It is very common nowadays that a hotel has an online booking system installed in their hotel website or social media. The hotels able to get a direct booking from the hotel website or social media by omitting pay the commissions to OTAs. However, not every online booking system is suitable for your hotel. For example, currently you found an online booking system is at the lowest cost, but the feature it offers is that it is not suitable for you. It is a waste for you that you are unable to fully utilize the features of the online booking system.

Most of the hotels received their bookings from OTAs, but a smart hotelier chose a direct booking strategy which can help to attract potential customers to book through hotel websites and build strong customer relationships. With a good hotel website, you will need to have a smart booking engine installed on your website, which may lead your guest to check out immediately while browsing through your website without going to OTA to book it there, and also help to reduce your paid commission to OTAs and lastly drive in direct booking sales.

Here are the Top 6 Reasons why you should choose Softinn Booking Engine:-

Booking engine is a system in which the hotel receives a room reservation directly when the guest makes a room reservation through the hotel website or social media, such as Facebook. There are more and more hotels starting to install booking engines on their hotel website or social media because it can increase the hotel revenue by gaining direct booking. Besides that, installing a booking engine can increase the cash flow of your hotels. This is because you can receive the payments from the guests immediately.

Hotel front desk software is an important tool for front desk staff to manage the front desk functions efficiently. By having front desk software or so called Property Management System (PMS), your staff will be able to handle day-to-day tasks like guest check-in and check-out, housekeeping checklist, room reservations, room availability management and other functions in a single platform.

This will help in avoiding human error and manual data entry challenges since most of the things will be automated by the system. The moment you use PMS, you will soon realize how much time you save and less effort needed to stay organized.

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Not to forget that the technology is growing and changing, so does the business. In this article, we are going to talk about the reasons why you need the latest hotel front desk software in order for you to grow your business effectively.

The majority of most companies, uses social media platform as one of their marketing tool to promote their product and services. Why do they choose to use that? Easy and simple - because it is used by more than billions of people in this world. To be able to write a good content is a way of conveying messages to your readers and audiences a story that can take them deep into your content and have an immediately drives of engagement. 

But, not sure where to start?
How to write a good and persuasive content within the characters limit? 

Hotel are planning to start to create a blog for your audience or future guests to more understand about your hotel. Unfortunately, you do not have idea or topic where actually to kick start the content. 

A channel manager helps you to continuously sell and manage your maximum inventory through various distribution channels and provides updated price and rooms allotment information.

Finding the right Channel Manager for your Hotel can be difficult, especially when there are so many options available online. Because we know that you’re not the only one facing these difficulties, we decided to help you by sharing the most important aspects you should look for when choosing your channel manager to help you make the best choice.

OTAs play an important role in the hotel industry and online booking nowadays. There are certain times where people love to make a booking through OTAs channel. In addition, research found that more than half of the bookings were made through OTA platforms. With this, hotels should not want to miss the opportunity by increasing their properties more visible online.

Did you know that you can distribute and sell your maximum room inventory to many OTAs without worrying about overbooking and disparity rate issues? Through a Channel Manager, hotels can monitor their real-time availability and rates across all OTAs, thus helping to adjust and update seamlessly across all the channels.

If you are looking for a Channel Manager for your hotel to make your job easier and at the same time want to increase hotel's ROI, let's consider this Top 5 Popular Channel Manager in Malaysia:

Ever since technology has changed the landscape of the hospitality and tourism industry, and we are now in the year 2021, many hotels have already adopted smart hotel solutions for their business. However, we believe that there are thousands of hotels outside there that missed out on this opportunity, haven’t yet adopted the technology, and maintain the manual work in the daily operation. 

Despite the above mentioned, we know that every hotel's business end goals want to maximize their hotels' revenue. It can be achieved by reducing unnecessary costs, avoiding human errors, driving more bookings and selling maximum inventory. 

In this article, we are going to talk about Property Management System (PMS) and Channel Manager, how both of them work and connect to your online distribution channels so that they can help you to increase more hotel revenue. 

Copy-writing practice is just like sports warm-up before they start running. It should reflect your company values and give the imagination to your potential guests and move them one step closer to the action wanted which is booking.