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Lintel/Solutions/Independent Hotels
For 12 – 80 room boutique properties

One platform.
For the hotel that's actually yours.

Built for properties run by people who answer the phone, walk the corridor, and know each guest by name. No second log-in for revenue. No third for housekeeping. No marketplace, no add-ons.

12–80Room sweet spot
1Log-in. one bill.
3.4wMedian go-live
Who this is for

Four shapes of independent.

Lintel was designed at four representative properties. If yours looks like any of these, we built it for you.

The town boutique

18 – 32 rooms · urban · year-round

A converted townhouse, a tight team of six, weekday business travel and weekend leisure.

The country house

22 – 48 rooms · rural · seasonal

F&B is half the revenue, the wedding diary is sacred, and shoulder season is everything.

The lifestyle house

30 – 64 rooms · destination · brand-led

A capital-P point of view, a returning clientele. Direct booking is the religion.

The small resort

48 – 80 rooms · coastal · group-heavy

Corporate retreats, wellness blocks, the occasional wedding. Six tools doing five jobs.

What you'll retire

The stack, simplified.

The average 30-room boutique pays for eight pieces of software and roughly £1,400 a month in seat fees. Lintel is one of those, instead of all of them.

Before · what most independents run

01Legacy PMS£420/mo
02Channel manager£180/mo
03Booking engine£160/mo
04Revenue management tool£240/mo
05Housekeeping app£95/mo
06CRM / guest profiles£140/mo
07Reporting / BI add-on£120/mo
08Reputation manager£80/mo

After · one platform, one log-in

Lintel

The whole house,
one screen.

PMS, channel manager, booking engine, RMS, housekeeping, CRM, BI, and reputation — built end to end as a single product.

8 → 1
Tools replaced
~£820
Monthly saved
14h/mo
Reconciliation saved
A Tuesday in May

The GM has six things to decide
before lunch.

Here's what Tuesday looks like when the whole house is on one platform.

07.14
Hotel Advisor · Morning brief

Twenty-three arrivals.
Two soft pickup days. One returning Beaumont guest.

Arriving at the desk with the day's six decisions already written.

Tue 14 May · BriefLive

Good morning, Claire. Pickup is firm at 23 arrivals; weekend soft — Friday and Saturday both 6 pts behind LY. Mme Laurent arrives today (third stay; usually room 24).

09.42
Booking Engine · Direct mix

The booking page is finally pulling its weight.

Every direct booking is roughly £42 saved in commission. Same rates, same calendar, no parity drift.

Channel mix · last 30 daysLive
Direct
48%
Booking.com
31%
Expedia
11%
GDS / corp
7%
Walk-in
3%
Commission saved · MTD£14,820
11.08
Guest Intelligence · Returning guest

Mme Laurent arrives at three.
The team already knows.

Guest history is now in the system. Preferences, dietary notes, the wine she ordered.

Arrival · 15.00Confirmed
L
Élise Laurent
3rd stay · last visit Oct 2025 · usually room 24
ReturningCourtyard viewCôtes du RhôneNo nutsPartner: Henri
"Especially fond of the small library. Sent a thank-you note after the October stay."
14.30
Operations · Housekeeping board

Thirty-one rooms turned. Two on the bubble.
The board, in one glance.

Room 24 is held until 14.45 — Mme Laurent's room, freshly inspected, courtyard side.

Housekeeping · 14.30Live
Fl. 3
7/8 · on time
Fl. 2
7/8 · 8m drift
Fl. 1
!
7/8 · maint.
The economics

The lever
independents have, and chains don't.

Every direct booking is worth roughly the OTA commission you didn't pay. Lintel moves the channel mix three points to the right, every quarter.

48%
Median direct share
£42
Avg. commission saved
+6.4pt
Direct share lift, 12 mo.
14h
Reconciliation saved/mo
Direct booking economics · live
A worked example, in your shape.
Rooms
32
ADR
£268avg
Occupancy
74%
Before · today42% direct
£48,200
Annual OTA commission
After · year 254% direct
£36,140
Annual OTA commission
Net to the house, year 1
+ £29,180
Modelled on the median founding-cohort property. Includes commission saved net of platform fee plus retired seat-fees.
The move

Four weeks, no panic.

A real migration plan, written for someone with a full reservation book and no IT department.

Week one

Listen, map, agree.

Two calls. We learn your rate plans, your rooms, your channels.

  • Discovery interview, 90 min.
  • Rate plan & channel map
  • Migration plan, signed off
Week two

Import, in private.

We load your inventory, rate plans, guest history into a shadow Lintel.

  • Inventory & rates loaded
  • Guest history migrated
  • OTA connections staged
Week three

Train, with the team.

Two on-site days. Front desk first, then housekeeping, then revenue.

  • Front desk training, 2 days
  • Housekeeping handover
  • Revenue manager onboard
Week four

Cut over, quietly.

Friday cut-over, founders on site. Old system stays running 30 days as safety net.

  • Cut-over Friday, 22.00
  • 30-day read-only backup
  • Founders' line, evergreen
Apply to the 2026 cohort

If your hotel is the kind
that knows its guests by name

we'd like to know yours. Thirty minutes with a founder, walked through your property's particulars. Founding rate locked for life.