Removing The PMS Nightmare: How One Hotel Set Up a New PMS and Fully Integrated Revenue Management Tool in A Matter Of Minutes

One hotel, unsatisfied with its current setup, decided it was time to make a change and searched for a better way.

Hotel Uhland, an independent property located in the heart of Munich's city center, struggled with its legacy PMS. The system itself was clunky and did not offer simple, integrated solutions for managing rates, channel management, and more. The team was spending too much time and manual work on its pricing, taking away from time that they could be spending with guests.

Susanna Wörle, General Manager of the hotel, notes, "We are a rather small team with a very personal touch to the guests. A challenge we are facing is positioning our unique offering on the competitive Munich market. Technology is playing a critical role to stay in the race. But as a small team it has become nearly impossible for us to deal with the increasing complexities integrating the tools we really need."

Wörle began her search for a flexible PMS that could be set up quickly and could easily connect to core revenue management tools. Her goal was to find a solution to optimize the hotel's rates using data like competitors' rates, events, historical data and business on the books, without manual work and the possibility of human errors.

After extensive research, she settled on apaleo, a fully cloud-based PMS with a pre-integrated marketplace of applications in a variety of hotel software categories. Through the apaleo marketplace, Wörle selected Hotellistat for its revenue management tool, which provides a simple drag-and-drop interface to adjust prices and update rates in the apaleo PMS.

To Wörle's surprise, the entire set up was a breeze. She notes, "It is amazing how easily we can manage our prices with Hotellistat – not to mention that the rates are automatically updated in our apaleo PMS and synchronized with our OTAs without a channel manager. Because Hotellistat is pre-integrated with apaleo, the setup was done in less than one hour."

With numerous comparison and filter options, Wörle and her team were able to analyse the price of room per category, length of stay, occupancy, cancellation policies and included services. What's more, by a simple drag-and-drop, Hotel Uhland can adjust prices to its competitors' rates. And with a click of a button, optimize and update rates into the apaleo PMS, saving countless hours of work without the need to hire additional staff.

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About Apaleo

Apaleo is the open property management platform for hotel and serviced apartment groups, empowering accommodation providers to create the ultimate digital experience for guests and staff. The API-first property management platform powers brands across more than 24 countries, disrupting the nature of hospitality software with the transition from single-vendor suites to best-of-breed technology. Customers include Numa, Limehome citizenM, Mollie's, Vagabond Club, Raus and more. For more information, visit apaleo.com.

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