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How It Works: Splitting A Guest's Reservation

Why It Is Important: Accommodate Your Guests Needs While Consolidating Their Information The split reservation function is useful when a guest has a booking but you need to move ...

How It Works: Display Colors

By: John Shortall on 6/24/15 8:30

Why It Is Important: Customize Your Room, Guest, and House Keeping Statuses Easily Display colors let you retrieve information about the status of rooms by directly looking at ...

Measuring the Costs and Benefits of Direct Hotel Bookings vs OTA's

By: John Shortall on 6/4/15 8:30

The distribution landscape for hotels is changing and becoming more complex with each passing day. In January of 2015, Expedia purchased Travelocity and agreed to purchase Orbitz ...

How It Works: Promo Codes

By: John Shortall on 5/5/15 9:00

Why It Is Important: Share Secret Rates On Your Website For Special Customers Group or promotion codes are a great way to publish secret rates to your website booking engine that ...

Frontdesk Anywhere Announces New Responsive Online Booking Engine

By: John Shortall on 3/31/15 10:11

Frontdesk Anywhere, an award winning leader in cloud based property management software for the hotel industry today announced the release of its third generation, mobile ...

How It Works: Add-Ons and POS Items

By: John Shortall on 3/30/15 17:40

Why It Is Important: Offer Your Guests More Than Just a Bed To Sleep In Inventories that fail to match tallies, unrecorded sales, and simple human errors can all easily be avoided ...

How It Works: Unassigned Reservations

By: John Shortall on 2/25/15 14:00

Why It Is Important: Manage Your Overbookings In The Face of Guest Cancellations The Unassigned room status is just one of many features that allows Frontdesk Anywhere the ...

Frontdesk Anywhere client named world's 3rd best hotel by TripAdvisor

By: John Shortall on 2/19/15 15:27

In a poll of over 8,100 hotels worldwide, Frontdesk Anywhere client, Shinta Mani Club placed third in TripAdvisor’s Travellers Choice Awards. According to TripAdvisor, the winners ...

Frontdesk Anywhere Partners with HotelCloud to Enhance Guest Experience

By: John Shortall on 1/30/15 16:05

Award winning property management system, Frontdesk Anywhere, announced yesterday its partnership with HotelCloud to increase hotel guests pre and during stay experience.

How It Works: Blocks and Holds

By: John Shortall on 10/31/14 18:01

Why It Is Important: Set Aside Rooms That Should Not Be Rented (DNR) or For Guests Who Haven't Confirmed The Reservation. Every hotelier likes to run their property at near full ...

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