Enterprise DNA

Instead of Little Hotelier

Stop renting Little Hotelier. Own your motel booking system.

We build your version around your rooms, rates and front desk, bring your Little Hotelier bookings across, keep your Airbnb and Booking.com calendars in step, and run it for you.

Little Hotelier lists Pro for New Zealand and Australia at $179 a month for up to 5 rooms, rising to $345 for 30, before tax. Basics is $49 a month plus a 1% booking fee. A 10-room property on Pro pays $2,580 a year, for one property.

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What the subscription buys

A price that grows with every room, and the useful tools held in the upper plans

Little Hotelier prices each property by plan and by the number of bookable rooms. Most of what a motel owner uses every day sits on a small set of records: rooms, rates, bookings, guests and payments.

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A charge that climbs with your rooms

Pro is listed at $179 a month for up to 5 rooms, $215 for 10, $305 for 20 and $345 for 30. Add a unit and the bill moves. Twenty rooms on Pro is $3,660 a year.

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A cut of every booking on Basics

Basics is listed at $49 a month plus a 1% booking fee, worked out on your Little Hotelier bookings. The busier the year, the bigger the fee.

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One property at a time

The price is set per property on its own room count. More than one property goes to the sales team for a quote.

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Add-ons on top

The website builder is listed from $55 a month for up to 5 rooms. Guest messaging is an add-on, card payments carry transaction fees, and metasearch and extra channels carry variable booking fees.

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Pricing insight on the higher plans

Competitor rate intelligence and rate parity insight start on Pro. Pricing recommendations come with the Revenue Optimiser plan, or as an add-on.

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Your history on their terms

The reservation search reaches back 548 days and older reservations cannot be accessed. Guest details are masked 180 days after check-out.

The front desk you own

Know who arrives, what is owed and what each channel really earns

Front desk

Arrivals, rooms and housekeeping in one morning list

Every booking sits in a room night by night, so the desk sees the day before it starts.

  • check Arrivals with no room flagged the day before
  • check A dirty room with a guest coming goes to the top of the housekeeping board
  • check Check-out issues the tax invoice and sends the room to cleaning
  • check The night audit prints who is in the building tonight

Money

Folios, deposits and GST worked out for you

Extras, payments and refunds sit on each stay, so the balance is known before the guest reaches the desk.

  • check Balances owing at departure and after it, in one list
  • check Deposits due and overdue, with the reminder drafted
  • check GST on the reduced value for New Zealand stays over four weeks
  • check Invoices over $1,000 checked for the guest details they need

Channels

No room sold twice across your channels

Airbnb and Booking.com calendars come in room by room, and your own calendar goes back out.

  • check Outside calendars imported for each room
  • check Double bookings flagged the moment they appear
  • check Your calendar shared with no guest names in it
  • check Revenue after commission for every channel

Numbers

Occupancy, rate and the weeks ahead

Every night sold is a record, so the numbers owners actually ask about come straight from the bookings.

  • check Occupancy, average rate and revenue per room by month
  • check The next twelve weeks on the books, week by week
  • check What you picked up in the last seven days
  • check Regulars still booking through a commission channel

Make it yours

Design your own Little Hotelier replacement

Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from Little Hotelier. Try it here, and we build the real one.

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3. Make it fit

4. Your colour

Your business · your Little Hotelier replacement Your version
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Answered from your own database

Build my version

We build it from the open-source base, bring your Little Hotelier data across and run it for you.

What it looks like

Ask it like you would ask a colleague

Real answers from the demo data that ships with Small Hotel for Claude Code. It runs in Claude Code inside the Claude app, so it feels like any chat you already use.

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Small Hotel for Claude Code

Connected to your own database

What needs sorting at the desk this morning?

arriving with no room

Ref
K-1005
Guest
Daniel Wu
Detail
arrives 2026-10-01, One-bedroom unit

arriving with no room

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K-1006
Guest
Aroha Ngata
Detail
arrives 2026-10-02, Studio

balance owing at departure

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K-1001
Guest
Emma Clarke
Detail
NZD 30.00 owing, departs 2026-10-01

departed owing

Ref
K-1009
Guest
Peter Hall
Detail
NZD 18.50 owing since 2026-10-01

deposit overdue

Ref
K-1008
Guest
Olivia Brown
Detail
NZD 279.20 was due 2026-09-28

double booked

Ref
K-1012
Guest
Unit 6
Detail
K-1013, 2026-10-07 to 2026-10-09

double booked

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K-1014
Guest
Unit 7
Detail
Reserved (airbnb), 2026-10-05 to 2026-10-07

enquiry gone quiet

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K-1011
Guest
James Taylor
Detail
no reply for 7 days

no tax invoice

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K-1009
Guest
Peter Hall
Detail
checked out 2026-10-01

no-show?

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K-1007
Guest
Mark Jensen
Detail
due 2026-09-30, not checked in

out of order past its date

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Unit 8
Detail
Heat pump fault, electrician booked, was due back 2026-09-30

room not ready

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K-1004
Guest
Unit 2
Detail
Sophie Martin arriving today, room is dirty

Ask it anything

Questions your booking records can answer

These ten questions work against the free version today. Little Hotelier has reports and insights on its plans too; your own version answers the questions your property actually asks, and you can change them.

chat_bubble What did each booking channel earn us after commission this year?
chat_bubble What was our occupancy, average rate and revenue per room each month?
chat_bubble Which weeks in the next three months look soft?
chat_bubble What did we pick up in bookings in the last seven days?
chat_bubble Which rooms are sold twice across our bookings and the Airbnb calendar?
chat_bubble Who left owing us money, and who are we holding money for?
chat_bubble Which long stays carry GST on the reduced value?
chat_bubble Which regulars still book through a commission channel?
chat_bubble Which enquiries have had no reply for three days?
chat_bubble Which guest records are past our privacy review date?

Switching

How to switch from Little Hotelier

Moving off Little Hotelier is mostly exporting what you already have, loading it as a test run, checking the results, then running both systems for a while before you switch off the old one.

  1. 1

    Export your reservations

    Set up your rooms and room types first, since those aren't part of the export. Then go to Little Hotelier's reservation search and export your bookings, guests, room types and channels, usually as CSV or Excel (check what your account allows). Little Hotelier's search only reaches back 548 days, and guest details are masked 180 days after check-out, so export everything you want to keep before you close the account.

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    Load the export, test first

    Bring the export into the new system. Run it once as a test so you can see what it would do before anything is written, then run it again for real. Guests are matched by email, new room types and channels are created automatically, and every original column from Little Hotelier is kept. Running the same file a second time adds nothing extra, so a mistake is easy to undo.

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    Check what the import flags

    After the real run, check the counts against what you expect: number of bookings, guests, room types. Look for anything flagged as a double booking or a clash with an outside calendar such as Airbnb or Booking.com, since these show up the same way they would in daily use. Fix any mismatches before you rely on the new records for a live booking.

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    Run both side by side

    Keep Little Hotelier running while you use the new system for real bookings, day to day. This lets you check that arrivals, balances and the room board match what you would have seen in Little Hotelier, and gives you time to notice anything missing before you commit. Keep this going until you and anyone on the desk trust the numbers.

  5. 5

    Switch off Little Hotelier

    Once the side by side period has passed with no discrepancies, and any live channel connections you need have been set up and tested, close the Little Hotelier account and stop paying for it. Rate plans and live connections to Booking.com or Expedia are set up again in the new version, not copied across automatically, so check those before you go live.

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Where the real effort goes

The mechanics of the import are handled for you, guests matched by email, room types and channels created automatically. The real work is deciding what to bring across, how far back your booking history goes given Little Hotelier's own 548-day limit, and how your rate plans and channel connections get set up again in the new system. Enterprise DNA does this part with you when they install and run it for you.

Not ready for a call?

Get your Little Hotelier switch plan by email

We will send you the step-by-step plan for moving your business off Little Hotelier, what the move really involves, and how we would do it for you.

One email with your plan. No spam, and you can unsubscribe any time.

Three ways to own it

Choose who builds and runs your version

Open source

Do it yourself

Free source

  1. 1 Clone the repo, run npm install and npm run demo
  2. 2 Open it in Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode or Cursor
  3. 3 Try /attention, /housekeeping and /channel-mix on the demo motel
  4. 4 Import your Little Hotelier reservations CSV with a dry run first
Get it on GitHub

Built around your business

We customise it

One setup fee, then a retainer for agreed ongoing work

  • check Your rooms, seasons, minimum stays, deposit terms and invoice layout
  • check Your Little Hotelier bookings and guests brought across and checked
  • check A booking page on your website and your card provider connected when you want them
  • check Live connections to Booking.com and Expedia scoped with you
Get your version built

Omni by Enterprise DNA

We run it for you

One setup fee, then a monthly retainer

  • check Installed and operated through Omni by Enterprise DNA
  • check Calendars from your channels kept in step for you
  • check Backups and access managed to the agreed scope
  • check Changes made as your rooms, rates and seasons change
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Questions

Instead of Little Hotelier, answered

We rely on the channel manager. What happens to Booking.com and Expedia? expand_more

Little Hotelier pushes rates and availability to the channels over live connections. The free version keeps calendars in step room by room through the calendar links Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo provide, which is slower and does not carry rates, and it flags any room sold twice. Where a property needs live connections, we build them into your version. Keep Little Hotelier running until the new setup has been tested with your channels.

Can you bring our Little Hotelier bookings across? expand_more

Yes. Little Hotelier exports reservations to a spreadsheet file from its reservation search. We bring across bookings, guests, room types and channels, do a test run first and check the counts with you. Its search reaches back 548 days and guest details are masked 180 days after check-out, so we export before you close the account. Rate plans are set up again.

Does it handle GST on long stays? expand_more

Yes. In New Zealand, stays over four weeks carry GST on the reduced value Inland Revenue sets, from the start when the long stay was agreed up front. In Australia the long-term concession applies if you choose it. Each rule cites its Inland Revenue or ATO page. A clean check means your records are complete; your accountant still decides the tax.

How does the cost compare with Little Hotelier? expand_more

Little Hotelier lists Pro at $179 a month for up to 5 rooms, rising to $345 for 30, and Basics at $49 a month plus a 1% booking fee, before tax and per property. Owning your version means one setup fee, then a retainer, with no charge per room and no fee on your bookings.

Can guests book online and pay by card? expand_more

The free version runs the front desk and the back office: bookings come to you and you enter them, and payments are recorded, not taken. When you want guests to book on your website and pay by card, we build the booking page and connect your payment provider in your version.

Bring Sam your room list and your Little Hotelier invoice

Book a 30-minute call with Sam. Bring your rooms and rates, your current Little Hotelier plan and the report you wish you had at the end of the month. We will scope the bookings, channels and paperwork for your version.

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Small Hotel for Claude Code is free and open source, published by Enterprise DNA.

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