Your hotel compendium, without the binder.
Everything in your in-room compendium, on your guests’ phones and in your own brand. Send us what you have. We build it, and your team keeps it current.
What a digital compendium is.
A hotel compendium is the folder in the room that tells a guest how things work: the welcome, the Wi‑Fi, dining hours, room service, the spa, the neighborhood, checkout. A digital compendium is the same information on the guest’s own phone, opened from a QR code.
It is also called a digital guidebook or a guest directory. What changes is everything after it is written: a correction takes a minute, it reads in fourteen languages, and a guest can ask it a question.
- Send what you haveThe binder, a PDF, your website or a spreadsheet.
- We build itDesigned in your brand and organized the way a stay goes.
- You see it firstOn a phone, before any guest does.
Where each part of the binder goes.
Organized the way a stay goes — arrival, the house, the area, checkout.
Wi‑Fi, check-in and checkout
The first page of the binder, and the first thing a guest sees on their phone.
- The Wi‑Fi password, one tap to copy
- Check-in and checkout times
- Door codes shown only from a guest’s own room link
Menus, hours, room service and the spa
Your own words, kept current by your team in the same editor we use.
- Opening hours that say “open now”
- Menus, spa treatments, rooms and offers
- Events that leave the guide when they end
Your neighborhood, in your desk’s words
The recommendations your best concierge gives, written down once.
- Places with photographs
- Walking times from your front door
- Directions in one tap
A guest can ask, and reach your desk
A concierge inside the compendium answers from it, typed or spoken, and a request goes to your desk already written.
- Answers in the guest’s own language
- A late checkout, more towels, a table
- If the answer isn’t there, it says so
The binder, a PDF, or a compendium built for you.
A printed binder
The in-room compendium most hotels still have.
- A changeReprinted and replaced room by room
- LanguagesOne
- A questionNobody to ask but the desk
- What guests readNo way to know
- Your brandAs good as the last print run
A PDF or a template
A file behind a QR code, or a page in somebody else’s layout.
- A changeRe-exported and uploaded again
- LanguagesOne file per language, each kept by hand
- A questionA document cannot answer one
- What guests readDownloads at best
- Your brandYour logo on a standard layout
A CGXP compendium
Designed for your hotel, built and launched for you.
- A changeEdited and published by your team in a minute
- Languages14, with the whole guide translated
- A questionA concierge answers from your guide, typed or spoken
- What guests readOpens, taps and time spent, by page
- Your brandYour logo, colors and fonts throughout
Three steps. About thirty days.
You send the basics
Amenities, hours, policies, your local picks, your logo. A spreadsheet or your website is fine.
~ 1 weekWe build and launch
Designed in your brand, QR codes for every room, logins for your editors.
~ 2–3 weeksYour team runs it
Edit and publish whenever you like. We’re one request away, and a report arrives every week.
Day 30
Questions about digital compendiums.
Is a digital compendium the same as a digital guidebook?
Yes. Digital compendium, digital guidebook and guest directory are different names for the same thing: what a guest needs to know about your hotel, on their own phone.
What does my team need to provide?
Amenities, services, hours, policies, your local picks, and your brand assets if you have them. Most of it already lives in a binder behind your front desk, on your website, or in a folder of photographs. A spreadsheet is fine. So is a PDF.
Do we still need a printed compendium?
A card with the QR code is all the room needs. For a guest without a smartphone, the desk is still there.
Is it accessible?
It is a web page in the guest’s own browser, so it inherits the text size, contrast and screen reader their phone already has — and the guide has its own text-size control as well. We build to WCAG AA and check the colors of every hotel’s palette against it.
How long does it take to launch?
Most properties are live within 30 days, and some in two weeks. We do the setup, the design and the launch. The pace depends on one thing: how quickly you get us what you have and approve what we draft.
How much does it cost?
A one-time setup fee plus a monthly service fee, tailored to your property, which is why we talk about it on the demo call. No long-term lock-in: 30 days’ notice.
Send us the binder.
Fifteen minutes with the founder, and we mock up a guide for your property on the call.
- 15 minutes, founder-ledA real walk-through — we mock up a guide for your property on the call.
- Bring your questionsMulti-property, brand standards, content workflow — anything specific to you.
- A clean quote, that’s itTailored to your property. No follow-up sequence, no pressure.