Hotels & Venues

Digital cards for hotel rooms, front desks, and venues

Most guests would rather deal with their stay on their phone than at a desk. The in-room folder is the part of the room nobody opens, and it is also the part that goes out of date fastest, because updating it means reprinting it.

What usually happens

The folder in the drawer is a sunk cost

It was expensive to produce, it is wrong about the restaurant hours, and replacing it is a print job across every room.

The front desk answers the same four questions all day

Wifi password, checkout time, how to get a taxi, when breakfast stops. None of them need a person.

You cannot tell which spaces get used

Whether guests actually look at the meeting-room information or the spa listing is unknowable, so it stays in the folder forever either way.

What AtlasLinq does about it

A card per room, per desk, per space

An Object Card belongs to the room rather than to a member of staff, so it outlives everyone who works there. Wifi, service numbers, checkout, booking links, whatever that space actually needs.

Change it once, everywhere, immediately

Restaurant hours move for the season and you edit one card. Nothing gets reprinted and nothing has to be swapped out room by room.

Per-location analytics, not guesses

Cards can be grouped by a location label, so a floor, a wing, or a property can be compared against another and the ones nobody scans can be repurposed.

Bulk creation for a floor at a time

Rooms can be stamped out in batches with a numbering pattern rather than created one by one, which is the difference between an afternoon and a week.

The fair objection

Are we not just recreating the QR menu problem?

That is the right instinct, and the answer is that a room is not a restaurant table. Diners resist QR menus because the menu is a thing they were enjoying and the phone is worse than the paper. Nobody is enjoying the folder in the drawer. This replaces something guests already ignore rather than something they like. Keep a printed card for the essentials; the two do different jobs.

Which plan this needs

Enterprise

Object Cards are Enterprise. 3 come with the plan and more are available as an add-on, which suits a boutique or mid-size property better than a very large one.

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Try it on your own cards

Start on the free plan and move up when the thing you need is on a higher one.

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