Our story
It started with a phone call at nine every night.
Before we wrote any code, we spent a season behind reception desks in Kathmandu and Pokhara. We wanted to see how hotels in Nepal really run.
At one hotel in Pokhara, the owner called the front desk at nine every night with the same three questions. How many rooms did we sell? How much money came in? Was there any problem? The receptionist would put a guest on hold, turn the pages of the register, count the drawer and give a best guess. The owner had spent twenty years building that hotel and still could not see it from home.
Every hotel we visited had its own version of that call. Bookings in a register, Booking.com open in another tab, bills worked out on a calculator, and cash counted at the end of the day that never quite matched. Good staff spent their mornings making four systems agree, and the owner heard last.
So we built one system. A booking, its bill, its payment and its listing on every booking site are always in step. Service charge and VAT are worked out the Nepal way. And the owner sees all of it, as it happens, on a phone.
We called it Tathyastra. Tathya means fact. Astra means tool. Facts about your own hotel, that you can act on.
We still work the same way
We visit hotels, sit at the desk and listen to owners. Then we build what they ask for. Most of what Tathyastra does today started as one owner's request.
