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Digital Employee → The Front Desk

A front desk that never closes.

A digital front desk employee that covers reservations and guest communication across every channel, every hour of the day, operating under its own name, with its own phone line and email, inside the systems your team already uses.

Digital Workforce
Front DeskRosterActivity
BOOKINGS TODAY 38LIVE
Employee
Aria
Front Desk · Hospitality
Phone line+1 (512) 555-0148
Shift24 / 7
Reports toGM · D. Reyes
Channels covered
PhoneOTAEmailSMS / Chat
Capacity46% used
Handling now
After-hours reservation · 01:42
Inbound call: direct lineCaller: M. Alvarez · 2 min 04s
PROPERTY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM · no API
GUESTM. Alvarez
ROOMKing · Deluxe
DATESJun 14 – 16 · 2 nights
RATE$189 / night
STATUSConfirmed ✓
Aria is driving the PMS directly. Written confirmation sent before the call ends
Activity · every action logged
  • Aria confirmed reservation #RV-2841
  • Aria synced availability across 4 OTAs
  • Aria granted late checkout · room 412
  • Aria answered amenities question via SMS
  • Aria completed night audit · folios reconciled
Approval queue · 1
Comp one night for a service recovery: guest in room 318.
ApproveHold
In practice

A booking that would have been lost, captured at 1am.

A prospective guest calls late at night to reserve a room. Outside staffed hours, calls like this are frequently missed and the booking goes to another property. Aria answers without delay, confirms availability in the property system, quotes the rate, and completes the reservation, issuing a written confirmation before the call ends.

01Answers instantly. Picks up the direct line at 1:42am, no queue, no voicemail.
02Checks the PMS. Confirms a King Deluxe is open for the requested dates.
03Quotes & books. States the rate, takes the details, records the reservation.
04Confirms in writing. Sends the confirmation email before hanging up.
05Logs everything. The GM sees the full call and action trail in the morning.
Scope of responsibilities

A full front-desk role, not a chatbot.

01

Reservations

Takes booking inquiries by phone, message, and OTA; confirms availability and rates; and records reservations, changes, and cancellations directly in the property system, including legacy systems with no integration.

02

Guest communication

Sends pre-arrival information and confirmations, answers in-stay questions about amenities and services, and accommodates routine requests like late checkout.

03

Overnight operations

Completes the night audit, reconciles daily folios, and prepares the morning report ahead of the day shift, quietly, every night.

04

Channel management

Maintains consistent availability and rates across booking channels to prevent double-bookings and rate discrepancies.

The business case

Around-the-clock coverage, at a fraction of an overnight role.

24/7
Equivalent coverage across every hour and channel, without an under-utilized overnight desk.

Maintaining round-the-clock reservation coverage through conventional staffing requires overnight roles that often run well below capacity. The Front Desk provides equivalent coverage across all hours and channels at a fraction of that cost, while ensuring inbound booking demand is consistently captured rather than lost. For most properties, the recovered revenue from previously missed after-hours bookings alone exceeds the cost of the employee.

Deploy it

Hired like a person, not implemented like software.

01Pick the role. Hire The Front Desk from the catalog. The job description sets its configuration automatically.
02Meet it. Interview the employee, hear its voice, and tell it how your property runs.
03Provision identity. Give it a name; generate its phone line, email, and profile; set its manager.
04Train. Send your SOPs, rate rules, and house policies; invite it to a handover.
05Grant access. Connect the property management and channel systems, scoped to the role.
06Start. It goes live, asks what to prioritize, and routes anything unsure through approval.