Roomnexa

The hotel tech world had a busy first week of October: a landmark PMS–POS deal, two major AI product launches, fresh data on Asia-Pacific's AI adoption gap, and new funding for hospitality software. Here is what happened — and what it means for independent hotels. 1. Mews launches AI-powered Guest Messaging and Automations. On October 1, Mews launched Guest Messaging (one AI-powered inbox for SMS, WhatsApp, Booking.com, Expedia and the guest portal) and Automations for rule-based workflows. Mews says its AI answers 80% of routine questions instantly. Source: PR Newswire, Oct 1, 2026. 2. Accor picks Mews to standardize F&B technology globally. Starting with Mews POS, which runs without dedicated IT support and connects through an open API. Source: PR Newswire, Sep 30, 2026. 3. Roommaster brings AI suite and rebuilt PMS to Independent Hotel Show London. Demoed October 5–6 at Olympia London; the company claims the rebuilt PMS runs three times faster with 60% fewer clicks. Source: ...

Every hotel owner knows the feeling. A guest checks in, pays ₹4,000 for two nights, and somewhere between 15 and 25 percent of that money never reaches the hotel — it goes to the OTA that sent the guest. Do that a few hundred times a month and you are funding someone else's business with your own rooms. A hotel booking engine is the tool that lets guests book directly on your own website instead. No middleman, no commission. This guide explains what a booking engine actually does, what it costs in India, how the commission math works out in rupees, and how a small independent hotel can realistically start taking direct bookings. Quick answer: A hotel booking engine is software on your hotel's website that lets guests check room availability, see rates, and pay for a reservation directly — without going through an OTA like MakeMyTrip or Booking.com. Because no OTA is involved, you keep the full booking value instead of paying 15–25% commission. It works best when it stays i...

Running billing for a hotel in India is nothing like billing for a shop. A single guest stay can include the room charge, restaurant bills, room service, laundry, a spa visit, an advance paid months ago, a discount at checkout, and a company that pays for only part of it. Every line of that bill has to carry the right GST rate, the right SAC code, and a proper tax invoice that the guest's company can actually claim credit on. Get any of it wrong and the front desk spends checkout arguing with guests while the accountant spends month-end fixing folios by hand. GST-ready hotel billing software is software built around this reality: it connects reservations, guest folios, room and restaurant charges, payments, and tax invoices in one system, so the bill that comes out at checkout is correct the first time. This guide explains the GST rules your billing has to follow — the room tariff slabs, SAC codes, restaurant rules, and reports — and what to look for in billing software for India...

If your hotel is listed on MakeMyTrip, Goibibo, Booking.com, Expedia, and Airbnb, you already know the good news: more visibility, more bookings. You also know the bad news, because it shows up every single morning. Log in to the MakeMyTrip extranet and update your weekend rates. Log in to Goibibo and do the same thing again. Then Booking.com. Then Expedia. Then Airbnb. By the time you're done, twenty-five minutes are gone — and if a booking came in on one channel while you were updating another, your room count is already wrong. A channel manager exists to end that routine. One dashboard, one update, and every connected OTA reflects it within seconds. Quick answer: A channel manager is software that keeps your hotel's rates and room availability identical across all OTAs — MakeMyTrip, Goibibo, Booking.com, Expedia, Airbnb — from one dashboard. You change a price or close a date once, and the update reaches every connected channel automatically, ending the daily grind of f...

Walk into a 15-room hotel in Ranchi, Jaipur, or Coimbatore and you will often find the same thing behind the front desk: a thick register, a calculator, and a receptionist who knows every booking by heart. Ask the owner why the hotel doesn't use a property management system and the answer is almost always money. A PMS sounds like an expense for big hotels, not for a place where the owner sometimes checks guests in personally. That is exactly why "free hotel management software" gets searched so much. But here is the problem: most pages that promise free software don't tell you what "free" actually means. Some mean a two-week trial. Some mean software you install yourself on your own computer. Some mean a genuinely free plan that stays free. This guide sorts that out honestly — and shows what RoomNexa's free plan covers, where its limits sit, and how it compares with the other genuinely free options an Indian hotel can use today. Quick answer: RoomNex...

Walk into most small hotels in India — the 20-room budget hotel near the railway station, the family-run guest house, the hillside homestay — and you'll find the same scene at the front desk: a thick register, a phone buzzing with WhatsApp booking confirmations, and someone logging into four or five different travel websites one by one to update room rates. It works, until it doesn't. A double booking here, a missed check-out charge there, and a month-end where nobody can say exactly how the hotel actually did. RoomNexa exists for hotels like these. It's a cloud-based hotel property management system (PMS) built by RoomNexa Technologies Pvt Ltd, a company based in Ranchi, Jharkhand. It pulls the everyday work of running a hotel — reservations, front-desk operations, online travel channel updates, direct website bookings, and GST billing — into one online dashboard. And it comes with a free plan, so a small hotel can start using it without spending a rupee on software firs...