Hotel Groups & Management Companies

A hotel group or management company faces a problem no single property has: scale with variety. The portfolio might span several brands, dozens of properties and a patchwork of lock systems inherited through acquisitions and conversions — a VingCard property here, a Saflok or Onity property there, a newly converted SALTO building elsewhere. Procuring key cards property by property means many vendors, inconsistent quality, no purchasing leverage and a different reorder process at every front desk. Consolidating that into one program is where a group saves money and recovers control.

The goal is standardization without homogenization. A group wants one supplier, one quality bar and the purchasing power of combined volume — but each flag still needs its own card artwork, and each property still needs cards encoded for its specific lock. We structure a program to deliver both: a single point of contact and consistent pricing across the portfolio, with per-brand artwork held on file and per-property chip specifications matched to each building’s reader fleet. New properties and conversions slot into the same program rather than starting from scratch.

For the people who actually run procurement, the value is operational. Reorders for any property follow the same process and ship to the same standard; sustainability commitments can be rolled out portfolio-wide by switching to FSC® wood, bamboo or recycled stock as a single decision; and brand-standard finishes — the foil, the color, the back-of-card message a flag mandates — are enforced consistently rather than reinterpreted at each property. Because every credential is the same 13.56 MHz family, the program absorbs whatever lock systems the portfolio already contains without forcing a hardware standard onto every building.