Cardinal

A self-guided look

A day at a twenty unit property, in six screens

Real screenshots from the demo property, in the order a day actually happens. Every screen and every number is the live demo exactly as it renders. Start at 7:40am and go at your own pace.

7:40The Control Deck

The day is already sorted before you sit down

There is no assembling the morning. You open one screen and the day is on it, in the order it needs doing, and each line is one click from done.

Today's actions are derived from live state rather than maintained by a person: arrivals to check in, departures to settle, balances to collect, rooms to turn over, activities to prepare. Clicking a task either completes it or opens the exact screen that does.

How the day's work is generated
The Cardinal Control Deck: the day's arrivals, departures, balances to collect and rooms to clean, each as an action
9:15Guest rooms

The whole property on one board

Somebody calls wanting three nights next weekend. You can see the answer without opening anything else.

Rooms against dates, colour-coded by stay state, with the per-night rate on each. Filter by division so a lodge wing and a campground sit side by side without becoming two systems. Auto-assign picks the least-used available room in the category, so wear spreads across the property instead of concentrating on the ones nearest the office.

The seven states a reservation moves through
The Cardinal reservation board: rooms against dates, colour-coded by stay state with per-night rates
11:00Activities

The canoe at two o'clock goes on the guest's folio

A guest adds a guided paddle at the desk. It goes on their folio, not on a clipboard, and the capacity for two o'clock updates itself.

Three scheduling models: inventory for equipment you own a fixed number of, time slots for a session at a set hour, hourly for something rented by the hour. Each sets its own capacity cap and pricing formula. Someone who is not staying with you can book and pay for an activity on their own folio.

How activities and packages price
The Cardinal activities calendar: sessions with per-slot capacity caps and payment states
15:30Shop and packages

Firewood, a bottle of wine, a late checkout

Rung up against the room, or against a house account, and settled once when they leave. Nobody is keeping a tab on paper.

Products and packages with taxable flags, priced per stay, per night, per person or per person-night. Charges post to the guest's folio as they happen, so the balance on screen is the balance, all day.

The four package bases
The Cardinal shop: products and packages rung up to a guest folio or house account
16:00Housekeeping

How many people do you need tomorrow?

Not a list of dirty rooms. An actual answer, in people, from your own cleaning times.

Tomorrow's movements convert into rooms to clean, total cleaning time and housekeepers needed, with a seven day outlook. Priority is derived from the movements themselves, so a same-day turnover outranks a stayover without anyone maintaining the order. Cleaning time is set per accommodation type, so a studio and a four bedroom chalet are not averaged together.

The staffing forecast
The Cardinal housekeeping forecast: rooms to clean, total clean time and housekeepers needed, grouped by task type
21:00Analytics and the ledger

You go home. There is nothing to run.

No batch, no nightly close, no report to remember. Every transaction posted when it happened, so the books were correct all day and they still are.

Postings are immutable at the database level and tax is stored per component, so the remittance report is a query rather than a reconstruction. An overnight sweep resolves no-shows and overdue check-outs on its own. There is no night audit because there is nothing left to roll.

How the day closes itself
Cardinal analytics: per-period room revenue, then room revenue, occupancy, ADR and RevPAR for today, month to date and year to date

That is the whole day. Six screens, in the order they happen, on a property with twelve rooms and chalets, three cabins, two glamping tents, three campsites and a canoe rental. Two things a screenshot cannot show you. All six are one page load, so moving between them costs nothing and interrupts nothing. And the small (i) beside a field you do not recognise answers it where it stands, in plain language, written for somebody who has never run a property.

The ledger, the tax engine, housekeeping, the booking page and the corporate accounts are one system rather than five keeping each other up to date. That is why the day arrives as work instead of as forms. How it is built counts that difference on three ordinary jobs, against the published instructions of the systems you are probably also looking at.

The other half of that is what it takes to get here from whatever you are running now. Your first 60 days run on your own property at no charge, bringing your existing reservations across happens on a call with us and is inside the price rather than beside it, and the export that takes all of it back out again is self-serve and free. Moving is meant to be the reversible part.

You have seen the software work. What is left is questions, and the hard questions page answers the ones that decide a purchase, mechanism by mechanism, and names what is finished and what is still landing.

When you want the real thing

See it on your own property, with your own rates.

Thirty minutes, screen to screen. Bring the edge case you are worried about, because that is the part worth watching.