Manage Housekeeping Tasks More Efficiently Using Housekeeping Software

One of the most important factors in which guests judge a hotel is on the cleanliness feature of the rooms and other facilities provided in a hotel. There is nothing worse than handing over a room to a guest that is messy or dirty. Most mistakes in cleanliness occur during rush hours in the morning when the guest check out and check in flow is at the highest. It becomes fairly difficult to determine which room is prepared for handover or not, therefore comes to play various housekeeping software’s and the ways it helps to manage the hotels cleaning and maintenance tasks, few of which are mentioned below;

1. Providing cleaning, supervision and room statuses

Hotel management softwares help provides a link between the housekeeping and front office departments. The software will provide accurate and updated information about clean rooms, supervisors in charge and statuses of rooms on the reservation screen resulting in perfect handovers of rooms.

1. Scheduling and management of various tasks

Housekeeping software’s help to keep a track on room supervision, maintenance, and engineering if required for particular rooms in the hotel. This helps the management to plan and supervise room maintenance accordingly in comparison to supply and demand of the hotel.

1. Management of the mini bar

The software allows the management, ease of maintenance of the mini bar in the rooms by showing the usage of the same with the help of day to day updates done by housekeeping staffs.

1. Management of materials and inventory control

Various types of cleaning chemicals and types of equipment are supposed to be kept as inventory for ease of functioning, the hotel management solution allows the hotel to tap and keep a count of such materials and inventory.

1. Occupancy status of the hotel

The system takes a step further in determining if the rooms are empty or not, this helps housekeeping staffs to understand when and how can they plan on cleaning rooms without inconvenience.

1. “Do not reserve” facility

Sometimes there are rooms reserved for in-house use or engineering and maintenance needs, these rooms cannot be listed for sale, thus the software marks the room as “do not reserve” for the front office's assistance.

1. Automated management

The system is designed to function automatically on giving information such as a ‘dirty’ room on check out or ‘inspect’ for a clean room this facility allows efficiency and easy management in assigning tasks.

The housekeeping software’s build a perfect connection between the two most important departments of the hotel which are; front office and the housekeeping department. This allows both the department to coordinate, plan and let out rooms with ease and efficiency.