and also has an integration with... Read more
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Infor Hospitality Suite is used to manage a wide range of properties but is typically recommended for hotel chains, campgrounds, resorts, cruise lines, casinos and government lodges. The system offers integrated hospitality management... Read more
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Hotello by Mingus Software is a hybrid hotel property management solution, which provides businesses in the hospitality industry various tools and functionalities that help them to manage their front office, accounting, marketing and... Read more
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Maestro PMS is a hybrid hospitality property management solution by NORTHWIND that provides users multiple modules that help them to manage guest service and operational activities. The solution can be deployed on-premise or hosted... Read more
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SiteMinder is a complete online guest acquisition platform for independent hotels, groups chains. The cloud-based technology helps hotels increase their reach and fill their rooms via direct channels (owned website and social media... Read more
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Resort Data Processing (RDP) offers customizable property management solution to meet operational and budgetary requirements of property owners. The solution serves a wide range of property types including hotels & resorts, condominium,... Read more
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roomMaster by InnQuest is a cloud-based property management solution suitable for hotels including chains, independent hotels, business hotels, boutique properties and resort hotels of all sizes. On-premise deployments are also available.... Read more
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Campspot is an online reservation and property management software platform for RV parks, resorts and campgrounds. The Campspot software was built to maximize returns and net operating income while providing a modern and easy-to-use... Read more
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2020 Hotel Management Pricing Guide
Learn about the key aspects of accurate software pricing before you make your purchase decision.
Includes:
Pricing models & ranges
Unexpected costs
Pricing of popular systems
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
Recent Events You Should Know About
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. |
Reservations screen in innRoad
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.
Recent Events You Should Know About
Trivago buys Swiss hotel software provider Base7booking. Trivago, the popular online travel agency, is hoping to get small and independent hotels to use the Base7booking hotel property management system. This is another example of OTAs moving toward selling B2B services to hotels in addition to their core consumer-focused business.
TravelClick estimates bright 2017 first quarter for group bookings. Even though transient bookings (short-term stays) remained flat in the last quarter of 2016, TravelClick’s November 2016 North American Hospitality Review shows an improved 2017, with a 6.8 percent boost in occupancy in the group segment.
New reporting tool CloudEnterprise simplifies analytics for hotels. CloudEnterprise, the newly released reporting tool from MSI, is supported by their TruCloud platform and offers a way to consolidate data from multiple properties automatically. This allows stakeholders to have the most important reports at hand in order to make decisions.
