Digital Transformation · Hospitality · Hotels, Restaurants & Travel

Turn Your Guest & Group Relationships
into a Competitive Advantage

Solutions Metrix helps hotels, resort groups, restaurant chains, travel management companies, and hospitality brands modernize how they work — from strategy through long-term success. We start with your business goals, not a platform pitch, and stay with you until technology actually delivers value for your sales, revenue management, and guest experience teams.

Platform-agnostic. No vendor commitment. Scoped to your workflows.

600+
Projects Delivered
20+
Years in Business
9.1
NPS Score
1M+
End Users Supported
We implement Creatio Salesforce Microsoft Dynamics Sugar AI
How We Help

From Strategy to Long-Term Success

Solutions Metrix doesn't just implement software. We partner with hospitality organizations across the full transformation journey — from the first roadmap through adoption, optimization, and beyond.

CRM Strategy & Inception

Before any platform decision, we map your group sales, corporate account management, loyalty, and guest experience workflows alongside your PMS, POS, and channel management requirements. Our CRM Inception service delivers a tailored roadmap with ROI and TCO analysis — so you invest wisely and in full alignment with your revenue and guest experience strategy.

Platform Implementation

Every implementation is tailored to your group and transient sales motion, corporate account structure, and guest loyalty model — never the other way around. We configure CRM across Creatio, Salesforce, Dynamics, and Sugar AI built around how your sales, revenue, and guest services teams actually work.

Systems Integration

We connect the dots across fragmented technology stacks — property management systems, central reservation systems, POS, channel managers, loyalty platforms, marketing automation, SharePoint, Outlook, Teams, and Boomi iPaaS — so your CRM becomes the guest intelligence hub your sales, revenue, and experience teams actually rely on.

AI-Enabled Workflows

We embed AI agents directly into sales and guest management workflows — intelligent group lead scoring, automated upsell and ancillary revenue triggers, next-best-offer personalization, and natural language access to your CRM and reservation data. AI that works within your brand standards and guest privacy obligations.

User Adoption & Training

Adoption is a success metric in every engagement. Role-based training, co-pilot phases, structured feedback cycles, and explicit adoption milestones ensure your sales managers, revenue managers, and front office teams use what we build — from day one.

Managed Services & Optimization

Post go-live, we remain a continuous partner. Recurring support agreements, sprint-based optimization, and customer success planning ensure your platform evolves alongside your property portfolio, brand standards, and distribution strategy.

Industry Challenges

The Problems Hospitality Organizations Bring to Us

Across every segment and property type, hospitality organizations share the same core pain — disconnected systems, fragmented guest and account data, and no real-time visibility into group pipeline, corporate account health, or the guest loyalty signals that drive repeat stays and ancillary revenue.

Fragmented Guest & Account Data Across Systems

Guest profiles live in the PMS, group booking data sits in a separate sales tool, corporate account activity is in a third system, and loyalty history is in a brand platform that doesn't share data with the property. Sales managers, revenue managers, and front office teams each see a different fragment of the same guest or account relationship — making personalization, proactive service, and account development impossible.

No Structured Group Sales Pipeline

Group leads from RFPs, third-party platforms, and direct inquiries are tracked informally — in spreadsheets, email, and individual sales manager memory. There is no consistent stage progression, no shared pipeline visibility across the sales team, and no reliable forecast for the next 90 days. Revenue management and operations can't plan around a pipeline no one can see.

Reactive Corporate Account Management

Corporate account relationships are managed reactively — handled at the property level with no enterprise visibility into account production, rate compliance, or growth opportunity. When corporate travel managers renegotiate contracts, properties enter those conversations without data on actual revenue delivered, penetration rate, or competitive risk.

Missed Ancillary Revenue & Upsell Opportunities

Upgrade and ancillary revenue opportunities — room upgrades, spa, F&B, parking, early check-in — are offered generically at check-in rather than personalized to the guest's history and preferences. Without behavioral and stay-history signals in the CRM, upsell is opportunistic rather than systematic — and significant revenue is left uncaptured at every touchpoint.

Disconnected Loyalty & Guest Experience Data

Loyalty tier, preferences, special occasion history, and complaint records exist in brand loyalty platforms and internal notes that don't reach the front office team before arrival. Repeat guests experience the same generic welcome as first-time visitors — and the moments that build loyalty and advocacy are missed because the right information never reached the right person at the right time.

No Real-Time Group or Account Revenue Visibility

Directors of Sales can't see group pipeline by segment, pick-up pace, or account performance in real time. Revenue managers make pricing decisions without current group displacement data. Reports are assembled manually from PMS and sales tools — outdated before they reach the people who need to act on them.

Our Solution

What We Build for Hospitality Organizations

The platform changes based on your needs. The outcomes don't. Every engagement is designed around your sales motion, guest loyalty model, and revenue strategy — not the other way around.

360° Guest & Account Profile

Unified guest and corporate account profiles linking stay history, loyalty tier, preferences, special occasions, complaint records, spend by category, group booking history, and rate agreement terms — synced from PMS and loyalty platforms. One complete picture for every sales manager, revenue manager, and front office team member.

Structured Group Sales Pipeline

RFP tracking, proposal management, site visit coordination, contract milestones, and pick-up monitoring all managed within CRM — with consistent stage progression, shared pipeline visibility across the sales team, and real-time group revenue pace accessible to revenue management and operations.

AI-Assisted Lead Scoring & Upsell Intelligence

AI agents score group and transient leads by close likelihood and revenue potential, and surface personalized upsell and ancillary revenue opportunities based on guest stay history and preferences — embedded natively in CRM so sales and front office teams act on the right insights at the right moment.

Corporate Account Development & Rate Management

Corporate account profiles with production data, rate agreement compliance, traveller volume, penetration rate, and contract renewal windows managed within CRM — so account managers enter every renegotiation with data and every growth conversation with full account context.

Pre-Arrival & Guest Experience Workflows

Automated pre-arrival communications, personalized upgrade and ancillary offers triggered by loyalty tier and preference data, special occasion alerts for front office and F&B teams, and post-stay feedback capture — all managed within CRM and connected to the PMS reservation record.

Sales & Revenue Performance Dashboards

Real-time group pipeline by segment and pick-up pace, transient account production, corporate account performance, loyalty program engagement, upsell conversion rates, and ancillary revenue by category — accessible to Directors of Sales, Revenue Managers, and General Managers on demand.

Loyalty & VIP Guest Management

Loyalty tier tracking, preference profiles, recognition workflows, and VIP arrival alerts managed within CRM and surfaced to the front office, housekeeping, and F&B teams before every arrival — so high-value guests receive a consistently personalized experience across every property in the portfolio.

PMS, CRS & Loyalty Platform Integration

Bidirectional sync between CRM and your property management system, central reservation system, and loyalty platform — reservation data, stay history, and loyalty activity always current in the CRM guest and account profile. API and SFTP integration models supported across all major hospitality technology platforms.

Platform Agnostic

We Start with Your Goals. Then We Recommend the Right Platform.

Solutions Metrix doesn't sell platforms — we implement whichever one fits your property or group best. Our CRM Inception process identifies the right technology before any commitment is made.

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Creatio

No-code workflow engine with fast, flexible configuration. Ideal for independent hotels, boutique groups, and regional restaurant chains needing rapid iteration on sales, guest management, and loyalty workflows without heavy IT dependency or lengthy implementation cycles.

Best for Agility & No-Code
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Salesforce

Deepest hospitality and travel ecosystem with purpose-built guest engagement, group sales, and loyalty management modules. Ideal for large hotel groups, resort portfolios, and travel management companies with complex multi-property customer data and enterprise sales operations.

Best for Enterprise & Scale
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Microsoft Dynamics 365

Native Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, and Power BI integration. The natural fit for hospitality organizations already operating in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem with existing Power Platform or Azure investments across properties and corporate offices.

Best for Microsoft-First Orgs
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Sugar AI

Flexible, cost-effective, strong automation. The right choice for independent properties, regional restaurant groups, and boutique hospitality brands that need a powerful sales and guest management platform without enterprise licensing costs.

Best for Independent & Value
Not sure which platform is right for your operation? Our CRM Inception service exists precisely for this moment. We evaluate your current systems, PMS environment, property portfolio, distribution strategy, and growth plans — then give you a clear, business-goals-first recommendation before any technology commitment is made.
Our Approach

We Don't Stop at Go-Live

Most technology partners disappear after deployment. Solutions Metrix is built for long-term partnerships — with structured phases from first discovery through ongoing optimization, and adoption as a measured outcome at every step.

  • CRM Inception

    Discovery workshops, ROI & TCO analysis, RASCI and RAID setup, and a tailored roadmap — all before any platform decision, with PMS integration requirements, loyalty platform connections, and property portfolio structure mapped from the start.

  • Workshops & Data Modelling

    Collaborative process mapping with your sales, revenue management, front office, guest services, and IT teams. Implementation shaped by how your property actually sells groups, manages corporate accounts, and delivers guest experiences — not a generic hospitality template.

  • Agile Development Sprints

    Iterative build cycles with bi-weekly demo gates and transparent sprint reporting. Typically 20+ sprints for a full production rollout including PMS, CRS, and loyalty platform integrations.

  • UAT & Go-Live

    Structured user acceptance testing, dedicated hypercare support, and phased soft and full go-live milestones — timed around your peak season and group booking calendar to minimize disruption to active sales and reservations operations.

  • Adoption & Optimization

    Role-based training for sales managers, revenue managers, front office teams, guest services staff, and admins. Co-pilot phases and feedback cycles. We measure success by adoption rates and group revenue, corporate account production, and guest satisfaction outcomes, not deployment date.

Integration Architecture

Connecting CRM to Your PMS, CRS, Loyalty Platform, and Full Hospitality Technology Stack

A significant part of Solutions Metrix's value is connecting the dots across fragmented hospitality technology stacks — so your CRM becomes the guest and commercial intelligence hub every team actually relies on.

Property Management Systems

Bidirectional sync — reservation data, stay history, room type preferences, in-house spend, and guest profile data current in CRM in real time. API + SFTP models supported across major PMS platforms.

Central Reservation Systems

Booking pace, channel production data, and rate availability linked to CRM sales and revenue dashboards — giving sales and revenue management a unified commercial view without switching systems.

Loyalty & Rewards Platforms

Loyalty tier, points balance, redemption history, and member preferences synchronized to CRM guest profiles — enabling pre-arrival personalization and recognition workflows across every property.

POS & F&B Systems

Food & beverage spend, outlet preferences, and dining history synced to CRM guest profiles — enriching the guest record with ancillary spend data for upsell and personalization workflows.

Boomi iPaaS

Integration platform layer connecting PMS, CRS, loyalty, POS, channel managers, and any hospitality technology to your CRM ecosystem — single integration architecture, full data flow.

Outlook & Teams

All guest, group, and corporate account communications logged in CRM without leaving Microsoft tools — full interaction history captured for sales, revenue, and guest services teams.

Starfish ETL

Data migration and transformation for consolidating legacy CRM, PMS guest master data, and historical reservation and group booking data into your new platform.

BI / Reporting

Real-time dashboards with group pipeline by segment and pace, corporate account production, loyalty engagement, ancillary revenue by category, and multi-property portfolio performance.

Hospitality CRM Glossary

Key Concepts in Hospitality Digital Transformation

Plain-language definitions of the technologies and processes Solutions Metrix implements for hotels, resort groups, restaurant chains, travel management companies, and hospitality brands.

CRM Inception
Solutions Metrix's structured discovery service for hospitality organizations evaluating CRM platforms or not yet ready to implement. Includes discovery workshops, ROI and TCO analysis, PMS integration scoping, loyalty platform mapping, and a tailored CRM roadmap — so organizations make a business-goals-first technology decision before any platform commitment or operational disruption risk.

CRM Inception is available to hospitality organizations regardless of whether they ultimately implement with Solutions Metrix.

Group Sales Pipeline Management
A structured CRM capability that tracks every stage of the group sales process — from initial RFP receipt through proposal, site visit, contract, attrition monitoring, and post-event follow-up — with consistent stage definitions, shared visibility across the sales team, and real-time group revenue pace accessible to revenue management and operations. Replaces the spreadsheets and email inboxes that currently hold the group pipeline.

Solutions Metrix configures group pipeline stages, proposal templates, and displacement analysis triggers to match each property's or group's specific sales process and revenue management cadence.

PMS-CRM Integration
A bidirectional data connection between a Property Management System and a CRM platform, enabling automatic synchronization of reservation data, stay history, guest profile information, loyalty tier, in-house spend, and special requests — so every sales, revenue, and guest service team member sees a complete, current guest picture without switching systems or manually reconciling data.

Solutions Metrix designs PMS-CRM integrations as a foundational architectural component across Creatio, Salesforce, Dynamics, and Sugar AI, supporting all major PMS platforms via API and SFTP.

Platform-Agnostic Digital Transformation
An approach to technology consulting in which the firm recommends and implements the most appropriate platform for each client — rather than reselling a single vendor's product. Solutions Metrix implements Creatio, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and Sugar AI based on property size, portfolio structure, PMS environment, and commercial strategy.

Platform-agnostic partners prioritize client outcomes over vendor incentives.

User Adoption as a Success Metric
Solutions Metrix measures every CRM engagement not by go-live date, but by actual platform usage. Role-based training, co-pilot phases, structured feedback cycles, and explicit short-, mid-, and long-term adoption milestones are built into every project scope.

In hospitality, sales manager, revenue manager, and front office team adoption is the defining success metric — a CRM that hotel teams don't use delivers no group revenue, account development, or guest experience value regardless of how well it is configured.

Pre-Arrival & Guest Experience Workflow
A CRM capability that automates the sequence of guest touchpoints between booking confirmation and arrival — including personalized pre-arrival communications, upgrade and ancillary offer triggers based on loyalty tier and preference data, special occasion alerts surfaced to front office and F&B teams, and post-stay satisfaction capture. Converts the pre-arrival period from a missed revenue opportunity into a systematic personalization and upsell channel tied directly to the PMS reservation record.

Solutions Metrix configures pre-arrival workflows to match each property's specific service standards, loyalty program logic, and ancillary revenue priorities.

Direct Answers

Common Questions About CRM for Hospitality

Concise, factual answers to the questions hospitality organizations most frequently ask Solutions Metrix.

What makes Solutions Metrix different from other CRM implementation firms for hospitality?

Solutions Metrix is differentiated by three things: a platform-agnostic approach — recommending and implementing the right platform for each property or group, not the one they resell; a holistic strategy mindset — starting with group sales process, corporate account structure, PMS integration requirements, and guest experience model before any technology decision; and an obsession with user adoption — treating sales manager, revenue manager, and front office team adoption as measured success metrics in every engagement. With 600+ projects and a 9.1 NPS score over 20+ years, the firm is built for long-term partnerships, not one-off deployments.

What is the best CRM for hotels and hospitality groups?

The best CRM for a hospitality organization depends on its size, property portfolio, PMS environment, distribution strategy, and specific sales and guest management requirements. Creatio delivers the fastest time-to-value with flexible no-code configuration — making it a strong choice for independent hotels, boutique groups, and regional restaurant chains. Salesforce suits large hotel groups, resort portfolios, and travel management companies with complex multi-property data and enterprise sales operations. Microsoft Dynamics 365 is the natural fit for Microsoft-first organizations. Sugar AI offers the best value for independent properties and boutique brands. Solutions Metrix recommends the right platform through a structured CRM Inception process at no cost.

How does Solutions Metrix integrate CRM with property management systems?

Solutions Metrix builds bidirectional integrations between CRM and property management systems via REST API or SFTP file exchange, depending on the PMS platform, edition, and data volume requirements. The integration synchronizes reservation data, stay history, guest profile information, loyalty tier, in-house spend, and special requests — giving every sales, revenue, and guest service team member a complete, current guest picture without switching systems. PMS integration is scoped and architected during the CRM Inception phase, not added after go-live, and has been delivered across Creatio, Salesforce, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 environments for all major PMS platforms.

Can Solutions Metrix build group sales pipeline and corporate account management for hotels?

Yes. Solutions Metrix implements group sales pipeline management and corporate account development as native CRM capabilities — not spreadsheet overlays. Group leads are tracked through configurable pipeline stages from RFP to post-event, with proposal management, site visit coordination, and pick-up monitoring all visible to revenue management in real time. Corporate account profiles are built with production data, rate agreement compliance, penetration rate, and contract renewal windows — so account managers enter every negotiation with full data and every growth conversation with complete account context.

Does Solutions Metrix serve hospitality organizations across North America?

Yes. Solutions Metrix serves hotels, resort groups, restaurant chains, travel management companies, and hospitality brands across the United States and Canada — including Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Las Vegas, Orlando, Chicago, Dallas–Fort Worth, and nationally across Canada. The firm is headquartered in Montreal, was founded in 2001, has delivered 600+ projects across North America, and holds a 9.1 NPS score. Engagements are delivered remotely and on-site depending on project phase.