Cardinal

The product

Less software to operate. More property to run.

A property management system for Canadian accommodation. Lodging, activities, housekeeping, the shop and the books in one system that tells you what to do next and explains itself as you go.

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The product

Everything a small property runs on

What you work in every day, and what sits underneath it.

The Cardinal Control Deck's list of today's actions, each with the button that does it

Control Deck

Lodging, activities, housekeeping and reporting, run from one screen. Today's work in order, and a Start button that walks you through it one guest at a time.

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The Cardinal housekeeping screen: rooms to clean by priority and housekeepers needed

Housekeeping

Which rooms need cleaning, in order of priority, and how many housekeepers you need today and each day this week.

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The Cardinal room calendar: rooms by dates with each stay drawn as a bar

Rooms

All your lodging as a calendar or a list. Drag to book, drag to extend, and free up whole units when the week gets fragmented.

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The Cardinal activity calendar with bookings, capacity and payment state per slot

Activities

Rentals, guided sessions and hourly bookings, as a calendar, a list or a daily schedule, each with its capacity.

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The Cardinal shop: packages, activity add-ons and products with their prices

Shop

Products, add-ons and packages, sold to in-house guests on their room bill or to visitors on the day's desk folio.

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The Cardinal booking page a guest sees: dates, guests and nights, and a calendar with the price of each available night

Booking Engine + Payments

Your own booking page at no commission, booking straight into the calendar the desk uses. Airbnb, VRBO and Booking.com calendars kept in step both ways, every hour. Every payment recorded against the right folio, Interac included, and payment links the guest pays on their own device.

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Underneath all of it

The Cardinal tax and ledger page, opening on the periods already filed
Canadian Tax & Servers

GST, QST, HST and PST kept per component for all 13 provinces and territories, and your data stored in Canada.

A Cardinal reservation recap with the stay, the balance and the next step
Folio + Reservation Combined

The stay, the bill and the next step on one screen. All the guest data in one place.

Innovations

The problems it solves

The products you work in, the modules around them, and what runs through every screen.

At its core

  1. Rooms + ActivitiesManage all your lodging and activity reservationsAs a calendar or a list, with colour-coded statuses that adapt to each booking and action buttons that put the priority first.
  2. Control DeckManage rooms, housekeeping and activities on one pageWe reinvented the dashboard into a functional central command.
  3. ShopManage your products, packages and add-onsTransfer items sold to guest folios, or charge the house account for outside guests.

Modules

  1. HousekeepingWhich rooms to clean, and how many housekeepers you needHow many housekeepers are needed today, tomorrow and the rest of the week? Cardinal adapts and does the math for you.
  2. Booking EngineAn online booking engine to maximize direct bookingsCardinal takes your property data and builds your booking page from it, with every amenity matched to the booking sites' own lists.
  3. Rate ManagementLodging rate management, with OTA calendars in syncWe've eliminated every old step in the book, so you can set rates in just a few clicks.

Features

  1. InsightsReal insights about your property, liveBuilt from real data: what's at Risk, what to Watch, where there's an Opportunity, and when you're On track.
  2. Seamless NavigationAny screen in two clicksWe put an end to endless navigation. Find what you're looking for in two clicks or less in Cardinal OS.
  3. Instant ResponseGoodbye loading screensThe application loads once, and that's it.
  4. Canadian AccountingA dedicated section for accountantsReports in the order your bookkeeper works. All the reports you need to file your taxes, in one place.
  5. Night AuditThe day is always live, 24/7, no posting requiredThe books are current all day, so there is no night audit to run.

Set up for you

You type what you know. It fills in the rest.

Every answer below is a suggestion sitting in a field you can change.

Products
A product name: Parking
Billed per night, so a four-night stay bills four. A massage comes up per person, a shower per use.
Tax settings
Your postal code: J8E
Quebec: GST 5 %, QST 9.975 %, the 3.5 % lodging tax and your timezone. The province then locks, because changing it re-prices every future booking.
Booking sources
The source of a booking: a travel agency
In Quebec the lodging tax becomes a flat $3.50 a night, remitted by the agency, and the tax report says so. Every screen labels the booking the same way.
Client sources
A guest's first booking
How they first found you, taken from their earliest booking and locked in.
Property features
Amenities in your own words: Wood stove
Recognised as a fireplace, given a French label and an icon, shown on your booking page and ready for the booking sites' lists.
Room features
Fireplace, typed for the whole property
Flagged as a room fact, with a one-click move onto the room types that actually have one.
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Who it is for

Small properties, including the mixed ones

A lodge with cabins and campsites is one property here, with one guest database, one ledger and one set of books.

HotelsCampgroundsB&BsMotels and lodgesCabins and chaletsGlamping
For campgrounds and rv parksFor motels and innsFor chalets and vacation rentalsFor glamping and unique staysFor b&bs and small innsFor ski and mountain lodging

See it running

Follow a full day in Cardinal, screen by screen.

Six real screens from a working property, in the order the day happens. Open it now and go at your own pace.

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