Welcome to Lettuce Innkeeper PMS!
Flexible and Inexpensive Reservation Software for Small Hospitality Providers
A Cheap desktop PMS for small Inns / Hotels / motels / B&B's
Lettuce Innkeeper PMS is the most affordable
desktop property management system available for small
Inns, Hotels, Motels, and Bed & Breakfasts. This is a desktop reservation booking
program that you can download, install and set up easily yourself, without paying
high set-up costs and ridiculous service contract fees. There is no set limit on
number of rooms, but if you have more than around 20, you will probably need a more expensive
program. It will also handle small groups, pencil-ins, master accounts, and makes taking
and keeping track of reservations and revenues a breeze.
If you are a small hotel, inn, small motel or B&B looking for a good yet cheap desktop program
to keep track of your reservations and revenues, this pms software will meet your
needs and exceed your expectations. It would be difficult to find a better desktop program
without paying hundreds more. Cheap booking software that actually works is hard to find.
Practically anyone can operate this easy to use/intuitive front desk program. Download the
free demo and see for yourself.
You will have accurate and complete reports to track your revenues.
You can easily keep track of room inventory, reservations, guests, guest profiles
and history, reservation and group history, revenues and more.
Property Information, Room Types, Room Rates, Room Numbers, Sundry Sales Items &
Prices, Discount Types & Amounts, Tax Rate are easily configurable.
This hotel management software is ideal for small Inns, Bed and Breakfasts or small Motels. You
will save time and money by having front desk software that can be used easily, without
attending training seminars and reading pages of documentation. If you know the
basic concept of taking a reservation, you should not have to struggle with how
to keep track of it.
Save money by not paying for functions that you dont need. Small hotel software should'nt cost a fortune.
What it is not:
Lettuce Innkeeper will not manage your online reservations. At
our Inn and Motel, we use BookingCenter's Management tool for our online reservations.
There are many other similar programs, all relatively inexpensive - generally you
pay commissions on whatever reservations people make online, and you manage it carefully
to insure you don’t overbook. If you have a high volume of online reservations -
this program is definitely not for you.
If you need extras features such as Phone interfaces, Restaurant or other POS systems,
Pay movies, or any type of automatic charges other than Room & Tax, this program
is not for you.
This program will not work on Multiple Work Stations or across a network.
It works on one computer for one user. If your operation is bigger than
that, this is not the program for you.
Lettuce Innkeeper will not interface with your back-office system, your bookkeeping
program or your bank account. It will not charge anyone’s credit card, it will not
interface with your Web Cam for Guest Snaps or your Drivers License Credit Card
Swipe Card Reader. Lettuce Innkeeper will not manage your Lost and Found, will not
bother you with Guest Flight Information and does not do Wake-Up calls. If you need
these things, they are available in more expensive programs. Lettuce Innkeeper will
not keep track of any Travel Agent information whatsoever.
Other things you should know:
It is very easy with this desktop PMS program to manage small groups, and occasional direct
billing, but if you often handle larger groups with rooming lists, you will find
entering each individual reservation irritating, even with the handy "clone" feature.
The program works well with small groups that want to hold a block of rooms, then
individuals call in to book and guarantee their own reservations.
This program currently charges only one tax, on a percentage basis, so if you have multiple
taxes - you would need to combine them and they won’t be separately tracked. Adding a second tax
is the works and will be in a future update.
Currency is only in American dollars only. Payment Types are set as Cash, Visa,
Discover, MasterCard, American Express, Gift Certificate and Other.
You do need a separate method to actually charge the credit cards - This program
will only keep track of it for you.
Lettuce Innkeeper has been tested thoroughly on Windows XP and Vista. I believe it will
work reliably on any modern Microsoft system as it was developed using Microsoft's
.NET platform and various Microsoft tools. I would not expect it to work on an Apple
or Unix, or whatever else is out there. Before you buy, I recommend downloading
the free Demo program to be sure.
This is a personal desktop program; your data is stored on your computer. Customer’s
guarantee card numbers are encrypted in the database, and log-in is required to
run the program and access its information.
Database backups are automatic upon closing the program, and can also be done anytime
through the menu.
Support is available through E-mail; any critical updates of this version will be free
for one year from date of purchase.