Hotel management software in Lucknow, with a commission-free booking engine
Staywise is a booking engine for your own website and a front desk for your staff: tape chart, check-in, folios, housekeeping and GST invoices on one set of reservations. The demo is the working product on sample data.
- Direct bookings, with no OTA commission deducted
- GST worked out per night: 5% or 18%
- Tape chart, folios and housekeeping board
Inside Staywise
Screens from the live demo, on its sample data. Open the demo to try each one yourself.
Guests compare rate plans, with GST shown, before they pay. 
The tape chart puts every booking source on one calendar. 
Check-outs mark rooms dirty; housekeepers clear them from the board.
Four ways in, one set of rooms
A twenty-room hotel near Hazratganj or a family homestay in Gomti Nagar sells the same rooms through four doors: OTAs such as MakeMyTrip and Booking.com, walk-ins, a company’s travel desk, and guests who ring or WhatsApp the owner. When those live in a register, an extranet and someone’s phone, rooms get double-sold and bills get rebuilt at check-out. If you are comparing hotel management software in Lucknow, start with one question: does every booking land on the same calendar?
Staywise answers with a booking engine for boutique hotels and homestays and a front desk, both reading the same inventory. Guests pick dates on a calendar that shows the lowest nightly rate, compare room-only, breakfast and non-refundable plans, add an airport transfer or extra bed, and pay by UPI or card or at the hotel. A direct-booking promo code gives them a reason to book with you, and a booking on your own site carries no OTA commission.
GST needs working out per night. Since 22 September 2025, room tariff up to ₹7,500 per night attracts 5% GST without input tax credit, and tariff above ₹7,500 attracts 18%. Staywise applies the slab night by night, on the tariff after discounts, so a stay that crosses a weekend or festive surge can carry both slabs on one invoice. Restaurant, minibar and laundry charges post to the folio at the rate set for each outlet.
Behind the guest pages is the hotel PMS the desk works in all day. The demo runs on sample data in your browser: a fictional 24-room property in Hazratganj with a haveli wing, so you can book as a guest and then find the booking on the tape chart. A deployment runs on a server with real staff logins, roles and backups, set up with your rooms, rates, policies and branding.
Who it is for
- Boutique, heritage and business hotels in Lucknow and across UP
- Homestays and guest houses run by the family that owns them
- Owners who want more stays booked on their own website
- Front desks still working from a register and an OTA extranet
- Properties that bill companies and need their GSTIN on the invoice
What Staywise does
Commission-free direct booking engine
Booking pages on your own website with live availability, a two-month calendar showing the lowest rate per night, and rate plans side by side. A sold-out date suggests the next available stay instead of a dead end.
Rates, seasons and stop-sell
Set a weekday rate and weekend uplift per room type, add seasonal rules such as a wedding-season surge, and close a room type to online sales on chosen nights. Changes reach the booking pages straight away.
Hotel GST invoices with 5% and 18% slabs
Each night is taxed on its own value, so mixed-slab stays come out right. Invoices show SAC codes, CGST and SGST, the guest’s GSTIN for company bookings, and a financial-year invoice series.
Hotel front desk software built round a tape chart
Fourteen nights by room, coloured by status and labelled direct, OTA, walk-in or corporate, with rooms left per type each night. Click an empty night to create a walk-in or phone reservation in that room.
Check-in with ID capture
Assign rooms with dirty ones flagged, record Aadhaar, passport, driving licence or voter ID, and collect an advance. Choosing a foreign national switches the form to passport details with a Form C reminder.
Guest folio and check-out
Room nights, add-ons and posted charges sit on one folio with their GST. Record UPI, card, cash, bank transfer or bill-to-company payments, then check out with the invoice issued and the room sent to housekeeping.
Housekeeping board
Rooms move from dirty to clean to inspected, filtered by floor, with a housekeeper on each. Taking a room out of order, with a reason and dates, removes it from sellable inventory until it returns to service.
Manage-booking page for guests
Guests find their booking with its ID and their mobile number, change dates at current rates or cancel within your policy, and keep a QR confirmation to show at the desk. No guest account is needed.
Dashboard and guest history
Arrivals, departures, occupancy, ADR and RevPAR, revenue by night and bookings by source. Guest profiles keep stays, nights, spend and company details, so the desk recognises a repeat guest.
OTA sync is not part of the demo. OTA bookings are labelled by source (MakeMyTrip, Booking.com, Agoda and others) so reports stay accurate, but availability does not flow to the OTAs. If you need that, we connect a channel manager during setup.
What changes in your business
- Direct, phone, walk-in and corporate bookings checked against one live inventory
- More stays booked on your own website rather than through an OTA
- GST invoices with the right slab for every night, ready for your CA
- Check-out in one step: payment, invoice and housekeeping updated together
- Room status visible to the desk without a call to the floor
Built in and connected
- UPI and card gateway (Razorpay, PayU or Cashfree)
- Channel manager, connected at setup
- WhatsApp Business API confirmations
- Email confirmations
- Print or PDF GST invoices
- Cloud hosting with daily backups
Payment, messaging and hardware integrations are connected during setup, to the providers you already use where possible.
How we set up Staywise for you
- 01
Demo walk-through and quote
We go through the demo with you and note what differs at your property: room types, plans, add-ons, cancellation rules and how the desk works today. The quote follows from that.
- 02
Rooms, rates and branding
Room numbers, floors, rates, seasons, breakfast price, GSTIN and invoice series configured. Booking pages carry your name, photos and colours, on your domain or behind a ‘Book now’ button on your current site.
- 03
Payments and connections
Your payment gateway, email and WhatsApp confirmations, and a channel manager if you want OTA availability kept in step.
- 04
Import, training and go-live
Upcoming reservations and guests imported, the desk and housekeeping trained, and a few days run alongside your register before switching over.
What we need from you
- Room types, room numbers, floors and occupancy limits
- Current rates, plans, seasonal surges and cancellation policy
- GSTIN, legal name and the invoice format your CA expects
- Upcoming reservations and guest list, as Excel or an OTA export
- Room photos and descriptions, your logo and domain
- A payment gateway account, or the documents to open one
None of it has to be tidy. Discovering that your data is messier than expected is part of the job, not a reason to delay starting.
Staywise — questions buyers ask
Including what it costs, what it does not do, and who should buy something else.
Does it replace Booking.com or MakeMyTrip?
No, and it is not meant to. OTAs bring guests who would never have found you, and most properties keep listing on them. Staywise is your direct channel: a hotel booking engine on your own website, linked from your Google listing and Instagram bio. OTA bookings still sit on the tape chart, labelled by source. The demo does not sync availability with OTAs; we connect a channel manager during setup if you need it.
How does it calculate GST on room tariff?
Since 22 September 2025, room tariff up to ₹7,500 per night attracts 5% GST without input tax credit, and tariff above ₹7,500 attracts 18%. Staywise applies the slab to each night separately, so a stay where the weekend rate crosses ₹7,500 shows both slabs on one invoice, with CGST and SGST split. Rates are settings, not code, and your CA should confirm how your packages and meal plans are treated.
What does it cost?
It depends on the number of rooms and properties, whether you need the booking engine, the front desk or both, which connections you want (payment gateway, channel manager, WhatsApp), how much changes for your property, and whether we host it. We quote after a short call about how you take bookings today, not from a price list.
Can staff and guests use it on a phone?
Yes. The guest booking pages adapt to phones, which is where most direct bookings start. The tape chart, front desk and housekeeping board run in a browser on a desktop, tablet or phone, so a housekeeper can mark rooms clean from the floor. Nobody installs an app.
Can we bring in our existing bookings and guests?
Yes. Upcoming reservations and your guest list can come from Excel, a register typed into a sheet, or an export from your current software or OTA extranet. We check the file with you before go-live, so the tape chart starts with the bookings you actually hold.
Can it carry our name, look and policies?
Yes. The booking pages use your property name, logo, colours, photos and room descriptions, on your own domain or behind a button on your current website. Rate plans, add-ons, cancellation rules, breakfast pricing and invoice wording are configured to match how you sell. Changes beyond configuration, such as a new report or screen, are scoped and quoted separately.
Is support local, or remote?
Both, depending on where you are. We are a Lucknow company, so hotel management software in Lucknow means we set it up at your desk, train the front office and housekeeping in person, and come back when something needs a look. Properties elsewhere in Uttar Pradesh get remote setup and support by phone and screen-share, with planned visits for go-live and training.
Who is Staywise not for?
Large hotels and chains that need revenue management, group and banquet sales, or central reservations across many properties are better served by an established enterprise PMS. At the other end, a homestay taking a few bookings a month by phone may not need homestay management software at all; a register can be enough. Staywise fits in between: independent properties where the owner or manager runs the desk.
Other live demos
When you need it built differently
The product is a starting point. These are the services behind it, for when the requirement goes further.
Book a room as a guest, then find it on the front desk
Make a booking in the demo, switch views, check the guest in and print the GST invoice. If it fits your property, send us your room list and current rates and we will plan the setup with you.