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Reservations
Front desk
Room map
Channels
Housekeeping
Guests
Payments
Reports
HR & Payroll
HV
Harbour View
32 rooms
Reservations
CalendarList
28 Sep – 11 Oct 2026
TodayNew booking
Arrivals
12
Departures
9
In-house
41
Occupancy
86%
4 channels in sync
Room
Mon28
Tue29
Wed30
Thu1
Fri2
Sat3
Sun4
Mon5
Tue6
Wed7
Thu8
Fri9
Sat10
Sun11
101Queen
Anna Novak
Jae Park
Lena Brandt · Booking.com
Owen Hart
102Queen
Tom Ross
Marta Silva
Group · Weber wedding
103King
Ravi Chen
Kenji Ito · Expedia
Hana Brooks
Luis Romero
104King
Grace Lindqvist
Maintenance
Paul Moreau
Jonas Weber
201Deluxe
Group · Weber wedding
Nia Duarte · Airbnb
Sofia Marin
202Deluxe
Sanjay Patel
Mathieu Laurent · Booking.com
Felix Wright · Expedia
Amir Haddad
203Deluxe
Emma Carter
Chloé Martin
Ivy Tan
204Suite
Nora Kim
Daniel Okafor
Priya Sharma
Yuki Sato · Booking.com
301Suite
Group · Weber wedding
Ben Clarke
Maya Levi
302Family
Rossi family
Out of order
Kim family · Expedia
Checked inConfirmedOTA · syncedDue outGroup
Booking.com reservation synced
Added to the calendar · just now
Mathieu Laurent · Room 202
29 Sep – 2 Oct · 3 nights · Deluxe
$447.00
Room 204 · Checked in

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5.0 / 5 across 6 hotelier reviews

A day at the front desk

Front desk to payroll, in one place

Who it’s for

Built for independent hospitality

Whether you run eight rooms or eighty, ARGUS fits the way your property already works, from the front desk to payroll.

Independent hotels
Front desk, OTA channels and staff in one system.
Motels
Quick walk-ins, ID scanning and simple nightly rates.
B&Bs & guest houses
What a small team needs, without the clutter.
Resorts
Many room types, stay packages and guest profiles.
Serviced apartments
Long stays, many units and guest profiles.

One login. One flat price.

Reservations, channels, payments, housekeeping, guest profiles and payroll stop living in separate tools. ARGUS runs them together, on one calm platform.

Channel manager

One calendar. Every channel. Always in sync.

Connect Booking.com, Expedia, Airbnb and more to one reservation calendar. Change a rate once and it’s live everywhere. On the Business plan, OTA bookings also come back in as real reservations.

  • Booking.com, Expedia, Airbnb and more, from one calendar
  • Rates, availability and minimum stays push out automatically
  • A plain-English sync log of every change
  • Business plan: two-way sync, so new, changed and cancelled OTA reservations come back as real bookings
  • Business plan: overbooking protection and stop-sell across every channel
  • Business plan: virtual card handling for OTA-collected payments
Rates & availability
Deluxe King · Harbour View Hotel
Overbooking protection: on
Channel
Mon28
Tue29
Wed30
Thu1
Fri2
Sat3
Sun4
AvailabilityRooms left to sell
4
3
2
1
5
6
6
Stop-sellAll channels
—
—
—
On
—
—
—
Booking.comSynced 10:42
$149
$149
$159
$189
$199
$169
$149
ExpediaSynced 10:42
$149
$149
$159
$189
$199
$169
$149
AirbnbSynced 10:41
$149
$149
$159
$189
$199
$169
$149
AgodaSynced 10:41
$149
$149
$159
$189
$199
$169
$149
Min stayNights
1
1
2
2
2
1
1
Sync logLive
Booking.comNew reservation BK-48213, Deluxe King, 3 nights. Added to the calendar.
All channelsRates for 29 Sep – 4 Oct pushed to 4 channels.
ExpediaReservation EX-99120 cancelled. Room 103 released everywhere.
Passport read · every field captured
PASSPORTGBR
SURNAME
CARTER
GIVEN NAMES
EMMA LOUISE
NATIONALITY
BRITISH
DATE OF BIRTH
14 MAR 1988
PASSPORT NO.
532814760
EXPIRY
21 JUL 2031
P<GBRCARTER<<EMMA<LOUISE<<<<<<<<<<<<<
5328147604GBR8803146F3107219<<<<<<<02
Registration card
Room 203 · Arriving today
All fields verified · 2.1s
Full name
Emma Louise Carter
Document type
Passport
Document no.
532814760
Nationality
British
Date of birth
14 Mar 1988
Expiry date
21 Jul 2031
6 of 6 fields read100%
Check in guest

AI ID scanning

Welcome guests in seconds, not minutes

Scan a passport, driver’s licence or ID card at the desk and the registration card fills itself in: name, document number, nationality and date of birth. No retyping, no typos, no queue.

Passports, IDs & visasFills the form in secondsReads documents worldwide

Security & trust

Guest data, handled with care

Built for the details a hotelier can’t afford to get wrong: guest identities, card payments and who changed what.

Encrypted in transit and at rest
Guest records, documents and payment data are protected on the move and in storage.
Guest data protected
Payments via Stripe
No raw card numbers are ever stored in ARGUS.
Card data stays with Stripe
Role-based access
Decide exactly what each role can see and change, per property.
You decide who sees what
Full audit trail
Every booking and payment action is recorded, with who did it and when.
Every change on record

Desktop, tablet and phone

At the desk, in the back office, or on the floor

The same live room map on every screen, so reception, housekeeping and managers are always looking at the same thing.

Room mapAll floors123Checked inDue outDirtyClean
101Queen
Checked inA. Novak
102Queen
Due outT. Ross
103King
Due outR. Chen
104King
Checked inG. Lindqvist
105Queen
CleanVacant
106Twin
DirtyVacant
107Twin
CleanVacant
108King
Checked inH. Brooks
201Deluxe
DirtyVacant
202Deluxe
Due outS. Patel
203Deluxe
CleanVacant
204Suite
Checked inD. Okafor
205Deluxe
Checked inL. Brandt
206Deluxe
CleanVacant
207Deluxe
DirtyVacant
208Twin
Checked inJ. Park
301Suite
CleanVacant
302Family
Out of orderVacant
303Deluxe
Checked inK. Adams
304Deluxe
DirtyVacant
305Twin
CleanVacant
306Deluxe
Checked inM. Silva
307Suite
Due outF. Wright
308Family
Checked inRossi family
Room map · Floor 2Live
201
DirtyVacant
202
Due outS. Patel
203
CleanVacant
204
Checked inD. Okafor
205
Checked inL. Brandt
206
CleanVacant
207
DirtyVacant
208
Checked inJ. Park
301
CleanVacant
302
Out of orderVacant
303
Checked inK. Adams
304
DirtyVacant
Housekeeping
Floor 2 · 7 rooms
201VacantDirty
202S. PatelDue out
203VacantClean
204D. OkaforChecked in
205L. BrandtChecked in
206VacantClean
207VacantDirty
1
platform, one login
10+
modules in one platform
100%
cloud, nothing to install
$0
per-booking fees

Features

One calm place to run the whole property

Front desk, payments, housekeeping, guests and reporting share the same data, so nothing is typed twice and everyone works from the same picture.

01Front desk

Arrivals, departures and walk-ins on one screen

Work from the reservation calendar, check guests in and out, take walk-ins and see live room status without leaving the front desk view.

  • Reservation calendar (tape chart)
  • Walk-ins, check-in and check-out
  • Room map with live room status
Front desk
Tuesday 29 September
Arrivals 12Departures 9In-house 41
GuestRoomSourceBalanceStatus
Emma Carter
2 nights · 2 adults
203Direct$0.00ConfirmedCheck in
Mathieu Laurent
3 nights · 1 adult
202Booking.com$0.00ConfirmedCheck in
Nia Duarte
2 nights · 2 adults
201Airbnb$0.00ConfirmedCheck in
Marta Silva
3 nights · 2 adults
102Direct$447.00Balance dueCheck in
Daniel Okafor
4 nights · 2 adults
204Direct$386.50Checked inView
Tom Ross
Walk-in · 1 night
105Walk-in$149.00Balance dueCheck in
02Payments
Folio 1184 · Room 204
Daniel Okafor · 29 Sep – 3 Oct
Payments by Stripe
Deluxe Suite · 4 nights$796.00
City tax$32.00
Spa · Couples massage$140.00
Minibar$18.50
Paid−$600.00
Balance due$386.50
Card hold · Visa •••• 4242$200.00 authorised
Take payment · $386.50Refund
Recent transactions
Apple Pay
Folio 1184 · D. Okafor
$600.00Succeeded
Visa •••• 4242
Card hold · Room 204
$200.00Authorised
Mastercard •••• 8810
Refund · Folio 1182
−$89.00Refunded

Take payment at the desk or before arrival

Integrated card payments via Stripe. Place card holds, issue refunds and let dispute protection handle chargebacks. Money settles to your own account.

  • Cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay
  • Card holds and refunds
  • Dispute protection, settled to your account
03Housekeeping

Room status the whole team can trust

Housekeeping marks rooms clean from a phone and reception sees it straight away. No radios, no paper lists, no guessing which rooms are ready.

  • Live room status shared with reception
  • Clean, dirty and out-of-order at a glance
  • Works on any phone or tablet
Housekeeping
Synced with front desk
14
Clean
6
Dirty
3
In progress
1
Out of order
RoomTypeStatusAssignedNote
101QueenDirtyMaria L.Arrival 2:00 pm
105QueenCleanAna P.Ready for walk-in
201DeluxeIn progressAna P.Group arrival 3:00 pm
202DeluxeDirtyMaria L.Due out 11:00 am
204SuiteOccupied—Stay-over service
302FamilyOut of order—Shower repair
04Guest CRM
DO
Daniel Okafor
Guest since Dec 2025 · London, UK
Returning guest · 6th stay
Stays
6
Nights
19
Lifetime spend
$4,820
Preferences
High floorFeather-free pillowsLate checkoutSparkling water
StayRoomNightsSpend
29 Sep – 3 Oct 2026In house2044$986.50
12 – 15 Aug 20262043$712.00
3 – 5 May 20262012$418.00
20 – 24 Dec 20253014$1,236.00

Recognise returning guests at the door

Every guest has a profile with stay history, preferences and notes, so your team can greet regulars by name and remember the details they care about.

  • Guest profiles and stay history
  • Preferences and notes
  • Returning-guest recognition
05Reports & analytics

Occupancy, ADR and revenue at a glance

Revenue, occupancy and ADR reports update as you work, and a full audit trail records every booking and payment action.

  • Revenue, occupancy and ADR
  • Full audit trail
  • PDF and CSV exports
Reports
September 2026Export CSV
Occupancy
86%
+4.2 pts
ADR
$164.20
+$6.10
RevPAR
$141.20
+$9.40
Revenue · Sep
$48,210
+11%
Occupancy · last 14 daysTarget 85%
MTWTFSSMTWTFSS
Audit trail
Maria LópezChecked in Room 204
SystemCreated booking BK-48213 from Booking.com
Tom ReidRefunded $89.00 on folio 1182
Payroll · September 2026
18 employees · Pay date 30 Sep
Ready to runCreate payslips
Gross pay
$46,900
Deductions
$4,520
Net pay
$42,380
EmployeeDaysOvertimeNet payStatus
ML
Maria López
Housekeeping lead
226h$2,410.00Ready
TR
Tom Reid
Front desk
212h$2,180.00Ready
AP
Ana Pereira
Housekeeping
190h$1,960.002 days leave
KA
Kwame Asante
Night auditor
224h$2,350.00Ready
LC
Lucy Chen
Revenue manager
22—$3,920.00Ready
Duty roster · this weekM morning · E evening · N night
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
Maria L.MMMMOffOffM
Tom R.EEOffMMEE
Kwame A.NNNOffOffNN
Ana P.MOffMMMMOff

HRMS & payroll · Business plan

Your property and your people, on one system

Employees, attendance, leave, rosters and pay statements sit next to your reservations. It’s included in the Business plan, with no separate HR subscription.

  • Employee records
  • Attendance and leave
  • Duty rosters
  • Payroll and payslips
  • Appraisals
  • Staff loans

One platform

Everything you need — in one platform

Every module lives in one platform; your plan decides which are switched on. Move up a plan and more switch on for your property, with nothing new to install.

  • Reservation calendar (tape chart)
  • Walk-ins, check-in and check-out
  • Room map with live room status
  • Role-based staff access
  • OTA channel manager
  • Stripe payments, holds and refunds
  • AI ID scanning
  • Housekeeping
  • Guest CRM and profiles
  • HRMS and payroll
  • Reports and analytics
  • Full audit trail
Switch on exactly what you need
Feature flags · Harbour View Hotel · 7 of 7 on

Onboarding included

Up and running in days, with a hand to hold

You won’t be handed a login and left to it. We do the moving and the setup with you.

  1. 01
    We bring your data across
    Rooms, rates, reservations and guest profiles move over from your current system, with our team doing the heavy lifting.
  2. 02
    We set it up with you
    Channels, payments and staff permissions are configured together, and your team is trained.
  3. 03
    You go live in days
    Switch over when you’re ready, with support on hand from the first day.

Reviews

The system teams are glad they switched to

5.0 / 5 across 6 hotelier reviews
AI ID scanning
“The AI scanner is absolute magic. When a family walks in at 11:30 PM exhausted from driving, the last thing they want is to stand there while we type in their details. Now, we hold up their driver's license to the camera, all the fields auto-fill instantly with zero typos, and they have their room keys in within a minute. It completely changed our late-night operations.”
ER
Elena Rodriguez
Front Desk Manager · Sunset Crest Motel
Cloud access
“I used to run this entire place out of a spiral notebook and a giant desk calendar. If I stepped off the property for even an hour, I had to call the front desk just to know what was going on. Switching to ARGUS was like stepping out of the dark ages. Because the whole system lives in the cloud, I can check our live occupancy, look up a reservation, or see who is on shift right from my phone while I'm sitting at home or running errands. It finally gave me the freedom to actually leave the motel without worrying.”
VB
Vivek Bhagat
Owner · Best Whittier Inn
Right-sized
“Every other system we looked at was clearly built for a 300-room corporate hotel, forcing us to click through five screens just to check someone in. ARGUS feels like it was designed specifically for our property size. We actually use every single feature, and we aren't paying for bloated corporate extras we don't need.”
RG
Rachel Gibson
Owner · The Heritage Boutique Hotel
Staff training
“Training new front desk staff used to be a three-day headache of sticky notes and cheat sheets. With ARGUS, I can put a new hire on the desk and they've got the hang of it in twenty minutes. It's so clean and intuitive that even my older night auditor, who usually hates learning new software, was navigating it perfectly on his first shift.”
SJ
Sarah Jenkins
General Manager · The Pines Motor Lodge
Reports
“For the first time in ten years, I actually understand my daily reports without having to export a messy CSV file and build my own spreadsheets. ARGUS gives me exactly what I need to know about occupancy, revenue, and housekeeping statuses in one glance. It takes me five minutes over my morning coffee instead of an hour.”
MT
Marcus Thorne
Owner/Operator · Blue Ridge Inn
Dispute protection
“Contesting chargebacks used to be a nightmare of digging through old paper folios and faxing things to my merchant processor. Now, all the audit trails and pre-authorized deposit holds are right there, permanently attached to the booking. We stop damage arguments before they start, and we actually win our disputes.”
DC
David Chen
Property Manager · Driftwood Coastal Suites

Pricing

One flat price. No per-room maths.

One login, every module in your plan, and no per-booking fees or commission.

Starter
1 property · up to 25 rooms
$89/ month
Billed monthly · cancel anytime
Start free trial
Includes
  • Core booking & front desk
  • Room, rate & guest management
  • Housekeeping module
  • Integrated payments — Stripe
  • Card holds & refunds
  • Guest CRM & stay history
  • Basic reports
  • Unlimited staff logins
Business
1 property · unlimited rooms
$259/ month
Billed monthly · cancel anytime
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Everything in Professional, plus
  • Two-way OTA reservation sync
  • Virtual-card handling & overbooking control
  • Built-in HRMS & payroll
  • Priority support
Enterprise
Tailored setup · white-label guest emails
Custom
Tailored to your property
Contact sales
Everything in Business, plus
  • White-label guest emails (your hotel’s name only)
  • Dedicated onboarding & data migration
  • Priority support & SLA

Every plan includes unlimited staff logins, integrated payments and no per-booking fees.

Free trialNo credit cardCancel anytimeOnboarding includedNo per-booking fees, no commission

FAQ

Everything you might be wondering

Still have questions? Talk to us

Most properties are up and running within a few days. We guide you through configuring your rooms, rates and team — you do not need any technical experience, and there is nothing to install.

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See what running your property could feel like

We’ll walk you through ARGUS with your rooms, rates and channels in mind, and answer every question about moving over.

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