Leading hospitality company Fahrenheit Hospitality Limited (FHL) – the parent company for the prestigious Maison Fahrenheit Hotel and Fahrenheit Loft – has revealed that it is positioning its hotels to provide even more efficient services and a wider range of accessibility options to its clients, with its recent adoption of SlimTrader’s ‘MoBiashara for Hotels’ platform.
In the Nigerian hospitality industry, most hotels are faced with grim inventory management challenges that undermine their revenue generation potential. The biggest operational difficulties that hotels face are related to gaining visibility for their rooms on major hotel booking sites, with further complications in the room booking procedure, and even more limitations in terms of payment flexibility. In addition to these recurring problems, cash flow and the eventual reconciliation of payments across multiple channels pose another set of challenges to hotel administrators.
In the past, no singular platform was able to address all these challenges that are unique to the Nigerian hospitality industry. However, with the recent launch of its comprehensive ‘Enterprise Package’, SlimTrader’s MoBiashara for Hotels platform is now poised to solve all these problems.
SlimTrader’s MoBiashara for Hotels platform provides hotels with an easy to use Property Management System (PMS) and Channel Manager as well as a composite ‘Personal Computer – Point of Sale Terminal’ (PC-POS). It is the only cloud based provider with a strong Sub-Saharan Africa focus. With the Channel Manager feature, FHL hotels rooms will be available for purchase on international and local online travel agencies. The platform supports both online and offline payments as well as automatic syncing and reconciliation between FHL hotels’ credit and debit card machines with computer records.
According to the Managing Director of Maison Fahrenheit Hotel Mr. Anthony Shishler, the adoption of MoBiashara for Hotels will enable FHL to move to a new era of hotel inventory management, one he believes will see an improvement in room sales and efficient hotel processes automation. The partnership came about as part of the Fahrenheit Hospitality Limited’s efforts to subscribe to the #BuyNaijaAndGrowTheNaira movement which encourages Nigerians to invest locally.
In his words, “Before the coming of this solution; hotels in Nigeria were completely unplugged. Now, this plugs us in and more people would be able to view our rooms and book them online. No other platform allows us to plug into all these different OTA’s and to also receive payments. It simplifies processes immensely for FHL and for our customers who can now book and pay for our rooms anywhere in the world, and in any currency. Our hotel staff will not be bogged down with currency conversions, forex limitations or the hassle of consolidating offline with online records.”
Commenting on the partnership, SlimTrader’s General Manager, Commercial, Mr. Magaji Buba said, “We are confident that our MoBiashara for Hotels platform is a must have management system for businesses in the hospitality sector. We offer the most competitive prices for a composite PMS, Channel Manager and PC-POS solution across the entire industry. MoBiashara for Hotels also offers a loyalty program for hotels to encourage repeat visits and to reward guests with points which can easily be tracked and redeemed on the MoRewardz website. Starting at N6,000 (or $30) a month, a MoBiashara for Hotels subscription offers several more useful features than all the other hotel management software that have been available in the Nigerian market hitherto. SlimTrader is delighted to partner with FHL towards supporting their business and facilitating effortless transactions”.
