Keeping in tune with the times, LingerTech, a cloud based integrated hospitality management technology start-up has launched a one-shop-solution to optimize entire property management processes. Their package will help small and medium hotels  to adopt technology eaily and seamlessly. This will enable budget hospitality groups to offer contactless hotel experience to their customers at an affordabe cost. LingerTech aims  to equip the Indian Hospitality Industry with technology to enable them to meet the “travelling in the COVID era” challenge head-on.

The company is the following digital facilites: self-check-in, check-out, contact-less food menu, contact-less lift operation within the hotel. This Property Management System (PMS) offers digital communication and touch-less support to the hotel staff as well.

The other services included in the technology includes real time inventory & rates management thus increasing the opportunity of maximizing bookings without overbooking errors. With market dynamics changing, the ‘dynamic’ pricing tool helps the hotel to automate the pricing based on availability and seasonality. The hotels can also pre-fix their pricing and this system will do the job as automated.

Moreover, hotel owners can boost their  business by using data analytics as a tool and generating comprehensive reports like Lead time, Nationality Breakdown, Room Type Reports, ADR, LOS etc…

According to Sandeep Kumar, Founder, LingerTech, “All reports indicate that Hotels opting to use cloud-based technology PMS will grow by leaps and bounds in India. Technology will be key to the revival of the travel segment, enabling hotels who use it properly to better manage demand generation in an online world and reconnect with their customers.

“With rapid changes happening across the industry, our tech solution can be a gamechanger. The industry will have to make quick changes to adapt to this very volatile situation, and keep themselves relevant. Technology is the key to most things now.”

Using Cloud technology, LingerTech offers seamless services in managing all hotel departments like the front office, housekeeping, restaurant, accounts, health clubs, banquets, etc. It also empowers businesses to manage all hotel departments on a single window.

Going by the concept of ‘One software, one POC,’ integrated Channel Manager connects with over 400 OTAs, B2B partners, GDS, and more.

About The Founders

SANDEEP KUMAR & RAHUL NIGAM

LingerTech is the vision of two tech-driven minds, obsessed with finding cutting edge technology solutions to solve problems. Hospitality is a passion with the co-founders who come with the legacy of a long & successful career in Travel & Tourism space with leading brands in the business. They are recognized for scaling up revenue streams along with accelerating growth and profitability, and, they are committed to take the Hotel Industry out of COVID chaos and make it fit and healthy for the 21st Century.

Sandeep has worked with leading hospitality brands for 18 years including senior management roles with Yatra.com, Shiv Vilas Resorts, fastbooking.com

Rahul has International Business experience of over 18 years in handling operation of hotels, in-bound tours, B2B and B2C in hospitability industry. He has worked with leading brands like Taj Mahal Hotel, Thomas Cook, Hotelbeds, Agoda etc.

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When Shan Kadavil met SeaToHome founder Mathew Joseph sometime last year, the online fresh fish retailer was on the deathbed. Shan, former India head of Zynga and a regular customer of SeaToHome, was determined to save the e-commerce business, when he came to know Mathew, a veteran fish exporter in Kerala, was planning to wind up the online platform that he painstakingly launched in 2012.

“It was really heartbreaking when I heard SeaToHome, the only fresh fish e-taler in India, was shutting down. This when I decided to help the company using my experience and expertise in consumer internet space. I contacted Mathew and asked if he is interested in working together to turn round the company. He readily agreed,” Shan narrates the story to Startagist.

Shan, a serial entrepreneur with immense experience in building startups, had a clear vision in his mind when he took the helm of the company. He realised that if he could make use of the business acumen of Mathew, he could easily rescue the company from further erosion.

“I’ve built many businesses, including consumer Internet companies, in the past, which helped me to understand the intricacies of e-commerce. I was incubating a couple of companies when SeaToHome was enrolled as an incubatee. We decided to put more time and double down our efforts on SeaToHome,” Shan explains.

The duo worked together for a few months, and rebranded SeaToHome as FreshTomHome to include other non-veg products such as poultry, duck, chicken etc. SeaToHome was floundering at just 4,000 customers then. After a few months of a hard-work, the business picked up pace and Shan and Mathew successfully scaled it to 85,000 customers across Cochin, Bangalore and Delhi.

“We also moved the headquarters from Cochin to Bangalore, which is now our key market in terms of the number of repeat customers. We also set up our own logistics and supply chain arms. Without burning much dollars on marketing, we kind of became a household name in the city. We have now bigger plans to expand to eight cities soon and ultimately to 20 cities,” Shan adds.

Why FreshToHome?

Recently, a few startups cropped up in the fresh meat and fish space such as Zappfresh and Licious. However, none of these new-age businesses could not match the prowess of  FreshToHome. “This is because we have far ahead of them in terms of everything. We have several USPs. One, we have our own processing unit in Bangalore. Two, we deliver fish to our customers within just 24 hours of being caught from the sea. Three, we have stringent quality check process in place that we make sure that fish products are totally chemical-free and meats are halal-certified. Four, we have our own supply chain,” says Shan.

Plus, FreshToHome is backed by some of the well-known names in the startup industry across the world. These angels put together multimillion dollars into the company a few moths ago. The names include Facebook’s early investor Mark Pincus, David Krane of Google Ventures, Google India chief Rajan Anandan, Pete Briger of Fortress Investment Group, former SoftBank executive Pavan Ongole, and Mashreq Bank’s Abdul Azeez Al-Ghurair.

FreshToHome is operating an industry estimated to be US$49 billion, which is slightly bigger than the size of the Hollywood industry (US$49 billion). “This is just for the fish industry. If we add meats and poultry products, the size will be much higher. This is why we are confident of becoming the largest fresh fish and meat e-commerce company in India,” Shan concludes

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