Organization and ease of reservation/booking management.
Pros
I love the simplicity, clean interface of the software, ease of use, and accessibility. Customer support is phenomenal; respond time is almost instantaneous. Team Roomsy is consistent with upgrades and improvements based on their customers needs. What an awesome product! We use it for the management of our corporate apartments both in the U.S and internationally. Roomsy has simplified our reservation and booking process at a fraction of the cost than most property management systems.
Rating breakdown
Likelihood to recommend: 10/10
Great support, easy to use software in the cloud, accessible from anywhere I am, configurable to give certain rights for staff, so they do not see what they don't need to to.
Pros
Easy to access, online, in the cloud, has enough integrations with Booking engines such as booking.com and expedia. Raj and his team are always available and very willing to sometimes repeat their instructions without making you feel a fool for asking the same questions again and again.
Software is easy to use. They have great how-to videos, which you follow on another screen. But if you have questions, need guidelines, they are happy to help. Flexible to accommodate your schedule for support follow-up unlike the previous one I used, which had email only support, maybe 3 days of support a week. For a start up, this is the right software, which is getting better on monthly basis as well as it has the ability to grow with you.
Although they don't have a smartphone app yet, their web site is quite view able on a cell phone.
Has stripe.com, paypal and others such as integration for credit card/payment collection.
Roomsy has reports which give you a good visual of your business.
I am quite happy with Roomsy. I tried another one but because of the support, I will give 10 out of 10 for Roomsy. As a new startup, you need all the help to get you up and running as fast as you want to. Roomsy has helped us get to that point and continues to help, when needed.
My suggestion is - go ahead and take the trial and get started and see how easy it is to get your business online fast.
Cons
Still need some more tools, reports in CSV or Excel format, more payment options to take deposits (which I believe will be out in a couple of months).
Rating breakdown
Likelihood to recommend: 10/10
Roomsy could get the job done if it was the only booking/pms platform in existence, but it's nowhere near the best in functionality or value. When I checked out various properties featured as testimonials on Roomsy's website, I discovered most of them had switched to a different booking engine... Not a good sign.
Pros
The back end functionality for making reservations was really nice, drag-and-drop, clean, etc. The customer service agent I talked to was friendly, like most Canadians tend to be.
Cons
Minimal reporting, support features, and sub-par front end booking. No availability calendar, which is a standard for online reservations (isn't it?!).
Rating breakdown
Pros
The ease of use is my favorite part about this software. I have a lot of employees that aren't the best with technology and they caught on so quickly. It is THAT easy to use. Roomsy has also saved my property from overbooking on many occasions. It is so helpful in keeping track of reservations, payments, invoices and even more like housekeeping, employees, and out of order rooms. It was more than I could even ask for! It is very affordable and I absolutely love working with customer support. They are the most helpful, friendly and understanding people. If they can't help me out right away then they will work to help me as soon as possible. It is really great to feel like I have people on my team.
Just because I mention that Roomsy is basic and easy to use, doesn't mean that it is lacking by any means! They have a master schedule that keeps a list of all of the bookings for an unlimited amount of time. This schedule can also be filtered to a smaller amount of booking or room types. This feature is awesome!! I also love that I have a floating dialog box that I can quickly and easily look at all of the important items for today. This shows me guests that are checking in today, guests that are already checked in and guests that are checking out today. It also gives me a heads up for any guest with an outstanding balance! Love it! It gives me the ability to sync with OTAs and even helped me put an online booking widget onto my current website. I couldn't live without Roomsy!
Cons
The only con that I can come up with regarding Roomsy is that I didn't find it any sooner! This could have saved me so many times in the past. I am just very thankful to be using it now!
Rating breakdown
Likelihood to recommend: 10/10
Overall you need a software that makes your personal and business life easy and not add more complications besides the ones you usually have. The software very good for training new employees and provide each with an account. It is reliable and most importantly the support is actually there.
Pros
Very user friendly especially if you have various staff members working on it. Training a new comer holding not more than a high school degree is very simple and straight forward. New employees can learn it in literally in few days. So you don't have to worry in replacing a receptionist with the software. You can also do the booking yourself remotely so at times i do not even need a receptionist to do it.
Cons
Well every system have minor glitches but the tech support is great. I can mention support team for instance who responds to our business concerns in a timely manner and can fix or do adjustments almost immediately.
Thanks for the kind words Mazen. I am glad to hear you are enjoying the experience of using Roomsy- Raj
Rating breakdown
Likelihood to recommend: 10/10
Pricing is based on number of rooms starting at $49/month for one room or $99/month for one room with premium.