Connect

Reach the right department in one message, not a dozen phone calls

News, questions and handovers scatter across chats and boards. Connect keeps company news, department spaces, channels and direct messages in one place, with the work waiting on you beside them.

$3.25 per room/monthEarly access: built and working, still being validated at live hotels
Connect company space: a stories row, a post box with shout-out, photo, video, GIF and emoji, a pinned note from a manager and a shout-out with reactions and comments
Front Office department space with its cover, goals, shortcuts, a pinned note from the department head and a shout-out
A pinned note for the shiftRead by the whole department
Message made into a taskFrom the Do menu
Waiting on you: 3Approvals, tasks, unread

The problem

News, questions and handovers are scattered across chats, boards and inboxes

The group arrival list is posted in one place, the shift is told in another, and the same question about early check-in is answered three times. Each department keeps its own habits, and nobody can see the whole hotel’s conversation.

A typical moment

“I pin the arrival list in one place, answer the same question in another, and still find out in the morning that nobody saw it.”

Front office manager

Why team news and questions get lost

  • Department news and notes get lost in group chats.

    In HTMS™ Each department has its own space with a feed, a pinned note and a team list, beside the company board.

  • A question is answered in one chat and the fix is chased in another.

    In HTMS™ Channels and direct messages live together, and the Do menu makes a service request, work order or task from the last message.

  • What needs you is spread across tools.

    In HTMS™ My work lists approvals, tasks and unread conversations in one place.

How a team uses the workspace

  1. Open your department’s space

    Each department has its own feed, a pinned note, shortcuts and a team list, beside the company board. Each person sees the spaces their role allows.

  2. Talk in channels and messages

    Channels, groups and direct messages sit in one Messages area, with files kept in the conversation.

  3. Turn a message into work

    From the last message, a person can make or update a service request, a work order or a task from the Do menu.

  4. See what is waiting on you

    My work lists pending approvals, open tasks and unread conversations in one place.

In the product

A Connect channel, #Front Office: tabs for messages, pinned posts, jobs, files and the team, three messages with reactions and replies, and the message box with attachment, photo, voice note, emoji and an Actions menu

A conversation with its files

In the #it-support channel a colleague reports a jamming lobby printer with a photo, a second person adds the error log and others reply, so the report, the evidence and the answers stay in one thread.

HTMS™ product screen

The arrival list reaches the whole shift

A realistic scenario
A front office manager pins the group arrival list in the department space. A colleague asks about early check-ins in Messages and the answer is pinned beside the list. At the end of the shift the manager opens My work and sees the tasks and unread conversations still waiting.

Hotel Staff Messaging and Department Spaces | HTMS™ Connect | Techorph