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A hotel lobby at night: one lamp lit on the front desk, a person at the desk, a taxi waiting outside the glass.

She lost 83,700 baht on a Friday night, because her hotel needed permission to change its own price.

This is the story of the Lantern Tide Hotel. The hotel is invented. The Friday is not. The next month of the fix is free.

The question box of the system: a field to type a question about the hotel in plain English.
A screen from the system a 91-room hotel runs on today. Demo data.

Friday, ten past six

The long weekend was three days away and the phone would not stop.

Preeya stood behind the front desk of the Lantern Tide Hotel. Sixty-four rooms in Hua Hin. Her father built it. She had thirty-one rooms left, and she was watching them sell at the low-season price.

She knew what to do. Raise the rate. Every hotel on the street already had.

She could not do it.

An old computer glowing on a desk buried in stacks of paper, a cold cup of tea beside the keyboard, in a dark office.

The rates lived inside the hotel’s software, and the software answered to someone else. A change meant a request. A request meant an email. The office that read the email closed at five.

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By Sunday every room was sold. At the wrong price.

Thirty-one rooms. Three nights. Nine hundred baht too low.

She did the sum on the back of a registration card. 83,700 baht. Gone, while she stood there and watched it go.

Registration card

On Monday the reply came. The change would be made on Thursday.

The invoice for the change arrived first.

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The question

That night Lek was counting the cash. He had counted it at that desk for nineteen years, under her father and now under her. He asked the question nobody in the family had ever asked.

“Why do we need permission to change our own price?”

She had no answer. Her father never had one either.

What she found

A friend told her about a hotelier in Bangkok who had asked the same question, and then done something unreasonable. He built his own system. He moved his own ninety-one rooms onto it. Now he was offering it to hotels like hers.

Two months free. No fees. Try it next to the system you have. And if you do not like it, we help you take all your data out again.

She did not believe it. She tried it anyway, because it cost nothing to be wrong.

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The next Friday

The next long weekend, at ten past six, the phone started again.

Preeya opened Settings. She made a rule.

These dates. This price. These channels.

She switched it on.

It was live before her tea went cold.

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An open ledger and a pen on a wooden desk under a brass lamp, a rainy city window glowing behind.

Lek stood behind her and said nothing. Then he went to the back office and came back with her father’s ledger, the old one, every night of the hotel written by hand. He put it on the desk, next to the screen.

The part that is true

Preeya is not real. Neither is the Lantern Tide. I made them up.

I made them up because the real version of this story belongs to more hotel owners than I can count, and nobody has ever asked them to tell it.

But the hotelier in Bangkok is real. That part is me. The ninety-one rooms are mine: Royal Ivory Nana Hotel, running on this system every day since July 2026.

And the free month is real too.

Royal Ivory Nana Hotel

Bangkok. 91 rooms. On this system every day since July 2026.

One month of the whole system, free. No fees. No card.

A person sets your hotel up with you. If you leave, we help you export all your data.

The Friday Test.

Nine changes you should be able to make yourself.

Run each one on the system your hotel uses today. Do not ask anyone for help. Tick it only if you finished it yourself, in the time shown. Allow about half an hour.

Tick each change you finished yourself, in the time shown

Fewer than nine? Run the same nine on ours, next to yours. One month free.

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The hotel is real.

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days running a real hotel

On this system every day since 23 July 2026. The count is the calendar, not a promise.

Property
Royal Ivory Nana Hotel, Bangkok
Rooms
91
Since
23 July 2026, on this system, every day
What runs on it
Reservations, front desk, cashier, night audit and reporting
Who built it
The hotelier who owns it, and the team he works with
This is the screen Preeya would have opened. A rate rule: a name, an adjustment, the stay dates, the booking dates, a minimum lead time, the sources it applies to, and an on and off switch. The hotel makes it, and switches it on. Demo data.A rate rule: a name and an adjustment. The hotel makes it, and switches it on. Demo data.
The report builder. Fields grouped by guest, stay, charges, payments and financials, added as columns. Checks 5 and 6 of the test, on a system that has it. Demo data.
The reports hub. The Ask a Question tile, with no guest data on it (demo data). On a computer, hold your pointer over a screen to magnify it. On a phone, tap it.

Make your own rule, on your own rates, beside the system you have.

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What you get for nothing.

  1. The whole system, for one month.

    Reservations and front desk, cashier and night audit, reports and the report builder, rate and seasonal pricing, the travel-agent portal, guest identity capture and staff roles.

  2. No fees. No card.

    Nothing is charged during the one month, and no card is asked for.

  3. A person sets it up with you.

    There is no setup fee. Nobody is left alone with a manual.

  4. Your current system keeps running.

    Run the new one beside it and compare, until every line matches or is explained. You switch only when you decide.

  5. The Friday Test.

    The nine-check PDF, to run on the system you have today.

  6. The TM30 export, for Thai hotels.

    Built from real check-ins. An export, not a filing: your staff file it.

  7. Your data goes with you.

    If you leave, we help you export all your data.

One month of the whole system. Free.

  • One month of the whole system, free. No fees. No card.
  • A person sets your hotel up with you.
  • If you leave, we help you export all your data.
  • After the month: $100 a month for up to 200 rooms (+$0.50 a room from 201 to 300, +$0.30 a room above 300).

No card is asked for. Sending the form changes nothing in your live hotel.

The standing offer

A person sets your hotel up with you. If you leave, we help you export all your data.

After the one month: $100 a month for up to 200 rooms.

Nothing is due during the free time. If you stay after it, this is the price, and it is the whole price. Type your rooms.

Whole rooms, 1 to 10,000. Royal Ivory Nana has 91.

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The rule: $100 up to 200 rooms. Then $0.50 per room for rooms 201 to 300, and $0.30 per room above 300.

Monthly price, after the free time $100

a month, in US dollars

Per room, per month
$1.10
Per room, per night (30-day month)
$0.037
For twelve months
$1,200
Monthly price by number of rooms A flat $100 a month up to 200 rooms, rising by 50 cents per room to $150 at 300 rooms, then by 30 cents per room, reaching $210 at 500 rooms. The same figures are in the table beside this chart. $0$50$100$150$200$250 0100200300400500 rooms $100 flat +$0.50 a room +$0.30 a room

Price against rooms, 0 to 500. Beyond 500 the same two rates continue.

Worked examples
RoomsPer monthPer roomHow it adds up
60$100$1.67Flat
91 (Royal Ivory Nana)$100$1.10Flat
120$100$0.83Flat
200$100$0.50Flat
250$125$0.50$100 + 50 × $0.50
300$150$0.50$100 + 100 × $0.50
400$180$0.45$150 + 100 × $0.30

Included for every property: the whole core system, at every size, with no feature held back for a bigger plan. Also free: moving in and video training for your team. Quoted individually: self-hosting.

Nothing is due until the free time ends.

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If you leave, we carry your bags.

A free start is a trial, and a trial needs a way out. Here it is.

  • Reports export to CSV. Open them in any spreadsheet.
  • Database backups are standard PostgreSQL dumps. Another system can read them.
  • We help you export all your data. You do not do it alone.

What hotel people might say.

These are samples we wrote, until the first hotels’ own words replace them.

Sample review
“I changed a rate myself at six in the evening, and it was live when I saved it. I did not write to anyone.”
Owner
Sample review
“A new receptionist starts on Monday. I add her and choose what she can see. That is the whole job.”
Front office manager
Sample review
“Payments from a closed cashier day can only be changed by an administrator, and the correction is posted to today. That is how I want the month to close.”
Accountant
Sample review
“I like seeing what the night audit will post before it posts. If I disagree, I stop and fix it.”
Night auditor
Sample review
“I build the report I need: I pick the columns, name it, choose who can see it, and export it to CSV.”
Reservations

The reviews above are samples. The offer is not.

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What I will not tell you.

That a hundred hotels run on it.
One does. Mine.
That it plugs into every channel manager on day one.
There is an API, and your channel manager connects through it. There is no ready-made connector.
That it files your TM30 for you.
It prepares the export from real check-ins. Your staff still file it.
That changing systems is nothing.
It is work. We do that work with you.

If none of that is a dealbreaker, try it beside your own system.

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Questions owners ask before they start.

Is the free month really free?

Yes. One month of the whole system, free. No fees, and no card is asked for. A person sets your hotel up with you, and if you leave, we help you export all your data.

What do I need to start?

A few hours a week from one person on your side, your room types and rates, and an export from your current system if it can make one. We set the system up with you. Today it is installed on your hotel’s own server, and we do that with you too.

What happens to my current system during the one month?

Nothing. It stays the master while you run the new one beside it and compare the numbers. Your live hotel stays on the old system until you decide to switch, and you choose the day.

What if I leave?

We help you export all your data. Reports export to CSV, and database backups are standard PostgreSQL dumps, so another system can read them.

What does it cost after?

$100 a month covers up to 200 rooms. Rooms 201 to 300 add $0.50 each, and rooms above 300 add $0.30 each. The whole core system is included at every size, and moving in is free. Self-hosting is quoted individually.

Does it connect to my channel manager?

There is an API, and your channel manager connects through it. There is no ready-made connector, so if your bookings depend on a two-way link that must match your current one exactly, ask us before anything else.

TM30?

It prepares the export from real check-ins. Your staff file it. Anything unconfirmed, such as a blank nationality or passport field, is left blank and flagged for your staff to fix. It is never guessed.

Who helps me?

A person sets your hotel up with you, and support comes from the team behind the system, not through a reseller. Hours, languages and channels are agreed when we set your hotel up.

Your question is not here? Start with the form and ask it there.

Two ways in.

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The form below. A person writes to you within one business day.

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Take the test first.

Nine changes, half an hour, and a PDF to keep.

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What happens after you send it.

  1. You send the form. No card is asked for.
  2. Within one business day, a person writes to you on the channel you choose, and agrees the start with you.
  3. Nothing changes in your live hotel until you say so.

After the free time it is $100 a month for up to 200 rooms. See the price chart.

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Before you go: the Friday Test.

Nine changes you should be able to make in your own hotel system without asking anyone. Run it tonight on the system you have, then print the PDF and hand it to your manager. It is free.

Not ready yet? Take the Friday Test, free.

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