Your operation runs on people. Until it can't anymore.

Your operation runs on people. Until it can't anymore.

Reservations across three channels. Scheduling in Excel. Invoices that sit. We build the foundation that lets your team focus on the guest again.

Digital system overview · 7 locations

Step 01. Chaos

Step 02. Analyse

Step 03. Automate

Core PMS

Shopper

Revenue

RMS Legacy

Messaging

Upsell Tool

CRM A

Reviews

Loyalty

Channel

Booking

OTA A

OTA B

Meta-search

Offertes

CRM B

Events

Payment A

Payment B

Accounting

Middleware

POS

Housekeeping

Keycard B

Keycard C

Keycard A

Reservations, guest communication, finance, and revenue in separate systems that do not know each other.

Core PMS too old to support new functionality. Guest profile spread across three tools. Four keycard standards in seven locations. Excel as an integration layer where connections are missing.

From 40 separate tools to a connected system. One guest profile, one keycard standard, one central data source.

PMS

Core PMS

Rate Shop

Revenue

RMS Legacy

Distribution

Channel

Booking

OTA A

OTA B

Meta-search

Guest/CRM

Messaging

Upsell Tool

CRM A

Reviews

Loyalty

MICE

Offertes

CRM B

Events

Finance

Payment A

Payment B

Accounting

Middleware

F&B / Ops

POS

Housekeeping

Keycard A

Keycard B

Keycard C

1

Chaos

2

Analyse

3

Automate

Digital system overview · 7 locations

Step 01. Chaos

Step 02. Analyse

Step 03. Automate

Core PMS

Shopper

Revenue

RMS Legacy

Messaging

Upsell Tool

CRM A

Reviews

Loyalty

Channel

Booking

OTA A

OTA B

Meta-search

Offertes

CRM B

Events

Payment A

Payment B

Accounting

Middleware

POS

Housekeeping

Keycard B

Keycard C

Keycard A

Reservations, guest communication, finance, and revenue in separate systems that do not know each other.

Core PMS too old to support new functionality. Guest profile spread across three tools. Four keycard standards in seven locations. Excel as an integration layer where connections are missing.

From 40 separate tools to a connected system. One guest profile, one keycard standard, one central data source.

PMS

Core PMS

Rate Shop

Revenue

RMS Legacy

Distribution

Channel

Booking

OTA A

OTA B

Meta-search

Guest/CRM

Messaging

Upsell Tool

CRM A

Reviews

Loyalty

MICE

Offertes

CRM B

Events

Finance

Payment A

Payment B

Accounting

Middleware

F&B / Ops

POS

Housekeeping

Keycard A

Keycard B

Keycard C

1

Chaos

2

Analyse

3

Automate

Digital system overview · 7 locations

Step 01. Chaos

Step 02. Analyse

Step 03. Automate

Core PMS

Shopper

Revenue

RMS Legacy

Messaging

Upsell Tool

CRM A

Reviews

Loyalty

Channel

Booking

OTA A

OTA B

Meta-search

Offertes

CRM B

Events

Payment A

Payment B

Accounting

Middleware

POS

Housekeeping

Keycard B

Keycard C

Keycard A

Reservations, guest communication, finance, and revenue in separate systems that do not know each other.

Core PMS too old to support new functionality. Guest profile spread across three tools. Four keycard standards in seven locations. Excel as an integration layer where connections are missing.

From 40 separate tools to a connected system. One guest profile, one keycard standard, one central data source.

PMS

Core PMS

Rate Shop

Revenue

RMS Legacy

Distribution

Channel

Booking

OTA A

OTA B

Meta-search

Guest/CRM

Messaging

Upsell Tool

CRM A

Reviews

Loyalty

MICE

Offertes

CRM B

Events

Finance

Payment A

Payment B

Accounting

Middleware

F&B / Ops

POS

Housekeeping

Keycard A

Keycard B

Keycard C

1

Chaos

2

Analyse

3

Automate

Digital system overview · 7 locations

Step 01. Chaos

Step 02. Analyse

Step 03. Automate

Core PMS

Shopper

Revenue

RMS Legacy

Messaging

Upsell Tool

CRM A

Reviews

Loyalty

Channel

Booking

OTA A

OTA B

Meta-search

Offertes

CRM B

Events

Payment A

Payment B

Accounting

Middleware

POS

Housekeeping

Keycard B

Keycard C

Keycard A

Reservations, guest communication, finance, and revenue in separate systems that do not know each other.

Core PMS too old to support new functionality. Guest profile spread across three tools. Four keycard standards in seven locations. Excel as an integration layer where connections are missing.

From 40 separate tools to a connected system. One guest profile, one keycard standard, one central data source.

PMS

Core PMS

Rate Shop

Revenue

RMS Legacy

Distribution

Channel

Booking

OTA A

OTA B

Meta-search

Guest/CRM

Messaging

Upsell Tool

CRM A

Reviews

Loyalty

MICE

Offertes

CRM B

Events

Finance

Payment A

Payment B

Accounting

Middleware

F&B / Ops

POS

Housekeeping

Keycard A

Keycard B

Keycard C

1

Chaos

2

Analyse

3

Automate

Four patterns that we encounter in hospitality

Four patterns that we encounter in hospitality

You're managing multiple locations. Your group is growing. But your systems keep slowing you down.

Systems that don't know each other.

Reservations across three channels. F&B bookings that never reach the PMS. Payments in four places. Every new system adds to the problem instead of solving it.

Systems that don't know each other.

Reservations across three channels. F&B bookings that never reach the PMS. Payments in four places. Every new system adds to the problem instead of solving it.

Systems that don't know each other.

Reservations across three channels. F&B bookings that never reach the PMS. Payments in four places. Every new system adds to the problem instead of solving it.

Buying a new tool doesn't fix the last one.

Every purchase feels like progress until it turns out the system doesn't connect with what's already there. The list grows, the pain grows with it, and no one dares make another choice.

Buying a new tool doesn't fix the last one.

Every purchase feels like progress until it turns out the system doesn't connect with what's already there. The list grows, the pain grows with it, and no one dares make another choice.

Manual work that everyone routes around.

Schedules in Excel. Monthly reports that take a full day. Invoices typed over by hand. Hours that don't go to the guest.

Manual work that everyone routes around.

Schedules in Excel. Monthly reports that take a full day. Invoices typed over by hand. Hours that don't go to the guest.

The team works harder, the operation moves slower.

Capacity disappears into copy-pasting, workarounds and fixes nobody planned for. The people you hired to run the operation spend their time holding it together instead.

The team works harder, the operation moves slower.

Capacity disappears into copy-pasting, workarounds and fixes nobody planned for. The people you hired to run the operation spend their time holding it together instead.

Two entry points, one outcome

Two entry points, one outcome

No retainers. No open ends. You always know what you're getting and when.

01 · Foundation first

Most popular

Start with a Plan of Approach

"Scattered tools, manual workarounds, data that never comes together. You know it should work better. You just don't know where to start."

We map which systems are in place, how they're used and where the pain is. We talk to the people who work in the operation every day, not just the owner. The result is a priority order: what produces results now, what can wait, and what needs to be replaced, in a sequence that disrupts operations as little as possible.

Interviews on the floor

Current state mapped

Gap-analysis

Routes & solutions

Implementation roadmap

4–6 weeks · Concrete action plan as the end result

02 · Build

Most popular

Automate manual work

"The foundation is solid, processes are clear. We know where manual work lives and we're ready to eliminate it."

We know where manual work is done and hours get lost. We build the connections and automations that take that work away. Solutions your team actually uses, implemented outside peak season so the operation keeps running.

Scoping & Design

Build

Pilot

Launch

Within weeks of finalising the plan, the first automation is live, freeing your team to focus on guests

From chaos to clarity

One group, forty applications, and a team that got stuck.

Pillows Hotels grew to six locations in two countries with a digital architecture that hadn't kept pace. Every hotel had its own tools, its own integrations and its own workarounds. Revenue management, guest communication and financial reporting ran on a combination of export files and people who knew how it worked. That worked, until it couldn't anymore.

What we delivered

86

hours

manual work eliminated
per week

4,175

hours

recovered per year,
group-wide

~

1

FTE

to freed-up
capacity

We spoke with every department working in the systems daily: revenue management, reservations, sales, marketing, finance and the GMs at each location. That gave us a complete picture of what was there, what was failing and what needed to connect.

From there we made the architecture and stack decisions. Which systems form the core, which ones sit around it, where the data flows and how everything stays connected as the group grows. Each choice came with a clear rationale, a full view of the costs per scenario and an implementation timeline that keeps the operation running.

Before

Pillows in 2024

A stack that no longer grew with the organisation

Pillows grew to six locations in two countries over eight years. The technology didn't keep pace. Tools were added one at a time, each chosen to solve a specific problem at a specific moment. Together they formed a stack that worked, until they grew out of it.

4 to 6 systems open at every check-in

3 separate tools for guest communication, plus another for upsells

A different keycard system at each location

Manual reconciliation between PMS and accounting,

No MICE tooling; quotes and planning handled in spreadsheets

Two weeks per month spent on group-wide schedule creation by hand

A previous attempt to fix this had stalled two years earlier

After

Pillows in 2026

One integrated platform, six locations

Six planned go-lives in under three months. No big bang, no wholesale vendor swap. A redesigned architecture where every tool was chosen with a connected architecture in mind. Pillows owns every decision, every contract and every cutover.

From 40+ separate tools to 18 connected systems

One guest profile across all locations

Real-time financial insights from PMS to accounting

MICE pipeline visible in one dashboard, group-wide

92 hours of manual work per week eliminated

4,200 hours recovered per year, equivalent to 2.5 FTE

Six sequential go-lives, smallest location first, largest last

"We faced a significant challenge: preparing our organization for a complex digital transformation. Best Byte has been a tremendous help in this. What made the difference for us is that they truly understand the hospitality market. No standard advice, but thinking along in a way that fits what you actually need, and being honest and critical when needed. They brought structure to a process that can quickly become overwhelming, and kept asking questions until every detail was clear. That gave us confidence we weren’t overlooking anything. At the same time, they remained positive about all the possibilities. They also took a lot off our plate when it came to communication with external parties. That not only saved time, but also created clarity and, above all, calm throughout the process. All in all, a collaboration that not only delivered results, but was genuinely enjoyable. Personal, engaged, and with real expertise."

Julia Vijftigschild

Business Process Manager

Two versions of your next 12 months

Two versions of your next 12 months

Without Best Byte

Your systems still don't talk to each other

If one person leaves, the overview leaves with them

The revenue manager is still exporting every Monday

A guest who stayed at one location is a stranger at the next

Every month you wait is capacity you're not getting back

With Best Byte

Your systems work as one

The overview stays, no matter who's in the room

Your revenue manager spends Mondays on strategy, rather than exports

Returning guests get recognised, wherever they check in

Every month gives back capacity you used to lose

Free up more time to spend on guests

Guest experience comes down to time and attention. Within a week, you'll know exactly where to find more of both.