Hotel Software List India 2026: 30+ Names, Lodge to Chain

Hotel software list: what Indian hotels actually run

Most Indian hotels run 3–5 tools with a property management system (PMS) at the centre, plus a channel manager for OTAs, a booking engine, a restaurant POS if you serve food, and TallyPrime or Zoho Books for your CA. Below are 30+ product names across 10 types, each tagged with the property it suits.

It's written for owners moving off a register or Excel. Disclosure: my company, Codingclave, makes one PMS listed, plus a restaurant POS and a WhatsApp tool, and I flag them each time. This is not a ranking. For that, see our ranked comparison of the best hotel management software in India.

Quick answer:

• 10 types: PMS, channel manager, booking engine, revenue management, F&B POS, housekeeping, guest messaging, GST accounting, door locks and lodge/dharamshala software.
• A 10–20 room lodge can run on 1 tool: a PMS with GST billing and OTA sync built in. A resort with a restaurant and events usually needs 4–6.
• Common PMS names in India: eZee Absolute, Hotelogix, IDS Next, Oracle OPERA Cloud, DJUBO, mycloud Hospitality.
• Pricing comes in 3 shapes: per room per month, flat per property, or a one-time licence.
• 1 free open-source option exists (QloApps), but you need someone technical to run it.

Hotel software names by type

Type	Job	Names used in India	Suits
PMS	Bookings, check-in, bills, night audit	eZee Absolute, Hotelogix, IDS Next, OPERA Cloud, DJUBO, mycloud, Cloudbeds, MyHotelLine, Codingclave HMS (ours)	Every property
Channel manager	OTA rate and room sync	STAAH, SiteMinder, eZee Centrix, AxisRooms, DJUBO	Any property on 2+ OTAs
Booking engine	Direct bookings	Simplotel, Bookingjini, eZee Reservation, Aiosell	Budget hotels and up
Revenue management	Price suggestions, rate shopping	DJUBO, Aiosell, AxisRooms, Stayflexi	City hotels, resorts, chains
F&B POS	Orders, bills, charge-to-room	Petpooja, Restroworks, IDS Next FX POS, Saffron POS (ours)	Properties with a restaurant or bar
Housekeeping	Room status, tasks	PMS modules, IDS Next FX HouseKeeping	Standalone apps: large resorts and chains
Guest messaging	WhatsApp, reviews	PayPerWA (ours), AiSensy, Gallabox, WATI, Gupshup, Aiosell	All properties
Accounting	Books for your CA	TallyPrime, Zoho Books, IDS Next FX Finance	All properties
Door locks	RFID key cards	Godrej Omega, Godrej Catus	Budget hotels and up
Lodge & dharamshala	Walk-ins, ID, cash/UPI	Mini Hotel Man, Booking Master, QloApps, eZee Absolute, Codingclave HMS	Lodges, guest houses, trusts

Last verified: September 2026 on official vendor sites where they were reachable. "Suits" is our judgement, so confirm it in a demo.

How the pieces connect around your PMS

The PMS is the master register. The channel manager syncs it with MakeMyTrip, Goibibo, Booking.com and Agoda; the booking engine drops website bookings into it; the POS posts restaurant bills to the guest's room; the lock encoder takes the room and checkout time from it; and Tally or Zoho Books receives its invoices. When a link is missing, staff retype data, which is where double bookings and unbilled dinners come from. For step-by-step selection and rollout, read our hotel management software guide for India.

Terms you'll hear in demos:

• Folio: the guest's running bill for the stay.
• Night audit: the end-of-day close that posts room charges and balances the day's money.
• CP / MAP / AP: breakfast only / breakfast plus one meal / all meals.
• Extranet: the OTA's back-office website for editing rooms and rates.

1. Property management system (PMS): the core

• eZee Absolute: eZee's cloud PMS, marketed heavily in India. Not to be confused with eZee Centrix (its channel manager) or eZee Reservation (its booking engine).
• Hotelogix: cloud PMS for front desk, bookings and reporting, in business since 2008.
• IDS Next: Bengaluru-based; sells FortuneNext PMS and FX Front Office plus POS, housekeeping, finance, spa, banquet and central-reservation modules. IDS Next says it serves 220+ hotel chains.
• Oracle OPERA Cloud: enterprise PMS for larger hotels and chains.
• DJUBO: a suite covering operations, distribution and pricing; says 2,500+ hotels in 19 countries use it.
• mycloud Hospitality: cloud PMS with channel manager, web booking and POS, and a 30-day free trial.
• Cloudbeds: global PMS with a built-in channel manager.
• MyHotelLine: Indian cloud software with PMS, channel manager, booking engine and revenue tools.
• Codingclave HMS (ours): front desk, housekeeping, two-way OTA sync, POS link, GST billing, night audit and multi-property, on cloud or self-hosted.

What 5-star and chain hotels use

Branded and franchised hotels usually run the PMS their brand mandates, typically an enterprise system with central reservations such as OPERA Cloud or IDS Next with FX CRS. Independents choose freely.

Cloud, self-hosted or free open-source

Cloud means a monthly or yearly fee and vendor-managed updates. A self-hosted licence is paid once and runs on your own server, so you own the data and the upkeep. QloApps by Webkul calls itself a free, open-source hotel management system with PMS, booking engine and channel manager parts. Hosting, setup and support are on you, and some features are add-ons, so check which are paid.

Which PMS suits which property

PMS	Typical fit	Check in the demo
Cloudbeds	Independents selling abroad	Indian GST invoice format
DJUBO	Mid-size hotels wanting pricing tools	Which modules your plan includes
eZee Absolute	Budget and mid-size hotels, resorts	Channel manager and engine are separate eZee products
Hotelogix	Budget and mid-size hotels	Tally export, corporate GST invoice
IDS Next	Resorts, large hotels, chains	Sold by module, so scope carefully
mycloud Hospitality	Budget and mid-size hotels	OTA sync, during the trial
MyHotelLine	Small and budget hotels	Full OTA list
Oracle OPERA Cloud	Large hotels and chains	Usually more than a small property needs
Codingclave HMS (ours)	Lodges to multi-property; owners wanting a one-time licence or source code	Newer, with a smaller install base than eZee or Hotelogix; ask us for references

Alphabetical, ours last, and a fit guide rather than a score. For scored picks, read our 2026 ranking of hotel management software.

How hotel software pricing works in India

• Per room per month: grows with every room. Illustration only, at a hypothetical ₹100 per room: 20 rooms cost ₹2,000 a month, 40 rooms ₹4,000.
• Flat per property: the same fee for 12 rooms or 60, so it favours bigger properties.
• One-time licence: a larger payment upfront, with hosting and support paid separately.

Competitor prices change often, so confirm them on vendor sites. Our own prices:

Codingclave HMS plan	Price	Works out to
Cloud monthly	₹2,500/month	₹30,000 a year
Cloud yearly	₹22,000/year	About ₹1,833/month, saving ₹8,000 a year
Self-hosted one-time	₹1,00,000 once, source code included	40 months of monthly billing, or about 4.5 years of yearly billing

Last verified: September 2026. Every plan includes every feature; only hosting and support differ.

The self-hosted licence includes free installation, onboarding and 3 months of support; after that, an optional updates-and-support plan starts from ₹22,000 a year. The break-even above excludes that plan and your server costs, so get both in writing before you compare. A fully custom-built PMS is a separate, custom-quoted project; our hotel software cost guide covers that range.

Want to see how one PMS handles your room types and OTAs? WhatsApp Ashish on +91 92771 84741 with your room count and OTAs. I'll show you the screens that matter for your property and tell you plainly if another PMS on this list fits better.

2. Channel manager: stop double bookings on OTAs

• STAAH: standalone channel manager. Its channel manager page and India landing page list Booking.com, Expedia, Goibibo and Agoda among its connections. Suits: independents whose PMS lacks a good built-in one.
• SiteMinder: global standalone channel manager with a published eZee PMS integration. Suits: hotels selling to many international OTAs.
• eZee Centrix: eZee's channel manager. Suits: eZee Absolute users.
• AxisRooms: distribution software for hotels, homestays, rentals and chains; self-reports 10,000+ hotels. Suits: homestays through to chains.
• DJUBO: distribution inside its suite. Suits: hotels wanting PMS, distribution and pricing from one vendor.

Will it stop double bookings? Yes, if the sync is two-way. The fault we're most often asked to fix is a wrong mapping, such as a "Deluxe" room type linked to two OTA room codes, so a sale on one OTA never reduced the other. The other cause is staff editing availability in an OTA extranet, so once connected, manage inventory only from the PMS or channel manager.

Ask whether it is an approved connectivity partner of each OTA you use, and whether MakeMyTrip and Goibibo need separate mapping. A PMS with a built-in two-way channel manager (DJUBO, mycloud, MyHotelLine, ours) may make a separate one unnecessary. For commission maths, read our hotel channel manager guide for India.

3. Booking engines for direct bookings

• Simplotel: hotel website plus booking engine. Suits: hotels wanting a new website too.
• Bookingjini: Indian booking-engine and channel-manager vendor (category from a third-party list; confirm on its site). Suits: budget and mid-size hotels.
• eZee Reservation: eZee's booking engine. Some lists call it a PMS or channel manager; it's neither. Suits: eZee Absolute users.
• Aiosell: website and booking engine in a pricing-led suite; self-reports 2,500+ properties in 70+ countries. Suits: hotels also wanting dynamic pricing.

Many PMS, ours included, ship their own engine. Whichever you use, check it takes UPI, keeps mobile checkout short and drops bookings straight into the PMS.

4. Revenue management and rate shopping

• DJUBO: dynamic revenue and price management plus a Competitor Rate Shopper. Suits: mid-size city hotels.
• Aiosell: built around dynamic-pricing AI, with a rate shopper. Suits: independents without a revenue manager.
• AxisRooms Revenue Management as a Service: a managed service. Suits: owners who want someone else to set rates.
• Stayflexi: AI agents that automate pricing. Suits: hotels willing to trial automation.

Skip it if you're a walk-in lodge, a fixed-tariff dharamshala, or an owner who already adjusts weekend and festival rates. It pays off for event-driven city hotels, seasonal resorts and chains.

5. Restaurant and F&B POS

• Petpooja: POS widely used by Indian restaurants. Suits: hotel restaurants with many outside diners.
• Restroworks: restaurant platform. Suits: multi-outlet F&B.
• IDS Next FX POS, FX POS Ultra and FX Kitchen Display System: built for hotel outlets. Suits: IDS Next users.
• Saffron POS (ours): ₹24,999 one-time or ₹2,499/month; no public demo page, so we show it on request. Suits: a single hotel restaurant or bar.

A PMS POS module may do for in-house guests and room service; outside diners, delivery, a bar or several outlets need a dedicated POS. Either way, restaurant bills must post to the guest's folio. We explain the split in restaurant POS vs PMS for hotels.

6. Housekeeping and maintenance

Housekeeping is usually a PMS module: a room-status board, cleaning assignments, maintenance tickets and lost-and-found. IDS Next sells FX HouseKeeping, our HMS includes it, and most cloud PMS have a version. A standalone app is worth it when a resort's rooms are spread across a large site or a chain wants the same SOPs everywhere. For a 20-room hotel, the PMS room-status screen on the supervisor's phone is enough.

7. Guest messaging, WhatsApp and reviews

• PayPerWA (ours): pay-per-message WhatsApp on Meta's official Cloud API, no monthly fee: ₹0.20 per message plus Meta's charge, about ₹1.06 per marketing message all-in. Suits: small hotels that message in bursts.
• AiSensy, Gallabox, WATI and Gupshup: WhatsApp Business API platforms sold to Indian businesses, usually on subscription; check current plans on their sites. Suits: hotels wanting a shared inbox and chatbot.
• Aiosell: includes reputation management for reviews. Suits: hotels on its suite.

Booking confirmations are cheaper utility messages; a festive offer is a pricier marketing message. Message only opted-in guests. To compare providers, see the cheapest WhatsApp API providers in India.

8. GST billing and accounting: PMS plus Tally or Zoho Books

GST invoicing is the PMS's job: your GSTIN, the company's GSTIN for corporate stays, correct SAC codes and separate lines for room, food and extras. Your books sit in TallyPrime or Zoho Books (India edition). Ask for these in the demo and show them to your CA:

• A sample GST invoice for a corporate guest
• The Tally or Zoho export: direct sync or Excel/XML file, and how ledgers map
• Credit notes, and e-invoicing if your CA says it applies
• Tax rates you can edit yourself. Room GST was last revised on 22 September 2025: 5% without input tax credit up to ₹7,500 per room per night, 18% above, per the 56th GST Council FAQs. Our hotel software demo test script includes a worked invoice check; confirm your own position with your CA.
• A day-end report whose cash, UPI and card totals match the night audit

9. Door locks and key cards: what to ask

We verified one lock brand. Godrej sells the Omega hotel lock (RFID, MIFARE 13.56 MHz) and the Catus range. For other RFID brands from local dealers, these questions matter more than the brand.

A PMS-lock interface lets the PMS write the key card at check-in with the room and checkout time; without one, staff re-enter details in the lock software. Ask:

1. Which PMS has this lock already been interfaced with in India?
2. Which card type does it use, and where do replacement cards come from?
3. Does the encoder work when the internet is down?
4. Can you pull an audit trail of who opened which room?

Choose your PMS before you buy locks, not the other way round.

10. Lodge management system and dharamshala software

What a lodge actually needs

• Fast walk-in check-in with ID capture. Ask whether Aadhaar copies are stored masked, who can view them, when they are deleted, and how the vendor supports your duties under the DPDP Act.
• A guest-register export in the format your local police station asks for, and Form C handling if you host foreign guests
• Advances, hourly stays, cash and UPI receipts, and an owner view on mobile
• A Hindi or regional-language screen if desk staff need it, plus phone support and a training session

Lodge software names that fit small properties

• Mini Hotel Man: built for small properties. Suits: lodges wanting a simple desk screen.
• Booking Master: Indian hotel booking and management software. Suits: small hotels wanting a local vendor.
• eZee Absolute (entry setup): scales as you grow. Suits: lodges adding OTAs.
• QloApps: free and open source. Suits: trusts or lodges with a technical person to host it.
• Codingclave HMS (ours): cloud or self-hosted. Suits: owners wanting a one-time licence and their own data.

Test each with your least technical staff member: one short session should get them checking in walk-ins unaided.

Dharamshala and trust guest houses

Trusts often have donation-style tariffs, allotment rules (maximum days per stay, member and non-member rates) and receipts in their own format. Ask whether the software issues donation receipts separately from room charges, and confirm the tax treatment with your CA. Off-the-shelf fits fixed tariffs; customise for allotment rules or trustee reports. Trusts wanting to hold their own data can adapt our source-code edition of the hotel management software.

What happens when the internet goes down

A cloud PMS needs internet, so keep a 4G hotspot as backup; OTA bookings wait until sync reconnects. A self-hosted PMS on a local server keeps the desk working over the property's own network, and OTA sync catches up when the line returns. Either runs in a phone browser for the owner.

Which hotel software do you need? Decision guide

Property	Minimum stack	Add later
10–20 room lodge or dharamshala	One PMS with billing, ID capture and OTA sync if listed	Key-card locks, WhatsApp
20–60 room budget hotel	PMS + two-way channel manager + booking engine (often one product)	Tally export, WhatsApp, RFID locks
Resort with restaurant and events	PMS + channel manager + booking engine + F&B POS with charge-to-room + locks	Revenue management, spa or banquet modules
Multi-property chain	Enterprise PMS + central reservations + channel manager + POS + accounting link	Rate shopper, CRM, group dashboards

The costliest mistake I see is buying for the chain you might become: a 25-room hotel on an enterprise suite pays for modules nobody uses.

Questions to ask any vendor before you shortlist

1. Is OTA sync live and two-way for every OTA you use?
2. Can you export all guests, bookings and folios if you leave?
3. Is pricing per room, flat or one-time, and what costs extra after year one?
4. Can the demo run on your room types and a real day's bookings?

Our guide to what to test in a hotel software demo walks through the last question.

Moving from a register or Excel: what to prepare in week one

• Room types, rate plans, meal plans, and seasonal and festival tariffs
• Every future booking, including cash advances
• Corporate clients' GSTINs and OTA extranet logins
• Staff roles: who can give discounts, void bills or change rates

The go-live mistake we see most is switching with future bookings half-entered, so a guest arrives on the first busy weekend holding an advance receipt the system has never seen. Go live on a quiet weekday and keep the register in parallel for a few days.

Your next step: see a hotel system running on your rooms

Who shouldn't choose us: a hotel whose franchise mandates a specific PMS, or a large chain needing an enterprise suite with central reservations; look at OPERA Cloud or IDS Next first. For everyone else:

• WhatsApp Ashish on +91 92771 84741 with your room count and OTAs.
• Read the hotel management software features and plans.
• Try the live hotel software demo: no signup, resets every 24 hours, login details shared on WhatsApp.
• Prefer a call? Use our contact page.

About the author

Ashish Sharma founded Codingclave in Lucknow in 2017, and the company has delivered 200+ projects since then, with a 4.9 Google rating from 76 reviews. His team builds hotel management software for hotels, lodges and multi-property groups, plus restaurant POS and WhatsApp tools, and he answers owners on WhatsApp himself.

Sources

• IDS Next (products and 220+ chains claim)
• eZee Centrix (eZee's channel manager)
• STAAH channel manager
• DJUBO revenue management
• TallyPrime by Tally Solutions
• Zoho Books India
• Godrej Omega hotel lock
• QloApps (free open-source hotel management system)

Also checked in September 2026: hotelogix.com, ezeeabsolute.com, oracle.com (OPERA Cloud), djubo.com, mycloudhospitality.com, cloudbeds.com, myhotelline.com, axisrooms.com, siteminder.com, simplotel.com, bookingjini.com, aiosell.com, stayflexi.com, petpooja.com, restroworks.com, minihotelman.com and bookingmaster.in. Our prices come from our product pages.