SunSystems is a powerful financial management system built to cater for the accounting needs of organisations and provide businesses with insightful data and analysis that can help in making informed decisions.
The software is designed to streamline and automate all financial processes within a hotel, from accounting and reporting to budgeting and forecasting.
But SunSystems from FinanSys is not just a standalone system – it has the ability to connect with all other systems in your hotel, forming one unified application and giving you a clear overview of your entire operation from one central application.
By using industry-standard protocols, any hotel application compatible with industry-standard XML can link to Infor SunSystems data functions or application components.
Transactions can be posted online in real-time—and the data is validated via the business logic held in the system.
This article will explain how SunSystems (implemented and supported by FinanSys) integrates with other systems to create this comprehensive solution and provide true, online application-to-application interfaces for hoteliers.
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Top Hospitality Systems That SunSystems Integrates With
The following are the most popular hotel-relevant systems that SunSystems integrates with:
1. Property Management Systems (PMS)
A property management system (PMS) is essential for the operations of hospitality accommodations and even commercial residential rental properties.
Whether you’re using RMS Cloud, CloudBeds or just about any system, SunSystems will integrate with your chosen PMS to streamline operations, reduce accounting errors, and make your life easier.
The integration between SunSystems and your PMS will give you real-time visibility of your finances, meaning you can always stay on top of your game.
With SunSystems integrated with your PMS, all reservation data can be funnelled directly into SunSystems, allowing you to keep a close eye on your occupancy levels, room pricing and reservations.
2. Procurement system
Does it sometimes feel like you’re spending too much time managing supplier invoices and payments?
If so, then you’ll be glad to know that SunSystems integrates with procurement systems.
This means that you can automate the process of sending purchase orders to suppliers and receiving and reconciling invoices.
From ProcureWizard to Fourth Adaco, and many other procurement systems, SunSystems will integrate and facilitate the effective management of suppliers and the procurement of goods and services, allowing you to create, maintain, and analyse purchasing and requisition activities within your hotel.
It streamlines the entire lifecycle of the procurement process including the purchasing of services and materials. It automates the workflows and approvals associated with the expense and can route items through the approval process based on the value, the cost centre, project, employee that is raising the request or other user-definable criteria.
3. Point of Sale
SunSystems integrates with industry-leading Point of Sale (POS) systems such as Lightspeed and Zonal, amongst others.
This gives you the ability to manage your inventory, track sales and monitor your margins in real-time.
It also means that you can reconcile your POS data with your financial reports quickly and easily, giving you greater visibility and control over your finances.
4. Payment/banking systems
Are you using multiple payment processors? If so, then you’ll know how important it is to have a system that can integrate with all of them.
SunSystems integrates with leading payment systems, such as SquareUp, Ingenico, Zettle and much more, to allow you to take payments from guests and make payments to suppliers.
When your payments flow through SunSystems, you’ll have a complete overview of your cash flow and finances in one central system and you can be sure that your books are always up to date.
Financial data from your POS and other systems can be fed directly into SunSystems, giving you a real-time view of your hotel’s finances.
5. Oracle Hospitality Suite8
Oracle Hospitality Suite8 is a cloud-based hospitality management system that offers a complete solution for hotels, from reservations and property management to the guest experience and revenue management.
Whether it is reservations, housekeeping, restaurant, bar, sales, or marketing, this software suite does it all, allowing you to concentrate just on your guests.
Now imagine having a trusted financial system that can connect all these moving parts and offers visibility into your business’s finances.
SunSystems integrates with Oracle Hospitality Suite8 to give you a unified view of your finances, across all aspects of your hotel operations.
This means that you can make better decisions about your pricing, marketing and guest experience strategies, as you’ll have access to up-to-date financial information.
6. Hotel Revenue Management System
A hotel revenue management system (HRMS) is software that helps hotels optimise their revenues by automating the process of using analytics, mainly supply and demand, to determine the right price for hotel rooms.
SunSystems integrates with leading HRMS systems, giving you the ability to track room revenues and make changes to pricing on the fly.
It does this by considering both historical data and real-time market conditions to price hotel rooms in the most profitable way possible.
The integration between SunSystems and your HRMS will give you a clear overview of your overall financial performance and help you maximise profits.
This also means that you can make informed decisions about your pricing strategy, as you’ll have access to up-to-date information about your costs and revenues.
7. Central Reservation Systems (CRS)
A central reservation system (CRS) is a software application used by hotels, resorts, and other accommodation providers to manage room inventory and rates.
It’s also used to take reservations from guests via various channels, such as the hotel’s website, call centre or third-party booking sites.
By connecting your CRS with the Sun accounting software, you’re exposing your hotel to the true power of a financial management system, including:
- The ability to automate approvals for all business processes, including invoice approval and requests for new standing data
- Instant approval of user-definable process automation online or via your mobile
- Automated data entry
- Ability to automate the spread of revenue and costs based on ratios such as floorspace and headcount
- Inter-company transactions automation
- Real-time reporting with embedded analysis tools
- In-context analytics and business intelligence
- The ability to drill back to source transactions
- Proactive alerts that support improved decisions
- Ability to create or update reports based on various analysis dimensions such as cost centres, projects, employees, locations, funds, or products
Conclusion
As you can see, SunSystems from FinanSys seamlessly integrates with all the key systems used by hotels, whether it is a web application, portal, front-office system, or other external business applications.
Data held in SunSystems can be queried, created, and updated directly from other applications—data transferred into SunSystems is fully validated through SunSystems’ business logic.
For data transmission, it uses industry-standard protocols—Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)—which are both excellent for ensuring data integrity.
Both protocols are widely accepted as leading standards for connectivity that support data transfer across multiple platforms.
It’s this level of integration that makes SunSystems the perfect financial management solution for hotels, giving you a complete overview of your finances, across all aspects of your hotel operations.
With SunSystems, you can make better decisions about your pricing, marketing and guest experience strategies, as you’ll have access to up-to-date financial information.
If you’d like to find out more about how SunSystems can help your hotel business, please get in touch. We’d be happy to show you how our system can save you time and money.
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