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innRoad FrontRunners 2020
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

Cloudbeds FrontRunners 2020
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
eviivo suite is a cloud-based booking management software designed to help small hotels, lodges, vacation rentals, and other establishments manage guests, reservations, payments and more. It offers white-labelling capabilities, which... Read more
HotelKey PMS is a cloud-based property management solution that enables businesses in the hospitality industry to streamline processes related to point-of-sale, housekeeping, maintenance, inventory and more. Professionals can utilize... Read more

Little Hotelier FrontRunners 2020
Little HotelierFrontRunners 2020
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

WebRezPro FrontRunners 2020
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

RMS FrontRunners 2020
RMS is a global provider of innovative, cloud-based technology solutions for the hospitality industry. By offering business insights, best practices and user-friendly software, RMS enables hotels, resorts, campgrounds, RV parks and... Read more
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

ThinkReservations FrontRunners 2020
ThinkReservationsFrontRunners 2020
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
Smart Hotel offers a hotel property management solution suitable for a wide variety of industry verticals like corporate hotels, resorts, retreats, wilderness lodges and marinas. It offers tools to manage central reservations, housekeeping,... Read more
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
Maestro PMS is hospitality’s leading provider of Web Browser Based and Windows property management system software with flexible options to deploy cloud-hosted, private cloud, and on-premise. Designed for independent hotels, luxury... Read more

ResNexus FrontRunners 2020
ResNexus is a cloud-based property management software that helps increase reservations and revenue. As an all-in-one solution, ResNexus provides a beautifully designed ADA compliant website and booking engine to increase direct bookings.... Read more
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
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
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
Snapfix uses photos as the basis for task management. Businesses can leverage the eyes and ears of team members to identify problems or faults, capture photos and create issue-based tasks, assign the tasks to appropriate personnel... Read more
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
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
CabinKey is a complete vacation rental solution that provides businesses with the tools to manage the complexities of vacation property. CabinKey allows businesses to manage the rates and availability of cabins, rooms, campgrounds,... Read more
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2021 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
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.
Your Guide to Top Hotel Management Software, February 2020
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