What's new in protel AIR Cloud PMS

    PRODUCT UPDATE · OCT 2025 TO OCT 2026

    What's new in Protel Cloud PMS

    Twelve monthly releases in one read: discounts, city tax, overbooking control, early check-out, smarter routing of charges and a PMS that now works on your phone.

    12

    monthly releases, from version 25.44 to 26.44

    6

    headline features that are new to the Cloud PMS

    1,000+

    certified and preferred partners in the Marketplace

    HEADLINE FEATURES

    New this year

    Each feature links to its help article.

    Discounts

    FEB 2026

    Create, manage and apply discounts to guest reservations. Assign them to specific guest profiles and apply them during the stay or at check-out. Typical uses are staff stays and service recovery.

    Help article

    City Tax

    JUN AND JUL 2026

    Set up and process local city taxes with ease. The June release delivered the configuration, the July release added the PMS side, so the module is now fully functional.

    Help article

    Overbooking

    JUN AND JUL 2026

    Accept more reservations than physically available rooms to maximise occupancy and revenue. Overbooking limits are checked in the Reservation Enquiry, Room Plan and reservation dialogs before an action goes over availability.

    Help article

    Early Check-Out

    JUL 2026

    Let a guest leave before the scheduled departure date. It works for in-house reservations once the night audit has run on the day of arrival.

    Help article

    Advanced Routing

    AUG 2026

    Automatically direct charges to a specific invoice, guest, company or reservation, based on routing rules you define once.

    Help article

    Daily Rates V2

    FEB AND APR 2026

    A reworked daily rates view, introduced in February and fully upgraded in April. The calendar week can also be shown above Mondays in the Room Plan, Room Type Plan and Daily Rates.

    Help article

    RESERVATIONS AND GROUPS

    Flexible bookings for every guest

    Better tools for shared rooms, large groups and busy arrival days.

    Sharer reservation

    One room

    Guest AOwn confirmation
    Guest BOwn confirmation
    Component room

    Two or more rooms, one reservation

    Room 1Occupancy tracked
    Room 2Occupancy tracked

    Component rooms

    DEC 2025

    Combine two or more physical rooms into one room under a single reservation, which suits families and groups.

    Help article

    Sharer reservations

    OCT 2025 TO SEP 2026 · RELEASE NOTES

    Certified third parties can now create and change sharers through the IDS integration. Sharer confirmations can be printed or sent straight from the Room Plan, and default templates for them are included.

    Release notes

    Group reservation without reservation

    AUG 2026

    Create the group and configure its details first, then add or assign reservations to it later.

    Help article

    Bulk actions

    JUN TO OCT 2026 · RELEASE NOTES

    Assign several reservations to rooms in one step, now also from the Arrivals and Reservations lists. Edit key cards for many reservations at once.

    Release notes

    Allotment Rate by Day

    SEP 2026 · RELEASE NOTES

    A milestone of the September release for allotment pricing. The booking cart in Reservation Enquiry also gained Active, Expired and Completed tabs for a clearer overview.

    Release notes

    PAYMENTS AND BILLING

    Smoother payments

    Pay by Link keeps getting better, and invoicing is easier to control.

    Pay by Link

    OCT 2025 TO SEP 2026 · RELEASE NOTES

    Choose which postings of an open invoice a payment link covers. Authorised staff can confirm that no link is needed for a reservation. When several guests share an email address, the payment message is now sent only once.

    Release notes

    Invoice details

    FEB TO OCT 2026 · RELEASE NOTES

    The invoice header shows the booker of the reservation. When you change the primary guest or the booker, the PMS now asks whether to update the recipient of open invoices too. The Hotel Status Report can be filtered by original invoice date.

    Release notes

    Discount permission

    SEP 2026 · RELEASE NOTES

    The invoice discount permission now sits in the standard front office role instead of the manager role. You can still build custom roles.

    Release notes

    MULTI-PROPERTY

    One view across your portfolio

    Set up, monitor and report on every property from the CENTRAL app.

    CENTRAL app — Open CENTRAL information
    System data
    Dashboard v2
    Reports and calendar events
    Hotel 1
    Hotel 2
    Hotel 3

    Dashboard v2

    OCT 2025 · RELEASE NOTES

    Filter the dashboard by one hotel or several at the same time.

    Release notes

    Central reports

    OCT 2025 TO FEB 2026 · RELEASE NOTES

    New Managers, Hotel Status, New Reservations, Cancelled Reservations, No Show, Market Code and Distribution Channel reports, all in one place and filterable per property or for the whole portfolio.

    Release notes

    Central system data

    OCT 2025 ONWARDS · RELEASE NOTES

    More and more system data items can be configured centrally, with updated permissions to match.

    Release notes

    Central Calendar Events

    AUG 2026

    Highlight important dates, activities, promotions, holidays and maintenance periods across multiple properties.

    Help article

    Faster Central bookings

    JUL 2026 · RELEASE NOTES

    Create a reservation straight from a profile, see full property names in the Reservation Enquiry and work with a cleaner reservation list.

    Release notes

    EVERYDAY WORK

    Less effort at the front desk

    Small changes that save your team time every day.

    Mobile PMS

    OCT 2025 AND JAN 2026

    All views, lists and dialogs in the PMS now adapt to smartphones, and System Data does too. The Housekeeping management room list scrolls properly on a phone.

    Help article

    Meal Plan list

    MAR AND APR 2026

    The Meal Plan list under Reporting was reworked and enhanced.

    Help article

    Cloud Status in the PMS

    OCT 2025 · RELEASE NOTES

    Check service status, past incidents and planned maintenance under Help Centre, and get notified through the bell icon.

    Release notes

    Handy list and profile upgrades

    FEB TO OCT 2026 · RELEASE NOTES

    Search reservations by booker, see when a reservation was last changed, and find duplicate profiles with more search fields when merging.

    Release notes

    Ask & Assist (AI)

    ANNOUNCED BY PLANET

    An AI assistant built into the PMS. Ask a question and get the answer in seconds.

    Planet announcementANNOUNCED BY PLANET

    Open API and Marketplace

    ANNOUNCED BY PLANET

    Connect your other hotel tools through the Open API, and browse over 1,000 certified partners in the Marketplace.

    protel MarketplaceANNOUNCED BY PLANET