Base7booking used in more than 12 countries

Base7booking.com is the result of a meeting between a creative hotel owner, two motivated students from the renowned Hospitality Management School located in Lausanne, Switzerland (Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne - EHL), and an talented programmer.

The name « Base7booking » comes from the hotel « Le Bourg 7 » in Lutry for which it was initially created in 2008. Frank Martin, Alumnus of Hospitality Management School of Lausanne, is the owner and creator of this 13-room boutique hotel. After having intensively searched for the perfect hospitality management systems also called property management system (PMS) adapted to the size of his establishment, he quickly realized that there was a great market gap and that “we are never better served than by ourselves”.

The solution to fill this market gap is Base7booking.com, web-based application that allows hoteliers to manage their hotel from anywhere, at anytime, and from any device that has web access.

Base7booking.com is user-friendly, fast, and can be entirely personalized. This ultimately saves a great deal of time and training for the end user, as the system integrates everything that is necessary to manage a hospitality establishment: front desk, invoicing, customer relationship manager, accounting, etc. Base7booking.com also eases the management of hotels’ revenues due to the integration of a two-way channel manager (i.e., a system to manage different booking channels such as booking.com, expedia, etc.).

The application is constantly evolving to adapt to future needs and demands. All connections to and from the application are encrypted and protected by a SSL certificate. Having a server based in Zurich Switzerland also reinforces these measures, as the banking industry has strict data protection guidelines, which are applied in the data centre where the solution is hosted. The start-up from Lausanne guarantees monthly updates and a daily backup for all clients. All the updates and new features are the result of the current clients’ feedback, requests, and of the experience of the team working at the hotel Le Bourg 7 where base7booking.com was born.

The solution aroused great interest internationally. “To this day we count a total of more than 75 clients in more than 12 different countries and the system exists in 12 languages”, explains Victor Lequet, co-founder of Base7booking.com and hotelier. He adds: “We are growing fast and are seeking funds at the moment in order to grow faster.”

The start-up offices are located at the “Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne”, where four of the six partners graduated some time ago. The founders use their contacts to fuel further growth. The company recently launched a very promising project called the “Ambassador Program”. In a nutshell, the program encourages current and former students to tap into their network and promote base7booking.com around the world.