A hotel CRM holds the version of the guest that every other system borrows from. So we build it as one system in parts, and each part has to hold up on the day your data stops being tidy.
One guest, one record, even when the same person books under two email addresses and a misspelled surname. We design the matching and merge rules first, because a duplicate profile that reaches a campaign is expensive to explain to a returning guest.
Segments rebuild themselves as bookings land, so a list is accurate at send time and not at the moment someone last saved it. ELITEX build the rules layer so your revenue team can define a segment without opening a ticket for every change.
Messages that go out before arrival run on different timing from the ones that land mid stay. We build the scheduler together with the suppression rules, so a guest whose booking got cancelled never receives a welcome note at check in time.
Reservation data arrives from your property management system and has to reach the guest record without losing the fields the CRM depends on. We write the mapping along with the failure handling, so a stalled sync surfaces before someone makes a pricing decision on stale profiles.
A campaign that looks strong in the email tool and invisible in revenue reporting is a common outcome. We build the path from a send back to a booking, so you can see which guest actions followed which message.
Guest consent has to be recorded at the point it was given and honoured everywhere the profile travels afterwards. We build the consent flags and the deletion path into the data model, since retrofitting both once millions of profiles exist takes far longer than doing it early.
Hotel CRM software development by ELITEX works best for operators with enough guest volume that marketing has started exporting spreadsheets to answer basic questions about repeat stays. A group with several properties and one guest who books across all of them fits well. So does a hospitality brand whose hosted CRM can't model a loyalty structure the commercial team keeps making more specific. We're the wrong choice if you want a licensed CRM configured next week, because we write custom code and don't sell a product. We're also a poor fit for a single property with a few hundred guest records a year, since an off the shelf tool will cover that far cheaper than we will.
Most of our engineers are senior level, and that shows up in the data model decisions made in the first month. Guest matching punishes junior assumptions in ways that only appear once the profile count gets large.
We've spent long enough in this vertical to know how PMS APIs behave when they misbehave. That knowledge saves discovery time you'd otherwise pay for.
Code, repositories, infrastructure, and environments sit in your accounts from the first commit. No lock in, and no licence tying you to us after launch.
If your scope doesn't fit your budget, you hear it during discovery. We'd take a smaller project over a rebuild conversation in month six.
We settle the guest profile schema and the consent model before any campaign logic gets written, since both are the hardest things to change once profiles exist at volume. Segmentation and messaging come after the core holds under real booking traffic.
Many of our clients have outgrown a hosted CRM and need the same guest lifecycle logic running on software they control. So ELITEX rebuild the profile store and the campaign rules on an owned stack, matching current behaviour first and improving it second.
A PMS and a CRM rarely agree on what counts as a returning guest, and that disagreement surfaces as a loyalty tier that quietly stops updating. We build the translation layer that reconciles those definitions, including the cases where one system treats a stay as completed while the other still holds the reservation open.
In case of migration, we map existing guest profiles and campaign history onto the new schema, then reconcile both datasets before anyone switches the old system off. Parallel running through a full booking cycle catches what the mapping missed.
The system stays, and one piece of it gets built or replaced. Loyalty tier calculation and consent handling tend to be the modules clients want written to their own commercial rules.
Someone has to handle the PMS vendor that changes its API without warning. That's why ELITEX keep the integrations current and stay available for the incidents that land at the wrong hour.
When a system has no documented API, we build the connector ourselves. Screen level integrations and file based feeds are both workable, and we've done both.
Opera Cloud, Mews, Apaleo, protel, RoomRaccoon
SiteMinder, Cloudbeds, D-EDGE, STAAH, Booking.com
Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, Worldpay, Checkout.com
Duetto, IDeaS, Atomize, Pace, Lighthouse
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