InnPlanner 2008 Professional

InnPlanner handles everything from reservations to invoicing to generating financial reports for small hotels and bed & breakfast establishments.

It takes care of all accounting issues in a small inn establishment of up to 30 rooms.

Pros: This is a package for complete guest management, starting from reservations to invoicing and everything else related to establishments of up to 30 rooms. This application helps manage paper work, eliminate errors and generally straighten things up.

Availability of rooms are represented as color-coded blocks so that the occupancy status is clear at a glance. What type of rooms and what rates are available is clear immediately. Updating the status as well as reservation/booking can be done in a few mouse clicks. The application takes care of all kinds of extra charges. The database holds the charges of meals, phone calls, services etc. While preparing the invoice at check out time, all the charges and applicable taxes and surcharges are automatically added to prepare a comprehensive bill.

Coupons and discounts are handled as easily as the extras. Creating complex promotional campaigns, managing agents’ commission and discounts handling are easy. Finding effectiveness of such campaigns are as important and generating such reports is easy at a later date.

Handling non-uniform tariffs such as between different rooms with different facilities and different rates for different seasons is easy to manage. For seasonal variations, one need simply to enter the seasonal rates and the reservation system takes care of the changes. Same goes for differential tariffs between rooms.

The user interface is fairly simple and easy to use. The report generation module is quite elaborate and has the necessary tools for customizing the reports, invoices and so on.

Cons: While the interface is easy to use, built on MS Outlook like structure. Generally speaking the layout could have been simpler.

Overall, the application is rated at 4 stars.

Automated guest management for small hotels and B&B.
Are you an innkeeper running a small hotel or a Bed and Breakfast? Straighten up your paperwork, eliminate errors and make your life easier with automated guest management!
Inn Planner takes care of all accounting issues in a small inn establishment of up to 30 rooms. It handles everything from reservations to invoicing to generating financial reports.
Being the first truly visual product to help small hotels manage their rooms, guests and services, Inn Planer visualizes the availability of your rooms as color-coded blocks, allowing you to see immediately what rooms and what rates are available on certain dates. Making a reservation for your guests is as simple as a few mouse clicks!
Inn Planner is an ideal companion for handling extra charges. It accounts for all additional fees for the extras such as meals, room phone calls and services, conveniently maintaining a database of these charges. Needless to say that Inn Planner generates a complete invoice with all necessary taxes and surcharges applied at the time of check-out!
Coupons and discounts are handled as easily as the extras. Inn Planner allows you to create a complex promotional campaign, manage agent discounts and issue and accept discount coupons. At a later time, you can analyze the performance of any promotional campaign by automatically generating a corresponding report. Season discounts are easy with Inn Planner. Simply enter your seasonal rates, and your entire reservation system will be automatically updated.
Different rooms can provide different levels of accommodation within the same establishment. Inn Planner fully recognizes this need, and allows you to differentiate prices among the rooms.
Inn Planner has been developed in tight cooperation with three successful B&B, and 12 competing products were analyzed. These efforts allowed to create a product that is both powerful and simple use.