Planet
Hotel Property Management System provider serving 14,000+ hotels across 93 countries. Acquired by Planet in 2022.
About Planet
protel Hotelsoftware GmbH is a global hospitality technology company that develops and sells Property Management System (PMS) solutions for the hotel industry. Founded in 1994 in Dortmund, Germany, the company serves more than 14,000 hotels across 93 countries with its cloud-native PMS platform. The protel hospitality platform connects all types of hospitality technologies in one standard, accessible framework, offering modules for reservations, front desk, housekeeping, billing, and reporting. Acquired by Planet (payment technology company) in 2022, protel continues to operate as a leading PMS provider with 50+ global distributors and 1,000+ integrations via the protel Marketplace.
What sets this company apart
Cloud-native PMS by design with bi-weekly background upgrades, hosted on AWS. 25+ years of hospitality-specific development, 1,000+ integrations via the protel Marketplace, and 24/7 global support in local languages across 50+ distributor markets.
Markets & Coverage
Operating across 50 countries
Markets & Coverage
(50)Supported Languages
Property Types
- B&B / Guest HousePrimary
- Aparthotel / Serviced Apt
Market Segments
- LuxuryPrimary
- Budget-Friendly
- Urban
- Family
- Corporate & Extended Stay
Service Characteristics
Main Features
- API access & webhooks
- PMS integration
- Open integrations marketplace
- Embeddable direct booking engine
- Centralised reservation management
Integrations & Partnerships
2 integrations and partnerships across 1 categories
OTA & Listing Sites
2Pricing Plans
Pricing information based on publicly available data. Contact vendor for exact quotes.
Essential
- Profile Management
- Reservation Management
- Front Desk Operations
- Housekeeping Management
- Cashiering & Invoicing
- Accounts Receivable
- 24/7 Support
Plus
- Everything in Essential
- Groups & Allotments
- PCI Credit Card Tokenization
- Customer Email Automation
- Digital Registration Card
- protel Marketplace
Enterprise
- Everything in Plus
- Advanced Reporting & Analytics
- Multi-Property Management
- API Access
- Dedicated Account Manager
Custom
- Custom-built solution
- Tailored integrations
- Enterprise-grade support
- SLA guarantees
Reviews
68 reviews from verified users
2.98
68 reviews
Would recommend
Showing 6 of 68 reviews
Verified User (Hospitality, Enterprise >1000 emp.)
Comprehensive Hotel Management Solution with Room for Improvement
What do you like best about protel PMS? Comprehensive Hotel Management: Integration: User-Friendly Interface: Reporting and Analytics: Mobile Accessibility: Protel is a leading pms solution with All in all Hotel Management solution with ease in Reporting and analysis, Mobile accesibility and userfriendly GUI What do you dislike about protel PMS? Cost, Complexity, Customization is tiring, Support and Training modules are not quite clear. Data Security needs a look What problems is protel PMS solving and how is that benefiting you? Protel is used to manage hotel properties across the globe
View originalAbdallah A.
Good interface with arrivals/departures on one page
What do you like best about protel PMS? I like the interface where you can see inhouse arrivals and departures on one page What do you dislike about protel PMS? It's not very straightforward to new users. What problems is protel PMS solving and how is that benefiting you? its solves a lot of problems and it benefits having all departments integrated in one PMS
View originalFabian
We worked with Protel for over 10 years. It's a real shame what's become of this company... Support tickets aren't addressed even after months, and when you finally get through to someone on the phone, they just say a ticket will be created and someone will get back to you. We're glad to finally be free of this misery next year, as we're switching to different software. (Translated from German by Google)
View originalVerified User (Automotive)
Life-saving PMS with great support
What do you like best about protel PMS? This PMS has been a life saver, it has a vast amount of options and it is very easy to use this platform. It has a lot of data points and all the hotel team members are able to use this efficiently What do you dislike about protel PMS? More functions/reports should be added. We have not seen any real changes since we started using this. What problems is protel PMS solving and how is that benefiting you? Protel Air offers everything our small Resort needs - the Cabin planning is easy to use and the Support is responsive and efficient. It is cloud base and this was one of the main reason to decide for it
View originalThe Red
The customer service is absolutely inadequate! They simply open support tickets, but there's no further response. Every time you call, you end up with an employee who claims to be unrelated and can only transfer you or open a ticket. In some cases, the processing time stretches to weeks. If you are finally transferred to the supposedly "right" contact person, it takes so long that you eventually get disconnected. This experience is absolutely not recommended; it's an extremely inadequate and disastrous service. Considering this, you might as well burn the money you spent! It would be wise to carefully consider whether registering as a new customer is a good idea. I'm only giving one star to be able to submit this review. (Translated from German by Google)
View originalGeetika C.
One of the best PMS comes with great value for money
**Pros:** This PMS has been a life saver for the hoteliers, it has a lots of features to use and easy to use this platform. With a small training you would develop the learnings of running its all features. The tool comes with a value for money that has lot of options to discover, managing operations, distribution connectivity, reservations, managing rate & inventory, payments runs so smoothly. **Cons:** Sometime exporting or importing bulk data becomes an issue where the tool stop working and does not respond.
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- protel Hotelsoftware GmbH is a global hospitality technology company that develops and sells Property Management System (PMS) solutions for the hotel industry. Founded in 1994 in Dortmund, Germany, the company serves more than 14,000 hotels across 93 countries with its cloud-native PMS platform. The protel hospitality platform connects all types of hospitality technologies in one standard, accessible framework, offering modules for reservations, front desk, housekeeping, billing, and reporting. Acquired by Planet (payment technology company) in 2022, protel continues to operate as a leading PMS provider with 50+ global distributors and 1,000+ integrations via the protel Marketplace.
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