Booking.com is synonymous with hospitality.

It is by far one of the most comprehensive travel booking sites in the market with vast offerings. Also, having a simple yet effective interface, makes it supremely easy for both inexperienced and seasoned travelers to make all sorts of travel arrangements without the hassle.

Founded in 1996, Booking.com today offers more than 28 million reported accommodation listings from all around the world. Meaning, the options to pick from for travelers are just massive.

Moreover, the company has initiated some of the most sought-after programs for hospitality establishments and the industry as a whole, over the years.

And at present, as part of the Partner Performance Investment Programme, Booking.com is offering Genius Commission Discount Offer to hotels that are eligible.

Now, let’s dig a little deeper and understand what exactly this programme is and how hotels can reap the benefits.

What is booking.com Genius Commission Discount Offer for Hotels?

Genius Commission Discount Offer is an exclusive marketing programme that is curated to give eligible accommodation partners an extra mileage on Booking.com’s platform.

When a partner joins the Genius program, they get extra visibility through special tagging, ranking boosts, and various marketing investments from Booking.com.

According to the company, there are several benefits of joining Genius which include:

• Accommodation partners who join Genius witness an increase of 70% in search result views.
• Properties also see an increase in bookings by an average of 45%.
• 75% of Genius customers start their booking journey either from the Booking.com platform or via a Booking.com partnership. Meaning, your chances of acquiring reservations on Booking.com increases significantly.  
• Not to mention, Genius travelers on average spend 15% more when they book, book up to 2x further in advance, and leave 29% more reviews

But how does this exactly work? Can any property opt for this programme and start enjoying the benefits?

Well, not really.

Booking.com has certain protocols in place for this entire program to run effectively and smoothly. Let me address them for you in the next points.

Who can Join the Booking.com Genius Programme?

This Genius Commission Discount Offer program to increase hotel business is certainly intriguing. But if you want to join, then your property needs to meet three eligibility criteria.

Here are they:

• The property’s listing is open and bookable on the Booking.com platform.
• The hotel has received at least three guest reviews.
•  It has a review score of at least 7.5.
  (However, Booking.com may make an exception if the average review score in the property’s area/city is lower than 7.5 and the property’s review score is above that average)

Does your property meet these criteria?

If so, then you’re good to go and sign up for Genius.

How to Join the Genius Program?

Talking about the elephant in the room, joining the Booking.com Genius Program is simple.

• Once you check your eligibility, you can simply head to the Booking.com extranet.
• Once you’re on your property’s Extranet page, look for the ‘Opportunities’ options.
• Under that option, you’ll find ‘Genius Programme’.
• On that ‘Genius Programme’ page, you’ll find the option to ‘Try Genius now’.
• Follow all the given instructions and voila.

Now, if your property joins the Genius Programme before the end of June, you’ll receive 20% off commissions on all Genius-rate till 30^th September.

However, what if you want to opt-out of the Genius Commission Discount?

Is there a way to do that?

Well, the answer is a YES.

Booking.com also allows hotels to opt-out whenever they want. All they have to do is send Booking.com a message via your extranet inbox.

Note: Once you opt-out, you won’t be eligible to join the program again for six months.

The Outlook

The hospitality industry is ever-evolving and the competition keeps on rising. For hotels to keep their heads high and make a mark in this volatile segment, it is important to turn to the latest hotel business exposure programs by leading entities and leverage everything that’s on offer.

Booking.com’s Genius Programme is gaining tremendous traction and is proving to be a worthwhile discount program for hoteliers.

So, if you have been shying away from this Genius Commission Programme, then it’s high time to change your mind. After all, the benefits are worth all the tea in China.

For more information on the introductory commission discount, visit  FAQs or the terms and conditions.

(eZee Technosys, Surat, September 14 (Mon) 2020) Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turns into an innovation. In the same vein, eZee Technosys (hereinafter ‘eZee’), yet again demonstrated its technology prowess by rolling out an Open API (Application Program Interface) for the hospitality industry. 

The Open API will vastly streamline hotel operations and user experience. More than that, it will enable better data sharing capabilities between hotel management applications by improving communication between and across all departments. 

Currently, the hospitality industry faces various obstacles in data management, which affects customer experience and staff productivity. The company also received constant requests from customers and resellers to integrate their solutions with local and global hotel systems. Recognizing the need of the hour, eZee has brought its centralized platform to the table for third-party hardware and software applications to integrate with its solutions. Open APIs, thus, would resolve this pain point at a large extent, and assist hoteliers to make stronger strategic decisions. Beyond that, it will allow them to build a customized tech-stack, based on their requirements, having seamless integrations with eZee’s solutions. 

Harshdeep Khatri, the Chief Technology Officer at eZee stated “Technology is changing its shape constantly. For that reason, it is extremely essential to be plugged into an ecosystem of products to constantly evolve and adapt to modern requirements. We have heard our customer requirements for years and enhanced our solutions accordingly. This Open API is also an addition to that, which is going to increase the integrability of our products and make it easier for the hoteliers to run their business.”

For the hoteliers, the Open API would bring various benefits such as:

1. Connected hotel systems
2. Lesser to and fro between various systems
3. Streamlined and error-free hotel operations
4. Delivery of better guest experience

Integrations have proven to be game changers for all businesses and industries, especially for the hospitality industry where data synchronization is the most neglected, yet a dealbreaker aspect. Additionally, these integrations, even though unreliable and inefficient, incurred a significant amount. eZee’s Open API works as a one-stop source for hoteliers to request for a suitable API and have their systems integrated with the company’s hospitality solutions within a fraction of time. This bypasses the entire tedious and lengthy process behind integrations, diminishing the need for constant communication between teams; which usually consumed a lot of time, and resources.

Owing to technological flexibility, APIs have now become more user-friendly, skilled, and cost-effective, opening doors to the world of innovative and simpler operations. By means of the Open API, eZee envisions solving the hospitality industry’s challenges faced by stakeholders, from service providers, technology vendors, to distributors. This would also help the company serve a wider customer base with stronger and innovative solutions. 

Presently, eZee has its integrations with over 550+ third-party hardware and software solutions; thereby offering utmost flexibility for hoteliers to select the cream of the crop. It has always focused on staying a step ahead of the game and empowering the hospitality industry with the ability to run a profitable and efficient business through its finest technology. Release of the Open API’s will further strengthen the industry with transparency and better connectivity. 

eZee offers a complete range of integrated hospitality software solutions. With profound experience in travel technology, we have mastered the craft of efficient as well as scalable tech solutions.

This article will give a small overview on how eZee manages to keep its products at the forefront of innovation. And, why people opt for eZee’s solutions which made it witness double sales numbers.

What did eZee achieve in 2019?

With its constant focus on technology enrichment, eZee does offer regular improvements on all of its solutions. Year on year it has grown tremendously in terms of clients as well as achievements.

Starting from 6000 users a couple of years ago to a family of 10000; our caravan now holds 18000+ happy customers.

Considering technology, right from hotel chatbot to mobile app for hotels, digitized room keys to self-check ins by guests; and online reputation; eZee has covered it all!!

Thus becoming an end-to-end hotel solutions provider.

Counting achievements and accolades, 2019 was a great year for eZee!! Of which, some were:

South Korea’s No. 1 OTA & Hotel PMS Company, Yanolja acquired a stake in eZee.

In addition to that;

Yanolja, collectively with eZee and ZEN Rooms, announced the development of ‘Y Flux‘, the hotels’ automated future at ITB Asia.

Well, it’s not over yet!!

Apart from this, eZee also achieved:

• The Highest Quality and Customer Choice Awards from Software Suggest
• Recognition as a Premier Partner and APAC Top Connectivity Partner by Booking.com
• Preferred Software Partner of Airbnb
• Oracle Validated Integration Partner

All these achievements have certainly started to bring a massive breakthrough in the hospitality industry. These, added to our customers’ support would make us the world’s best hospitality tech company.

Accomplishment, new launches, constant upgrades and innovations made up eZee’s 2019. Owing to which, hundreds and thousands of hospitality businesses chose eZee as their technology provider.

But what exactly made them choose eZee?

What made hospitality businesses choose eZee?

TODAY, in this world of technology, guests are getting used to advanced facilities. And so, they’re expecting the same from the accommodations as well.

Hoteliers are now aware of the fact that; in order to take advantage and stand out in the competition, it is important to stay updated with the latest trends in the hotel industry.

Therefore, with the tremendous changes in the taste and expectations of guests, all hotels (small to large) are actively looking into new techniques to offer optimal guest experience.

These upcoming trends in the hospitality industry will help hoteliers like you to improve loyalty and communicate better with your guests than ever before.

eZee being one of the rare companies to offer a complete range of integrated solutions; witnessed that, their products have grown STRONG post alliance with ZEN ROOMS and YANOLJA.

Also, this has tremendously increased the sales numbers for the company mainly because of the enhanced branding and increased exposure in the market. To mention, we have observed DOUBLED SALES numbers!!

Further, in our annual survey this year, we found out the core reasons why hoteliers choose eZee’s solutions because of the following reasons:

1. All-in-one integrated solution: Hotels and restaurants get everything under one roof with eZee. Besides, our vast expanse of third-party integrations also make us preferrable.
2. Rock-solid products: Over the years, we’ve made our solutions stable and stronger than ever. Running on latest technology, our products are rock-solid entailing 99.99% uptime.
3. Effective post-sales support: Besides tech, we’re adept in offering best-in-class customer service. Our users and partners are the most important for us, and we ensure that their experience is the best with our 24×7 live support.
   

In addition, being ready with various compliances, our solutions meet all the requirements to run in all corners of the world.

What makes eZee better from others?

Even with all of this technological advancement, our best source of innovation has always been our clients. We listen to their suggestions and understand their requirements. This, in turn, gave us great insights into the workings of our beloved hotel-travel industry.

We listen to their suggestions and understand their requirements. This, in turn, gave us great insights into the workings of our beloved hotel-travel industry.

With our easy to use hotel management solutions, we have transformed how hotels of all sizes run their operations.

What makes us stand apart, is:

Our steadfast support system that is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week via live chat, phone call or email.

Additionally, we offer:

• Unlimited Training
• Onboarding and Implementation
• Dedicated Account Manager

Our full-fledged support center not only provides assistance with troubleshooting, training, and implementation but also client requested enhancements and upgrades.

We are also proud to partner with progressive hoteliers from around the world; that unlocks the next level of profitable growth with the best in class hospitality technology.

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To conclude

eZee’s products and services have tremendously helped our clients to improve their hotel operations. It’s not just technology which has become our forte; but also things like:

• Various FREE resources that‘ll benefit your hotel:

• Along with this, our experts have written various blogs highlighting real-life examples, case studies and surveys that would enhance in growing your hotel business:

Our aim is, that our clients get the best value for every buck they spend and with each product, they get the best of what technology has to offer in the industry.

eZee have once again put forth their wide expertise for the welfare of the hotel industry at one of the largest hospitality trade exhibition, Goa food and hospitality expo. This year the grand exhibition event marked its 6th annual edition and being a noteworthy member of the hospitality industry, eZee belligerently took part at this event and in turn received a much pleasing response from the visitors worldwide.

At this mega event, eZee were able to connect with many hoteliers and restaurateurs and had one-to-one interaction on the advancement of the hospitality industry. They also discussed how eZee’s technology has been playing a key role in enriching all the big and small practices of the hospitality industry. The Along with eZee, many other hospitality experts presented their craftsmanship at this three-day event in Goa.

eZee have always been active in participating in such mega events. Stay connected to us for more details on such high spirited initiatives by eZee.

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Surat, May 25:We have developed regional compliances for hotels in Panama, UAE, Oman, Iceland and many more countries. In the same lines, we’ve been working on compliance with Inland Revenue Department (IRD) Portal of Nepal. IRD is responsible for the administration of taxes such as value added tax, income tax, and excise duty. They work to promote a fair collection of taxes from businesses and citizens in Nepal.

Considering the hospitality sector in Nepal, when any hotel receives payments, voids transaction or takes a reservation, the revenue generated is to be updated to Nepal government.
On that account, the hotel software that they use must be able to do it automatically whenever a transaction takes place.
eZee’s on-premise solutions, hotel PMS eZee FrontDesk and restaurant POS eZee BurrP! are in the process of upgradation in a way that helps hoteliers in sending the required details to the IRD portal.

With our regional presence in Nepal through our channel partner, Hitech, we are considering the most fundamental to most complex requisites to help the industry in IRD compliance.

We have already redesigned the tax invoice, item wise reports, and audit logs especially to meet the requirements of the IRD regulations.

Complying with the IRD regulations has few benefits mentioned below:

• We’ll be getting certification from IRD, which means that our solutions are approved by the Nepal government.
• Data security is optimized. So, chances of any data leaks are eliminated.
• Security concerns related to the restaurant, hotel or chain of hotels are also taken care of.
• Our solutions are integrated with IRD portal which enables quick data sharing.

Additionally, the IRD regulation requires all the hotels to keep their data servers in Nepal, even if the hotel is having its branches out of the country. This way, hotels in Nepal under IRD regulations will definitely prosper and won’t have to do all the stuff manually by using eZee NextGen solutions.

When any hotelier or restaurateur uses eZee software, they just need the credentials to log-in and this way in a single click, the daily revenue details are sent to the IRD via our on-premise PMS and restaurant POS system itself. So, costs incurred on sending the reports via a representative is eliminated.

We’re always on our toes to meet the changing requirements of the hospitality industry. IRD is one such compliance that we need to adhere by, for our users in Nepal.

Get in touch with our 24×7 live support to know more about IRD certification.
Interested in implementing eZee solutions for your property?
Reach out to our sales team to take it ahead.

On-premise PMS eZee FrontDesk On-premise restaurant POS eZee BurrP!

Surat, April 21: Our 100th client – Thai Palace Restaurant, is raking the benefits of the ‘live’ POS eZee Optimus. Cherishing 100+ global restaurateurs using eZee’s renowned cloud POS, we welcome a lot more restaurateurs who wish to adopt the POS and bloom their business.

Streamlining food and beverage businesses worldwide the cloud-based POS eZee Optimus is another feather in the cap under eZee’s cloud software portfolio. Users can access the software from an internet-enabled device on any location. Keeping the data security aspect in mind, eZee Optimus is secured with HTTPS protocol.

Most of the restaurateurs believe that advance technologies hold the key to addressing many of their current challenges.
Speaking to our 100th enrollment – Thai Palace Restaurant’s Manager Mr Dunstan Joseph said, “eZee Optimus is helping in streamlining restaurant daily orders, takeaways, and is helping in quick serving and has considerably increased the influx of visitors. Also, the accurate billing has helped in maintaining the credibility of our F&B. Kudos to support. I recommend all to use eZee’s POS!”

The cloud systems have become the hot trend in the space, as it allows all sizes of eateries to make use of advanced POS services. Thus, avoiding the mundane task of maintaining a back-end server at every location. Using the POS at the most critical times – in the business rush hour, be it a commuter coffee shop or the frantic luncheonette that has to get everyone in and out during a short lunch hour or an eatery serving a casual but fast dinner – the system performs in just the right way for every situation.

The system offers POS mobility that enables switching between various order types, easy billing process, quicker services, analytics, and reports to strategize business results. Moreover, the system makes it easier for the restaurateurs who have a chain of restaurants to handle.

Even the restaurateur can allow his employees to work in shifts and manage the F&B business easily. And, due to the powerful features it offers, eZee Optimus has gained importance among the restaurateurs for automating their day-to-day operations.

By moving to eZee’s online POS system, restaurateurs can take full-fledged advantage of all the features, saving money by a centralized administration and still remain innovative when new features or trends emerge.

And, now with the online restaurant POS system, eZee aims to expand their technical prowess in the industry with fresh innovations on the table.