Nonnie_and_Pops
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Hello,
Well we've been lurking around the site here for the past few months; finally joined a couple of weeks ago; trying to soak up everything we can, and not get in the way in the process. The past few days I've been reading everything I can find in the forums on guest / property management and reservation systems. From what I can tell the majority of you use one of four products, RezOvations, Webervations, SuperInn and Reservation Nexus, with a sprinkling of a few using one of the less well known apps. There's plenty of post about different wish lists, and post talking about switching from one product to another. What I haven't been able to find a lot of is why you use the system that you use, or what caused you to decide one product wasn't right for you and caused you to switch from one to another.
The biggest thing that I've acomplished is making my self a little crazy and sitting back more confused than I was when I started. Wading through all the options is quite a task and I finally had to put it all in a spreadsheet so I could make sense of it.
In our case, the B&B we are purchseing is a ten room property and for a reservation / GMS package it is going to cost from Webervations 1.0 at $13.99 a month all the way up to Reservations Nexus Classic with Auto Pilot coming in at $165.00 per month.
Coming from a restaurant and night club atmosphere I was more than a little surprised to see some of the pricing schedules that I have. For example, paying $649 setup to get GDS with RezOvations and then a $250.00 a year maintenance charge. Ok, I see the setup and maintenance charges as part ODB and I have no issue with that, but on top of that $15.50 per reservation and then another approx 30% going to one of the oneline bookings sites such as BandB, Hotels.com etc. I mean thats a wopping $45 fees on a $100.00 room. I guess that's normal in the lodging biz, but WOW! To me that's kinda like paying for a newspaper ad for your night club and then haveing to pay them money for each one of their readers that came in and on top of that paying them 30% for each drink that reader drank while there. Just seems like your being nickeled and dimed to death.
Anyway, before I degress any farther, We've pretty much narrowed it down between Webervations, SuperInn or RezOvations GT. however, I'd like to hear what system you are using, and why it is a fit for you.
Thank you in advance for reading and replying.
Well we've been lurking around the site here for the past few months; finally joined a couple of weeks ago; trying to soak up everything we can, and not get in the way in the process. The past few days I've been reading everything I can find in the forums on guest / property management and reservation systems. From what I can tell the majority of you use one of four products, RezOvations, Webervations, SuperInn and Reservation Nexus, with a sprinkling of a few using one of the less well known apps. There's plenty of post about different wish lists, and post talking about switching from one product to another. What I haven't been able to find a lot of is why you use the system that you use, or what caused you to decide one product wasn't right for you and caused you to switch from one to another.
The biggest thing that I've acomplished is making my self a little crazy and sitting back more confused than I was when I started. Wading through all the options is quite a task and I finally had to put it all in a spreadsheet so I could make sense of it.
In our case, the B&B we are purchseing is a ten room property and for a reservation / GMS package it is going to cost from Webervations 1.0 at $13.99 a month all the way up to Reservations Nexus Classic with Auto Pilot coming in at $165.00 per month.
Coming from a restaurant and night club atmosphere I was more than a little surprised to see some of the pricing schedules that I have. For example, paying $649 setup to get GDS with RezOvations and then a $250.00 a year maintenance charge. Ok, I see the setup and maintenance charges as part ODB and I have no issue with that, but on top of that $15.50 per reservation and then another approx 30% going to one of the oneline bookings sites such as BandB, Hotels.com etc. I mean thats a wopping $45 fees on a $100.00 room. I guess that's normal in the lodging biz, but WOW! To me that's kinda like paying for a newspaper ad for your night club and then haveing to pay them money for each one of their readers that came in and on top of that paying them 30% for each drink that reader drank while there. Just seems like your being nickeled and dimed to death.
Anyway, before I degress any farther, We've pretty much narrowed it down between Webervations, SuperInn or RezOvations GT. however, I'd like to hear what system you are using, and why it is a fit for you.
Thank you in advance for reading and replying.