STAYCOREHospitality operating system
Lagos · NigeriaLagos · AfricaSLA 99.997%
HOSPITALITY OPERATING SYSTEM

Hospitality, made simple.

Staycore is the operating standard for hotels, shortlets, restaurants, and bars across Africa. Bookings, rooms, orders, payments, and staff. One system. From anywhere.

Easy for staff. Mobile for owners. Reliable for daily operations.
41
Properties live
12
African cities
99.97%
Uptime · 12 mo
> 1 wk
Onboarding
In daily use · across Africa
One system · six operators

Built for the way African hospitality actually runs.

From a five-room boutique to a multi-property group, the same system holds bookings, service, and money. Switch on what is needed. Ignore what is not.

01 Hotels Front desk, rooms, rates, OTAs and reporting on one surface. 10 — 200 rooms
02 Shortlets Turnovers, cleaning, access codes. One unit or fifty. 1 — 100 units
03 Restaurants Orders, kitchen tickets, table tabs, stock that reconciles. Standalone or in-property
04 Bars Fast tabs, audited pours, shift cash that ties out every night. Single & multi-bar
05 Lounges Reservations, table service, late-night staffing on one screen. Reservation-led
06 Groups One owner view, many properties. Local control retained. Multi-property
Mobile-first · cloud-native

A property in a pocket. The same truth as the front-desk machine.

No machine to be tied to. No desktop to babysit. Sign in from a phone, a laptop, or a front-desk tablet. The same data. The same source of truth. Everywhere the operator is.

STAYCORE / OWNERMainland Group · 3 properties
14:07 · MON 24 APR
Revenue · today
NGN 11.248M
+8.2% · vs MON
Occupancy
87.4%
−1.2pp · vs MON
Holds
12
2 review · 14:07
Overdue
3
requires action
PropertyStatusRevenueAction
Cedar Mainland● SETTLEDNGN 1,892,400
Harbor Apartments● ON HOLDNGN 680,200REVIEW →
Atlantic Lounge● SETTLEDNGN 421,000AUDIT →
Cedar Restaurant● OVERDUENGN 311,800SETTLE →
SC-CORE 4.2.13 PROPERTIES · 4 ALERTS · 1 ACTION14:07:42 WAT
01
Approve from anywhere.
Discounts, refunds, comps, and rate-cap overrides reach the owner with full context. Approve in one tap. Audit-trail attaches automatically.
02
See today, in real time.
Live occupancy, revenue, holds, and overdues. Every number with a timestamp. No reports to chase, no managers to call.
03
Run more than one place.
Switch between properties in a tap. Each location keeps its team and policies. The owner keeps one clear view of the group.
04
Resilient on African networks.
Front desk and POS keep working on patchy data. Sync resumes when signal returns. Nothing is lost.
Low learning curve

Each shift opens the screen made for it.

Front desk, housekeeping, and F&B see only what they need. Sentence case. Big buttons. No menus to hunt through. New staff are productive on shift one. No training videos, no thick manual.

Front desk3 taps to check in

Welcome, check in, hand the key.

One screen for the arrival. Verify ID, take payment, issue access. No app switching.

O. Folarin
SUITE 204
NIN verified
VERIFIED
Paystack · NGN 168,000
SETTLED
Issue digital key
CONFIRM
HousekeepingTap to mark

See your rooms. Mark them done.

The shift list. Tap when started, tap when ready. Supervisors see live status, no walkie-talkie.

Room 311
CLEAN
Room 312
IN PROGRESS
Room 314
DUE 13:00
Room 401 · turn
DUE 15:00
F&B serverOne tap per item

Take the order. Send to kitchen.

Modifiers, splits, transfers. The basics work fast. Stock deducts as items leave the counter.

Jollof rice · ×2
NGN 12,400
Star Lager · ×3
NGN 4,500
Suya platter · extra pepper
NGN 6,200
Send to kitchen
CONFIRM
Feature-rich · never complicated

One login. One source of truth. One bill at the end of the month.

Bookings, the front desk, the kitchen, the bar, staff, and money. The whole property on one surface. No tab juggling, no exports between four tools.

01
Bookings & channels
Direct, Booking.com, Airbnb, Expedia, Agoda. Synced.
02
Front desk
Check-in, ID, room moves, escalations. One flow.
03
Housekeeping
Live status, turn timers, shift handover.
04
Orders & POS
Restaurant, bar, room service. Tabs, splits, transfers.
05
Stock
Auto-deducts as items sell. Alerts before stock-out.
06
Payments
Paystack, transfer, cash, POS terminal. Reconciled.
07
Staff & roles
Each shift sees only what they need. Approvals built in.
08
Reports
Today, this week, this month. On a phone.
09
Booking website
A direct booking page for the property. Live in a day.
10
Guest messaging
WhatsApp, email, in-app. One inbox, one log.
11
Access & mobile keysOptional
Smart locks and mobile keys, plugged in when ready.
12
Owner view
All properties on one screen. From anywhere.
Built in Lagos · made for Africa

Tuesday at 02:00. The grid drops. The OTA double-books. Someone left the cash drawer open.

Staycore was built around those nights. Not generic foreign hotel software pretending to fit. Not legacy desktop systems built for a different decade. Designed from how African owners, managers, and floor staff actually work — and engineered with the cloud-software discipline a serious business deserves.

On the ground

Operators in 12 African cities run their day on Staycore. Not piloting. Open every night.

LagosAbujaPort HarcourtAccraNairobiKigaliCape TownKampalaOwerriKanoCalabarEnugu
USD 2.8M+
Daily revenue tracked
98.4%
Daily tasks completed
Plays nicely with

The tools the property already runs on.

No rip and replace. Connect channels and payment options already in use, and add the rest at the operator's pace.

PSPaystack
FWFlutterwave
MPM-Pesa
BCBooking.com
ABAirbnb
EXExpedia
WAWhatsApp
SLSmart locks
Why operators trust Staycore

Built for Africa. Engineered with global SaaS discipline.

Staycore is built for the realities of African hospitality: patchy networks, busy shifts, payment reconciliation, staff accountability, and owners who need visibility from anywhere. The platform brings modern cloud reliability, security, and operational discipline into workflows your team can actually use.

01 · On the groundAfrican hospitality

The team has run the night shift.

First-hand experience operating hotels, shortlets, restaurants, bars, and lounges across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and beyond. The product reflects what staff adoption actually looks like, what owners need to see at 23:00, and what reconciles a real shift.

02 · Engineered like serious softwareGlobal SaaS discipline

Built for serious hospitality operations.

Modern cloud reliability, security, automation, and operational controls applied to the work that matters on the floor: bookings, payments, staff activity, shift handovers, stock movement, guest access, and owner reporting.

03 · Practical executionBuilt for the floor

Simple for your team. Serious enough for your business.

Heavy engineering does not mean a heavy interface. Dependable enough for a multi-property group, plain enough for a new server on shift one. Sophisticated where it matters. Quiet everywhere else.

01
African hospitality experience
Designed from real shifts in real properties — not adapted from a template built somewhere else.
02
Cloud-grade reliability
Secure, resilient software for bookings, payments, staff workflows, reporting, and day-to-day hospitality control.
03
Modern cloud-based architecture
Multi-region, encrypted in transit and at rest, monitored 24/7. The kind of infrastructure a real business runs on.
04
Mobile, tablet, desktop — same system
Owner on a phone in traffic. Manager on a laptop. Front desk on a tablet. One source of truth across all of them.
05
Designed for real staff adoption
Plain language, verbs first, role-specific screens. Productive on shift one without formal training.
06
Built to grow from one location to many
The system that runs a five-room boutique is the same system that runs a multi-city group. No migration.
Today and a decade from today

Start with one room. Stay for the group.

Most software is outgrown in two years. Staycore was engineered so the system that runs a single boutique is the same system that runs a multi-city group. No migration, no upsell maze.

Stage · 01
A single property.
One hotel, shortlet, or restaurant. Clean numbers and calm shifts in week one.
Stage · 02
Add a second outlet.
A bar, restaurant, or shortlet next door. Shared accounts, separate teams.
Stage · 03
Become a small group.
3 — 5 properties, one owner view. Local managers retain control of their patch.
Stage · 04
Operate at scale.
Multi-city group. Role-based access, consolidated reporting, central approvals.
The boring part that matters

Built to stay up. Built to stick around.

An African team that answers WhatsApp during a lockout at 23:00. Engineered like the only system the property will ever need to learn.

Uptime · 12 mo
99.97%
Monitored 24/7. Redundant infrastructure across regions. Public status page.
Support
Human · 24/7
WhatsApp, phone, email. Answered by the team that built it. No bots, no tickets.
The data
Owned · always
Encrypted in transit and at rest. Plain CSV export, anytime. No lock-in.
Onboarding
Days · not months
Rooms, menu, and team mapped together. Most properties live inside a week.
Updates
Weekly · included
New capability ships continuously. The subscription is always the latest version.
The team
Long-term
African-led, hospitality-obsessed, and focused on the reliability operators need every night. Here for the next decade.
Owners on Staycore

What changed for the operators using it.

I run 25 shortlet units with a lean team. Check-in is five minutes, handover is clear, and there has not been a double-booking since we moved.
TK
Tola K.
Shortlet operator · Lekki, Lagos
The first thing my GM said: the staff stopped asking him questions. Each shift opens the app and knows what to do.
AI
Ada I.
60-room hotel · Owerri
I am in five different cities in any given week. Staycore is how I keep one clear picture of every property without calling anybody.
BA
Bayo A.
Hospitality group, 5 properties · Abuja
Common questions

Things owners ask before saying yes.

How long does set-up take?
Most properties are live inside a week. The team maps rooms, menu, and staff with the operator, imports the existing data, and walks each shift through their screens on day one.
Will the staff actually be able to learn it?
That is the whole point. Every role gets a focused screen, in plain English, with verbs first. New servers, housekeepers, and front-desk staff are usually productive on shift one without formal training.
Can the business really run from a phone?
Yes. Owners and managers get a full mobile experience. Live revenue, occupancy, staff activity, approvals, and reports — from anywhere. Laptop and front-desk machine stay in sync.
What happens when power or internet drops?
Staycore is built for African connectivity. The front desk and POS keep working on patchy networks and resync as soon as signal returns. Nothing is lost.
Can it start small and grow?
Start with bookings and the front desk. Add the restaurant when ready. Plug in the bar after that. Connect smart locks if and when chosen. Same login, same data, same team.
Do existing tools have to be thrown away?
No. Staycore connects to Booking.com, Airbnb, Expedia, Agoda, Paystack, WhatsApp, and most door-lock systems already in use. Operators move over piece by piece, with no downtime.
How is pricing structured?
A monthly subscription based on what is actually used — number of rooms, units, or outlets. No setup fees, no hidden modules. See pricing.
Before the demo

Run your hospitality business with software your team can use, and your business can trust.

Easy to adopt. Reliable on the worst night. Built for the long term — by people who know African hospitality and how serious cloud software is built.

Take the next step

See Staycore on the rooms, menu, and team it will run.

A 30-minute call. Staycore mapped to how the property actually runs. Built by people who understand African hospitality and how serious cloud software is engineered.