small-hotel
Direct booking
Is a direct booking website worth it for a small hotel?
For most properties at 8 to 25 rooms a direct booking website is worth it, and for four specific kinds of property it is not. Here is how to tell which one you are, the arithmetic that decides it with two worked examples, what the US and Canadian parity rules do to your discount, and the free work worth doing while you wait.
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Best PMS for small hotels: twelve systems priced for 8 to 25 rooms
Five of the twelve systems on this list publish a price you can read without a sales call. The rest quote you. Here is what each one costs at 8 to 25 rooms, the second bill hiding behind the subscription, the six questions that decide a demo, and the case for keeping the system you already pay for.
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