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Room & bed allocation
A visual bed map per block. Drag a resident into a bed, swap rooms, and see free beds before you promise them.
NEWNow live for hostels across Pakistan
Run your hostel like a hotel chain.
Beds, admissions, rent, mess, complaints, gate passes and staff — one dashboard for every property you run. Replace the registers and the ten WhatsApp groups.
No card requiredSet up in one eveningUrdu + English
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GULBERG BOYS HOSTEL
Today at a glance
OCCUPANCY
94%
COLLECTED
8.4L
DUES
11
RENT COLLECTED
BED MAP — BLOCK B
FilledFreeDue
Bed B-214 allotted to Hamza Raza
Admissions · just now
GATE PASS
Approved · 21:40
MESS TODAY
312 meals served
Built for every kind of hostel
Student & college hostelsBackpacker hostelsWorking professional hostelsMulti-property chainsGirls hostelsUniversity-run blocksStudent & college hostelsBackpacker hostelsWorking professional hostelsMulti-property chainsGirls hostelsUniversity-run blocks
Everything in one place
Eight modules that replace your entire paper stack.
Your warden, accountant and mess contractor all work in the same system — with permissions, logs and reports that actually reconcile at month end.
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Admissions & onboarding
Digital forms, CNIC and guardian details, agreement, security deposit — a resident file that is complete on day one.
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Rent & fee collection
Auto invoices, partial payments, late fees and one honest dues list. Reminders go out without you chasing anyone.
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Mess & meal management
Weekly menu, meal counts, guest meals and mess bills — so the kitchen budget stops being a guess.
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Complaints & maintenance
Residents raise a ticket from their phone. You see what is open, who owns it, and how long it has been sitting.
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Visitor & gate pass
Digital in/out register, leave and night-out approvals, guardian notification. An audit trail when it matters.
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Staff management
Wardens, cooks, guards and cleaners with roles, shifts, salary records and exactly the access they need.
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Reports & analytics
Occupancy, collections, expenses and dues per property — monthly closing in minutes, not a weekend.
Plus everything else
Dozens more features, all included.
Security depositsDaily & monthly staysRole-based rate cardsSalary advancesStaff loans to recoverFull salary historyCurfew & overnight passesVisitor logConduct & blacklistNo-dues certificateBiometric & photo recordsPublic complaint QR linkAging & defaulter reportsDownloadable reportsRoles & permissionsTwo-factor securityYour logo & brandingMess-off requests
Two portals, one platform
Owners run hostels. We run the platform.
Register once and your hostel gets its own workspace. Everything behind the scenes — billing, subscriptions, support — lives on the platform side.
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The hostel dashboard
Owners, managers and wardens: beds, residents, rent, mess, complaints, staff and reports.
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The platform console
Internal only — onboarding, subscriptions, invoices and support across every hostel on HostelsBook.
14 days
Free trial, full product, no card
Rs 3,500
Per month, per hostel — all modules
1 evening
To import residents and go live
Unlimited
Beds, residents and staff accounts
How it works
Live before the next rent cycle.
STEP 01
Register your hostel
Owner or manager signs up, names the property and gets a workspace at hostel.hostelsbook.com.
STEP 02
Add blocks, rooms, beds
Build your bed map in minutes, then import existing residents from a sheet — or let us do it for you.
STEP 03
Invite your team
Warden, accountant, mess in-charge — each with their own login and only the access they should have.
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Collections used to take the first week of every month. Now the dues list is on my phone and the reminders go out on their own.
Bilal Ahmed
Owner, 2 hostels · Lahore
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The bed map is the part my wardens actually love. No more arguing about who was promised which bed.
Sana Tariq
Manager, girls hostel · Islamabad
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Four properties, one login. I can compare occupancy and expenses side by side, which I simply could not do before.
Umair Shah
Director, hostel chain · Karachi
Across Pakistan
Hostel management software in your city.
Local guides for owners near the big campuses — from NUST and UET to NED and BZU.
Questions
Hostel software, answered.
What is a hostel management system?
A hostel management system is software that replaces paper registers and scattered WhatsApp messages with one dashboard. HostelsBook manages beds and rooms, admissions, rent and fee collection, mess, complaints, gate passes, staff and reports for one hostel or a whole chain.
Is HostelsBook suitable for hostels in Pakistan?
Yes. HostelsBook is built for Pakistani hostels — priced in PKR per hostel, with WhatsApp receipts and reminders, Urdu and English throughout, mess management as a first-class feature, and CNIC and guardian records ready for tenant verification.
How much does HostelsBook cost?
Rs 3,500 per hostel per month, covering all eight modules with unlimited beds, residents and staff. There is a 14-day free trial with no credit card required, and monthly, 6-month and yearly terms are available.
Which hostels is HostelsBook for?
Student and college hostels, girls hostels, working-professional hostels, backpacker hostels, university-run blocks and multi-property chains — anywhere from 30 to 400+ beds.
How long does it take to set up?
Most hostels go live in one evening. You add blocks, rooms and beds, import existing residents from a sheet (or we do it for you), invite your team, and start billing from the next rent cycle.
Can I manage more than one hostel from one account?
Yes. Run every property from a single login with per-branch reporting, and pay a simple per-hostel rate. Owners can compare occupancy, collections and expenses across all their hostels side by side.
Can residents book a hostel bed online with HostelsBook?
Yes. Hostels that use HostelsBook let residents apply and book a bed online through digital admissions — submitting CNIC and guardian details, reserving a bed, and paying — so booking a hostel is quick for the resident and organised for the owner.
Try it free for 14 days.
Full product, all modules, no card. Then Rs 3,500 a month per hostel — monthly, half-yearly or yearly.