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Erdis
Verified reviewer
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2018
basically, It's swiss knife PMS, all in one for every need of any size property.
We are small hostel and we don't need many features to manage our property and we found switch doing everything the best way. It syncs our reservations from all other platforms like booking, hostelworld, agoda, hostelbookers, airbnb, and many others also your own website or directly from facebook page. One of the best features is automated emails that you don't have to deal with welcoming email or sending invoices. Also the interface is super user-friendly so anyone that have used any webapp in general will understand it from the first try. This list of features can go on and on and i don't want to bore anyone reading this, so simply go for it give a try and judge for your self. Thanks to the time switch.cm saved to me I've started doing day trips with the guests and another side business during the low season.
CONSI can't complain about anything as a con, but in the future, I would consider more charts/stats like percentage of guests age we get, genres, age or number of guests sorted by a country they are from so we can target our audience with advertisements.
Yan Naing
Hospitality, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed February 2020
Very helpful software. Has great potential to even get better.
I had a great experience from the start till now. [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] who helped me on using this channel manager is very very helpful. She’s willing to help anytime I called her. She’s very professional and thoughtful for the customer! I would definitely recommend this to anyone who’s looking to use channel manager.
PROSEase of use. Easy to learn. The included features are useful. Customer service is great and very helpful. Easy to navigate.
CONSMobile version could improve a lot. It takes some times to load up the data and it’s quite irritating when the guests are in rush. Making group reservation of about 10+ process is very painful as it took so long to finish it. Making group reservation needs to improve a lot better than current setup. The included housekeeping feature has great potential to be useful. Dev should check it and makes changes so that it will be useful.
Reason for choosing SWITCH.CM
It’s affordable. Have local customer service. The staffs are very helpful.
Vendor Response
Thank you very very much for your insightful feedback! Some of the things you mentioned are already in our Road Map for 2020, others for 2021. Thanks again for choosing Switch.
Replied March 2020
Aye Mya
Hospitality, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
2
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed January 2020
Connectivity Issues
The connectivity is really slow. Sometimes, we have overbooking problems because of the connection delayed. After a guest books online, the reservation does not upload immediately in the software and when another person books, we have overbooking.
PROSThe price is affordable and easy to use.
CONSThere are onnectivity issues and need more fuctions.
Vendor Response
We have a rate of less than 1% of overbookings cases related to actual connectivity issues or system slowness. The majority of the cases are due to auto-replenish or guaranteed allotment (those are programs that the OTA sets with hotels, directly). Switch is currently being architecture in a new, faster language. You can expect a faster and more robust system from 2020 onwards.
Replied January 2020
Wendy
Hospitality, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2021
One of the best experiences ever! So happy with this software and the company.
The software was easy to use and had all the features I needed. I got helpful customer service whenever I needed it and the price was unbeatable. Rarely have I had such a great experience in buying any product. Highly recommended!
CONSCan't think of anything I didn't like. Everything worked exceptionally well.
Reasons for switching to SWITCH.CM
Working with Rentals United had been a nightmare for us. For three months, there had been a bug with the software so we were unable to connect with airbnb. The customer service people were unpleasant and unhelpful.
Moe Moe
Hospitality, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2020
Switch.CM
prevent overbooking and no need to control OTA channel individually.
PROSIt is easy to use with reasonable price.
CONSIt is very simple performance and need to upgrade attractiveness.
Reason for choosing SWITCH.CM
staffs are so friendly , especially Ma Nandar and Ma Thiri , it is user friendly software and effectiveness in the business.
Reasons for switching to SWITCH.CM
expensive and no easy to communicate with the team member to deal the complaints.
Jelena
Hospitality, 2-10 employees
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed June 2020
time saving management of clients
Good experience, but a lot can be improved.
PROSAbility of the platform to close automatically several combinations for the same room type. Saving time with integration of several booking platforms. It was easy for employees to understand functions.
CONSThe overview of booking can be made more clear in terms of calendar overview. Making reservation for the group to have option combined - when 1 person books and wants to pay every bed/room on behalf of the group there is no option to close payment as done etc with 1 click but you need to do separately for each member of the group. Of course in case something changes, maybe keep option to isolate some of the group members. Discounts - you are not able to make promotions from switch as one channel, but you need to do separately for each integrated platform. Add that option. Fee for the room or bed - important option! When we have walkin or in person reservation and we want to set price different from regular we are not able to change that for particular guest, and due to that stats for earning can never be correct and resemble real picture.
Reason for choosing SWITCH.CM
Ability of the platform to close automatically several combinations for the same room type.
Vendor Response
Hey Jelena, thanks for the feedback. In fact, you do need more training on Switch and I will contact you directly to provide it. Most of the Cons you wrote are not real, as you can see: 1. Reservations overview: Once you login in the system, by default the calendar is the first view you will see to give you an overview of the reservations in a day or upcoming days. The Reservations tab, in other hand, shows the bookings in a list type of view. 2. Group reservation combined payment: it's very easy to manage group reservations, specially when one of the guests wants to pay the complete amount. Based on the amount entered, Switch smartly understands that the guest is paying for the whole group (or for the isolated reservation), and deducts from the total of the group. You do not need to enter in each reservation, one by one. 3. Promotions are partially able to add in Switch (via Rate plans). Same functions that allows to charge differently to walk-in guests.
Replied July 2020
Rafael
Hospitality, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2018
Good for the price
Ease of use.
CONS- How it handles group reservations. Every change you try to make takes a long time to be applied. It´s completely impossible to use switch with big groups - The lack of useful features especially when it comes to the payment history. It should display the total amount in the screen and have more filters such as payments per user and show/hide deleted payments. Today if we want these informations we have to export the payments to a CSV fomat, open in google docs (or similar) and set filters - There is a translation error in the brazilian portuguese version of Switch. In the payments history screen, in the drop-down menu there are two options: "on" and "between' . In the portuguese version they are translated as "ligado" and "entre". "entre" is correct but "on" should be translated as "em". Every time I teach a new employee how to use the system I have to explain why is "ligado" listed there.
Vendor Response
Hi Rafael, thanks for your feedback! We've recently revised the Portuguese translation and fixed those minor errors. Take a second look into it and you'll see how it is now :) The group reservation is working properly after the fixes we pushed in June for the slow loading. We will take your feedback about filters in the Payment History into consideration for the next batch of improvements. Thanks for sharing you opinion! Cheers, Switch team
Replied August 2018
Matt
Hospitality, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2018
Great software and easy to use with superb support staff that are always ready to assist.
Superb support from the staff and made life so much easier with all the information I need at a few clicks of a mouse if I should need to clarify information from a guest from ages ago and most importantly no double bookings thanks to it's efficient booking system.
PROSNo more double bookings as everything is imported seamlessly instantly. Should I ever get any problems then the excellent support staff are there within minutes with all sorts of helpful advice and tips and even go above and beyond with...."we've noticed this and it may improve occupancy if you do this for example." I also like the site is continuously evolving and every time I've suggested as a user, that this change may be beneficial they are generally already on the case with said changes before I've even suggested it! Great programme, superb staff and would highly recommend.
Alison
Hospitality, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2020
Easy to navigate
It's important to have an overall electronic manager managing your OTA, stops having to explain to customers that they are double booked!
PROSIt's pretty easy to navigate around the software, I spent some time on the site to familiarise myself, once I had that clear it all became quite clear.
CONSWould be nice to get a search button as sometimes information is not always in the most logical place.
Reason for choosing SWITCH.CM
SwitchCM was the first channel manager I encountered during my search, they seemed very impressive and professional, I decided to take a chance on them and have been happy with them for the last 3 years.
Vendor Response
Hi Alison! Thank you for leaving us a review. We appreciate your time out sharing your experience with us. You can always search a particular reservation using the search bar at the top left corner of the calendar.
Replied June 2020
Aaron
Verified reviewer
Leisure, Travel & Tourism, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2020
Great PMS and channel manager
It’s great it has a great channel manager integration.
PROSIt’s user friendly, and has great integration with booking.com and other major websites.
CONSThe reports could be better but they have the basic ones. I guess with premium version you can get more but also pay more.
Reason for choosing SWITCH.CM
Price and easy to use
Mihailo
Leisure, Travel & Tourism, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed July 2021
A great and simple property manager
It helped me sync with a couple of property reservation sites, and it really saved me a lot of time and headaches while working. I would highly recommend this property manager to anyone owning a hostel, no matter the size.
PROSIt is very easy to use and it syncs great with all the OTS. It is really simple to navigate and the clean design really helps with the user experience. Also,the customer support is great, usually they respond within minutes,and have always been able to help me out with anything I had an issue with. Highly recommended it.
CONSIt had rare crashes,but it really wasn't a problem for us. Overall, it's a great and simple property manager.
Vendor Response
Thanks Mihailo, happy to know your satisfaction with Switch.cm.
Replied July 2021
majudulla mohamed
Hospitality, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2020
highly recommended
switch isnt our first channel manager, we are very happy with switch in comparison to our first channel manager, there are no hidden fees, customer care is available
PROSwe were looking for a channel manager to combine all the OTA as we were facing over selling, connecting switch to OTA are seamless and calendar, seasonal rates setting solved issue we faced
CONSwish there is an mobile app with all the features offered in web
Reasons for switching to SWITCH.CM
unhappy with fees, customers care
Vendor Response
Hello Mohamed, thanks you for your review! We are working on new features in our mobile app :)
Replied June 2020
Agus
Hospitality, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed June 2020
Very good channel manager for hotel industry
Its very help me in controling my bussiness in hotel industry
PROSI like most about The system calendar using switch.cm software that I can use easyly in my smartphone. The seasonal price also help a lot to control the rate
CONSThe Housekeeping button not really useful as the communication between front office and house keeping not really working
Vendor Response
Hi Agus, Thank you for leaving us a review. We really appreciate you taking the time out to share your experience with us. With the housekeeping feature not being used by the staff, it will create more problems in the future. We suggest you take the time to reintroduce the said feature with both of them present in the training and explain well the importance of it in your business. Thank you!
Replied July 2020
Zay Yar
Hospitality, 11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed February 2020
Useful-able software
I think Switch.cm is very useful and your customer service teams are very helpful.
PROSWe can easily use for Booking and Reservation between head office and reception. Group reservation is more suitable for our hotel.
CONSI would like to inform you please add Myanmar Kyats in the Payment section and want to link new local online travel agents such as Handler, Oway, etc.
Vendor Response
Hey Zay Yar, thanks for your feedback! We are in conversations with Handler and other local prospect partners. Thanks again for mentioning and for sharing your experience with Switch!
Replied March 2020
Evan
Leisure, Travel & Tourism, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2020
Switch for villa management
The training and support and quick follow up's have made me feel satisfied with my purchase. Nice to have someone to talk to, message via the chat box, or actually meet the agent in person.
PROSEasy to access, clean system and user friendly. Loads of stat information and charts if you need. The set was not difficult, and the customer service was fabulous. The price is the best on the market for the size of property we are - 4 rooms.
CONSNeeds templates set up for alternate invoicing. Needs mobile app option.
Reason for choosing SWITCH.CM
Communication, simple explanations, cost point, easy to use format. quick API connection to the OTA's.
Aleksandar
Leisure, Travel & Tourism, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2020
Using SWITCH.CM is amazing experience.Thank you SWITCH.CM
Synchronisation and my all reservations are inside SWITCH.CM .., SWITCH.CM is always ready to help you and solve your problems very very fast.
PROSExcellent Synchronization , eazy , accessible
CONSSometimes it opening all my reservations...!!! Very uncomfortable...
Reason for choosing SWITCH.CM
SWITCH.CM is more accessible
Agus
Hospitality, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed April 2020
Best value channel manager
Overall Switch.cm help me very well in running my business as I have two properties to manage without switch.cm I don't know how can I run it. Thank You SWITCH.CM
PROSthe software help me a lot in maintaining the room occupancy and to avoid overbooking.r
CONSThe software has seasonal prices that help me to control the room rate easily.
Ani
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2018
The program in general is good and helpful. It still nees some perfections
The connection with the booking engine. It youd be nice to have also odher wesites like airbnb, They could be more but in general is good
CONSFor example, what happened to me. We had to close our activity and I asked help, they said I had to do it and the only way to close it was to make a reservation and close bed by bed. A pretty long thing
Vendor Response
Hi Ari, thanks for your feedback! We thrive to keep improving the system and pushing new functions periodically. Last year we've pushed a 'Block Out' button which allows user to block multiple rooms and beds at one click. Moreover, we do connect to Airbnb. We're happy to assist you in adding Airbnb connection into your Channel Manager dashboard :) Cheers! Switch team
Replied March 2018
Kyaw
Hospitality, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2020
General
guest folio can easily print with full information. Rate can adjust in the system upon negotitaion with the guests. Easily to know for new reservation by switch.cm mail sending to us and always update in system.
PROSChannel manager helps us for reservations from OTAs
CONSNot over leaping booking. Easy to operate the system.
Reason for choosing SWITCH.CM
Like the features and set up. Testing period was given and overall was fine. Service was excellent in setting up, training, helpfullness, online.... Price also reasonable.
Reasons for switching to SWITCH.CM
Cloudbeds was not match with our requirements and services. Also they can't do rooms mapping with Airbnb.
Vendor Response
Thank you! It's great to hear that :)
Replied January 2020
Mihai
Hospitality, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2018
Great management software
It is very easy to use and has a friendly interface. It simplify some of my tasks for the Hostel, overall is a great tool to use and a must have, even if you are a small business.
CONSI can't really say that is something that I don't like, they are adding options and features and I saw that they are very good with their customer service and try to improve every time. To be honest... I don't know why this software is not so popular.
Vendor Response
Thanks Mihai for your feedback :)
Replied September 2018
Jason
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2018
Really great PMS software
Really great use interface. Clean, easy to navigate, customizable UI with rich booking information.
CONSNeeds more payment integrations. Only having Stripe is a significant limitation at this time. Could also use PayPal and some others.
Vendor Response
Hi Jason, Nice to hear from you! We've launched integration with other payment gateways last year, such as Omise and 2C2P. Yet, we do look at connecting to other PM to broaden our availability in regards to auto-charge collection. Thanks for your feedback! Switch team
Replied March 2018
Alejandro
Architecture & Planning, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed May 2020
Relación calidad-precio muy buena
Muy buena, siempre nos ayudo muchísimo este sistema, y el soporte a través de Martín principalmente que nos visito fue excelente
PROSEl poder cargar extras a las cuentas, y también poder personalizarlo con los productos de venta dentro del hostel.
CONSLa linea de tiempo es muy poco visible, al igual que los colores apagados, no son referenciales.
Reason for choosing SWITCH.CM
Por la relación calidad-precio
Vendor Response
Thank you Alejandro for the feedback!
Replied May 2020
Leanne
Hospitality, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2018
Better Than the Big Costly Guys!
It is still a new company/product so there is room for additional development. However, it already surpassed a lot of the legacy systems in the market. Given it is a new provider in the industry, there is room for further development but keep watch for this emerging player!
PROSIt seriously works better than some of the bigger and expensive software out there including Cloudbeds. It even connects to Airbnb and with ease. Channel manager + Property Management in one and for the price, it's double, triple bang for your buck!
CONSGetting started requires the help of support (but most other CM+PMS do also). There are quite a few features out of the box; however, some are in Alpha/Beta mode and is not fully rolled out. Maybe some API plugin/integration could add more functionality through 3rd party developers so it doesn't need to be developed in-house. Also wish it could be more colourful as the oldschool grey excel sheet appearance isn't visibly the best.
Vojkan
Hospitality, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2020
fair enough for the money
overall im ok with it
PROSits good and cheap for small hostel, there was almost all the functions i wanted to have.
CONSnot always very good support, sometimes fast (and good) respond sometimes poor help with waiting.
Vendor Response
Thanks for the feedback! We're actually working on recruiting more people and providing refreshing training to the ones we already have. You will definitely see a better level of support in no time. Cheers!
Replied January 2020
Kristina
Hospitality, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2021
10
Everything is perfect. Switch makes everythin easier.
CONSThere is nothing not to like. This software is something that every organisation should have.