Software solutions that enable central reservation systems in hotels are now being widely used by the homestay portals. These solutions successfully overcome technical hurdles and seamlessly integrate multiple parties, ranging from the multi-currency payment gateways to CRMs, that are involved in the availability of homestays on portals. The software solutions on portals also intelligently make matters simpler for the homestay hosts, who lack the technical infrastructure used in hotels. All they need to do is access their mail to get a low-down on details concerning reservations which is directly sent to them by the programming software of the portal.

Without these new-age, cutting-edge technological solutions, portal functioning is unimaginable. Furthermore, since the homestay portals themselves are a ground-breaking step in the Indian hospitality scenario, the core design, manufacture and creation of its soul - the software itself - is nothing less than an innovation. The technical framework usually used is Microsoft ASP.net with back end programming on Visual Basic that is tied up with an MS SQL Server as RDBMS.

Such advanced hospitality software solutions that are at the core of online portals aid the steady growth and popularity of unique concepts such as homestays. Theirs is a significant contribution in helping tourists find a home away from home and exhibiting the extraordinary intricacies and heritage of the `real' India!