Business hotels & serviced stays
Missed after-hours messages, upgrades nobody offered, OTA commission on guests who'd book direct. Name the leaks below, then put your own numbers on them with the calculator.
Bangalore's hotels run on corporate demand — tech-park travellers around Whitefield, Outer Ring Road, and Electronic City checking in Sunday night and out Friday morning, most of them booked through MakeMyTrip, Booking.com, or a company travel desk. High midweek occupancy makes the top line look healthy, which is exactly why the leaks underneath it go unnoticed.
The leak isn't one dramatic loss. It's a guest landing on a delayed red-eye who'd have paid for early check-in but couldn't get an answer at 5am. It's a five-night business guest who'd have taken a room upgrade for the week if anyone had offered. It's the same traveller returning next quarter — through the OTA again, with the commission coming off your rate again — because the hotel never opened a direct line.
HotelFox reads the OTA confirmation emails you already receive and opens a WhatsApp + email conversation with each guest before arrival — an AI concierge that knows the booking, answers at 5am, makes the upgrade and late-checkout offers your rules define, and gives repeat guests a direct way back in. No PMS required; setup is forwarding one email and printing a QR code.
Leak 1
Corporate arrivals land late and message late. An unanswered 11pm WhatsApp about early check-in or airport pickup isn't just poor service — it's a paid add-on the guest was ready to buy from someone who wasn't awake to sell it.
Leak 2
A weekday business guest with a Friday-evening flight is the natural late-checkout buyer, and a five-night stay is the natural upgrade buyer. If no one makes the offer at the right moment, the room sits in its base category and the revenue simply never exists.
Leak 3
Quarterly business travellers rebook the same hotel through the same OTA, and the commission comes off your rate every single time. Without a direct channel opened during the first stay, you pay to re-acquire a guest you already earned.
ROI CALCULATOR
Three revenue lines, one subscription. Prices shown in USD (Other).
Monthly bookings
433
Room upgrades
Pre-arrival upsell to a higher room class
$935 / mo
Cross-sell & ancillaries
F&B, spa, transfers, late checkout, in-room dining
$416 / mo
Direct re-book recapture
Returning guests booking direct — saves OTA commission
$421 / mo
Total new revenue
$1,772 / mo
HotelFox cost
− $79
Business · billed monthly
Net profit
$1,693 / mo
Your ROI
22x
Estimates based on industry benchmarks — tap "Edit assumptions" to tune for your property. Subscription price from current plan for your region.
₹4,666/month Essential plan · 14-day free trial · no setup fee · no commission
Forward one OTA confirmation email and put up a WhatsApp QR code — that's the entire setup.
Start free 14-day trialYes — that is the primary use case. HotelFox ingests OTA booking confirmations via email forwarding, so a hotel with no property management system can be live in under 10 minutes: forward one confirmation email and put up a WhatsApp QR code.
You set rooms, average rate, and occupancy; the calculator estimates monthly revenue from room upgrades, cross-sell, and direct re-booking recapture using conservative industry assumptions you can edit. It is an estimate to size the opportunity, not a guarantee.
The Essential plan is ₹4,666/month, published transparently in INR with no setup fee and no commission on upsell revenue. Every hotel gets a 14-day free trial before any payment is required.
No PMS, no setup fee, no sales call required to start. Forward one OTA confirmation email and you're testing it on real bookings today.