Talk to us about your PMS project.
Tell us your property type, current system, and the operational workflows it can't support. We'll scope the right build and give you a fixed cost.
Forcing your front desk and housekeeping teams to work around an off-the-shelf PMS that doesn't match how your property actually runs?
Managing multiple properties with no consolidated view of reservations, occupancy, and revenue across the group?
Custom PMS built around how your property actually operates -- reservations, front desk, housekeeping, night audit, and multi-property reporting, without conforming to the workflow of an off-the-shelf platform.
We build for hotels, resorts, serviced apartment operators, and property groups that have outgrown Opera, Mews, or Cloudbeds, or need specific operational workflows those platforms can't support at any configuration level.
Reservations management with rate plan assignment and group block handling
Front desk check-in and check-out with folio management and payment processing
Housekeeping integration with real-time room status and maintenance routing
Multi-property dashboard with portfolio-level reporting and centralised rate management
RaftLabs builds custom hotel property management systems for independent hotels, boutique resorts, serviced apartment operators, and multi-property groups. A custom PMS covers reservations management, front desk check-in and check-out, room allocation, rate plan management, housekeeping integration, night audit automation, channel manager sync, and multi-property reporting. Custom hotel PMS development is appropriate when Opera, Mews, or Cloudbeds cannot support your specific operational workflows. Most PMS projects deliver in 12-16 weeks at a fixed cost.
Opera, Mews, Cloudbeds, and similar platforms handle the common case well. They struggle when your property has specific requirements: serviced apartment operators with weekly and monthly rate structures that don't map to nightly inventory logic; boutique properties with custom check-in workflows or specific ancillary billing; hotel groups that need consolidated multi-property reporting with property-level rate overrides and cross-property loyalty visibility. Configuration gets you part of the way. At some point, the platform's model of how a hotel works conflicts with how your hotel works, and no amount of configuration resolves that.
A custom PMS is built to match your operation. The reservation workflow, the front desk screens, the housekeeping scheduling logic, the night audit sequence, and the reporting structure are all defined by what your team actually does -- not by what the vendor assumed. That means less training overhead, fewer workarounds, and operational staff who use the system because it helps them rather than despite it.
Reservation creation, modification, and cancellation with full audit trail. Rate plan assignment at the point of booking -- BAR, corporate, loyalty, promotional, and custom negotiated rates. Group booking with room block allocation, rooming list management, and group folio handling. Waitlist management for peak periods with automatic notification when rooms become available. Multi-night booking with minimum and maximum stay enforcement by room type and period. The reservations layer your team uses to manage inventory from first enquiry to confirmed booking.
Check-in workflow with guest identity verification, room allocation with preference matching, and key issuance -- including contactless mobile key delivery via NFC using Salto, Dormakaba, or Nuki smart lock integrations for properties running keyless access. Folio display showing all charges -- room, F&B, ancillary, and tax -- with posting and adjustment capability. Payment processing at checkout via Stripe or Adyen with PCI DSS compliance handled at the integration layer, covering split payment, corporate billing, and advance payment reconciliation. Express checkout for guests who have pre-authorised payment, reducing departure queue. Walk-in handling and same-day reservation creation from the front desk screen. The front desk interface built around the pace and sequence your team works at.
Room type configuration with bed type, occupancy, and amenity definitions. Rate plan setup covering BAR, weekend, seasonal, corporate, loyalty, and OTA-specific rates -- each with its own minimum stay rules, blackout dates, and close-to-arrival controls by room type and period. Yield-based availability controls to restrict lower rates as occupancy builds toward a threshold OCC percentage. Channel manager sync via SiteMinder or RateGain pushes rate and availability changes to every connected OTA -- Expedia, Booking.com, Airbnb -- within 30-60 seconds, maintaining rate parity across channels. GDS distribution to Amadeus, Sabre, and Galileo supported through the channel manager for corporate and travel agent bookings. ADR, RevPAR, and OCC tracked by rate plan and room type so your revenue manager can see which rate segments are driving yield and which are cannibalising it. Promo code and discount code management. The rate management interface that lets your revenue manager make pricing decisions and push them live without requiring developer access to configuration tables.
Real-time room status sync from the housekeeping app -- dirty, clean, inspected, out of order -- with status updates visible at the front desk without a phone call. Cleaning priority queue generated automatically from the departure and arrival schedule, so the rooms needed soonest are cleaned first. Room attendant task dispatch pushes the day's assignment list to each attendant's mobile device, reducing the morning briefing bottleneck. Inspection sign-off workflow before rooms are released back to front desk as available. Maintenance fault routing: housekeeping staff log faults during cleaning, which route directly to the maintenance team's queue with room number, fault description, and priority. Group block arrival coordination triggers a pre-cleaning sweep of blocked room types to ensure inventory is ready before the group's arrival window. Minibar and room supply discrepancy reporting back to front desk.
Automated night audit sequence: rate verification, no-show processing, folio balance rollover, and daily revenue consolidation without manual reconciliation. Daily revenue report with room revenue, ancillary revenue, tax, and occupancy metrics generated at audit close. Occupancy and RevPAR reporting by room type, rate plan, and booking channel. Accounts receivable tracking for corporate billing accounts. Folio balance and outstanding payment reporting. The audit and reporting layer that gives your finance team accurate daily numbers without manual data assembly.
Centralised reservations for hotel groups: single interface to view and manage availability across all properties. Property-level and portfolio-level reporting -- individual property performance and consolidated group metrics side by side. Cross-property loyalty balance visibility so front desk can see a guest's points and tier status from stays across all group properties. Centralised rate management with the ability to push rate changes to all properties or override at individual property level. Staff access controls by property so each property's team sees what's relevant to their location.
Frequently asked questions
Off-the-shelf PMS platforms work when your operation fits their model. Custom development makes sense when: (1) Your rate structures or booking workflows don't map to what the platform supports -- extended-stay pricing, complex corporate billing, or group booking mechanics that exceed the platform's group module. (2) You need integrations the platform doesn't support or where the available integration is too shallow for your operational needs. (3) You're a multi-property group that needs consolidated reporting and cross-property loyalty in ways the platform's multi-property module doesn't deliver. (4) Your housekeeping or maintenance workflows have specific logic that can't be configured into the available modules. (5) You've spent years working around the platform's limitations and the accumulated workarounds now cost more in staff time than a replacement build would. If you can achieve what you need through configuration, the off-the-shelf platform is usually the right call. We'll tell you honestly if that's the case.
We integrate with your channel manager -- SiteMinder, RateGain, Cloudbeds, or similar -- via their APIs. When a reservation is made through an OTA, it arrives via the channel manager, creates a reservation record in the PMS, and blocks the room in real-time inventory. When a rate or availability change is made in the PMS, it pushes to the channel manager, which distributes to all connected OTA channels. This two-way sync typically runs within 30--60 seconds. For direct bookings made through your website booking engine, we handle the PMS integration directly. The channel manager is usually the integration hub for OTA distribution -- we work with whatever you're already using, or help you select one if you don't have one.
Yes. Loyalty integration is a common requirement we build alongside the PMS or connect to a separately built loyalty engine. At checkout, the PMS folio -- covering room charges, F&B postings, spa, and ancillary spend -- is passed to the loyalty engine to calculate and credit points. Tier status is visible at check-in so front desk can acknowledge members and apply tier benefits like room upgrades or complimentary amenities. Member-exclusive rates are validated at booking. The loyalty engine can sit within the PMS or as a separate service that the PMS integrates with -- the latter gives more flexibility if you run loyalty across multiple properties with different PMS systems.
A custom PMS for a single property covering reservations, front desk, housekeeping, night audit, and channel manager integration typically runs $40,000--$90,000. A multi-property PMS with centralised reservations, portfolio reporting, cross-property loyalty, and integrations across multiple properties typically runs $80,000--$200,000. Cost depends on the number of properties, number of room types and rate plans, integrations required, and the depth of housekeeping and maintenance modules needed. Delivery is typically 12--16 weeks for a focused single-property build. Multi-property builds run longer depending on property count and integration complexity. We scope every project before pricing and give you a fixed cost.
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Tell us your property type, current system, and the operational workflows it can't support. We'll scope the right build and give you a fixed cost.