Solutions · General Manager

Stop being the integration layer between five systems.

Most GMs spend half their week stitching reports together, pulling occupancy from the PMS, F&B from the POS, reviews from a fourth tab, and payroll from email. HotelBee gives you a single morning screen that already knows what changed yesterday and what needs your attention today.

  • 6 hrsAvg. time saved / week
  • 1Morning report, not 5
  • 12 KPIsOn a single screen
  • < 9 minFrom login to coffee
What goes wrong without it

The GM job has silently expanded, five systems is too many.

Every system you add to a hotel sounds like a productivity gain. In practice, it lands on the GM's desk as another browser tab, another login, and another reconciliation no one else owns.

  • A morning of stitched-together tabs

    Occupancy in tab one, revenue in tab two, reviews in tab three, complaints in email, payroll in a fifth system. By 10am you have an outline of yesterday, and you have not made a single decision yet.

  • Issues found by accident

    A €1,400 unposted F&B charge, a flagged maintenance ticket, a complaint that escalated overnight, most GMs find these by chance, not by design.

  • Reports that arrive after the decision

    The Tuesday revenue report arrives Thursday afternoon. The owner email got fired off Wednesday morning. The decision had to be made on instinct, again.

  • Owner updates eat the calendar

    Building the monthly owner pack still takes a day and a half, copy-paste from four exports, double-check the numbers, beautify the slide deck. Nobody reads it the same week it lands.

  • Compliance is a personal risk

    Tourism tax filings, e-invoicing, GDPR access requests, audit trails, when something goes wrong, the audit trail leads back to one signature: yours.

A morning, two ways

The same Tuesday, with and without.

Two GMs at comparable 90-room properties. One builds the picture every morning from scratch. The other reads it.

Without HotelBeeBefore

90 minutes before a single decision.

  • Five logins to open: PMS, POS, channel manager, reviews, payroll.
  • Build a daily report by copy-pasting yesterday's numbers into a spreadsheet.
  • Discover a €1,400 unposted F&B charge, by accident, on Friday.
  • Owner emails for an update; you reply on Wednesday after pulling four exports.
  • Tourism tax filing lives in a personal Google Doc. Audit risk is yours.
  • It is 9:30am. The floor walk has not happened yet.
With HotelBeeAfter

On the floor by 8:15.

  • 08:00 · A two-minute AI briefing lands in your inbox before coffee.
  • 08:03 · 12 KPIs on one screen. Anything off-trend is highlighted, the rest fades.
  • 08:05 · Three flagged exceptions, each one tap from full context.
  • 08:07 · Owner email auto-drafted from the weekly summary. Edit two lines, send.
  • Tourism tax filing automated. Audit trail logged with every change.
  • 08:09 · Tablet in hand, coffee in the other. The day starts here.
Where the briefing lands

Reads in your inbox of choice.

The morning briefing, exception alerts and owner pack all reach you wherever you already work. Slack, email, SMS, Teams, or the GM mobile app. No new place to check.

  • SlackBriefing in #ops, exceptions in #alerts, owner pack in #leadership.
  • EmailDaily and weekly digests, branded for the property and the owner.
  • SMSHigh-priority pages only, escalated complaints and overrides.
  • Microsoft TeamsSame digests, in your group property's native chat tool.
  • Notion / ConfluenceAuto-publish weekly summaries to a living owner page.
  • Google / OutlookOwner-call reminders and floor-walk windows on your calendar.
  • Push notificationsNative iOS / Android pushes for the GM mobile app.
  • Webhooks & APIStream KPIs and exceptions into your own BI or data warehouse.
A morning, in nine minutes

The first nine minutes of a real GM's morning.

This is the morning routine of a GM at a 92-room independent hotel in Lisbon. Same rhythm, every weekday, since they switched in early 2024.

  1. 08:00

    AI briefing arrives

    A two-minute summary lands in the inbox, written in plain English, with a one-tap link into anything that needs more context. Read while the kettle boils.

  2. 08:03

    Open the dashboard

    Yesterday's 12 headline KPIs in one screen. Anything significantly off-trend is highlighted; anything else fades into the background.

  3. 08:05

    Triage the exception inbox

    Three flagged items: an unposted spa charge from last night, a maintenance ticket on a suite, a guest review that scored 6/10. Each is one tap from full context.

  4. 08:07

    Reply to the owner

    Owner asks "how was last week?", one tap generates the weekly summary as an email draft. Edit two sentences, send.

  5. 08:09

    Walk the floor

    Tablet in hand, every department's shift roster, every checked-in VIP, every flagged room, one tap away. Coffee in the other hand.

What it changes for the role

A short before & after.

  • Morning routine: 90 minutes → 15 minutes

    No more building the picture from tabs. The picture is already built, your job is to act on it.

  • Owner reporting: 1.5 days → 0

    The monthly owner pack is generated, branded, and delivered automatically on the first. You approve it; you do not build it.

  • Issues caught earlier

    Anomaly detection on revenue, occupancy, F&B and reviews flags issues the same day, not a week later, when they've compounded.

  • Decisions on data, not gut

    Every dashboard tile is one tap away from the underlying data. Drill from the headline KPI to the individual reservation in three taps or fewer.

  • Compliance without anxiety

    Tourism-tax filing, e-invoicing, audit logs, and GDPR requests are handled centrally with a clear paper trail you can hand to any auditor.

  • A real handoff for vacation

    The dashboard, the inbox and the briefing all support multi-user roles. Your deputy sees what you see, and the inbox does not pile up while you are away.

Before HotelBee my morning was 90 minutes of tabs. Now I read a two-minute briefing, deal with three flagged items, and I am on the floor by 8:15. The job has not got easier, but it has finally become the GM job, instead of the integration-layer job.

TR
Tomas RibeiroGeneral Manager · 92-room independent · Lisbon
Common questions

Questions GMs ask before switching.

  • No. The GM experience, dashboard, exception inbox, AI briefing, automated owner pack, is included with every HotelBee subscription. We do not believe in upselling the GM seat: it is the seat the rest of the platform reports to.
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