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Every spa software solution has its own traits, quirks and advantages. We asked a
number of CEOs to pick out what they consider to be their system’s top module
By Jason Holland | Published in Spa Business 2015 issue 2
What’s your top module for spas? Our new automatic yielding module is one of the most important aspects of xPlan and will set a new trend in the spa industry.
How does it make life easier for spas? It will enable spas to emulate the complex fluctuating pricing structures in the flight and lodging industry – a sales technique which I think the spa industry will embrace to boost their revenues. Imagine that you can win a minimum of one dollar on average per treatment or activity, only by using an automatic yielding system. Multiply it with your number of activities and you have a profit.
What are the key features? Spas start by analysing their KPIs, then they can configure their business rules and xPlan will do the rest seamlessly. The rules will be applicable to any channel – walk-ins, online bookings, mobile users or even external distribution.
How do spas use it? After using it a while, they’ll notice a new trend in their business: guests switching from last-minute to early bookers, which brings three major improvements. First, by educating guests to book earlier, xPlan is able to optimise resource planning and spas are able to manage risks better. Second, by working on yield management, xPlan is able to increase average revenues. The third improvement is that even ‘super-last-minutes’ will be manageable.
Spa-kit.net keyword: Dimmbizz
" xPlan’s automatic yielding module will enable spas to emulate complex, fluctuating pricing structures "
Malcolm RennieManaging DirectorConcept Software
Malcolm Rennie
What is your top spa module? Concept Business Intelligence (BI) is a dynamic analytical tool aimed at providing customers with a simple but effective method of extracting valuable information contained in the core Concept applications for business analysis.
How does it make life easier for spas? It has functions to extract, transform and load data from one or several combined sources. Users quickly find the information they seek and have the ability to distribute it with colleagues via integrated reporting capabilities, printing, or full integration with Microsoft Office. Thanks to its graphical and colour coded interface, Concept BI has simple operational procedures and is easy to learn.
What are the key features? It’s available on iOS or Android platforms and spas can create or design benchmarks or KPIs that fit their operational needs.
How do spas use it? The Pickup Analysis KPI is increasingly important and enables forecasting and analysis of potential revenue. Also, comparative analysis means users can now easily compare and interact with multiple different views or selection states of the data. This makes it easier to spot business trends or differences, and gain insights into patterns of use, opportunities and threats and relative performance.
Spa-kit.net keywords: Concept Software
"It makes it easier to spot business trends or differences, and gain insights into patterns of use"
AJ ToorChief Executive OfficerGappt
AJ Toor
What is your top spa module? Our SmartGaps technology uses a ‘suggest’ not ‘search’ ethos to fill white space at short notice. It scans a spa’s booking system for empty space, matches this with the most popular services that can be performed in those slots and displays them on clients’ websites and customers’ phones so that they are immediately visible.
In addition to this, clients can ‘tune in’ to specific time slots or types of treatment and be automatically notified when something becomes available.
How does it make life easier for spas? It brings an entirely new approach to filling last-minute slots as it surfaces appointments that customers want right up to the shop window rather than having them hidden. As a result, it enables spas to automatically drive demand to specific availability in the diary, without having to discount or expose their full diary, and without spamming.
What are the key module features? It’s integrated with the existing booking system so there’s no extra work for front of house, it just runs in the background. It’s also delivered under the spa’s brand via their website and customers’ mobiles, enabling clients to build their own audience and not rely on third-party services.
Spa-kit.net keyword: Gappt
" SmartGaps technology brings an entirely new approach to filling last-minute slots "
Thomas RoesslerManaging directorThe Assistant Company (TAC)
Thomas Roessler
What is your top spa module? Reservation Assistant’s new Promotion module, launched in January 2015, allows a spa director to manage different promotional tools. These tools promote services through various marketing channels and, in turn, result in a higher online booking rate. We see this as a simple yet efficient way of generating revenue and filling gaps in the spa diary.
How does it make life easier for spas? Creating simple awareness is one of the largest challenges faced in spas. As software progresses, so does the demand for an easy solution to reach new and existing customers. Different promotional items can be easily implemented in the module to create unique buying opportunities. Something as simple as an in-house marketing technique, such as digital signage, can dramatically increase last-minute reservations
What are the key features of the module and how do spas use it? The spa can start channelling individual promotions to all new and frequent guests online, over Facebook via an app and/or IPTV. The newest promotional tool, Promo Codes, is normally used in combination with either a service or product and encourages previous guests to revisit the spa. Lastly, our Hot Deals promotional tool allows promotion of specified discounted services within a last-minute time frame.
Spa-kit.net keyword: TAC
"The new Promotion module is a simple yet efficient way of generating revenue and filling utilisation gaps "
With an increasing number of luxury hotels and resorts offering day and resort passes to
drive staycation business, Book4Time, a leader in innovative spa and wellness solutions, is
thrilled to announce the launch of Day & Resort Passes on its award-winning platform. [more...]
Every spa software solution has its own traits, quirks and advantages. We asked a
number of CEOs to pick out what they consider to be their system’s top module
By Jason Holland | Published in Spa Business 2015 issue 2
What’s your top module for spas? Our new automatic yielding module is one of the most important aspects of xPlan and will set a new trend in the spa industry.
How does it make life easier for spas? It will enable spas to emulate the complex fluctuating pricing structures in the flight and lodging industry – a sales technique which I think the spa industry will embrace to boost their revenues. Imagine that you can win a minimum of one dollar on average per treatment or activity, only by using an automatic yielding system. Multiply it with your number of activities and you have a profit.
What are the key features? Spas start by analysing their KPIs, then they can configure their business rules and xPlan will do the rest seamlessly. The rules will be applicable to any channel – walk-ins, online bookings, mobile users or even external distribution.
How do spas use it? After using it a while, they’ll notice a new trend in their business: guests switching from last-minute to early bookers, which brings three major improvements. First, by educating guests to book earlier, xPlan is able to optimise resource planning and spas are able to manage risks better. Second, by working on yield management, xPlan is able to increase average revenues. The third improvement is that even ‘super-last-minutes’ will be manageable.
Spa-kit.net keyword: Dimmbizz
" xPlan’s automatic yielding module will enable spas to emulate complex, fluctuating pricing structures "
Malcolm RennieManaging DirectorConcept Software
Malcolm Rennie
What is your top spa module? Concept Business Intelligence (BI) is a dynamic analytical tool aimed at providing customers with a simple but effective method of extracting valuable information contained in the core Concept applications for business analysis.
How does it make life easier for spas? It has functions to extract, transform and load data from one or several combined sources. Users quickly find the information they seek and have the ability to distribute it with colleagues via integrated reporting capabilities, printing, or full integration with Microsoft Office. Thanks to its graphical and colour coded interface, Concept BI has simple operational procedures and is easy to learn.
What are the key features? It’s available on iOS or Android platforms and spas can create or design benchmarks or KPIs that fit their operational needs.
How do spas use it? The Pickup Analysis KPI is increasingly important and enables forecasting and analysis of potential revenue. Also, comparative analysis means users can now easily compare and interact with multiple different views or selection states of the data. This makes it easier to spot business trends or differences, and gain insights into patterns of use, opportunities and threats and relative performance.
Spa-kit.net keywords: Concept Software
"It makes it easier to spot business trends or differences, and gain insights into patterns of use"
AJ ToorChief Executive OfficerGappt
AJ Toor
What is your top spa module? Our SmartGaps technology uses a ‘suggest’ not ‘search’ ethos to fill white space at short notice. It scans a spa’s booking system for empty space, matches this with the most popular services that can be performed in those slots and displays them on clients’ websites and customers’ phones so that they are immediately visible.
In addition to this, clients can ‘tune in’ to specific time slots or types of treatment and be automatically notified when something becomes available.
How does it make life easier for spas? It brings an entirely new approach to filling last-minute slots as it surfaces appointments that customers want right up to the shop window rather than having them hidden. As a result, it enables spas to automatically drive demand to specific availability in the diary, without having to discount or expose their full diary, and without spamming.
What are the key module features? It’s integrated with the existing booking system so there’s no extra work for front of house, it just runs in the background. It’s also delivered under the spa’s brand via their website and customers’ mobiles, enabling clients to build their own audience and not rely on third-party services.
Spa-kit.net keyword: Gappt
" SmartGaps technology brings an entirely new approach to filling last-minute slots "
Thomas RoesslerManaging directorThe Assistant Company (TAC)
Thomas Roessler
What is your top spa module? Reservation Assistant’s new Promotion module, launched in January 2015, allows a spa director to manage different promotional tools. These tools promote services through various marketing channels and, in turn, result in a higher online booking rate. We see this as a simple yet efficient way of generating revenue and filling gaps in the spa diary.
How does it make life easier for spas? Creating simple awareness is one of the largest challenges faced in spas. As software progresses, so does the demand for an easy solution to reach new and existing customers. Different promotional items can be easily implemented in the module to create unique buying opportunities. Something as simple as an in-house marketing technique, such as digital signage, can dramatically increase last-minute reservations
What are the key features of the module and how do spas use it? The spa can start channelling individual promotions to all new and frequent guests online, over Facebook via an app and/or IPTV. The newest promotional tool, Promo Codes, is normally used in combination with either a service or product and encourages previous guests to revisit the spa. Lastly, our Hot Deals promotional tool allows promotion of specified discounted services within a last-minute time frame.
Spa-kit.net keyword: TAC
"The new Promotion module is a simple yet efficient way of generating revenue and filling utilisation gaps "
The historic Breakers Hotel in Long Beach, California, is set to reopen in mid-2024 as a
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts property after a significant restoration and redevelopment project.
Marriott International has signed a new deal with Neom to open a Ritz-Carlton Reserve property
as part of Trojena, a brand new year-round mountain adventure destination in Saudi Arabia.
The Bannatyne Group says it has officially bounced back from the pandemic, with both turnover
and profits restored to pre-2020 levels in 2023, according to its year-end results.
While British adults are the most active they’ve been in a decade, health
inequalities remain with the same groups missing out, according to Sport
England’s latest Active Lives Adults Report.
Kerzner International has signed deals to operate two new Siro recovery hotels in Mexico and
Saudi Arabia, following the launch of the inaugural Siro property in Dubai this February.
Nuffield Health’s fourth annual survey, the Healthier Nation Index, has found people moved
slightly more in 2023 than 2022, but almost 75 per cent are still not meeting WHO guidelines.
The US spa industry is continuing its upward trajectory, achieving an unprecedented milestone
with a record-breaking revenue of US$21.3 billion in 2023, surpassing the previous high of
US$20.1 billion in 2022.
Short-term incentives for exercise, such as using daily reminders, rewards or games, can lead
to sustained increases in activity according to new research.
With an increasing number of luxury hotels and resorts offering day and resort passes to
drive staycation business, Book4Time, a leader in innovative spa and wellness solutions, is
thrilled to announce the launch of Day & Resort Passes on its award-winning platform. [more...]