Frontdesko alternative for staff accommodation
Relyo is built only for staff housing in hotels and resorts: room planning, inspections, repairs, bills and costs. Frontdesko is a hotel PMS with a staff accommodation setup.
Built for the staff you house
Relyo is a separate system built only for staff housing, and it is not a PMS. HR, finance, operations and housing work from one record, and grades (housing entitlement levels) set each person's room, allowance and rent cover.
A cloud hotel PMS, with a staff accommodation setup
Frontdesko's site points to India as its home market, with GST compliance and a planned Hindi interface. Its staff accommodation setup, for labour camps and dormitories, assigns workers to beds, logs arrivals and departures, and bills the employer.
Relyo vs Frontdesko for staff accommodation
| Feature |  | Frontdesko |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Built for it: Hotels and resorts that house their staff.
| Built for it: A hotel PMS, with a staff accommodation setup for worker housing.
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| Room planning | Built for it: Smart Match proposes rooms by the employer's rules.
| Partly, with workarounds: Assign workers to rooms or beds, and reassign them as crews change.
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| Arrivals, departures and history | Built for it: Stays run from arrival to departure, organised by period.
| Built for it: Every arrival and departure timestamped and tied to a room.
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| Grades and housing entitlements | Built for it: A grade sets the room, utility allowance and rent cover.
| Not described publicly: No grades or housing entitlements described.
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| Billing the employer or the occupant | Partly, with workarounds: Tracks rent and who pays it, without invoicing.
| Built for it: Direct Bill posts room charges to the employer's account.
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| Move-in and move-out inspections | Built for it: Four checkpoints per stay, recorded on a phone.
| Not described publicly: Not described in the sources we reviewed.
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| Utility bills and allowances | Built for it: Every bill is checked against the grade allowance.
| Not described publicly: Not described in the sources we reviewed.
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| Cost per occupant, department and grade | Built for it: Cost per occupant, by property, grade and department.
| Partly, with workarounds: Hotel reporting, plus bed occupancy for staff sites.
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| Rent and contracts for the buildings you lease | Built for it: Rent, deposits and leases for the buildings you lease.
| Not described publicly: Not described in the sources we reviewed.
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| Repairs and maintenance | Built for it: Your staff report repairs from their phone and add photos.
| Partly, with workarounds: Maintenance requests in the housekeeping app.
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| Portals for occupants, maintainers and landlords | Built for it: Each group gets its own portal, in any phone browser.
| Partly, with workarounds: Native apps for your team, built for hotel work.
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| Operational Signals and AI | Built for it: Operational Signals: 31 rule-based checks in one ranked list.
| Partly, with workarounds: Live dashboards, and an AI assistant.
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Choose Frontdesko if…
- You want beds assigned, arrivals logged and the employer billed on one statement
- You run a small hotel in a market Frontdesko is built for, such as India
- You also want a hotel PMS, booking engine and POS for guests
- You need a channel manager, payment gateways or accounting links
- You want native apps for front desk and housekeeping
- You want a REST API with webhooks
Choose Relyo if…
- You are a hotel or resort that houses its staff
- You want rooms proposed within hard rules such as grade, then fitted by department and shift
- You want grades and allowances applied the same way for everyone
- You want move-in and move-out inspections, and nobody charged for older damage
- You need cost per occupant, department and grade
- You lease staff buildings and want rent, contracts and landlords in one place
- You want the app and its emails in English, Greek or French
What Relyo does for the staff you house
Rooms planned around how your staff work
Frontdesko lets your team assign workers to beds. Smart Match checks grade rules and weighs department, shifts, dates, languages and who has a car.
- 6 hard rules, including grade room rules
- 9 fit factors, such as night-shift quiet and commute
- "Keep the kitchen team together" never breaks a hard rule
- Every result explained, accepted in one click
Inspections link new damage to its stay
Relyo records move-in and move-out with photos and meter readings. Your team marks new damage on its stay, and nobody is charged for damage that was already there.
- Team and occupant check-in and check-out
- Move-in and move-out photos side by side
- Repair costs attributed to the stay, for reporting
Catch overage the month it happens
Each grade can carry a utility allowance. Relyo checks every bill against it, splits it by days stayed and shows each person their share.
- Bill scan reads 13 fields, from any provider or country
- Split by days stayed, under each grade's cost policy
- Flags missing bills and ones at least twice the recent average
Frequently asked questions
Is Frontdesko a staff housing system or a hotel PMS?
Both. Frontdesko is a cloud hotel PMS with a staff accommodation setup for labour camps, crew housing and staff dormitories. That setup turns off OTA features, assigns workers to rooms or beds and bills the employer through Direct Bill.
Is Relyo a Frontdesko alternative?
For staff housing, yes. Frontdesko is a hotel PMS that can also hold staff beds and bill the employer. Relyo is a separate system built only for staff housing, with room planning, grades, inspections, bills and cost per occupant, and it takes no guest bookings.
What is the main difference between Relyo and Frontdesko?
Frontdesko records stays and bills them: rooms, arrivals and departures, folios and employer statements. Relyo runs the employer's side of staff housing: Smart Match room planning, grades, four inspection checkpoints, utility bill checks and cost per occupant, department and grade.
Is Frontdesko available in Greek?
We found no Greek version of Frontdesko's site. Its site points to India as its home market, with built-in GST compliance and a pricing question about small hotels in India. Relyo's app, portals and emails work in English, Greek and French.
Does Relyo bill the employer or take payments like Frontdesko?
No. Relyo tracks rent due, paid and overdue, and money moves outside it: your staff tell you they paid, with proof if they have it, and an admin verifies. Frontdesko bills the employer on one statement per cycle and takes payments through gateways such as Stripe.
Does Relyo have a mobile app like Frontdesko?
Relyo works in the browser on any phone, with nothing to install, but has no native iOS or Android app. It has four portals: housing team, occupant, maintainer and landlord. Frontdesko describes native apps for front desk, housekeeping and managers.
How does Relyo AI compare with Ask FrontDesk?
Ask FrontDesk answers staff questions from live hotel data and, by default, changes nothing. Relyo AI answers housing questions with links to the records used, reads bills and contracts, and shows an approval card before any change.
Does Relyo connect to Frontdesko, and can we move over?
Relyo does not connect to Frontdesko or any PMS and has no API, but you can move over by file. Import your staff list from CSV or Excel, up to 500 rows per file, or drop the file into Relyo AI to map the columns and import after your approval. We set up your properties with you.
How does pricing compare between Frontdesko and Relyo?
Relyo starts with a free pilot for selected partners: one building, set up with you by the founders, and pricing is agreed after the pilot. Plans and prices change, so check Frontdesko's current pricing with Frontdesko directly.
Related pages
See your staff housing run in Relyo
Walk through Smart Match, grades and inspections with the founders, and ask about the free pilot.
Free pilot for selected partners: start with one building, set up with the founders.