Cloudbeds Review

With Cloudbeds, users have access to the main travel channels and technological brands that allow hotel managers to optimize work flows, reduce operating costs and save precious time, allowing them to improve the quality of the service, obtain more reservations and increase revenue. The platform effectively simplifies activities such as managing bookings, allocating rooms and accounting. It integrates seamlessly with over 500 third-party applications such as accounting, CRM and email marketing tools. The solution has the ability to manage hotels’ reception and back office, taking their businesses to the next level. Cloudbeds dashboard is intuitive, designed to reduce the time needed to complete daily tasks. Reservations are easy to organize, with the platform’s drag-and-drop calendar. With this function, you can have a new view of your reservations, which can maximize employment and, subsequently, revenue.

CLOUDBEDS – TUTORIAL

Watching this video we try to create a dashboard for the reception staff with this hotel management software:

CLOUDBEDS – FEATURES

• Control Panel: see exactly what’s going on and what needs to be done on your property today, tomorrow and the rest of the week
• Calendar: enjoy a visual calendar with drag and drop of all rooms and reservations. Manage your property directly from the calendar
• Room/bed assignments: allocate reservations on the fly to maximize employment
• Custom taxes, commissions and policies: set taxes, commissions and policies exactly as you need them, per room, per item or in any combination suitable for your business
• Booking sources: keep track of the origin of your bookings, from OTA like Booking.com and Expedia, from your online booking engine or from walk-in customers
• Complete Report Suite: generate, print, download and share production, daily and financial reports, and more
• Custom fields: create custom fields that appear within PMS, booking engine or registration form. These can include passport numbers, birth dates and so on
• Financial back-end: allows you to see the tax receipts and transactions from each booking and organize them by source
• Internal accounts: record transactions on accounts that do not have a reservation. Examples include groups and administrative accounts
• Cash register: keep track of the cash that goes in and out in each shift.
• Cloudbeds API: with the secure and flexible API, you can connect myfrontdesk to third-party reporting systems and tools
• Household chores: look at the status of each room – clean or dirty, empty or occupied – and assign housekeepers to rooms if necessary
• Activity logs: find out who has modified, canceled, created, moved or modified a reservation
• Previous Guest Recognition: quickly extract previous guest data to quickly create a new reservation
• Registration cards: automatically prepare a registration card for quick and easy check-in
• Guest Status: checks the status of upcoming, current and previous guests. Find out when they will check out, what their room costs are, any special requests they have made, and more
• Facebook engine: install mybookings on your Facebook page to receive direct and commission-free bookings on the world’s most famous social network
• Availability block: lock the dates on your calendar to make rooms unavailable on your booking engine for the desired time interval
• Promotional codes: create promotions with unique promotional codes and accept codes on your booking engine
• Custom Email Templates: create beautiful personalized emails that your booking engine generates and sends for every booking
• Currency converter: create a rate, then convert it to the desired currency for visitors who use it
• Personalized brand: make your booking engine suitable for the brand of your website. Enjoy full support for custom logos, colors, fonts and CSS
• Google Analytics monitoring: integrate your booking engine with Google Analytics to track and generate reports on each transaction.