KWHotel Free0.41.42.0

KWHotel is a resourceful software utility with easy-to-understand options that facilitates a user-friendly workspace and practical tools for those working in tourism, such as managers of hotels, motels and resorts. It includes a database for keeping track of all clients, logbook, meals, bills, rooms and various statistics, in addition to a calendar.

Initial configuration and rich interface

At startup it it necessary to set up the geographical location and default VAT rate and, optionally allow fractional VAT tax. These details will be further used to calculate income and expenses.The interface may seem overwhelming to the untrained eye, due to the fact that it implements a lot of options. In the first pane you are greeted by calendar, where you can double-click a day to introduce a new reservation.

Fill in reservation details and manage the calendar

There is a lot of information to cover when making a reservation for a client, such as room number, check-in and check-out date, personal details, comments, reminder, payment options, and documents such as invoices, bills and receipts.The calendar is color-coded so that you can easily spot customers who have not yet arrived or who paid in advance, unpaid or vacant rooms, along with scheduled and confirmed reservations. The colors can be turned into anything else.

Browse for clients, set up meals, and manage bills

It is possible to look up customers by name or address, edit their properties or remove them from the list, as well as to view the last 60 clients who made a reservation or the most recently ones added to the database. Meanwhile, meals can be set up for each day with breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well as counted for all reservations or just the occupied ones.You can issue invoices and bills by providing contact, company and hotel information, as well as administer receipts, bank and cash payment confirmations, together with the list with products, services and assortments. Information can be printed or exported to file.

Evaluation and conclusion

This software application comes loaded with numerous options and configuration preferences for hotel management. Surprisingly, it has minimal impact on CPU and RAM, so it shouldn't affect the PC's overall performance. Thanks to its variety of features and the fact that it is free, it should meet the requirements of most users.