BananaDesk Erfahrungen

Amazing site to use

Vorteile:

Our hotel starting using this for 3rd party reservation and it has been amazing. Very easy to use and look at guest booking and modify payments if i need to.

Nachteile:

There is nothing wrong with this software. Easy to use! No complaints

The best software for small/medium properties, trust me I've looked!

Kommentare: I've been using banadesk across 3 properties and for the last 4 years. They're fantastic and consistent. All my teams have loved using it and have sometimes even requested me to go back to banana desk when we started using other softwares.
A few additional features like the ones mentioned above would be great, but I hear they're working on adding them. I've used products that have all these functionalities and they are helpful, however, I always ended up coming back to banadesk because of its ease of use. If they added a few more functionalities, banana desk would be way above the rest.

Vorteile:

Banadesk is as close as it comes to being the perfect balance between- ease of use, affordability, efficiency and reporting. Their customer service is one of the best I've come across Very easy for new members of the team to pick up Works great even when the internet connection isn't the best The interface is genius. Intuitive, all the basic functions present and very difficult to mess up.

Nachteile:

Some higher end functions would be highly appreciated and I'd be willing to pay extra for them. Things like automated emails to guests, a phone app to quickly check and update bookings, automatic rate changes depending on real time occupancy.

Easy for a little hotel

Kommentare: Its easy and simple. However for some things is too simple. Things i dont like and you need to improve:
1- If the hotel is full and i need to make room changes, for instance: a couple in room 1 change it for a couple in room 4, i have to make room on room 1 to put 4 but i DONT KNOW WHERE TO HANG the couple of room 1 meanwhile....this is a problem.
2- In the case i am doing many movements of rooms of a group, for instance, put Smith x Garcia, then i want to put Trump on Bush room, i start doing movements, in the case i make a mistake on the dates i drop the reservation, the system doesn't alert anything...like "are you sure you want to move Trump to 1st may"? If the original dates were others...how can i tell i am not making wrong? Once you drop the reservation on a wrong date, you want to check, and dates inside the detail have changed!!!! without alerting anything....So that could be a super mess...
3- The system doesn't import rate conditions.
4- If i create a grupal reservation "adding passengers" to a main one, and once the group check in, i cannot check out only one room a night before. Also, if i add a night in the future to a main reservation, once they leave the hotel for the first time, it doest allow me to check out them in the system until they check out for the last time.

Vorteile:

Its easy and very simple to handle. Very easy to teach how to use it.

Nachteile:

The movements i need to make are slow. If you make an error it doesn't prevent it.

Excellent PMS Software for Hostels

Kommentare: We use Bananadesk to manage bookings from multiple sources for a 45 bed hostel. Their support is very responsive to any questions and can even be reached via a chat window. Getting Bananadesk up and running was very easy and it integrates well with our channel manager, MyAllocator.

Vorteile:

- Drag and drop nature of the calendar - Simple, intuitive interface of the reservation view - Very easy to move bookings around - Searching bookings and transactions is quick and easy - Very cost effective

Nachteile:

- A little fiddly to change rates quickly, for short periods - No immediate count of occupancy in the calendar - No revenue management options

Wouldn not change it at this point.

Kommentare: I have been working with bananadesk for 5 years already and i am happy with them. Although there is a lot of things they can still add, i am confident they are working on it. Is a very easy system to teach and to work with. We got to them after using pen and paper so they were lifesavers for us.

Vorteile:

- It is very user friendly. - Easy to move guests around if they change rooms. - Makes distribution for groups very easy to see and change if needed. - Dashboard helps a lot. - They have help me changing little things like not letting my staff do checkins (or checkouts) if there is a balance. They do try to help personalizing stuff if needed.

Nachteile:

- Is very easy to get duplicates in my guests database. (same person with 3 different records). - Not being able to use a private room as a dorm if needed. - I wish i could use their channel manager but it does not allow to change rates in different channels [yet] so this stops us for now. - It would be great if i could keep a better track of my physical inventory in the system.

Easy and Cheap

Kommentare: I use Bananadesk everyday, and I can only suggest they continue growing and who knows if one day we'll be using BananaChannels and BananaBookings! Overall I'm happy with this software and can only ask for an App to be a little bit better on the phone!

Vorteile:

It is a super user friendly software. I have lots of interns comming for 1 or 2 months, and they learn very fast to use Bananadesk. Plus it's cheap considering other softwares on the market! But above all, the team is amazing and always ready to support or answer any doubts you have!

Nachteile:

Pricing and "season rates" should be way easier for business like a hostel... I need to have 52 season rates in orther to manipulate prices weekly!!! The other thing that needs improving are the Dashboards... Unfortunately they have some limitations.

Simple, effective and inexpensive

Kommentare: My small budget backpackers hostel is big enough to be a headache when allocating multiple booking systems and this really takes the pressure off! I was new to these things but the setup support I received made it all feel very straight forward. I did a lot of research to find the right channel manager and I am happy with my decision.

Vorteile:

The flexible option for seasonal properties helps to make this very cost effective. By paying however the business model does not require the selling of data that I believe is safer and more ethical than most free booking software options. The system is simple and intuitive to learn and use. I like the uncluttered visual of the booking page, most other budget booking software packages look cramped by comparison.

Nachteile:

Whilst Bananadesk is functional from my mobile it would be helpful if the click and drag facility worked better on mobile devices so that I could more easily reserve places for bookings received on the go. The best fix I can find is to click and block day by day and then update the information on returning to my computer. This is a minor niggle though.

Do really the hostel calendar job

Kommentare: Everybody who worked on hospitality industry I showed this software are amazed about it. They dreamed about a concept like that. it's so easy to see the reservations, It's all automatic if you receive reservations from hostelworld or others and so simple if you want to make some change. Maybe too easy, we need to be really careful, because there is no way to come back if we didn't pay attention. I will put a 10/10 the day they put an history button and a smart phone app.

Vorteile:

The easy way to set up and use the calendar, the way to be able to reach the administrators.

Nachteile:

There is no calendar history of what we changed on the calendar and we cannot come back if you did a mistake. It's possible to ask to Bananadesk team but it's not that simple. Not really adapted yet for a smart phone. That would be fantastic to have smart phone app.

Would like to say why I like Bananadesk.

Kommentare: While I using this bananadesk website, there is no serious problem. My experiences upon using bananadesk website are very easy to use, understandable, and prevent over booking. Because overbooking might be the main problem among channels. I could solve this by using bananadesk website. That is what I considered about bananadesk.

Vorteile:

It is easy to use as a property management for the hostel. Clear display for all rooms & rates. The price can be set from one place connected with channel manager. If I have some problems, the operators suggest me as soon as possible. Time difference with different countries is never mind. But it can set the local time. Every important data is displayed in every reservation, not all. But that's okay.

Nachteile:

Honestly, my business had owner changing and payment was a little bit difficult for the first time. But it is okay for now.

Banana Desk has stopped our business going bananas

Vorteile:

BananaDesk is extremely user-friendly​ bright and colorful​ - a joy to behold. It makes managing the beds in our hostel so very straightforward. And their helpdesk is brilliantly always on hand, if needed - which because their whole setup is rarely needed :)

Nachteile:

Nothing springs to mind. Maybe if there was a way to color new reservations differently if they arrived in need of being pieced together - jumbled because of limited availability in a certain bed, sometimes we don't spot it until the last minute, but that's probably an impossibility. I must tell them. They've probably got a solution for that.

Good software for hostels

Kommentare: - the overall experience is positive, we like the system and it simplifies the process of the guests check in and hostel management in general
- decreases the possibility of overbooking
- presents info visually
- we are satisfied with the system

Vorteile:

- banandesk was designed specifically for hostels, so there are no problem with adding beds an not just rooms - seasons with different price ranges can be made - easy to modify bookings - many integrations - informational email - simple and clear guest registration form - intuition nature of the system - income reports - statistics

Nachteile:

- no message templates - sometimes more than 30 sec-1 min is needed for the reservation to be added on banandesk and you may receive two reservations for one rooms, but it happens very rare

Useful and essential tool

Kommentare: Fast and effective

Vorteile:

If you think about managing a hostel or hotel, it is essential to think about this TOOL. . Banana desk gives you all the solutions to manage and sell your rooms from one place and through all the pages you want without the possibility of overselling. The human team is always attentive to your questions. It is a useful and essential tool

Nachteile:

It would be important to have an option to see the reservations entered on each page, and also to be able to manage better from the phone

HOSTEL NEWERS HELPED A LOT WITH BANANA

Kommentare: BANANA was the best way to organize our hostel, taking into account...channels, direct sells, aditional sells in the hostel, a super cheap booking engine and a super easy and cleaver way of introducing prices!

Vorteile:

The program is super easy to handle, we did not have any clues on how to run a PMS but BANANA gave us an easy and clear way to use it which took us about 15 minutes to knowledge its use.

Nachteile:

We would like to be able to conect to more channels through banana.

Real collaborator in the management

Kommentare: 100% satisfactory.

Vorteile:

They fulfill what they offer, accessible value. Friendly and close support in prudent times. Very useful and easy to use.

Nachteile:

It would slightly improve the collection of long-term statistics. Today there are certain requests that you must make via mail / chat. They always respond in very good time. It would be more attractive to have access to all statistics and information with total autonomy.

Bananadesk is amazing!

Kommentare: Banana provides an amazing way to visualize all the management of your hotel, very intuitive and brings all what happens in a business such as this one into a clear visual platform.

Vorteile:

We have been using bananadesk for more than a year and it simply is really useful, easy to use, has almost all that you can need in a hotel/hostel software, and the support is very quick to respond!

Nachteile:

it would be great that it worked with more channel managers since we already switched to another one because we started working with a chain, so now banana is only an internal software but still very useful!

The best, most user-friendly PMS with great customer service

Kommentare: It's great software administrated by a friendly company. I wouldn't dream of looking elsewhere for property management software.

Vorteile:

It's very straightforward software and therefore it's very easy to teach new users all the functions and features in a short period of time.

Nachteile:

It's built-in channel manager only connects to Booking.com and Hostelworld. But, since those are the main booking sites, it's not a huge inconvenience.

the upgrade done is just really not usefull

Kommentare: great! good service and always helpful. the product is easy to understand

Vorteile:

It is so easy simple and fast to use. It is really clear and not complicated and easy to explian to new staff members.

Nachteile:

the last change that have been made is really not great. We really have put an effort in getting to change our mentality about it but nobody of our teams it great and it is just more hassle checking people in where it was so easy and fast before. it cost more time and it makes the ppl in our team annoyed. especially if we have a lot of checkins at the same time.

One of the fastest and simplest products out there

Kommentare: We are very happy with this, product, we use it many times during the day and not even once had any problem or delay, always online and always fast.

Vorteile:

Very easy to set up and use, within a day we were ready to use it It helps us have complete control and information anytime and anywhere, office, laptop or cellphone!

Nachteile:

Maybe being able to configure the calendar view a little more...

Need more function for revenue management and analysis

Kommentare: Banana desk is very frienfly with user, easy to learn how to use it in few hours.

Vorteile:

Very simple, easy to to use, fast for trainning

Nachteile:

Very few function that coul help hostel increasing revenue like: selling a room in many room types.

Fantastic software for Hostel business management

Kommentare: BD is easy to use, and reliable all the times. We seldom have problem of receiving booking or overbook. Overall experience is great.

Vorteile:

Customer Service team, always fast response and solve my problems quickly

Nachteile:

The operation part is amazing, but if they can improve the Guest Analysis and Marketing Analysis that will be great. Now is too simple and not very indicative.

Te best channel manager ever!

Kommentare: Since we ate using bananadesk we do not have any problem with our reservations or with overbooking, this also helps us to manage the guests payment. So and many other things that we do not need to lose much time using this channel.

Vorteile:

This a very good channel to manage you company, we are using for more then one year and this is helping us alot about: Reservation, payment, manage our rooms, incoming, outgoing...

Nachteile:

I like so much becouse i can see all incoming and all outgoing everytime that i want, check in and check out of our guest,

Usefull

Vorteile:

It is an application that it is very userfriendly

Nachteile:

Sometimes the prices are not clear on how much the channel keeps

28/5000 good, but it could be better

Kommentare: It has been good, they have been since we opened our hostel, but they should keep contact with us more active and that is very important, loyalty is the word that describes what they do not do.

Vorteile:

we like how easy it allows to enter reservations and synchronize with booking engines.

Nachteile:

We do not like what we like the least: - have the option to report daily payments but in a detailed way -Best statistical data -that some steps are easier when checking in -Don't allow to differentiate rates separately for each booking channel

Practical, easy and at a good price

Kommentare: We are Banana customers for more than 4 years, we have a dynamic business and a lot of staff turnover. This software is easy and practical. It makes you gain time in training the new staff and makes everything work!

Vorteile:

Facilitates, orders and simplifies the work of hostel

Nachteile:

Work in being able to direct the partial payment of the tones in the additional ones during the stay

Excellent tool

Kommentare: It helps me to manage the reservations, it works automatically, imports automatically all the reservations and it basically do what it is, a property management system, very simple and useful.

Vorteile:

Simplicity, it has al the features needed yet it's very straight forward. For a hostel management it works very well.

Nachteile:

Used to be slow years ago but now works just fine.