Clock Software is a private limited company developing software and hardware solutions for the hospitality industry - property management system, restaurant point of sale, online booking engine, channel manager, self-service kiosk, mobile hotel app. Its headquarters is in London, UK.
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History
Clock Software was incorporated in 1994 in Varna, Bulgaria, under the name Clock Ltd (???? ???). Initially, the company specialized in selling hardware and peripherals but soon switched its focus to the development of hotel software. In 1996 Clock launched their first property management system - ClockFront for Windows. At the time, a huge privatisation was going on as part of the transition of the country to democracy and market economy. All hotels, previously owned by the state, were changing ownership and needed new software to replace previous, often centralised, management systems. Clock Software took the chance to offer their software to the newly privatised hotels.
In 2006 Clock Software started to expand to countries outside Bulgaria and opened offices in Romania (2007) and Croatia (2008). The first markets where their products were adopted were Romania, Macedonia and Croatia.
In 2010 Clock took the decision to create a completely new hospitality software suite based on cloud technology. The new product was built around the idea of consolidation of separate applications into one cloud-based platform and switching from data-focused to guest-centered software model. A new branch was registered in London, UK under the name of Clock Software Ltd. to take over the international development and the distribution of the cloud-based software products, while the Bulgarian branch remained in charge of software development and support. Clock Software launched their first cloud product, the free Internet reservation system InnHand, in 2012. In 2013 they launched the hotel management platform Clock PMS. A year later InnHand was discontinued and the company focused entirely on the new system. In 2016, the company released their first hardware device, a self-service kiosk.
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Distribution and partners
Its Windows-based installable software solutions Clock Software offers in Eastern Europe, while the latest cloud-based hotel management platform, Clock PMS, is available globally. Clock PMS has customers in 50+ countries (as of end of 2016) with Lark Hotels and McMillan Hotels among them. In 2015 Clock PMS was featured in the annual report by Software Advice "Hotel Software User View report - 2015" and in 2016 Clock Software was included in the Grant Thornton's report "Emerging clouds in hotel technology | Spotlight on cloud-based PMS"
Clock PMS is a property management system delivered as SaaS. It is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and is a certified partner of various third party providers: payment gateways - PayPal, Authorize.Net, Worldpay, Adyen; channel managers - RoomCloud and Yield Planet; door lock systems - ASSA ABLOY, hotel meta search websites - TripConnect by Tripadvisor
Products
Clock PMS is a cloud based suite of software solutions for hotels, chains, vacation rentals and other accommodation providers. It includes the following modules:
- Hotel front desk system
- Guest mobile self-service
- Internet booking engine
- Online gift voucher shop
- Online channel manager
- Rate and revenue management
- Housekeeping
- Restaurant Point Of Sale
- Digital room service
- Central reservation system
- Self-service and check-in kiosk
- Data API
Clock EVO - Property management system for Windows Clock POSitive - Point of Sale system for Windows Clock Effect - Inventory management system for Windows
References
External links
- Official website
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