“The register is a book”
Which works, until two people take a booking on the same evening, or the book goes home in somebody's bag.
For lodges, guest houses, homestays and pilgrim stays
Software small enough for a twelve-room lodge to actually use
Runs on the ordinary shared hosting you already pay for. Retires the paper register, puts you on the map with your own website, and takes bookings and payments without a monthly bill that grows every year.
What we hear from smaller properties
Almost always some combination of these five.
“We are only on the listing sites”
So the commission comes off every booking, and guests who have stayed twice still cannot find a way to book you directly.
“The quotes were for hotels”
Enterprise pricing, a cloud subscription per room, and an implementation call. For eleven rooms and a family running them.
“Our hosting is very basic”
A shared cPanel plan bought years ago. Most modern software will not run on it.
“Nobody here is technical”
Whatever goes in has to be usable by whoever is on the desk, without training that lasts a week.
“We need a GST invoice”
And the invoice has to be right, because that is what the accountant will ask for in April.
Made to be small and complete
Three designs suit this segment: Family Lodge, Himalayan Retreat and Pilgrim Stay.
Installs on ordinary hosting
PHP 8 and MySQL — the shared plan you already have is almost certainly enough. A browser installer does the rest in about fifteen minutes.
One register everyone can see
Bookings, walk-ins and online reservations in one place, with availability that cannot be double-sold.
Your own website, finally
A complete site with room pages, photographs, facilities and an enquiry form — on your own domain, editable by whoever is on the desk.
Advance payments, no commission
Take a deposit by UPI or card into your own account and settle the balance at the desk. Nothing is skimmed off the top.
GST done properly
Set your rate once. Tax is applied, shown to the guest, and carried onto the invoice at the right value.
Small enough to learn in an afternoon
Turn off the pages and modules you do not need and the system gets simpler, not more cluttered. No restaurant? Switch dining off.
“Installed on our own domain in under an hour. The support desk answered on a Sunday.”
Pilgrim stays and dharamshalas
The Pilgrim Stay design is built for exactly this: separate men's and women's dormitories with their own wings and entrances, per-bed pricing at the sums these stays actually charge, and wording written for a pilgrim rather than a tourist. It is the one design nobody else seems to build, and it is included in every licence.
See all eight designsRetire the paper register
Starter covers up to 25 rooms with the booking engine and payments included. One licence a year, and it is yours on your own server.