Avvio works with hotels and accommodation providers – from boutique independents to global accommodation brands – to enable them to engage effectively and intuitively with every guest, creating personalised booking experiences through custom web design and tailored digital strategies built around Allora, a pioneering AI-powered booking platform. We are leading the industry, delivering an unrivalled, first-class online experience that drives direct bookings for hotels.

Assured’s relationship with Avvio is focussed on delivering a combination of increased web presence and delivering higher capture, and conversion through direct web bookings. In an age where 3rd party agents have multiple routes to the hotel buying public, and huge budgets to spend with the likes of Google, unfortunately, standalone SEO and keyword marketing is of limited impact.

Working with Avvio and its AI booking platform Allora the aim is to deliver return on investment through an integrated web marketing and booking experience for the consumer, but ultimately to lower the commission levels of the site in question, and streamline the booking process with the positive impact that can have on the hotel’s administrative payroll cost.

Having worked with Avvio on numerous projects we have a good understanding of the hotels where the greatest benefit can be found and would work with them to tailor a proposal that delivers the greatest uplift, with alternative proposals for locations where due to type of business or cash flow limitations this may not be an option.

www.avvio.com

HotelREZ Hotels & Resorts is one of the world’s largest, yet tailored, companies dedicated to marketing and connecting independent hoteliers with bookers around the world. We provide distribution, revenue, sales and marketing services and consultancy to over 1,000 independent hotels and small hotel groups in over 40 countries. The HotelREZ member portfolio includes a wide variety of hotels and resorts, from sleek boutique city gems, to country-house retreats full of charm and history.

If your property is not listed on the platforms that the major corporate clients, and travel agents use, then no matter how good your product or how well its priced, the ability to drive the required volume through these key channels is always going to be limited. Many hoteliers have seen elements of this market dwindle through no fault of their own as local relationships have been replaced by faceless agents and computerised systems.

With a plethora of companies offering access to Global Distribution Systems (GDS) via expensive subscriptions and various uplift programmes to get in front of key corporate markets, it can be hard to evaluate if the potential uplift will outweigh the cost. GDS alone is only one point of the relationship triangle that also requires a targeted sales resource and a hotel that can deliver on its promises. GDS without the 2 other elements whilst beneficial will have limited impact, likewise the greatest sales resource and property will gain few bookings if the site isn’t listed on the key online distribution systems.

Assured Hotel’s partner with HotelREZ as with their researched and statistical approach to the marketplace of any given location. We can work with them to ensure that any proposed solution will deliver the uplift in bookings required to justify any cost.

www.hotelrez.net

Wedding Booking System is a first of its kind software that revolutionizes how venues operate by reducing labour costs, reducing overall marketing and advertising costs, while simultaneously delivering more venue tours and more bookings than ever before.

Book More Weddings. With Less Effort. For More Profit.

weddingbookingsystem.com

Brand & Code is a branding, website design and digital marketing agency. A group of seasoned professionals, consultants, strategists, creatives, designers and developers.

Brand & Code help grow and evolve brands to create passionate, emotional and engaging responses that resonate with customers and make a commercial difference to your business.

brandandcode.co.uk

Lightspeed is a point-of-sale and e-commerce software provider, their restaurant ePOS allows you to expand your business and deliver the goods with the leading restaurant point of sale system. With customisable menus and an easy-to-use interface, Lightspeed helps you grow and pivot to ePOS delivery, all from one platform.

Utilising the advanced technology of the Lightspeed system to allow for quick inventory management direct processing allows the F&B outlet to drive productivity through better time management, ultimately reducing payroll costs. With the benefit of being a cloud-based system, the capabilities for it to evolve far outstrip more traditional EPOS systems, and with remote support available to the user at all times there are fewer issues and downtime.

www.lightspeedhq.co.uk/pos/restaurant/

Matthew Clark are a national drinks wholesaler, supplying drinks products, training and marketing support to thousands of premises across the UK. Offering a range of over 4000 different product lines and backed by drinks delivery excellence, staff training, menu and even bar design, they are far more than just a drinks wholesaler.

Assured Hotels manage a rolling portfolio of properties with aggregated buying spend allowing independent sites the ability to access group prices without the need to commit to specific buying groups. Having worked closely with the team at Matthew Clark for several years in various trading scenarios we are able to quickly initiate supply in challenging circumstances.

Through dedicated account management purchasing, processes can be implemented quickly to align the wholesale range to the need of the specific property. With twice weekly deliveries for most locations the units can reduce the stockholding on site with the benefit that has to the cashflow.

www.matthewclark.co.uk

Entegra are your savings solutions partner, working across the catering industry to improve the operating margins of all the clients they serve. Operating with a self-funding, savings-led model, they remove any up-front costs or risk. They specialise in procurement services, delivering operational margin improvement and providing system solutions to enable our clients to protect their profit margin and deliver improved efficiency.

Outside larger groups there are few operators that have the time, resource, or volume to unlock the benefits on purchasing to deliver tangible savings to the cost of sales. By partnering with Entegra Assured Hotels can offer that benefit with detailed ghost pricing proposals and savings issued to the business on a no fee basis. Options across the whole supply chain with particular strength on food and kitchen management, and all non-food categories for example laundry, bedroom amenities, chemicals and beverage. Only if demonstratable savings are available on like for like products from their key supply partners would a swap be considered.

Once the supply chain is agreed the daily management of supply allows the site to focus on product & service delivery with less administrative hours absorbed in to the weekly payroll, with real time reporting in for example flood flash spends and margins available for management and stakeholders to monitor ensuring budgetary targets are achieved.

Systems to support management on compliance are also a key feature in the operational offer, for example the ever-growing importance of allergen management. The Kitchen team can utilise the portal to manage the dish allergens from products ordered thus reducing the administrative time for the Chef, accurate information on menus for the customer which protects the stakeholders from potential claims.

www.entegraps.eu

Marshalls Direct are our workplace provisions partner, supplying a vast range of products from office stationery to furniture, workwear to consumables, catering and rest-room (including the entire Nisbetts and Uropa ranges), to cleaning and janitorial. They also provide graphic design, print and online services for all your operational stationery, signage and marketing provisions.

Assured and the creative team at Marshall’s have worked closely on numerous recent projects delivering electronic and print media to drive sales. Through this close working relationship numerous templates and design briefs have been developed that allow us to roll out marketing quickly and efficiently where there was little before, at costs below that of engaging a separate provider.

www.marshallsdirect.co.uk

Stockcheck is a leading provider of stocktaking services and stock control systems for licensed and hospitality trade customers. Our specialist stocktaking expertise has benefited hotels, stadiums, pubs, clubs, music venues, bars and restaurants for over 30 years. As the country’s leading supplier of stocktaking services to the licensed sector, we’re respected and trusted by our clients to deliver improvements in organisation, efficiency and cost effectiveness. Our flexible and high-quality stock control software allows us to offer tailored stocktaking services to meet the commercial needs of your business.

Any business decisions must be based on good quality information and with the complexities of modern inclusive packages, and the issues and limitations of a small number of staff, stock turnover and yielding is often a key area for concern. Having worked with Stockcheck for a number of years we have found that the process around highlighting issues and driving improvements with the sites is proactive and engaged, with the escalation to ourselves of key concerns and just as importantly good practice. Establishing a stock value for accounting purposes often seems to be the focus with many organisations whereas working with Stockcheck our focus is delivering % gain in margin, and highlighting and eliminating loss. The benefit of every % made or saved is that it converts directly to the bottom line at 100%.

Given our relationship we are also able with shorter notice than usual to call on the services of the field agents when the requirement for valuations for sale or purchase are required short notice on specific days.

www.stockchek.co.uk

Prommt allows a business to send secure, personalised payment requests to your customers using text, email and online messages. Its simple and intuitive interface provides access to enhanced security, communication and customisation capabilities.

At its core, Prommt takes pay-by-link to the next level; blending messaging and payments technology to create seamless and secure payment journeys that help you get paid faster, safer and smarter. The concept is simple: Gather contact details, then send payment request to receive payment directly

www.prommt.com