Congratulations!! I would add, get all the utilities transferred to your name. Find out account #s, security codes, passwords etc. I had a very difficult time with AT&T getting the phone #s transferred to my name because I didn't have the account numbers and security code. The phone numbers had been around a very long time, listed in who knows how many places over the years, and I didn't want to lose them.
Also, if you have a master key for all your rooms, find out the locksmith who made the original.
Find out if there are any outstanding Gift Certificates out there. We've had folks with GC over 10-15 years old looking to reserve and we had no data on them.
Lastly, if you don't have it physically, find out where they printed their stuff for the art work, original photos, logo, font, etc. It took me a while to find out the font of our logo.
Question to you. Why did you change from RezKey to Checkfront?.
Thanks, we did all that. The previous owners were admitted technophobes and it was a struggle getting all our intellectual property under control but it now is. I redrew the logo myself since all they had was terrible jpg copies of copies of a crappy logo. I photographed the sign on the road that was the original logo design, done by hand, carved into a wood sign, and redrew it in illustrator creating an industry standard vector file. We have all our domains, phone numbers, and I’ve already redesigned the website, the rack cards, business cards, etc. (I’ve been in the business for over 25 years, marketing and materials is no problem for me).
I dislike res keys interface, it’s very 1998 windows computer to me. Others like it a lot and bully for them. I wanted something that would reside on my own website, not a redirect, which is a big deal to google and my SEO. Checkfront is an inline embed system, which means google indexes see it. Retaining visitors on our site also means a lower bounce rate, again, good for SEO. Checkfront is not just a lodging system but a booking engine for many industries, I like this because I’ve been able to tailor it to my needs, instead of having someone “on-board me”, I am in control of my data and my look. Once we settle in, i plan to rewrite a lot of the CSS to change the look to better suit my needs, as well. The price is about the same as others ($80/mo. for Checkfront, $50/mo. for MyAllocator) and so far so good. We are getting bookings easily direct and MA is taking care of the rest, although I’m really hating the OTAs at the moment.
Hope this info helps answer your question.
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