SIGNIFICANCE OF RESTAURANT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Be it a fine dining restaurant, F&B or QSR outlet, the restaurant industry in general has been impacted by many technology solutions. These solutions are essential to automate operations and to serve their patrons efficiently. Therefore, operators are now keen on adopting technology solutions including restaurant management system and e-menu app. Read More

By: Manoj Mohanty

Published in: IDS Next

HOW DO SMART TRAVELERS FIND THE RIGHT HOTEL?

Today’s travelers are smart and they explore many options before selecting a hotel. They leverage the power of internet to find out accommodation options and to visit the hotels’ websites to know more about their amenities. Most importantly, they spend lot of time reading online guest reviews. Read More

By: Jacob K I

Published In: IDS Next

TOP 4 CHALLENGES FOR THE HOTEL INDUSTRY AND HOW TO HANDLE THEM

Being a part of 24/7 guest facing service business, hotel industry world-wide faces many critical issues on daily basis. Right from handling operations to serving guests, hoteliers have to handle numerous bottlenecks. For example, they sometimes have to make their guests wait for longer time due to the absence of right technology to speed up the check-in process.

Here are top 4 issues impacting the performance of the hotel industry across the globe. Hotels across segments and offerings face these issues – Read More

By: Manoj Mohanty

Published in: IDS Next

DOES YOUR HOTEL PMS SOFTWARE HELP YOU BECOME GST COMPLIANT?

Come July, India will witness a new and unified system of tax structure in the form of Goods and Services Tax (GST). Like any other industry, hotel industry too is preparing itself to operate as per this new taxation regime. And as a leading Hotel PMS Software we at IDS Next have also been working relentlessly to help hotels in their pursuit to become GST compliant.

Trouble with the existing taxation system

Presently the hotel industry is affected by multiple tax structures like service tax, luxury tax and VAT, levied by both central government and respective state government. For example, VAT varies from state to state and luxury tax depends on the proportion of the room tariff. Service tax depends on the types of services provided by the hotel. This leads to confusion as sometimes the same service or product gets taxed under multiple heads and multiple times. This leads to higher taxation which goes up to 27%. Additionally, some of the input tax from central and state taxes can’t be set-off against other taxes. In other words, this leads to a cascading effect. Read More

By: Manoj Mohanty
Published In: IDS Next

Leverage the best of Mobile Technology & access real-time data on your Hotel Operation Anywhere, Anytime

Finding it Difficult to Access Hotel Data While Not at Work?

Being a Managing Director or General Manager in hotel business is always a tough task. It becomes more challenging when you have to handle day to day business at multiple properties spread across locations. Being a part of 24/7 guest facing business model and due to the importance of your position, you can’t simply shrug off your responsibilities even if you are on leave.

In order to keep track of your property’s daily business statistics, you must have access to the hotel property management system. But, what if either you are not at the property or you are travelling? Under such circumstance, you will have to call up respective department heads to collect data that you are looking for. It might take some time and you might not get real-time data. The whole confusion will lead to loss of time and will deter you from taking informed decision pertaining to your hotel operations.Read More

By: Nandika Udupihilla

Published in: IDS Next 

 

Tech Talk: Why IDS Next Solutions remain Top Choice for Hoteliers

In this interview with Footprint to Africa, one of the top executives of the pioneers of Hotel Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) architecture, IDS Next reveals how the company sustains its global appeal and an enviable track-record of 98 per cent customer retention. Read More

Published in: Footprint to Africa