A plan that fits you: pay only for what your sunbed business needs
Imagine you run a small hotel, with a single row of sunbeds by the pool. You want one specific thing: for the guest to charge the sunbed to their room, like the minibar. You go looking for the software, you find the feature… and it only comes in the big plan, the one for five-zone resorts. For a single tool, you'd pay as if you were five times bigger than you are.
It's absurd, but it's the norm: you pay for a size you don't have just to unlock one standalone thing. And you're left with two bad options: take on a plan that's far too big for you, or give up the one thing you came for.
A feature shouldn't cost five times your size
The flaw is in how almost all these systems are sold: in bundles, in tiers. The tools are spread across ever-pricier plans, and to reach the one at the top you have to pay for everything below it, whether you use it or not.
The underlying mistake is mixing two things that have nothing to do with each other: how big you are and how you work. Needing to charge to the room says nothing about how many sunbeds you have. Having three zones doesn't mean you want to send WhatsApp alerts. And yet the price treats you as if one dragged the other along.
Your zones set the price, and nothing else
The sensible thing is exactly the opposite: that you pay for your scale —the zones you manage— and that the features don't touch the bill. One zone with forty sunbeds costs what one zone costs; three zones with four hundred, what three cost. Nothing more.
And the features? They come included. A single-zone business with every tool switched on pays what one zone costs, not a euro more. The price goes up the day you open another zone —because you've genuinely grown—, not the day you switch on a tool.
Switch on whatever your way of working calls for
With that clear, switching features on stops being scary, because none of them will show up on the bill. You turn on the ones that fit how you work and leave off the ones that don't:
- Recover the spots of those who don't show and notify the next person on the list.
- Charge online, in person or both ways.
- Invoice your customers, rent out parasols or coolers as extras, split the day into morning and afternoon…
- Send a WhatsApp or SMS for every confirmation —here you pay only for the messages you send, nothing more—.
You switch them on and off at your own pace, depending on the season or how your business changes. None of them forces you to change plan.
The PMS, the only one we set up with you
There's one exception, and we'll tell it to you straight: if you're a hotel and you want to charge the sunbed to the room, that connects your sunbed system to the hotel's PMS. We set up that integration with you —it's a made-to-measure service, not a simple switch—.
But look at what changes: it no longer pushes you into the five-zone plan. Your one-zone hotel stays a one-zone hotel, and the PMS is added separately, without paying for capacity you never set foot on. The problem from the start disappears.
The engine, always as standard
Underneath all of that, the essentials aren't chosen or switched on: they're there from day one, whether you're big or small. The booking system, the sunbed map, the booking form for your website, the status of every spot, check-in, in-person payment, the attendant's panel and the day's summary. That base isn't a feature you buy: it's the floor everything else stands on.
Neither too much nor too little
So choosing well isn't going for the priciest plan just in case, nor settling for the tightest one to see if it stretches. It's paying for your size today and having the complete system, with the peace of mind of adding a zone the day you grow.
Go back to the hotel by the pool: one zone, every tool it needs already in place, the room-charge set up made-to-measure, and not a euro on capacity it doesn't use. That's what anyone should be able to do. Take a look at the plans and pick the one your business calls for —not one piece too many, nor one too few—.
