Operto Visitor Applied sciences, a specialist in resort and leases automation, has acquired digital entry firm STAYmyway for an undisclosed quantity.
Spain-based STAYmyway introduced an unique partnership with Accor for the group’s Accor Key program final yr, and Operto now plans to speed up the rollout of the digital key program.
STAYmyway, which was based in 2014, additionally gives options enabling older locks to be upgraded to Bluetooth-enabled locks with out the necessity to change the unique lock or door.
The expertise, which additionally allows accommodations and property managers to examine in company digitally earlier than they arrive, will now be referred to as Operto Enhance.
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“We’re constructing Operto to assist our prospects ship higher visitor experiences by means of easy, and inexpensive, expertise options. Our acquisition of STAYmyway suits extraordinarily properly inside this imaginative and prescient,” says Steve Davis, CEO of Operto.
“Operto Enhance will assist carry pre-arrival visitor verification, check-in and cellular entry into the mainstream for lodging suppliers worldwide. With the flexibility to reuse and improve present {hardware}, at a fraction of the traditional substitute price, we’re additionally serving to operators meaningfully decrease their carbon footprint and maintain completely good {hardware} out of the landfill.”
Faustino Fernandez, CEO of STAYmyway, provides: “Your entire workforce at STAYmyway couldn’t be extra enthusiastic about persevering with our collective journey with Operto. We share of their imaginative and prescient of enabling unbelievable visitor experiences, by means of expertise that surprises and delights the client, whereas eradicating frequent day-to-day operational challenges from the proprietor. Including our proprietary {hardware} and software program experience, into a longtime trade chief like Operto, paves the best way for even higher options and assist for our prospects around the globe.”
Canada-based Operto raised $12 million earlier this yr and mentioned the funds would go towards growth into different lodging verticals in addition to product improvement.
Final yr, the corporate acquired VRScheduler, which supplies property administration instruments together with reserving and distribution for trip leases.
