About Us

What Are We?

Guestbook 247 is a leading cloud based property management system (PMS) aimed at guest accommodation partners to allows them to generate more bookings and to make day to day management of guest, bookings and related task easier, quicker, accessible and reliable.

Guestbook 247 is a cloud based application, accessed via any modern browser on desktop PC, laptop, tablet or even smartphones. So if you manage a guesthouse, b&b, hotel, apartments or pension you can run your business stress free from any where any time.

How Did We Start?

In short, on a chairlift in Austria. It was another exciting day out skiing for Wayne and Ben when chatting on a chairlift we discussed the idea for a booking management system. Wayne the tech guy and Ben the property owner - the perfect match for seeding the ideas behind Guestbook.

So Guestbook 247 was born. Over the next spring and summer we discussed ideas, built a backlog of stories, chose Microsoft Azure as the cloud platform, created an early build. From there on we kept adding new and improved features and inviting other property owners to try us out and get their all important feedback.

Where We Going?

World domination! No, only joking. We're happy to serve our community of property owners and keep expanding the user base whilst keeping sight of our core goals of helping you get more customers, making life easier by freeing up your time whilst delivering a reliable, safe system.

Guestbook 247 now has a good range of mature features helping our customers 247. From here on major developments will include an updated user interface, more integrations with other apps, like accounting systems and of course listening to and reacting to your feedback.

Thanks

Comments

QuickBooks, VAT, MTD and online accounting

Get Linked, Save Time. We're pleased to announce Guestbook247 can now be linked to QuickBooks Online for UK based customers, providing seamless way to integrate your booking invoices direct to your online accounting solution. We believe this will save businesses significant time, reduce mistakes and for UK customers help meet Making Tax Digital (MTD) VAT compliance and ease changing VAT rates during these COVID times. MTD VAT - What Is That? For UK VAT registered businesses from April 2019 Making Tax Digital (MTD) for VAT went live. This obligates VAT registered businesses with a turnover over £85,000 to keep digital records and to submit VAT returns online using an HMRC approved software, such as QuickBooks Online. Up until now you have been able to manually move data from your other business software solutions, such as Guestbook247, into your accounting software. However from April 2021 so called "copy and paste" of VAT related transaction data will no longer t...

New Dashboard And Modern Look.

Lots Has Been Happening. We've been very busy with lots of exciting new features and have created a more modern and cleaner look for guestbook 247. Not just a new look but a much enhanced dashboard from which to see at a glance key info, bookings, availability and business insights. We hope the new look will make using and navigating guestbook more pleasant, easier and productive. The Dashboard. The dashboard is your new Guestbook 247 home from where you can see and do most of your daily task and get easy insights on your business. The availability calendar sporting a new fresh look and improved navigation Key business metrics such as number of bookings and enquiries, rooms occupied The Timeline shows your booking info for the the most relevant bookings recent activity new enquires who's in and out Instant guest search based on name or email Booking source charts - see at a glance where your bookings are coming from, compare different time periods ...

GDPR - What it means for you and your guests...

GDPR is coming So what is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)? It's an EU regulation that becomes law on 25 May 2018 that aims to increase the data protection of all EU citizens. A whole industry has sprung up of GDPR "specialist" and there is now much media coverage. As usual there's much mis-information floating around not helped by ambiguities and deliberate vagueness of some parts of the GDPR regulations. So we think the specific understanding of GDPR will take some years to mature as authorities enforce and challenge companies compliance. Practical Impacts What does it mean for the hospitality industry and in particular the hotel sector? It means that hotel business must take steps to understand how they handle, store & process any personal information. That clearly includes personal information for guests and prospective guests. Even if you operate your business outside the EU but interact with EU citizens you need to take action. The EU and ...

Search This Blog