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Passkey is the world's leading online group reservation system. Why? Because it is a comprehensive, user-friendly system that lets group attendees, planners and hotels make, manage and maximize their event-specific hotel reservations with unmatched ease, speed and convenience. See for yourself by exploring Passkey's features:

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100% Web-based Service

No hardware or software to purchase. Simply log onto Passkey over the web to access all its features. Learn more

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Quick Event Set-up

Passkey's event set-up process allows hotels to set up complex events in just minutes. Learn more

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Flexible Event Features

No event is the same. You'll enjoy the flexibility that many of Passkey's features provide. Learn more

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Reservation Options

Reservations can be accepted through your custom attendee website, via rooming list or call center. Learn more

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Real-time Reporting

Passkey generates reports that are vital to optimizing an event's room inventory management process. Learn more

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Seamless Integration

Passkey has developed a number of solutions to seamlessly distribute event and reservation data. Learn more


100% Web-based Service

No hardware or software to purchase. Simply log onto Passkey over the web to access all its features.

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Quick Event Set-up

Passkey's event set-up process allows Hotels to set up complex events in just minutes.

Our step-by-step Event Setup Wizard walks you through the process. You can speed up even more using our unique Event Copy Feature which allows you to pick-up elements from other events.

Event Set-up
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Flexible Event Features

No event is the same. You'll enjoy the flexibility that many of Passkey's features provide.

Create multiple attendee types
Create as many attendee types as needed, and easily assign each one specific room types and inventory, nightly rates, unique group codes, guarantee plans and cancellation plans.

Offer unlimited room types and sub-blocks
Accommodate unlimited room types and sub-blocks. Each sub-block can be customized with its own cancellation plan, guarantee plan, marketing messages, nightly room rates and inventory.

Flexible Event Features

Manage inventory in a snap
The innovative group inventory wizard lets hotels manage and maximize group room blocks and inventory, including assigning inventory and rates on a nightly basis across multiple sub-blocks.

Provide multiple guarantee plans
Utilize a wide range of guarantee plans, which you can customize and match up against attendee types. Guarantee plans include credit card, bill-to-master, check, or any combination.

Customize reservation confirmations
Create custom confirmations that match event or planner needs.

Flexible Event Features

Share your event with others
Grant access to an event's affiliates on a per-event basis. Affiliates such as planners, call centers, client's corporate office or affiliated properties can access a wide range features and reports to monitor, or manage events online.

Flexible Event Features
 

Customize your hotel profile
We'll set up a graphically pleasing, information-rich hotel profile to be featured in all of the group reservation web sites you generate using Passkey, allowing you to market your services and amenities to attendees at the point of purchase.

Create unique event web sites
Offer a unique reservation website for your clients by selecting from one of our uniquely designed templates for weddings, corporate events or trade shows. Personalize by uploading logos, pictures or graphics and selecting a unique color scheme.

Flexible Event Features
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Reservation Options

Reservations can be accepted through your custom attendee website, via rooming list or call center.

Web Site
Each customized event web site allows attendees to make and manage their hotel reservations online. Each attendee type can also be provided their own unique reservation URL.

 

Rooming Lists
Passkey has developed a powerful rooming list manager that lets users upload any rooming list format into Passkey. Using our unique mapping screen, you can upload any room list in minutes.

Call Center
Every Passkey event offers an easy-to-use reservation screen designed for call center agents to expedite reservation processing.

Reservation Options
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Real-time Reporting

Passkey has developed a number of solutions to seamlessly distribute event and reservation data between hotels, Passkey and third-party event registration systems.

Meeting Planner Reports
Planners can access real-time pick-up and pace reports online, which they can use to maximize in-block bookings, minimize book-arounds and attrition risk.

Hotel Reports
Passkey provides hotels a wide range of reporting relating to room, block and sub-block pick-up and pace — all which assist in maximizing in-hotel event reservations.

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Seamless Integration
Seamless System Integration

Passkey has developed a number of solutions to seamlessly distribute event and reservation data.

Integration with hotel systems
GroupLinkSM is Passkey's interface to enable two-way delivery and synchronization of reservation data between Passkey and hotel Central Reservation or Property Management Systems. Hotels reduce costs by:

- Automating reservation delivery
- Eliminating human error associated with the manual entry of group data
- Improving forecasting and yield management

Integration with online event registration systems
Passkey's Reglink lets meeting planners connect their online event registration system directly to Passkey, so event attendees can make their hotel room reservations while registering for an event, in one environment. This allow planners to:

- Maximize attendee bookings into their contracted hotel blocks
- Minimize book-arounds and attrition exposure
- Receive reports to cross-reference registration and housing databases
- Maintain all attendee related data in one place.

Integration with hotel Sales & Catering systems
Passkey provides an interface to hotel Sales & Catering Systems such as Delphi, so hoteliers can connect definite event bookings in their S&C system to Passkey. Hotels benefit by:

- Eliminating the cost of dual data entry
- Viewing real-time pick-up data from Passkey for future group blocks in Delphi

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