Śledzenie aktywności

BedBooking is a mobile booking calendar for short-term rental accommodation facilities. We help in the operation of smalland medium-sized rental businesses. We are supporting areas such as:

• managing the availability of accommodation,
• pricing policy,
• OTA sales (Booking.com, Airbnb, Expedia, Homeaway, etc.),
• communication with hotel guests,
• cleaning,
• bills and invoices,
• reports and statistics.

Our PMS (Property Management System) booking system is available on Google Android, Apple iOS, Huawei App Gallery, Microsoft Store and on desktops as a web application. Just look at user reviews on Google Play or App Store. Our clients are mostly property owners, managers in hotels, guest houses, guest rooms, private accommodation, agritourism and camping accommodation. Thanks to the versatility of our solutions and the ingenuity of our customers, our mobile booking calendar is also successfully used in car rentals, specialized construction machinery and animal rentals.

My name is Dawid Łukasiewicz and I am the president of the board and product manager.

The idea for BedBooking was born in 2012 at RST Software Masters. The project was implemented internally aimed at building the company's competences in the field of a mobile platform. As our parent company had the experience in tourism management (NetTur), we came up with an idea for mobile booking calendar. Unlike complex hotel systems, the solution was designed to be simple, intuitive, and aimed at innovating property management. As a result, we built a mobile reception desk available on the phone or tablet for small and medium-sized accommodation facilities.

Our team of product managers, programmers, testers, support and marketing specialists, accounting and human resources is in charge of shaping the product. I want them to enjoy what they do in their daily work. This enables us to recognize and respond to our users' need and build a great product that we can be proud of.

Thanks to Google Play and Apple App Store, BedBooking is available for users on various continents. That is why we needed an independent sales channel that would be accessible in all regions of the world. InvoiceOcean is an invoicing system that is supported in many language versions and currencies. At the same time, it is a good value for money. Originally, InvoiceOcean served us as an internal tool for sending invoices and reporting sales. Along with the development of BedBooking, our users' needs increased. Sending a sales document (invoice or receipt) was one of the requested features that our users wanted us to implement.

We considered two solutions: building it on our own or using a solution that existed on the market and could be adapted to our needs. I did some research on the market and we figured out that there is no such solution that would satisfy us. Then our CTO, Piotr Pękala, made a suggestionl to integrate with InvoiceOcean, which would become our “adapted” module for sorting out finances for accommodation facilities. We knew the product very well, because we had been using it ourselves successfully for several years. We knew that InvoiceOcean is a good and stable service, it supports various language versions, and has a lot of personalization and configuration functions (e.g. second tax). During the market reconnaissance, I analyzed several alternative invoicing systems. These were open source solutions or popular commercial services, but most of the tools were focused on the domestic market. When it comes to commercial services, Fakturownia's offer was really competitive - both in terms of functionality and price.

On December 14, 2018, I wrote the first e-mail to InvoiceOcean about this. Mr. Marcin Stefaniak (President of the Management Board at InvoiceOcean) turned out to be a person open to the idea of cooperation. In August 2019, we completed the pilot period of the service (closed tests with the BedBooking user community), and a month later the service was available to all our users. In less than 9 months, we were able to better understand each other, refine the terms of cooperation and adjust the InvoiceOcean's product to our individual needs.

First of all, our client and our client's client (a hotel guest) receive the sales document in their own language. The invoice or the bill is legible. We are using several foreign services and we know that sales documents created with those tools are not always legible.

We managed to automate the sales process. Invoices are issued automatically and the data is loaded into the accounting software.

Thanks to the recent improvements of the integration with the InvoiceOcean, we have reduced the time needed to post sales documents from 3 days to 3 hours.

For an entrepreneur, sending sales documents is an obligation required by law. This process must be simple and as little time consuming as possible for the team. We leave the issues related to the change of regulations, legislation of accounting systems and new trends to specialists from InvoiceOcean. Thanks to this, my team and I can focus on meeting our users' needs and on developing our core product – a reservation management system.

I have already done that. I have recommended the system to our users. Can you find a better recommendation?