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CT-Sided Booking Solutions

One front desk for every motel you run.

Switch properties with one click, or search across all of them at once. One sign in per person, no commission, ever.

Built for small motels, whether that's one building or a group of them. The today board, the room grid, bills, payments and refunds, and guests booking on your own website.

Both demos are a made-up motel with made-up guests. Card payments run in test mode, so nothing is ever charged. It's private to whoever opens it, every visitor gets their own motel, and it's wiped when they leave.

Room grid demo motel
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Every room, every night, on one screen. This is a picture of the grid. The real one is a click away in the demo.
From $149/moFront Desk
From $199/moFull System
$0Setup, migration, training
No commissionOn any booking, ever
The three differences

Three things worth knowing before you look at the price

These are the parts we'd want to know about if we were the ones running the motel.

One system

Several motels, one sign in

If you own more than one property, they all run in the same system. Your desk people sign in once and move between buildings, and you can look at the whole group on one screen instead of keeping a separate account, a separate password and a separate calendar for every motel you own. One person, one sign in, and they only see what you let them see. Ask most of these systems what it costs to run four motels and you get a sales call before you get a number. Ours is on this page: every size, and 20 percent off at three properties or more.

Who you call

We load it, we train your staff, and we answer the phone

Your rooms, your rates and your existing bookings go in before you ever touch it, and we sit with your front desk people until they're comfortable. After that you're not calling a ticket queue in another time zone. There are two of us, and you get both numbers.

C. Friedman(609) 408-2229
Changes

Small changes in days. Bigger ones get a quote.

Ask us for something small, a field you keep needing, a change to how a bill reads, a button where your staff keep looking for one, and it usually lands in days. You're asking the two people who write the code, not a form. Anything bigger, we'll tell you what it takes and quote it before we start. What we won't do is promise you anything by tomorrow.

Line by line

What the software actually does

Written the way we'd want it written if we were buying it. If a line isn't switched on yet, it says so right in the list.

At the desk

Front Desk and Full System
Today board Who's arriving, who's leaving and who's still here, on the screen your staff open first every morning. built
Check in, check out A guest at the counter is checked in or out in seconds, without hunting through paperwork for the reservation. built
Room calendar Every room and every night in color, so an open room is obvious from across the desk. built
Bills and payments Cash, cards and a mailed check all get recorded against the reservation, and a bill can be split across more than one payment. built
Refunds Give money back from the same screen that took it, with a record of who did it and when. built
Staff logins A login for every person who works the desk, plus a manager PIN for the things only you should be approving. built
No card form There is no card number field anywhere in our software. Card details go to Stripe's own pages, so they never land in our system. built
If it ever goes down Your staff land on a page with our two phone numbers on it, not a support form. You call a person who can tell you what's happening. built
Hosting and upkeep Hosting, SSL, backups, support and a direct personal line are inside the monthly price on both products. built

Own more than one motel?

A guest calls the wrong building and your desk still finds the reservation, because the search runs across everything you own. One owner, four motels, one screen.

See it in the demo

Online

Full System only
Booking on your site Guests pick their dates and book a room on your own website instead of calling and hoping somebody picks up. built
Deposits The deposit goes through Stripe and lands in your own Stripe account, in your name. It never passes through ours. built
Booking.com and Expedia Your rooms and rates stay in step with both of them, so a room sold on one is not still for sale on the other. after you sign
Google booking link We'll set up your free Google booking link, so your own rate can show in Google's price display. after you sign

Already have a website?

You don't have to replace it. We'll build the booking side of CT-Sided Booking Solutions straight into the site you already own, in your colors, tested on a phone before it goes live. That work starts at $450, and we'll quote yours once we've looked at the site.

Ask for a quote
Full System

One room sold, closed everywhere

Your rooms sit on Booking.com and Expedia through a connection we run for you, so when a room sells anywhere, it closes everywhere. Every reservation lands in the same list at your desk, whether it came from one of those sites, the phone, a walk in, or your own website.

Tripadvisor shows the prices from those sites, so it follows along without any extra work from you. Your own rate can also show in Google's price display through Google's free booking link, which by Google's own help pages costs nothing per click and takes no payment for placement.

This is the piece that isn't running yet. We switch it on for your property after you sign, in the off season, using your own Booking.com and Expedia logins.

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one list at your desk
The two products

Two ways to run your motel

Start with the desk. Add the online side whenever you want it, and move up any time.

Front Desk
From $149 / month

The receptionist's screens, and nothing you don't need.

  • The today board, check in and check out
  • The room calendar, in color
  • Bills, payments, split payments and refunds
  • Cash and a mailed check recorded by hand
  • A login for every person, and a manager PIN
  • Hosting, SSL, backups, support, and a direct personal line

No online booking and no channel sync on this one. A guest can't book a room on your website with the Front Desk by itself.

The rate card

What it costs, printed on the page

Per property, per month, by how many rooms you have.

Rooms Front Desk Full System Moving up
1 to 12 $149 $199 add $50 a month
13 to 24 $179 $249 add $70 a month
25 to 39 $239 $329 add $90 a month
40 to 74 $309 $429 add $120 a month
75 and up quoted quoted quoted

Actual quotes may vary slightly, depending on how many properties you run and which functions you want.

Getting started

What happens after you sign

The work lands in the winter, on purpose, so nothing new is being learned the week you open.

STEP 01

You sign in the off season

We put a card on file and nothing gets billed. This is the quiet half of your year, which is exactly why it's the right time.

STEP 02

We load your motel

Your rooms, your rates and last season's bookings all go in. You don't type any of it, and it costs nothing.

STEP 03

We train your staff

At your desk or on a call, for as long as it takes, including whoever you hire in the spring. Also free.

STEP 04

Your first guest arrives

The first bill lands that day, or May 1, whichever comes first. Everything before that is on us.

One-time work

If you need a website too

The subscription doesn't require one. Plenty of motels just want booking put onto the site they already have, and that's a smaller job.

A new website

Template refresh$1,500 Our template with your photos and your words, built for phones, SSL, booking wired in. Up to 8 pages.
Custom build$4,000 Designed around your property, help with the writing, direction on the photos. Up to 12 pages.
Custom flagship$6,500 Multiple buildings or a resort, more pages, more photography direction. Up to 18 pages.
Site care, optional$79 / mo Hosting, SSL, small edits, and your seasonal photo and rate swaps.

The page counts are real caps, not a suggestion. If you want more pages than that, we'll price them before we build, so a $4,000 site never turns into a $9,000 invoice.

Booking on the site you already own

Booking button and hosted pages$450 A guest clicks Book on your site and lands on a booking page at book.yourmotel.com, a second address we own and run, in your colors and with your logo on it.
Embedded widget$900 The availability search sits right on your own page, so the guest never leaves your site. Built against whatever your site already runs on.

Either way, every room type and rate goes in, your minimum stay rules get set, your photos go up, your colors get matched, and it's tested on a phone before it's live. Setting up the software itself is still free. This is the work on your website.

See it

Click it before you call us

We built a demo motel so you can try both sides of the system without talking to anybody first.

The guest side

Book a room at the demo motel the way one of your guests would, pick your dates, see the rate, and go through the deposit.

Try booking a room

The desk side

Sign in to the front desk of that same motel. Check somebody in, take a payment, and look at the grid the way your staff would on a Saturday.

Try the front desk

Book a walkthrough

Half an hour on a call, or we'll come to the desk if you're close by. You'll see the whole thing running, and you'll get a straight answer on what your motel would actually pay.