Agilysys Wins 2025 HTNG TechOvation Award for Agilysys Book with S.P.E.N.D. Technology

-- Revolutionary technology that enables seamless, always-on package booking boosts revenue and guest engagement while maintaining staff efficiency through intelligent automation and personalization--

ALPHARETTA, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Agilysys, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGYS), a leading global provider of next-generation hospitality software and services, today announced that its Book with S.P.E.N.D. (Stay Package Entitlement New Dynamic) booking technology has received the 2025 HTNG TechOvation Award, one of most respected honors for technology advancement in the hospitality industry.

This powerful advancement in online package booking technology makes available for the first time in the hospitality industry the ability for properties to promote and fulfill packages while also relieving staff of manual tasks and time associated with reserving package entitlements. Guests select packages and reserve entitlements online without having to call or email property staff. S.P.E.N.D. booking technology automatically ensures adherence to all entitlement rules and workflows to prevent overbooking. Guests easily reserve all related package entitlements for everyone in their party in one “prompted and guided” online session without having to visit multiple websites or make multiple calls.

Eliminating manual coordination and staff involvement dramatically improves package execution and management so that properties can promote and fulfill a wider variety of packages simultaneously to boost revenue without adding any associated cost or staff stress.

David Sjolander, AHLA VP, HTNG Operations, commented, “The HTNG TechOvation Award highlights innovations that help our industry improve across factors important to guests, staff, operators and owners. Industry leaders recognized the advanced Agilysys Book with S.P.E.N.D. solution for its ability to maximize package-booking revenue by unifying guest data across experiences, optimizing capacity across revenue centers and providing 24/7/365 guest self-service convenience.”

“Hotels have long sought to merchandise their comprehensive amenity offerings online through packages,” said Frank Pitsikalis, Senior Vice President, Product Strategy at Agilysys. “Book with S.P.E.N.D. enables this capability by efficiently managing online the complex rules associated with included entitlements online for services such as spa, dining, golf, activities, access passes and cabanas. This solution eliminates several significant operational challenges, enables increasing non-room hotel amenity revenue and reducing reduces call-center labor costs.”

About Agilysys, Inc.

Agilysys exclusively delivers state-of-the-art hospitality software solutions and services that help organizations go beyond what they can accomplish with traditional property management systems (PMS), point-of-sale (POS) solutions and food and beverage inventory and procurement systems. Modern, state-of-the-art solutions work standalone to provide best-in-class capabilities or together in a coordinated ecosystem that unifies data and workflows across a property, equipping staff members to delight guests, improve efficiency, and grow margins. The Agilysys 100% hospitality customer base includes branded and independent hotels; multi-amenity resorts; casinos; property, hotel and resort management companies; cruise lines; corporate dining providers; higher education campus dining providers; food service management companies; hospitals; lifestyle communities; senior living facilities; stadiums; and theme parks. www.agilysys.com