Smart Hotel

Vorteile

East to use. even when i use it at the first time, and i able to use it in a week after training. They has feature from front office till back office.

Nachteile

Sometimes is freeze and i need to restart it. I don't why it happens.May be because of inthernet or something else.

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I personally like the reporting features. I am able to get reports on occupancy and reservations that enable me to see what our revenues are like

Nachteile

The rates set up features. We are a bit different than a hotel and have 3 areas we work with for reservations. Due to this we have an a lot of rates. Each rate has 3 components - Hidden Rate, Visible Rate and an Object to direct the funds to the correct GL account.

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I like the amount of detail we can include and customize in our reservations. [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN]at Smart Hotel is SO helpful and easy to communicate with. When we can't figure something out over the phone, having him be able to take control of my computer screen is so great.

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Not being able to adjust a reservation once checked out. I don't like that it asks me again if i want to close a window.

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The customer service department is fantastic and can help us creating the materials, and systems we require when the standard is not workable for our needs.
I like it's adaptability. It has been reliable for reservations and has not had trouble with 'dropping' reservations that other systems I have worked with have.

Nachteile

Lack of Training manual or guide
It is clunky and does not look very modern. This is particularly evident in the online bookings.

Vorteile

1. Uniresman Customer Service is excellent. In a day and age of automation it is a refreshing change to have a real person answer the support line and in a few short minutes solve your problem.
2. After the initial purchase of software we were impressed by the fact UniResman software is consistently updating and improving the performance to meet the ever changing hospitality environment.
3. I think the strongest pro regarding the software is how easy the software is to learn. We have a diverse group of people working our offices with various education, experience and training. The simplicity of the software has made new training staff member an enjoyable relaxing process.

Nachteile

If there is one element Uniresman must improve on is the Release Notes for service pack. The notes are written for techs in the back office that have the time to review all the pages in detail. There needs to be a FAST note version I can give to my front desk and sales staff that they can read. I dont care if they call it You asked for it you got the Top Ten FAST Notes i.e. Hotel X asked for a fast button for walk-ins-here it is. A screen shot, basic instructions and a sample all on 1-2 pages per example. If I can give each staff member 10-15 new things to learn each update they can see growth in the software as well as themselves.

This is why I gave the "Feature Richness' 3 stars. The software may have new features but if you don't convey the message in a simpler format my staff and I will not be able to discover them.

Vorteile

Easy to load this program and to make reservations

Nachteile

When you want to go to the day you are actually on it will take you to the previous day example if it was November 22 and I wanted to go to the date on the program I have to go to the previous day to get the correct date

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The team at smart hotel will answer your call anytime! [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] and the team are so knowledgeabve and helpful. They have always been able to solve any issues.

Nachteile

Not a thing. Works great! Have had little to no issues.

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User friendly & simple.
Color coded chart on control reservation screen

Nachteile

Would like the option of entering the zip and the city/state pops up.
Would like a dual option when entering housekeeping status (i.e. - vacant & clean/ vacant & occupied); with computer giving a flag if there is a discrepancy.

Vorteile

It can be customized to meet our needs. Support staff are very good, have an excellent understanding of the system, and can help to determine the best way to fit our needs. We don't fit "inside the box" of a regular hotel, so we have required quite a few custom programs / reports. The system now works very well, is reliable, and fairly easy to use.

Nachteile

It is complicated and some aspects are not very intuitive.
There is quite a steep learning curve to be able to use this software.

Vorteile

Many Features

Great Control Screen

I like how everything opens in there own process, but should be tabbed

Nachteile

Reservations take too many steps and too many ways to do it, therefor very slow.

Program stalls many times a day.

Some reservations don't save properly when adding rooms making for a huge headache later.

The user interface is cluttered with no option of eliminating features.

Training is very extensive rendering the program useless for seasonal operations.

Web interface creates unallocated reservations that if not checked for regularly will result in overbooking.

Objects don't move with reservations, pain when adjusting dates.

Payments don't always default to paying guest in the open reservation

Does not show all outstanding folios.

Stalls when viewing GL's

Cancelled reservations print when you print daily registration cards. Waste of paper, time, and very confusing.

Objects show on all reservation confirmations.

Deposits include objects

Agents and extra guests should not print when printing registration cards.

Vorteile

After reviewing a couple dozen different systems, we implemented UniResMan for the hotel front desk processes. It matched our prior processes very closely, is intuitive, and provides the front desk staff with any reservation info they needed at any time (something we could not do prior). It has a full set of standard reports that provide essential information for operations, saving weeks of compilation time. Simply put: this software enables management to focus on growing business more, opposed to solely supporting daily operations.

Nachteile

The standardized reports are structured to fit what an accountant likes to see, which can obscure information from accurately or quickly being read by front-line staff (front desk or housekeeping).
While all of the information is in the system, it can be difficult to find. The user needs to understand where to find all of the information (user-specific training).

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Smart Hotel is very user friendly software and easy to learn. Integrated with our finance software which is a god send.

Nachteile

No dislikes of this software - should have got it 5 years ago

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Colors are quick to see, people are great to work with.

Nachteile

having to click inside of empty boxes lol

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Uni Res is user-friendly, and I can see how it would be so very useful where many differing departments need to be all on the same page... like housekeeping, maintenance and reception.

Nachteile

In our situation, it is much more software than we need. This becomes a bit cumbersome as well ... in that it tries to tell us more than we need to know. Sounds like a perfect world ... and it is not a problem. It is simply more than we need.

Vorteile

Easy to use, tonnes of features and fairly straight forward application to figure out.
Customer Support (Liz) is a pleasure to deal with and always comes up with answers/solutions quickly.

Nachteile

Reporting Function not particularly user friendly.
The use of Crystal reports for guest paperwork, makes fine tuning your confirmations and registrations harder than it should be.

Not URMs fault, but disappointing that the interface to allow our H&L POS to charge to rooms, still does not work correctly.

Vorteile

Good value for money, great technical support and customer service, stable and reliable, few technical problems. Adequate online reservations system that integrates with back-end.

Nachteile

Not the most user-friendly system: takes a while to learn and some processes seem unnecessarily long-winded. "Out-of-the-box" online reservations solution needed some tweaking for our preferences costing us extra money in programming.

Vorteile

-Reporting

Nachteile

-There are a number of items that have been dicussed that require further attention.
-Ease of use
-Speed of loading screens
-Cutting down the number of screens
-Changing certain reports so that we can find our information quickly and efficiently

Just to name a few

Vorteile

birds eye view of all the rooms
easy to use and train others on
capturing of data
awesome customer support
good prompting when taking reservations
good interface with other our restaurant software and simply accounting

Nachteile

diffivculty when fully booked to transfer to rooms

Vorteile

this product meets most of our needs.

Nachteile

a bit cumbersome for building variable package rates. we do not use the invoicing feature as we do not like the presentation.

Vorteile

The whole system is a pro. The system is great.

Nachteile

We are happy with all features at Hotel Res,