Hotels · CRM
Know which guest to call before the wedding season starts, not after it ends.
A CRM for a hotel is the record of every guest, corporate account and banquet enquiry, kept in one place instead of scattered across booking sheets and someone's memory. GullySales sets this up so repeat guests, corporate contracts and banquet leads are followed up on time instead of forgotten.
Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.
What CRM means
A CRM is the record where every enquiry, call and quote is kept against a customer, replacing separate notebooks, spreadsheets and memory. GullySales sets up or cleans an existing CRM and reports from it by enquiry outcome rather than by activity logged.
Last updated 5 Oct 2026.
For hotels
Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.
“Corporate rate agreements expire quietly”
A negotiated corporate rate signed last year lapses without anyone noticing, and the account quietly starts booking a competing hotel instead.
“Banquet enquiries need a different pipeline from room bookings”
A wedding enquiry from six months out needs staged follow-up at the deposit, menu-tasting and final-count stages, not the same one-touch process as a room booking.
“Repeat guests are identifiable, if the front desk logs them”
A guest who has stayed three times in two years is worth a direct-booking offer before their next trip, but only if that history is recorded somewhere searchable.
What we do
What we deliver for hotels.
Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.
Guest and enquiry record in one system
Every room, banquet and corporate enquiry logged in one CRM instead of scattered booking sheets and diaries.
Result: Nobody has to remember which guest asked about what.
Corporate rate agreement tracker with renewal dates
Every negotiated corporate rate recorded with its expiry date, so a lapsing agreement is flagged before the account drifts.
Result: A corporate account is asked to renew before it books elsewhere.
Staged banquet pipeline from enquiry to final count
A wedding or event enquiry tracked through deposit, menu tasting and final headcount, instead of one generic status.
Result: Nothing about a booked wedding is left to memory.
Repeat guest flag on the booking record
Guest history matched by phone number or email, so a guest on their third stay is visible to the front desk.
Result: A returning guest is recognised instead of treated as new.
Enquiry and pipeline report
A report against your baseline showing enquiries by source, banquet pipeline stage and corporate accounts due for renewal.
Result: The owner sees where the pipeline stands without asking around.
How the result is measured
- Enquiries logged in the CRM
- Data completeness
- Reports generated from CRM data
Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.
What to record, and when
What a hotel should record about guests, corporate accounts and banquet enquiries, and whether it needs software yet.
- Direct, OTA or corporate booking source
- Record the channel on every booking: direct call, website, a named OTA, a travel desk or a company rate. Only then can you see which guests could have booked direct and which agents deserve a conversation.
- Guest's stay purpose and preferences
- Note whether the stay was business, family, wedding or transit, and one preference, such as a quiet floor or early breakfast. The front desk can then greet a returning guest with something real.
- Corporate rate agreement and its end date
- For each company, write the negotiated rate, the room type it covers, the blackout dates and the date the agreement ends. A company whose agreement lapsed quietly has usually moved to another hotel.
- Banquet enquiry stage
- Track the date wanted, the number of guests, the quote sent, the date the family visited and the date the final count is due. A family that has asked three halls for a quote will choose whoever reached them first.
- Consent for direct offers
- Record whether a past guest agreed to receive offers and the channel. A guest's phone number from an OTA booking cannot always be used for marketing, so check the platform's current rules.
- Do you need software yet?
- A small hotel can run a guest and banquet sheet beside its booking system. Move to a CRM when sales, front desk and banquet teams all need the same corporate and event history. Do not re-enter what the property system already holds.
Who it is for
This is written for these hotels.
- Business and transit hotels
- Boutique and heritage properties
- Resort and destination hotels
- Budget and mid-market chains
- Banquet and wedding-focused properties
- Serviced apartments and long-stay properties
Not for
It is not the right fit if.
- You want a guaranteed Google ranking or a guaranteed number of leads. Nobody honest can promise either.
- You need enquiries by next week and have nobody to answer them.
- You want posts and reach reported, not enquiries and orders.
How it works
From your first message to the first report.
No open-ended retainer. Every step gives you something in writing.
First
Your brief
You tell us what you need in a few short steps: your business, what you want, where enquiries come from and how they are handled.
After the brief
A conversation and a written scope
We read it, then talk with whoever handles your enquiries. If you want our help, the scope, the fee and the reporting come in writing, and nothing starts before you have read them.
Before work starts
Baseline recorded
Enquiries by source, reply time, conversion and cost per order, written down so every later report has an honest comparison.
After the baseline
The first fix goes live
The fix we agreed to start with is put in place and measured against the baseline, whether that is reply time, a follow-up sequence, the page buyers land on or the handover between marketing and sales.
As agreed
Report against the baseline
What moved, what did not, and what changes next, in plain words. How often you get it is set in writing before work starts.
At renewal
Renew on the numbers
The term ends and you decide whether to continue from the results. The length is agreed in writing before anything starts.
How the crm work runs
- 1
Map the sales process
We record how a deal actually moves from enquiry to close in your business today.
- 2
Configure stages and fields
The CRM's pipeline and fields are built to match that process exactly, not a generic template.
- 3
Set up automations
Reminders, assignment rules and follow-up triggers are configured so routine steps happen without manual effort.
- 4
Test with real deals
We run the configuration against actual current deals to catch gaps before the whole team relies on it.
Proof
What happened when owners fixed this.
Real clients, the work we did, and the result as it was recorded. Where no number was recorded, none is claimed.
Hotel Felicity Inn
- Situation
- A traveller compares three hotels on a phone and books one. The website was not built for that.
- What we did
- The site rebuilt around booking
- Photography and one look
- Search work for destination searches
- Content a traveller reads
- Result
- Online bookings increased 35%
- Organic traffic increased 50% within six months
- Positive reviews on Google and TripAdvisor increased 30%
Also worked with
Chord Road Hospital · Curtain Label · Difesa Security Services · Hands On CSR · Implevista · Kambar Group · Kalessi · Kerur Pain Clinic · LL Trust · Lucky Deals · Natural Gases · NavaShakthi Souhardha · NewCom Logistics · Proton Technical Services · SB Engineering · Shakthi Foundation · Shakthi Group · Urbanest · Insyde Studio · Venkateshwara Laser Tech · Vivara Studios
Why us
Why owners pick GullySales over an agency.
Marketing and sales, as one job
Most agencies stop at the enquiry. We also fix what happens after it: the reply, the follow-up, the quote and the CRM.
The person on the first call does the work
No account managers in between. You are never handed to someone you have not met.
A baseline before anything starts
Your numbers are written down on day one, so every later report compares against something honest.
The fee in writing, split three ways
Our time, your media spend and production on separate lines. You always see what goes to us.
No guarantees we cannot keep
The term is agreed in writing and never a default twelve months. We never promise a ranking or a lead count, because nobody controls those.
One office, and we say so
Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru. We work across India by call and WhatsApp and travel when a session needs to be in person.
#257, 3rd floor, Sri Nanjundeshwara Complex, Nagarbhavi 8th Block, Outer Ring Road. How we work.
Your brief
Tell us what you need, and we will read it before we call.
Eight short steps about your business, what you want and who decides. Most questions are a tap, and you can skip any you would rather answer on the call.
FAQ
Questions owners ask before they call.
Not here? More answers, or ask on WhatsApp.
Do we need expensive software?
Who updates it day to day?
Our property management system already has a guest profile. What does the CRM add?
Bookings through an OTA give us little contact detail. What can we record?
How soon would we see more direct bookings?
Do we need to advertise?
How much does it cost?
How long is the contract?
Who will actually do the work?
What do you need from us?
From the blog
Further reading for hotels.
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Tell us what you are trying to grow, and we will read it before we call.
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