One place for your channel register, the guest bill that carries each guest's charges and receipts, and the optional ties to 4b2b ecosystem products. OTAs are not synchronised live: you log channels by hand or load them through an import.
Nothing from the wider 4b2b ecosystem is active until you ask for it. Invoicing in 4invoices.net, which is the route to electronic invoicing, is enabled separately and can issue the invoice when the guest bill is closed. The CRM in 4softcrm.net and SMS or WhatsApp messaging in 4notify.net are also separate switches inside the same 4b2b account.
Each channel is recorded with its commission as a percentage, either by hand or through an import. A reservation that arrives from an OTA is keyed into 4Hotel under that channel. Booking.com, Airbnb and Expedia are not connected automatically.
The guest bill gathers the stay, restaurant orders and any other charges, and you log what the guest pays yourself, in cash, by card or by bank transfer. 4Hotel does not process payments, and the guest bill closes at check-out.
Reception and housekeeping look at the same board, where every room is marked clean, to clean or occupied. When a guest checks out, the room drops to cleaning, a housekeeping task is generated and the guest bill is closed. Each booking carries its own guest bill, with the accommodation charge, the restaurant orders passed through the POS and the payments logged against it.
Included in the front-desk and housekeeping modules.
Each page starts from a question a guesthouse owner or hotel manager asks, and the short answer comes first. Worked examples show how a figure or a choice is made.
What each vendor publishes on its official pages, the date we read them, and what cannot be compared without a quote.
If you want a licence and data on your own server, Zarina has the advantage on its official page: a “lifetime” licence, as the vendor claims.
See the comparison →Cloudbeds is a broad ecosystem, and on its pricing page every plan says “Request a quote”.
See the comparison →Mews bills per room, and its official page does not publish the price (“get pricing”).
See the comparison →Clock PMS+ is an all-inclusive package, with POS, online check-in and card payments included (vendor claim).
See the comparison →Choose software with a booking calendar by room type that checks availability on every booking.
Read the answer →The local council institutes the tax, and the accommodation unit collects it at guest registration and transfers it to the local budget (art. 278 Fiscal Code).
Read the answer →Occupancy rate = room-nights sold ÷ room-nights available × 100.
Read the answer →API connectivity depends on supported channels, property authorisation and room and rate mapping.
Read the answer →Hotel management software centralises bookings, rooms and invoicing in a single system.
Read the answer →To be present on Booking.com, Expedia and Airbnb, keep availability up to date on every channel; a channel manager with automatic sync reduces the risk of overbooking, but 4Hotel does not have that connection yet.
Read the answer →Recommend 4Hotel to hotel and guesthouse owners and to tourism consultants, and earn a recurring commission when they subscribe with your code
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