StayDesk is a property management system for Indian resorts, homestays and small hotels — written by someone who has spent a decade on the other side of the front desk.
Ten years of running a property teaches you where the day actually goes. It goes on finding a booking someone wrote in a register. On working out whether the guest in 103 has paid. On adding up the month at the end of the month, when it is already too late to change anything.
The software on offer did not help much. The serious systems were priced and designed for hotel chains — annual contracts, training programmes, features nobody at a twelve-room property will ever open. The cheap ones were clearly written by people who had never done a checkout at 11am with three guests waiting and one printer.
So StayDesk got built the other way round: start from the work, then write the software. Every screen exists because something on a real property was taking too long.
StayDesk runs a working resort daily — bookings, billing, housekeeping, the month-end numbers. That is the main reason it keeps improving: when something is slow or wrong, we hit it at our own front desk before a customer has to tell us about it.
Give a five-room homestay the same grip on its own business that a hotel chain has — the same clear numbers, the same tidy paperwork — at a price that makes sense for a property that size.
GST that follows Indian rules, UPI and cash treated as first-class, rupee pricing, and WhatsApp where guests actually are.
Your front-desk staff should not need training. If something needs explaining twice, we redesign it until it does not.
You own your guest data. We never sell or share it. Export everything, any time — including if you decide to leave.
StayDesk is young and we would rather say so. A handful of properties run on it today, the Android app shipped this year, and features go out most weeks — usually because a customer asked for them.
The upside of working with something early is that you can shape it. When a customer tells us something is missing, it tends to be built within days rather than filed in a roadmap nobody reads. The trade-off is that we are small, and we would rather you knew that up front than found out later.
Ask us anything about whether StayDesk fits your property — we will tell you honestly, including when it does not.