YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – Some of you probably know that I hate the cold winter weather although today’s temperature has risen to 11°C (about 51°F) in the Yokohama area. I guess 11°C is not that bad as long as you stay inside. I run 4 or 5 km in the evening every day. It gets quite cold by that time. Hopefully, it will get a lot warmer next month.

Oh, well, I’m ready to introduce to you the first software product of this month. It’s one of double releases just like the combo that I introduced at the very end of the last year. This desktop application is called Sweet Hotel Central 2.

Whether you have hundreds of rooms at your hotel or just rent a couple of empty rooms for a short-time stay, Sweet Hotel Central 2 gives you everything you need to run a hotel business on your Mac so that you can host guests efficiently. You can register tens or even hundreds of rooms at a time and assign a geographical location to each property & room. Click on the Map tab, and you can see where your properties & rooms are all located on the map. Shown under the Schedule tab is your weekly schedule for hosting guests. Create a customer record so that you can book a reservation for your guest. Find out which room is available or not available for your guests based on the room capacity and their budget.

Sweet Hotel Central 2 goes beyond letting you manage customer records and book room reservations. It works with its iOS counterpart, Sweet Hotel Work 2, side by side so that you can set up a communication table between you and room maintenance workers. Send an invitation to a room service representative so that he or she can receive a notification every time you push a room status change. Once a table is set, iOS users can even push and receive a room status change among themselves.   Continue reading →