Should I translate my hotel website? When and how
Translation is now the cheap part of a multilingual hotel website. The real cost is keeping every language current, findable and bookable.
Most operators are using a fraction of what their existing systems can already do. The capability is usually there. The connection is not.
Reservations, rates, availability and folios, read and written properly through supported APIs.
One guest recognised across every system, instead of four records that disagree about the same person.
Transactions reconciled automatically, so month end stops being a manual exercise in matching.
Sometimes the answer is a platform like Poly API or Ireckonu rather than another point-to-point connection nobody will maintain.
The spreadsheet somebody maintains by hand is usually the cheapest thing on the list to remove, and the most felt.
Documented, monitored and handed over. An integration nobody can explain is a liability with a countdown on it.
Discovery first, always. Nobody can quote an integration honestly before they understand the data.
What data exists, where it lives, who needs it and what it is worth once it arrives somewhere useful. Most operators have never had that map made, and it is valuable on its own.
Do not reinvent the wheel. Put in strong core platforms, then build the final layer that creates the advantage. Knowing exactly where that line sits is the whole job.
In the order that pays back fastest, against supported APIs rather than workarounds, with the failure cases handled rather than hoped about.
APIs change and vendors move. We watch the integrations we build so you hear about a problem from us rather than from a month of wrong numbers.
The Real Cost of Poor Integration Never Appears on an Invoice.
Mostly things that stop happening, which is harder to put in a case study and easier to feel.
Most do now, even where the vendor is quiet about it. Where one genuinely does not there are usually other routes: scheduled exports, webhooks, or middleware that already speaks to it. We will tell you quickly if something is a dead end.
Sometimes. But an all-in-one is often a collection of acquired products with shallow integration between them, which is the same problem wearing one invoice. Worth testing before you consolidate on that basis.
Yes. It runs on your infrastructure and the code is yours and documented. That is deliberate, because an integration you cannot take elsewhere is not an asset.
Supported APIs are versioned and deprecated with notice. We monitor what we maintain and handle changes as part of ongoing support, usually before anything visibly breaks.
Discovery and mapping first, priced on its own. The build is then quoted against a scope you have already seen and agreed, rather than against a guess.