roomMaster Anywhere

RATING:

4.3

(54)

About roomMaster Anywhere

roomMaster Anywhere, previously known as Welcome Anywhere, is a cloud-based property management solution for hotels, guest houses, pubs, and restaurants. The solution provides features such as guest billing, Facebook integration, payment processing, and a customer database. roomMaster Anywhere includes an online customer portal, which enables customers to filter available rooms based on their requirements and book the room they want. This portal can also send discount codes to drive customer loyalty initiatives. The solution can generate business performance reports and data visualizations to help make fact-based decisions. Welcome Anywhere can automate billing workflows and reduce manual overheads. roomMaster Anywhere accepts credit card payments and int...

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roomMaster Anywhere Reviews

Overall Rating

4.3

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

4.5

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4

Most Helpful Reviews for roomMaster Anywhere

1 - 5 of 54 Reviews

User Profile

Traci

Verified reviewer

Hospitality, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2022

RoomMaster Anywhere is definitely a great option for smaller boutique size properties

I definitely would recommend it to smaller size hotels, I am not sure how it would work on a property with in excess of 50 rooms.

PROS

It is very easy to use, having the ability to access from home without having to go through the VPN networks and having connection issues. Especially if the property is down!

CONS

I think the reporting should be more detailed. Coming from another larger branded hotel I was accustomed to customizing reports easily to get more pinpointed information.

Reason for choosing roomMaster Anywhere

They did not have the same functions as Roommaster and it was much more limited.

Michael

Hospitality, 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed July 2022

roomMaster Anywhere is vital to our business but could be improved

PROS

Being able to administer it in any location. Room moves are simple (though be careful about the dates, as it is easy to accidentally move the booking to the side.) The 'Reports,' are great and very flexible, as is the 'End of Day Plus.' It's very easy to have an overall view of the bookings you have coming.

CONS

Many features that we hoped would have re-appeared from our original Welcome system are still not available on RoomMaster, such as being able to 'Move & Consolidate' billing items, so there is just one line of for example, Accommodation/Room Charges. One cannot easily move multiple charges from room to room or folio to folio without moving everything. It takes 5 clicks to print an invoice! Even when already in the invoice. The toolbar just pops out from the side when you least want it. If yoiu want to modify which Folio you need the charges to go to, yoiu have to go into the timeline and do it for every day, unless it is a group booking.

Reason for choosing roomMaster Anywhere

They couldn't guarantee that our tills would integrate with their software. The upgrade price was fair and reasonable. It's the devil we know!

Reasons for switching to roomMaster Anywhere

It was necessary because they were switching to a 'Cloud Based' sytem.

Steven

Leisure, Travel & Tourism, 201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

2

Reviewed January 2018

Welcome is very easy to use but reporting isn't very accurate

Ease of use

PROS

Ease of use, very easy to train new team members, very friendly user interface. Brilliant channel management, any changes made at site level is communicated across all booking channels seamlessly.

CONS

Reporting is not easy and there always seems to be a margin of error with figures. Simple stats such as occupancy, average length of stay etc is not just there. You cannot delete group bookings or multiple rooms at once, you have to delete room by room.

Vendor Response

Hi Steven, many thanks for the review and especially the 5 stars for ease of use and customer support. We're a bunch of ex-hoteliers so know what you expect, support-wise, and we always try to think like you when developing new functionality. Thanks too for the comments about the reports. It is very important to us that we hear this feedback and understand what we can do to improve. We have an exciting development schedule which I think you're going to love, with modifications to group booking and the reporting suite. If you need any help with any of the above areas, I would be very happy to put Ricky or Luke on a call with you to work through your requirements, on us. Email is MD@welcome-systems.uk. Thanks for being a Welcome customer, it means a lot. All the best John

Replied May 2018

Adam

Hospitality, 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed October 2016

Fantastic New Addition

I studied numerous PMS systems before choosing to remain with Welcome Computers. The simple reason for this choice is because their people actually care. You can pick up the phone and speak to a real person within seconds. If you have done something stupid and need help - they will help you. If the system is lacking a feature you require - they will beta test it and consider you. The system integrates pretty well with our Datasym Epos system (a few The software is browser friendly, tablet friendly and surprisingly you are able to do most functions on a phone - normally a feature of only basic systems. The interface is pleasing to the eye. Easy to navigate. A few mods could be done to make the booking process foolproof (again, in development i believe). I wish that sometimes updates would come sooner but these guys have probably learned the hard way about what happens if you rush through something. I also wish that Admins had more control and could restrict access for others and personalise the system to shape their business more. Saying this, I believe that these are all in the pipeline already. The system is very good value for money. The online room booking widget for your website will reduce those bills you pay to booking.com and laterooms. Like I've said already, a few tweaks would make me over the moon, but you will not find better without getting a system that is so complicated it needs NASA mission control to operate. My staff can be up and running with Welcome Anywhere with a half day of training!!!

PROS

Service - Although not 24/7 they are still very good Cloud based. Integration with Epos. Simple forms and reports.

CONS

More admin functions needed. Updates to be quicker.

Vendor Response

Thank you Adam, we very much appreciate your feedback and the positive review. Over the years we have changed with the market and are very much driven by our customers. We're a hospitality original and we'll never be afraid to make brave decisions about the product's functionality. We don't always get it right but hopefully you can sense that we design for the hotelier, and not as software techs. We have a mission to partner with the best, hence our focus on linking with many EPOS systems (glad you're loving DPOS, by the way!). We have more on the way - reviews, CRM, new reports and so on, and we'll try to get these out quickly. Keep the feedback coming, and thanks for choosing Welcome.

Replied February 2017

Neil

Hospitality, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed July 2017

Good customer service with knowledgeable staff. Luke & Ricky are great.

A fully featured PMS and POS system that meets all our requirements. Now we have also included call logging from our telephone system.

PROS

Ease of use is a great advantage with Welcome Anywhere. It's very easy to get on with from day 1. All the functions are fairly intuitive. The team at Welcome Anywhere rescued us when we lost our old system, and had the new system build and running within a day. The ability to customise registration forms, invoices, reminder emails etc is great. Welcome anywhere also have Buttons which is an entry level POS system which posts directly to room bills, which provides us with a cost effective solution which meets all our requirements.

CONS

A little more drag and drop functionality in the calendar would be nice. The ability to do some conditional text in the registration forms & reminder emails would be a great addition. Rates are still a little confusing to get your head round at times.

Vendor Response

Hi Neil and thank you so much for the positive review. Ricky and Luke will be delighted with your feedback! We are delighted to be working in partnership with Spanhoe Lodge (another great Northamptonshire accomodation business!) and that you find Welcome Anywhere so easy to use. It was a pleasure to "rescue" you! We are always innovating and never stop listening, so your feedback around drag & drop is well received here at Welcome Towers. Perhaps we could also have a chat around rates, as at the end of the day we're here to make life easier for you. We'll be in touch to ensure you are included in any future specification-setting and subsequent beta testing. As a teaser, look out for some really nice functionality coming shortly... Thanks for being part of the Welcome family, we really do appreciate it. All the best, John

Replied July 2017