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A register and a spreadsheet will run a hotel.
They will. Plenty of good hotels are run that way today, and if yours is one of them, nothing here is a criticism of how you work. The question is only what it costs you — in double-booked rooms, in bills retyped at midnight, and in the hour on Sunday spent adding up the week.
Job by job
The same day, both ways.
Everything in the right-hand column is on every plan, including the ₹999 one. None of it is a higher tier.
| The job | Register, WhatsApp and Excel | Digilight PMS |
|---|---|---|
| Taking a booking | Written in the register, or sitting in a WhatsApp thread until someone copies it across. | Entered once. It is on the calendar, against the room, and in the guest’s history immediately. |
| Knowing what is free tonight | Read down the register and hope nobody double-booked while you were on the phone. | Availability by date and room type, on one screen. |
| Checking a guest in | Find the entry, write the room number, hope the housekeeping list is current. | Check-in, room assignment and room status move together. |
| Raising a GST bill | An Excel template, retyped per guest, with the tax worked out by hand. | A GST invoice generated from the booking, numbered in sequence, on every plan. |
| Knowing who still owes you | A column in a sheet that is only right if everyone remembered to update it. | Payment tracking against each booking — paid, part-paid, outstanding. |
| Last night’s numbers | Add it up on Sunday, or wait for the CA. | Daily reports on occupancy, revenue and collections, ready each morning. |
| Letting staff help | One register, one laptop, and whoever has it holds the truth. | Their own login, with roles deciding what each person can see. |
| Guest coming back | Ask them, or dig through three old registers. | The guest register holds their stay history. |
Being straight with you
Where a spreadsheet still wins.
A comparison page that finds nothing good to say about the alternative is an advertisement, not a comparison.
- It costs nothing. Digilight PMS starts at ₹999 a month. A register costs the price of a register. If your property takes a handful of bookings a month, that maths may genuinely not favour us yet.
- Everyone already knows how. Nobody needs training on a notebook. We think our screens are simple enough that your newest staff member can handle a busy morning — but that is a claim you should test, not take. The demo is there for exactly that.
- It never goes down. True. We run on the internet, and if your connection drops, you are on paper until it returns. Worth weighing honestly against what a lost register costs.
Judge it against your own week.
Open the live demo and take a booking, print a GST bill and look at the reports — with no email and no card. Then decide whether it beats the register.
See what each plan includes on our pricing page.