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Hospitality

Hotel front desk running on a room chart

A hotel loses money in the gap between the room chart, the booking diary and the bill that is still blank when the guest is standing at the desk with a cab waiting.

Setup
1–3 weeks
Who it is for
Hotels and guest houses
Industry
Hospitality
Product
Hotel software

The problem on the ground

The room chart on the wall and the booking notebook disagree by evening. A walk-in is promised a room that an online booking already holds, or a room is blocked for a guest who cancelled by phone and nobody updated the chart. Housekeeping has cleaned it. The desk still thinks it is occupied.

The bill is the second failure. Room rent is known. Food from the restaurant, laundry and a late checkout are on slips that may or may not reach the folio. The guest disputes a line they do not remember. GST is worked out on a calculator while other guests wait.

Night audit is a third register: which rooms were sold, which payments were cash, which were UPI. If that page is wrong, the next morning starts with yesterday’s doubt.

Hotel software replaces the chart with a board the desk and housekeeping share. A booking, a walk-in or a block changes the room at that moment. Charges post to the guest folio as they happen. Checkout prints the invoice, including GST, from the folio — not from a pile of slips.

See the product

What changes when this is live

One board
Room status

Vacant, occupied, dirty and blocked — visible to desk and housekeeping

One folio
Guest bill

Room, food and extras before the guest reaches the desk

GST
On the invoice

Tax on the lines that need it, not calculated at checkout

Night
Audit

The day’s rooms and payments close without a second register

What keeps breaking

The wall chart, the phone diary and online bookings are three lists, so the same room is sold twice.

Housekeeping and the front desk do not share a status, so a dirty room is offered or a ready room sits idle.

Restaurant and extra charges arrive as paper slips and are missing from the bill.

GST is calculated at the desk, under pressure, on a mix of room and food lines.

The night report is rewritten from memory when the day’s payments were taken on different counters.

How the software closes it

Every room has one status. A reservation, walk-in, checkout or block updates it for the desk and housekeeping together.

Housekeeping marks dirty, clean and inspected on the same board the receptionist uses to assign the room.

Food and extras post to the open folio. Checkout does not depend on a slip surviving the shift.

GST sits on the charge line. The invoice total is the folio total.

Night audit reads the rooms and payments already in the system. The morning report is a print, not a rewrite.

How a setup actually runs

Week 1

Rooms and rates

Room types, meal plans and the taxes you actually charge. We map how a walk-in is handled today, including the book that is still in the drawer.

Week 2

Desk live

Arrivals and departures run on the board. Housekeeping gets the same screen. Paper slips for extras are entered before the shift ends.

Week 3

Folio and night audit

Checkout uses only the folio. The first night audit is done together so the accountant sees where cash and UPI landed.

Questions this industry asks

How does a hotel stop double-booking a room?

One room cannot be sold twice if there is one status. A phone booking, a walk-in and a block all take the room on the same board. The desk sees it is occupied before offering it again. Online channel bookings can be entered on that board until a direct connection is in scope.

Can restaurant charges appear on the room bill?

Yes. A charge posted to the room from the restaurant or the desk lands on the open folio. The guest sees it at checkout. You do not collect paper KOTs and hope they match the room number.

Is GST calculated on the hotel invoice?

Tax is set on the charge — room, food or extra — and the invoice adds those lines. The receptionist is not asked to compute GST while a guest is waiting. The exact rate is the one you configure for that charge.

Will housekeeping know which rooms to clean?

Checkout marks the room dirty on the shared board. Housekeeping marks it clean, and the desk can assign it. The wall chart is not the source anymore.

How soon can a small hotel start?

A single property with rooms and rates ready is often live in one to three weeks. Call +91 8271932791 and tell us the room count. We will show the board and a sample folio on a call.

Want this flow on a call?

Tell us the operation that is breaking. We will walk that screen and send a written quote.

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