(Most of these links will take you to lists of interesting and useful commercial hospitality software. If you know of any others please contact . If you find a few dead links or strange connections please forgive us. We try to keep this page up to date, but things move so fast in the technology industries . . .

Searching for hospitality software

If You're looking for the very latest hospitality software try starting with a search using Dogpile. This is a powerful search engine that queries thirteen of the other major search engines then sorts the results according to relevance. It can save you a heap of time.

If you want to restrict your search to Australia and NZ, try using Hotbot, a particularly useful flexible search engine that can restrict the search to geographic regions (For Australia and NZ go to the advanced search function and select 'Oceania' in the location menu). Be careful to check the boxes on the left to activate the various filters. Hotbot can also  search for information by date.

Whichever you use, it's better to make your search queries specific. Instead of a general query like 'hospitality software' try something more narrow like: 'restaurant booking software' or 'hotel reservations software'. A little bit of patience can be very rewarding.

If those search engine fail you or you couldn't get enthusiastic about searching,  try going to the Yahoo listings. Here are some that are especially relevant:

Also, try the following links to:

Australian & NZ hospitality software

BookingCentre A comprehensive year 2000 compliant guest reservations and guest accounts system for Windows and Mackintosh. Download a demo copy.

Getaway to Australia Designed for the overseas tourist, this software allows you to easily and quickly find out about accommodation, festivals, major events and places of interest (such as art galleries, craft centres etc.) in each state of Australia. (Finalist in NSW tourism awards).

GlobalRes GlobalRes is a real time, hotel reservation and booking system from NZ, designed mainly for travel agents and hotel chains over the world to conduct hotel booking on real time basis.

E Horner & Associates Hospitality Technology Consultants. Not strictly a software supplier but somewhere else you can go to for advice.

Maxial Solutions Maxial Solutions offers a full and comprehensive suite of modules covering every facet of a properties operation and is equally at home in
a boutique 40 room property, a busy diverse resort or a large 1000 room city hotel.

Pulse Club Computers Suite of software licensed Club and Hotels.

Resort Software Producers of Resort Chef and Resort Kitchen standard recipe management software.

Sanyo Point of Sale-Magic Software Sanyo Office Machines has invested a substantial amount of money in developing Point of Sale hardware and software in Australia. This software enhances the Japanese manufactured Cash Register technology to suit the rapidly expanding requirements of the Tourism and Hospitality industry in Australia and NZ.

ShortCuts Software Point of Sale and business management software. Including ShortCuts 2000 For Restaurants — a complete software package for restaurants, pub, bars, bistros, nightclubs etc.

Total Hospitality Solutions NZ suppliers of the Phoenix Hotel Manager front office reservations system.

The Uncorked Cellar The Uncorked Cellar is a wine guide and wine cellar software with winery details, wine ratings, value guide, winemaker's notes, cellaring guide, etc. Includes over 15,000 American, Australian, Canadian and New Zealand wines. Manage the contents of your wine collection which is presented in table form, and save or modify the provided tasting notes.

VinDATA ViNDATA is an application designed for anyone with an interest in wine - primarily the enthusiast. The program has three major activity centres - Wine Reviews, Wine Reference Material and Personal Cellar Management.

Winebase Search, track and query your wine collection in ways that no other program can. Maps, Winery details and Glossaries of Wine Making, Viticultural and Tasting terms. Includes Robin Bradley's Gold Book data for Australia, New Zealand and the USA.

Cooks, Chefs & Foodservice

Calcmenu A comprehensive menu and recipe program designed for the professional Chef or restaurant owner. Download a free evaluation copy (Windows based).

Chefmate provides instant access to hundreds of useful conversions. Everything from standard Metric/Imperial/U.S. conversions to food yield factors, volume weight conversions, and even common counts of food items. Includes a portion calculator. This handy tool allows the Chef to calculate raw requirements given a portion size, number of portions to be served, and the yield factor of that food item chosen in it's extensive database.

Download.com (Cooking) Direct link to the cooking section of Download.com's Software library. Lists a number of cooking and bar related freeware and shareware programs.

Escoffier (Software) Direct link to the software section of Escoffier's web site. Lists about twenty links to commercial specialist culinary and restaurant management software sources.

Foodservice.com (Software) Direct link to the software section of Foodservice.com's web site. Lists about seventy links to commercial specialist culinary and restaurant management software sources.

Simtel (Programs about food) Direct link to the software section of Simtel. Lists about sixty links to commercial specialist culinary and restaurant management software sources.

Restaurant manager POS full featured, flexible POS system for restaurants and other foodservice businesses.

Restaurant Plus Restaurant management and accounting systems.

Restaurant Technology Inc. Restaurant management and accounting software
 

General hospitality

Alliance Technologies Producer's of hospitality management software including MenuPro, FoodTrak and Event Master.

Cashlink This New Zealand software house produces the popular Hotelier Plus, a complete hotel management system for small and medium sized hotels and motels.

Carlson Companies producers of hospitality software and services to a stable of the US's top companies. Check this out as a good example of web marketing. Cool.

Data Plus Hospitality Solutions A back office solution for hotels and restaurants — includes accounts payable, general ledger, accounts receivable, payroll and personnel.

Execu/Tech Systems Execu/Touch (tm) Touch Screen Point of Sale Systems for fine dining and fast service.

MenuPro MenuPro is menu design software. It allows you to quickly create your own color menus at a fraction of the cost of commercially printed menus.

Northwind Software specializes in the development and implementation of hospitality solutions for hotels, resorts, conference centres and universities.

Hotel and Resort

Aremis software Comprehensive range if integrated front of house, sales and marketing and POS systems (US).

Eco Services Helps hoteliers develop property-specific environmental systems to lower operating expenses and increase revenues by optimizing energy efficiency, water conservation and waste management.

Execu/tech Creators of Hotel software which features front desk, reservations, back office and point of sale.

Hotel Data Systems US based suppliers of central reservations systems including XenonCRS.

Hostgroup Hotel management, property management and front office software

Intellect Data Systems (IDS) A composite software package covering all aspects of hotel accounting and services. Windows based, from India's silicon valley.

Pegasus systems provides electronic commerce and transaction processing services to the hotel industry worldwide.

Telecost.com Canadian software company that specialises in telephone call accounting and other hotel and resort software

Reservations Software

Cammis Accommodation Software Reservations and booking system for parks and campgrounds.

Booking Centre Property Management Software to make managing bookings, guests, finances, and POS simple and affordable. Free Internet Reservation Services, online management of Bookings, Agents, and Guest marketing - from anywhere.

Digital Res Software Corp develops reservation software for the resort and motel industries.Their programs are also capable of real time online reservations. They distribute world wide and have distributors in Australia and New Zealand.

Guest Tracker is a comprehensive reservation/guest management software application specifically designed to meet the needs of small to medium sized, short term lodging properties.

Hotel Data Systems US based suppliers of central reservations systems including XenonCRS.

Travel Software

Sabre Producers of travel and transport technology.

Wine & Beverage

Bartech Automatic Systems produces software to manage the mini bars in hotel rooms.

Jeroboam wine cellar management software Jeroboam is shareware software which manages your wine cellar and helps you to serve and to pair your best vintages.

Robert Parker's Wine Advisor & Cellar Manager is software developed in conjunction with Robert Parker and derived from his newsletter, The Wine Advocate. The software combines an extensive database of wine information with a unique Visual Cellar Manager.

The Uncorked Cellar The Uncorked Cellar is a wine guide and wine cellar software with winery details, wine ratings, value guide, winemaker's notes, cellaring guide, etc. Includes over 15,000 American, Australian, Canadian and New Zealand wines. Manage the contents of your wine collection which is presented in table form, and save or modify the provided tasting notes.

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