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

In order of how much of your day each one gives back.

  1. Control DeckThe day's work arrives as a listIn place of a dashboard of numbers, and each task on it is one click from done.
  2. AnalyticsEvery insight opens the screen that fixes itRead live off your bookings, like a departure still owing or an arrival not yet guaranteed.
  3. HousekeepingKnow how many housekeepers you needToday and every day this week, worked out from your own cleaning times.
  4. Canadian taxTax reports, laid out step by stepIn the order your bookkeeper works, ending on the GST and QST remittance.
  5. ShopLate check-out and early check-in, ready to sellSold by the hour, and offered only while the room is actually free.
  6. RoomsEvery booking reads at a glanceOne colour for where the stay is, and a bar that fills night by night: Night 2 of 4.
  7. Control DeckNew staff learn as they workA ladder from New Arrival to Innkeeper that shows each person what to try next.
  8. Every screenAny screen in two clicksOr press Ctrl K and type where you want to go.
  9. Rooms & RatesType one price and every rate followsThe price on a room type is the base rate, and every plan is set from it.
  10. ActivitiesActivities offered while the guest booksRight after the room is chosen, while the guest is still saying yes.
  11. Every screenEvery screen opens instantlyIt loads once, and the other desk's changes appear on yours as they happen.
  12. AccountingThe day closes itself at midnightThe 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.

CampgroundsRV parksMotelsInnsB&BsChaletsGlampingSmall resorts
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

Watch a day run before you talk to anyone.

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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