Guides for hotel owners
Each guide answers one question in plain words, names its sources, and says when to check with your CA, your lawyer or the local police.
What is a channel manager? A plain words guide for hotel owners
A channel manager keeps your prices, rooms left and bookings in step across Booking.com, MakeMyTrip, Agoda and other booking sites, so a room sold on one closes on the rest.
GST on hotel rooms in 2026: the rate for each room price, in plain words
The GST rate on a hotel room depends on what you charge for it per day. The three bands since 22 September 2025, what changed on 1 November 2026, and what to ask your CA.
Hotel CCTV: what it can tell an owner, and where cameras must never go
How hotel owners can use the cameras they already have to spot stays without a bill, an empty desk or a covered camera, plus the privacy lines no hotel camera should cross.
Hotel self check in and guest ID rules: what is allowed and how to do it
Can guests check themselves in? What ID a hotel must see, how to handle Aadhaar safely, when Form III (once Form C) is due for foreign guests, and the local police rules to confirm first.
How to stop cash leakage at your hotel: 8 checks that work
Where money quietly leaves a hotel, from cash stays that never reach the register to quiet discounts and voids, and eight plain checks that catch it without accusing your staff.
How to choose a PMS for a small Indian hotel
A practical checklist for owners of 10 to 100 room hotels in India: GST billing, foreign guest reporting, OTAs, staff phones, guest data and the real monthly cost.
Form C for foreign guests: what Indian hotels must do under the 2025 rules
The 2025 immigration rules replaced Form C with Form III. Who must report foreign guests, what to record, the 24 hour deadlines and how to keep the records.
How to reduce OTA commission with more direct bookings
A practical plan for independent Indian hotels to keep OTAs for reach while winning more bookings on their own website, on Google, by phone and on WhatsApp.
Updated by the Keyvasa team.
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