Introducing Prep Starts Now
Providing advice, guidance, support, tools and tech for the hospitality and travel sector.
As the industry starts its journey out of lockdown, it is vital that they set themselves up to make the most of the coming busy periods to maximise their opportunities for the future.
The time to implement digital transformation and enhanced procedures is now, and we want to bring together the organisations behind that to encourage businesses to act now, for better growth later.
Partner Offers
In support of preparing to reopen with the best setup for your business, many of our partners have exclusive offers available. You can find these offers below, or by getting in touch with the partners directly for more information.
Exclusive to Prep Starts Now, Stampede are offering their new Loyalty feature for free for 6 months. Get customers coming back more often with paperless, easy-to-use stamp cards. New customers only, WiFi hardware not included. Contact the sales team to get started.
Exclusive to Prep Starts Now, Trail are offering 20% off their app for 12 months – just use the code PREPNOW20 when you sign up for a free trial on their website.
Save £199 off an annual subscription with Yoello!
Normally £399, get Order & Pay for just £200, exclusive to Prep Starts Now.
Simply quote ‘PrepStartsNow’ under referrals when signing up for an annual subscription.
Try Private House Stays for free until June, exclusively through Prep Starts Now. Sign up now to get to grips with the system before reopening. Ideal for 4 and 5 star equivalent properties across Scotland either self-catering, B&B, inns, small hotel and even glamping sites.
From 1st June 2021 businesses will have to pay an annual fee which can be seen on the “list your property” page.
1 month free to help businesses reopen with confidence and try online order and pay risk-free.
For Prep Starts Now we’ll waive our commission for a month so businesses can try our platform. We never have any joining fees, set up costs, or monthly fees.
*Stripe card transaction fees are not included in this promotion.
Get a 90 day free trial for our premium product which is normally £69 per hotel per month.
Click the link below and use code PREP-STARTS-NOW to claim this offer.
Are you a recruiter looking to advertise your vacancies?
Xpress is a one stop shop for call your recruitment and advertising needs!
Ad postings last 28 days and start from just £14.95
New customers get 3 months free of the FOR-SIGHT Guest Engagement, CRM and Marketing platform. Including support and training.
The offer ends on the 30th of June 2021.
Claim a free digital performance and strategic opportunities report for your business.
Looking for a new look online? Or in need of a communication revamp? Let us help with 15% off for 6 months.
Simply contact us and quote ‘PrepStartsNow’.
Umbrella Insight is offing an amazing 75% discount on their solution, exclusively through Prep Starts Now. Just quote code: UIPSN75 to get started seeing your customers likes and dislikes, all in confidence or promoted to social where positive.
Accommodation providers signing up to Criton through Prep Starts Now can use their app free of charge for 3 months on all packages. Setup fees can also be paid in 2 separate instalments to spread the cost during these difficult times.
Instalments of: 50% paid when the contract is signed and 50% after 3 months
Get a free audit of your hotel’s digital footprint and find out how you can drive more revenue online.
With Umni’s pretrained hotel conversational AI, your hotel smart chatbot can answer 5,000+ customer questions from Day 1! Get is now at a discounted rate of €69 per month and with an added bonus to support the hotel recovery.
More details on this offer you can find here:
Sign up to Flipdish’s online ordering solution through Prep Starts Now and receive a Free Terminal and Free Setup.*
Simply contact us and quote ‘Prep Starts Now’ to claim this offer.
* New customers only. Valid until 15th June 2021.
NextChain takes care of everything to set up your account so that ordering supplies becomes the easiest part of your job. It’s entirely free.
Simply go to our website to get started.
Campaign Partners
Prep Starts Now is proud to be supported by a range of partner organisations who bring their expertise together to help the hospitality and travel sectors.
Stampede is a hospitality growth technology providing data capture, marketing, automation and loyalty solutions. This unique variety of tools, all built together in one system saves operators time and money in their marketing and growth.
StoreKit lets you set up a slick online menu in under ten minutes to sell directly to your customers for takeaway, delivery, or for orders straight to tables – and put you in control of your business.
VisitScotland is the national tourism organisation for Scotland. We are focused on delivering a coordinated approach to supporting the rebuilding of the visitor economy in a responsible way, to ensure that Scottish tourism flourishes.
Flipdish is the world’s leading online ordering system for food and hospitality businesses. Flipdish is built to help food and hospitality businesses succeed by giving them access to the tools, data and support needed to thrive.
TP-Link, the World’s No 1 networking manufacturer, has a wide range of simple to implement, robust business-class solutions for every size of business. Let TP-Link take care of your network so you can concentrate on your business.
Benchmark your hotel’s website and digital marketing performance. Hotel Benchmark provides competitive data to identify under-performing areas within your direct booking channel.
Traveltech for Scotland is a cluster organisation and community for travel technology pioneers in Scotland and around the world. It is based at the Edinburgh Future Institute at the University of Edinburgh.
Yoello offers hospitality and retail businesses a simple, affordable, and secure way to help any venue manage mobile orders and payments without customers needing to download an app! To find out more about Yoello and how it can help businesses reopen safely and save thousands of pounds in transaction fees.
Big Flavour are a boutique performance marketing agency delivering online advertising solutions for hotels to boost direct revenue, cut out OTA commissions and target new guests for clients across the UK.
Pour helps you offer Table Ordering, Click & Collect, and Delivery services, all managed through one easy to use platform.
Xpressjobs provides a highly affordable and attractive pricing mechanic for employers while supplying additional social media and industry content which is helpful and informative to job seekers when researching and looking for an employer of choice.
For-Sight helps hospitality professionals to unlock the guest journey, through data management, operational insights and CRM & Marketing tools to provide a personalised experience for every guest at every touchpoint.
Trail is a simple hospitality checklist app that guides teams through their working day, from reopening checks to food safety. Teams know what to do, managers know it’s done.
Private House Stays founded in 2010 offers Staycations across Scotland, they are a VisitScotland partner & provide a bespoke and simple booking solution to help short term accommodation owners generate commission-free bookings.
POSH has been delivering bright, energetic and rewarding websites and strategies for the hospitality industry since 2008. They come from a commercial hospitality background. It’s their passion to help other hospitality businesses grow.
Umni.bg is turning customer questions into pre-trained conversational AI for hospitality businesses to automate the FAQ and tasks, return insights, tohelp optimize employees’ time, cut costs and improve customer support.
Our innovative Insight & Engagement web-app is simple & effective. We help you succeed through greater customer & employee interaction, communication & loyalty. Protect & promote your brand, plus a host of extra features, to Make Your Business Thrive
Bizzon is the hospitality industry’s most agile restaurant management platform, trusted by Europe’s largest Hotel group. ePos, Digital Ordering, Inventory and Payments – we have it all. Whether you’re an independent or multi-site chain, our connected platform will help you improve operations, reduce costs and enhance the guest experience.
Criton is an award-winning guest engagement and integrations platform that simplifies digital transformation, helping operators deliver the perfect digital guest journey with features such as Mobile Check-In to Digital Key. With Criton, operators can digitise their guest information and wrap all-guest facing tech into a sophisticated mobile app.
NextChain is an Edinburgh-based startup helping professional kitchens to streamline ordering processes – all your suppliers are in one mobile app and we remove paperwork, manual tasks and mistakes.
Resources For Your Business
Prep Starts Now is about getting your business ready to reopen not just as it was, but as you want it to be. We’ve collated a range of articles, videos, downloads and other materials to get you up to speed on a range of topics.
The Prep Starts Now partners have provided their expertise on a broad range of topics from marketing to recruitment and payments, specifically designed for hospitality and travel businesses.
Articles
Converting Your Beer Garden Visitors Into the Accommodation Guests of Tomorrow
by FOR-SIGHT
Optimising Online Conversions With User Testing
by POSH Agency
7 Ways to Grow In-Store Orders When You Reopen
by Flipdish
How Mobile Technology Is Changing the Hotel Industry
by Criton
Metasearch Optimising for Recovery
by 80 DAYS
9 ‘Non-Negotiables’ When Upgrading Your Restaurant Technology
by Bizzon
Staycation 2021: Email Marketing Best Practice Advice
by FOR-SIGHT
Support Safe, Easy Contactless Ordering with Flipdish QR Code Stickers
by Flipdish
Should You Use a Table Service App in Your Pub?
by Pour
Updating Your Tripadvisor with Safety Measures
by Stampede
How Do Order & Pay Systems Improve Operational Efficiencies?
by StoreKit
Why is Guest Communication More Essential than Ever Before as Restrictions Lift?
by FOR-SIGHT
Hotel Marketing Tips as Lockdown Eases
by Big Flavour
7 Ways Hotel Technology is Helping the Hospitality Industry to Adapt to the “New Normal"
by POSH
Guest Revenue in 2021 - How Can Your Data Help You Identify Opportunities?
by FOR-SIGHT
Venue Still Closed? 4 Promotion Tips to Boost Sales
by Stampede
Videos & Webinars
Email Marketing to Capture and Retain the Staycation Market
by FOR-SIGHT
Criton Hotel Apps on mobile
by Criton
Scottish Staycation Inspiration
by Private House Stays
Downloads
Hotel and Guest Apps (Infographic)
by Criton
Preparing your restaurant for a post-pandemic future (Whitepaper)
by Flipdish
Hospitality Hashtag Cheat Sheet (PDF)
by Stampede
Reopening Safely With Mobile Ordering (PDF)
by Yoello
Video Interview Tips (PDF)
by Xpressjobs.co.uk
Digital Tools
Reports and Insight
Events Market Recovery and Restart - Survey Results
by Umbrella Insight
The Return of Travel - Cutting Through The Noise
by 80 DAYS
Surge in Summer Bookings
by Hotel Benchmark
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