Infor HMS Housekeeper vs Hotel Effectiveness
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Infor HMS Housekeeper
This application allows housekeepers to view their daily room assignments, access guest details, and update room statuses. It also enables housekeepers to mark rooms as 'Do not disturb' for later servicing.
- View daily room assignments
- Access guest details
- Update room status
- Flag rooms as 'Do not disturb'
- iPhone and iPod Touch enabled
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"Infor HMS Housekeeper" iPhone and iPod Touch enabled application will allow a housekeeper to view a list of rooms which they are assigned to clean for that day. The housekeeper will also have the ability to see specific Guest Details and update the Room Status of each room assigned to their section. In addition "Infor HMS Housekeeper" allows housekeepers to flag guest rooms as "Do not disturb", so rooms can be serviced at a later time. Note: By downloading this mobile application, You acknowledge to reading and agreeing to the corresponding end user license agreement.
Hotel Effectiveness
Optimize labor costs with intelligent scheduling and real-time performance monitoring. Gain full control over wages, overtime, and contractor expenses. This solution helps managers create labor plans based on business drivers and standards, saving hotels an average of 5% on labor costs.
- Labor cost optimization
- Real-time performance monitoring
- Daily labor check-in
- Shift scheduling
- Hotel group summary reports
- Departmental position details
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Hotel Effectiveness is a Labor Management solution that gives you full control over your total labor costs - optimizing for business drivers, wages, productivity, contractors, regulations, overtime, and more. Our intelligent solution enables your managers to create labor plans based upon real business drivers and standards, with intuitive analysis built-in to monitor and improve performance across your hotels. We save hotels 5% or more on labor costs. Maria D’Alessandro, CFO of Hospitality Ventures Management Group Says: “Hotel Effectiveness helps our GMs be more efficient at managing their labor. It gives them the tools they need to control their labor costs and improve house profit.” 2019 Top Rated Labor Management Software by Hotel Tech Report. The Hotel Effectiveness mobile application provides on the go access to functionality that enhances visibility and provides full control of labor costs. HOME PAGE Land into a hotel view and get a snapshot of what is happening with your property along with daily tasks. When managing multiple hotels, you’ll have a snapshot of labor win/loss by hotel. 5 MINUTE DAILY LABOR CHECK-IN **TOP FEATURE** Follow a 5 minute guided tool to create full accountability and transparency of labor costs in real-time down to the line-level manager at every property. As the most popular feature in the system, it is used daily to see hotel performance history as well as performance for the week. SEE WHO’S SCHEDULED View a single day scheduled shifts at a glance. You can also find available staff when you need to fill a shift with access to information such as employees on call, unscheduled or scheduled time off. HOTEL GROUP SUMMARY REPORT View a snapshot of labor win/loss by hotel in hours or wages. You can drill into any day to view the details by position for that hotel. POSITION DETAILS REPORT View a snapshot of labor win/loss by department in hours or wages for a given hotel. You can drill into any day to view the details by position along with all employees and their hours. Note: Mobile application does not include Time and Attendance.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Hotel Effectiveness at fortnightly against Infor HMS Housekeeper's every 3 months. Hotel Effectiveness also leads on ratings volume (23 vs 4) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for Infor HMS Housekeeper against 4.1 for Hotel Effectiveness. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hotel Effectiveness has 23 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Infor HMS Housekeeper ships an update every 3 months, Hotel Effectiveness fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Infor HMS Housekeeper | Hotel Effectiveness |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 4.1 (23 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 23 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Infor (US), LLC | Hotel Effectiveness Solutions, LLC |
Customer experience
Infor HMS Housekeeper
Hotel Effectiveness
In-app purchases
Infor HMS Housekeeper
No in-app purchases
Hotel Effectiveness
No in-app purchases
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