Re: innkeeping: Computer reservation software for the Macintosh

[grwjpw@usit.net (Highland Place B & B)]

>Does anyone know of a reservation software package for Macintosh
>besides MacInn?  It is both too expensive and too extensive for our
>operation.
>Any other methods out there of computerizing reservations for up to 15
>rooms/cottages?  Thanks
>Barbara Stagg, Director
>Historic Rugby
>Box 8, Rugby, TN 37733   (423) 628-2441
>
>P.S.  Historic Rugby is a truly unique historic village, British founded
>in
>1880 with Utopian goals, up on East Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau.  Our
>non-profit historic site/museum operates lodging in original historic
>buildings, including the colony's first boarding house.

We (Highland Place B & B in Jackson, TN) have a power mac.  We have Claris
Works and have created our own system.  (Actually my sister did it in less
than one day).  It is wonderful...everything is tied together so that once
I enter the information for the reservation I can pull off the 
confirmation
letter, the welcome letter, the invoice, taxes, monthly income statements,
etc, etc.  It does the trick for me.  If you have the knowhow, or the
patience to work through the manual for Claris Works, you can customize
your own.

Yes, Rugby is wonderful. We have visited...perhaps have met you.  We
meandered through that area two years ago popping in on every B&B in that
part of the country...stopped at two B & Bs there in Rugby.  Both were 
very
nice and welcoming even though they were busy...one in the middle of a
picture shoot.  Little did I know then how obnoxious we were since we had
not been running our inn then.  Now that we are running our inn, I realize
what a nuisance we were!  If you are one of the ones we interrupted that
day, I apologize and thanks for taking the time and providing the
information we were looking for!  Come interrupt me some time.  I would
welcome you...hopefully a graciously and most of the innkeepers welcomed 
us
that week.

Glenn & Janice Wall, Highland Place Bed & Breakfast