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Spring Release introduces new tools for group sales, bookable spaces, direct bookings, operations, financial reporting, and conversational AI.
Cloudbeds, the hospitality management system built for ambitious hoteliers, announced a broad set of new platform capabilities designed to help hotels unlock additional revenue, streamline operations, and make faster, smarter decisions with unified data and AI. The launches span group sales, direct bookings, operational workflows, accounting infrastructure, business intelligence, and conversational AI, representing one of the company’s most comprehensive product expansions to date.
The new capabilities include Groups & Events, Spaces, the Immersive Booking Engine, an updated calendar, Cloudbeds Accounting, enhanced Data Insights, and an early look at Ask Signals, Cloudbeds’ conversational AI interface powered by its Signals intelligence layer.
“Hoteliers got into this business to take care of people, not to wrestle with their hotel tech stack,” said Adam Harris, CEO of Cloudbeds. “Our job is to absorb that complexity and turn it into stronger financial performance, so they can spend their time on the work only they can do. AI is flooding this industry with new features, but features aren't a foundation. Hoteliers don't need more noise; they need a system deep enough to actually move their numbers. That's what Spring Release delivers."
Several of the new capabilities are focused on helping hotels capture revenue that is often difficult to manage with legacy systems. For many large hotels, group bookings can represent 20% to 60% of total revenue, yet much of that business is still managed through spreadsheets, Word documents and email threads. Groups & Events brings those workflows into Cloudbeds with branded proposals, group booking links, rooming list management and multi-property account visibility.
Spaces extends Cloudbeds beyond guestrooms, allowing hotels to manage meeting rooms, ballrooms, pool cabanas and other rentable assets directly within the platform. The Immersive Booking Engine keeps the full booking journey on a hotel’s website, helping properties improve direct booking conversion while maintaining brand consistency through checkout.
Cloudbeds also introduced an updated Calendar, a complete rebuild of the platform’s core operational workspace used by front desk, housekeeping, and revenue teams. Designed for larger and more complex hotel operations, the Cloudbeds Calendar supports more than 4,000 rooms and 30 concurrent users with real-time updates, advanced filtering, integrated group management, and customizable user settings.
Turning hotel data into action: Accounting and Cloudbeds Insights
On the finance and reporting side, Cloudbeds Accounting introduces enhanced audit trails, USALI-aligned reporting standards, dedicated accounts receivable tracking, and a new Accounting API designed to simplify integrations with third-party accounting systems. Cloudbeds Insights delivers a redesigned reporting experience with simplified filtering, centralized data fields, and dashboard creation directly within the reporting workflow.
More information about the newly launched capabilities can be found at: https://www.cloudbeds.com/compass/spring-release-2026/
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Cloudbeds is the hospitality management system built for ambitious hoteliers who demand more. The Cloudbeds platform unifies operations, distribution, guest experience, and revenue marketing, giving operators a breadth of tools to capture demand, grow direct bookings, optimize pricing, maximize upsell revenue, and act on real-time intelligence within a single system. Designed to scale with independent hotels, large hotel groups, and multi-property portfolios, Cloudbeds is trusted by tens of thousands of properties in more than 150 countries. Founded in 2012, Cloudbeds is recognized as a top Hotel Management System, PMS, and Channel Manager — and Best Place to Work — by Hotel Tech Report for eight consecutive years.
Cloudbeds is hospitality's only intelligent growth engine — a unified platform trusted by the world's most ambitious hoteliers across 150 countries.
Built to challenge the limits of outdated tech stacks, Cloudbeds connects operations, revenue, distribution, and guest experience in one powerful, intuitive system.
The platform is enhanced with Signals, a hospitality AI model giving hoteliers the power to anticipate demand, run smarter operations, and craft more personal, profitable guest journeys at scale.
Founded in 2012, Cloudbeds has earned top honors from Hotel Tech Report (Top PMS, Hotel Management System, and Channel Manager, 2021–2025), the World Travel Awards (World's Best Hotel PMS Solutions Provider, 2022), and Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 (2024).
Cloudbeds is hospitality's only intelligent growth engine — a unified platform trusted by the world's most ambitious hoteliers across 150 countries.
Built to challenge the limits of outdated tech stacks, Cloudbeds connects operations, revenue, distribution, and guest experience in one powerful, intuitive system.
The platform is enhanced with Signals, a hospitality AI model giving hoteliers the power to anticipate demand, run smarter operations, and craft more personal, profitable guest journeys at scale.
Founded in 2012, Cloudbeds has earned top honors from Hotel Tech Report (Top PMS, Hotel Management System, and Channel Manager, 2021–2025), the World Travel Awards (World's Best Hotel PMS Solutions Provider, 2022), and Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 (2024).
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