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Why I love to hate finance
You know that burning desire to yell, smash or disappear the entire screen after trying something a hundred million times over three hours because you need to answer simple...
Using availability blocks with Mews
‘Availability blocks’ may not be the most exciting term in hospitality. You may know them as ‘group blocks’, which is even less exciting. But even...
Mews Marketplace integrations update: April edition
For every monthly integrations update, we write about how busy our team have been. It’s always true, but throughout March they must have been...
From milkshakes to microcopy: how product content influences customer behavior
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Continuous value delivery: putting the SVPG model into practice
The world of software creation has been talking about continuous delivery for quite a while. Most of you are probably familiar with the picture...
Rethinking spaces with Mews: eight tips for selling day use hotel rooms
If you haven't implemented day use into your revenue management strategy, you’re leaving money on the table. We’ve already covered the essentials...
March's new Mews integrations
Over the last few weeks, our Integrations Team have managed to welcome aboard some big new partners to Mews Marketplace. One of the great things...
Welcoming Bizzon to Mews: a great product fit
When you read product management books, sooner or later you’ll get to a chapter that talks about when to build, when to partner, and when to buy. The...
Spring product plan – a look ahead
Say hello to spring at Mews, with loads of product releases, updates and more as we work to make the Mews Hospitality Cloud even more powerful,...
Unfold unpacked: build your perfect tech stack
With so much hospitality tech around, it can be difficult to know where to start. But it’s not something you can afford to ignore: building a...
Unfold unpacked: our vision for hospitality
The age of the subscription model “Lea Hickman was a product manager at Adobe,” explains Aldair, “who came up with what seemed a crazy idea at the...
Mews Tech: what a difference a year makes
The hospitality industry has seen more than a few changes in the past year — some exciting and encouraging, some a bit more challenging. Through it...
Rethinking spaces with Mews: long stay accommodation
Long stays have become one of the biggest trends in hospitality during the last two years. In their Report on Travel & Living, Airbnb mentions the...
How to reduce your hotel's OTA commissions
Oh no, not another blog about OTAs, I hear you cry. Well, yes. And with good reason. Under 30s make over 80% of their travel bookings online, with...
The power of context in product management
Everyone in the world of modern product management is talking about empowered product teams. Every reasonable company wants them, every product...
Rethinking spaces with Mews: parking
For a property to fully maximize its revenue, you need to utilize its space in the most efficient way. This sounds simple, but historically it hasn’t...
Transforming the guest journey with next-generation hospitality tech
When Covid-19 brought much of our industry to its knees, one thing quickly became clear: hotel brands that were willing to innovate and transform...
What went wrong at Club Tropicana?
Club Tropicana was written in 1981, before Wham! were properly established as a band and a long time before the property management system revolution...
The power of the product trio: developing features that users love
My journey into product and building a strong relationship between product, design and engineering What I’ve learnt from the power of close...
The importance of cashflow management in hotels
Cashflow isn’t one of those small things that you can put to the back of your mind. A strong, reliable cashflow is vital for your property’s...
Transform your property with Mews Payments
What is Mews Payments? Mews Payments is part of our technology ecosystem. It isn’t a standalone add-on that we built as an after-thought – it’s an...
How to get real guest emails from OTA bookings
How Mews can help to collect guest emails Part of Mews guest experience software, the guest portal is a way of capturing the guest’s real email...
Why it’s time for hotels to embrace payment automation
What are the automated payments and why are they so important? Every transaction has a lot of moving parts. As well as the obvious roles that the...
How to lose a guest in 10 ways: avoidable hotel mistakes
1. Sort out your Wi-Fi There are all sorts of bad Wi-Fi scenarios from the guest’s perspective. Scenario one: the signal strength is so weak that...
How to minimize hotel booking cancelations
Consider your cancelation policy Sometimes a law change makes it impossible for guests to travel to your location and fulfill their booking with...
The Green Hotel of the Future: download our free guide
Could your property be doing more in its efforts to be sustainable? In all likelihood, the answer is yes. Going green has never been more important...
June's new Mews integrations
Summer is here but that doesn’t mean our integrations team has downed tools and set up their deck chairs on the beach; they’re still hard at work...
How to nail hotel upselling and boost ancillary revenue
Think of the last few orders from your favourite Mexican or Italian take-away. How often did you go for that extra guacamole, the dough balls or some...
May’s new Mews integrations
May is usually reliable for some good sun, but if you’ve been anywhere in the Northern hemisphere this last month, you’ll know we couldn’t rely on ...
Accept iDEAL payments with Mews
What are iDEAL payments? iDEAL is an online payment method that lets consumers pay for goods or services online – in our case, it allows your guests...
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