Email management virtual assistant for hospitality, restaurants & travel

AssistBPO's email management virtual assistant for hospitality, restaurant and travel businesses clears the reservations@ and info@ inboxes that fill overnight with OTA notifications, private dining requests, supplier confirmations, vendor invoices, gift card orders, press and influencer requests, job applications and guests asking whether the patio is open in the rain.

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How does email management work for hospitality?

Your assistant works in your Gmail or Outlook, in your hours, with a triage rulebook you approve: reservation requests are booked or answered with availability within the hour; private dining and group inquiries get your proposal template with a date hold; supplier confirmations for hotels, transfers and tours are checked against the client's booking and filed to the trip; vendor invoices are matched and filed for the bookkeeper; gift card orders are fulfilled; press requests are flagged to the owner; applications are forwarded to the manager. Each event and each trip gets a label so every email about the Patel wedding or the Lisbon itinerary is findable. Routine replies come from templates. The inbox ends each day near zero, and the end-of-day report lists what was handled, what waits on you and what tomorrow holds.

What tasks does email management cover for hospitality, restaurant and travel businesses?

  • Book or answer email reservation requests with availability within the hour
  • Send private dining and group proposals from your template with a date hold
  • Check supplier confirmations against the client's booking and file them to the trip
  • Match vendor invoices to deliveries and file them for the bookkeeper
  • Fulfill gift card orders and log them for reconciliation
  • Flag press, influencer and partnership requests to the owner with a summary
  • Label threads by event, group or trip so history is findable
  • Leave a short waiting-on-you list with the end-of-day report

The KPI that matters here

Reservation and group inquiries answered within the hour and supplier confirmations matched to a booking within one business day. Both appear in the end-of-day report.

What rules does email management follow for hospitality?

  1. Guest texts and emails under TCPA and CAN-SPAM. Reservation confirmations, reminders and in-stay messages are transactional and go to the number or email the guest gave when booking. Marketing texts and emails, such as a holiday menu or a returning-guest offer, go only to guests who opted in, inside 8am to 9pm local time for texts, with an unsubscribe on every email, under the TCPA enforced by the FCC and CAN-SPAM enforced by the FTC.
  2. Deposits and card holds under PCI DSS. Large-party deposits, room holds and event deposits are collected only through the payment link or card capture in your reservation platform, PMS or POS. The assistant never takes a card number by phone, writes one down or stores one in a note, in line with PCI DSS.
  3. Service animals and allergen questions. Under the ADA, enforced by the US Department of Justice, a service animal is admitted and the desk asks only the two permitted questions. Allergen and dietary questions are passed to the kitchen in the guest's exact words and never answered from memory, because state health codes based on the FDA Food Code hold the operator responsible.
  4. Review replies under the FTC rule. No review is bought, incentivized or written by us, following the FTC's Consumer Reviews and Testimonials Rule. Replies never confirm that a named person stayed or dined, never quote a reservation detail, and move disputes to a private channel.

Hospitality software we work in

Also in use

  • OpenTable
  • Resy
  • Toast
  • Cloudbeds
  • Booking.com
  • Expedia

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Frequently asked questions

Will the assistant reply to guests from our inbox?

Where you allow it, using your templates: confirming a reservation, sending availability, answering policy questions, sending a group proposal or an itinerary. Replies about refunds, complaints, custom pricing or anything contractual are drafted and left for you to send. Because the assistant works inside your mailbox rather than a separate one, every sent message sits in your own sent folder.

How do you handle supplier confirmations and deadlines for travel clients?

Every supplier email is matched to the client and trip it belongs to. Confirmations are checked against the booking for names, dates and room or cabin type, filed to the trip folder, and any mismatch is flagged to the agent the same day. Deposit and final payment deadlines are entered on a tracked calendar with reminders a week and two days ahead, so a missed notice never costs a client a booking.

What about vendor invoices and statements for a restaurant?

The assistant matches each invoice to the delivery slip or order, notes shortages and price changes for the chef, and files the approved invoice to your accounting inbox or folder. Supplier statements are reconciled against invoices received and missing ones are requested. Nothing is paid by the assistant; payment stays with you or your bookkeeper, and our sister brand LedgerBPO can take the books if you want them handled too.

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