Built for African hospitality

Run your hotel or lodge without the spreadsheets

Kubhuka Lite brings online bookings and payments, reservations, front desk, billing, built-in accounting, housekeeping, your restaurant and reporting into one system — designed for the way properties actually run across Zimbabwe and the region.

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Everything in one place

Built for how a hotel or lodge actually runs

From the front desk to the kitchen to the books — and every guest message in between.

Take bookings and payments on your own website

Connect your website to Kubhuka and guests book straight from it — live availability, your prices and your rules, no commission. They pay online by EcoCash, OneMoney, InnBucks, card or PayPal, and the booking, invoice and payment are already in the system. Your team gets each one in Operational Logs and on the dashboard, so nothing is missed.

  • Live rooms, prices and availability — no double bookings
  • Online payments through Utsanzi Pay, recorded automatically
  • Guests change, cancel and download invoices within your rules
  • Event enquiries, menus, extras and services sold online
  • One website and one guest account for a group of hotels
Guest communication across email, WhatsApp and text

Talk to guests wherever they are

Confirmations, reminders, and updates go out by email today — with WhatsApp and text messaging built in and on the way, so every guest gets the message on the channel they actually check.

  • Email confirmations & reminders
  • WhatsApp messaging Soon
  • SMS / text messaging Soon
24/7 customer support team

Support around the clock

Front desks don't keep office hours, and neither do we. Reach a real person any time of day if something's not working right before a guest walks in.

  • 24/7 support, every day of the year
  • In-app support tickets with fast response
Reservation calendar with a booking detail popup

See every booking at a glance

A calendar view shows exactly what's booked, arriving, or free — open any reservation to see guest details, room, and balance, move a guest to another room, or check them in.

  • Guided booking wizard with availability checks
  • Calendar & arrivals / departures views
  • Room moves, upgrades & manager approvals
Housekeeping staff preparing a hotel room

Keep every room ready on time

The Room Board shows every room at a glance — occupied, arriving, dirty, clean or out of order — and stays in step with housekeeping as rooms are cleaned. Assign tasks, track discrepancies, and know exactly which rooms are guest-ready before check-in.

  • Live room status board
  • Task assignment & checklists
  • Discrepancy & checkout balance tracking
Purchase order sent from the system to a supplier

Order stock straight from the system

Raise a purchase order and send it directly to your supplier — no separate spreadsheet, no double entry. Track approvals, deliveries, and supplier payments in one place.

  • Purchase orders sent straight to suppliers
  • Approval workflow & goods received notes
  • Supplier statements & payments
Managing multiple hotel properties from one dashboard

Run more than one property, easily

Switch between properties without switching accounts. Manage rooms, staff, and rates for each location, with the option to bring it all under one organisation.

  • Fast property switching
  • Per-property roles & access control
  • Organisation-level account management
  • Full? Send guests to partner hotels on one invoice
Restaurant and food & beverage service

Run the restaurant, not just the rooms

A full point-of-sale for your restaurants and bars — menus, tables, and orders that go to the kitchen or bar and post straight to the guest folio, so dinner shows up on the same bill as the room.

  • POS, Waiter View on a phone, and a Kitchen Display
  • Guests order from their table by QR code
  • Set menus, buffets & banquets with food costing
  • Orders post straight to the guest folio

Real bookkeeping, done for you in the background

Every payment, invoice, expense and stock movement posts itself into a proper set of books automatically — the same double-entry accounting a bookkeeper would keep by hand, with nothing for you to enter twice. Know exactly what you earned, what you spent, and what you're really worth, any day you like.

  • Automatic bookkeeping — no manual journal entries required
  • Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow, always up to date
  • Set a monthly budget and see how you're tracking against it
  • Track what your equipment is really worth as it ages
  • Combine the books across every property you run
Also included

Everything else you'd expect

Billing & Invoicing

Proforma invoices, tax invoices, receipts, and multi-currency payments with full reconciliation.

Quotations & Proposals

Send a guest or company a priced quote before anything is booked — accept it and it turns into a real reservation.

Reports & Analytics

Occupancy, ADR & RevPAR, revenue by source, invoice ageing and guest analytics — built for daily decisions.

Budgeting

Set a monthly target for every income and expense account, then compare it against what actually happened.

Fixed Asset Tracking

Register equipment and vehicles with their purchase cost, and their value depreciates automatically, month by month.

Multi-Property Consolidation

Run more than one property? See combined financial reports across all of them, alongside each one's own figures.

Team Roles & Permissions

Give each staff member exactly the access they need — front desk, housekeeping, accounts, management — no more, no less.

Conferences & Events

Venues, packages, add-ons and catering for functions — with enquiries straight from your website and online deposits.

Operational Logs

Guest requests, complaints, handovers and website bookings go to the right team, with deadlines and a shift briefing at login.

Partner-Hotel Overflow

Fully booked? Send guests to a partner hotel and keep the booking — and the group's invoice — with you.

Apartments & Short Stays

Sell an apartment whole, by the half, or room by room — plus hourly and day-use stays.

Services & Activities

Spa, tours, transfers and laundry — sold at a service point, added to a stay, or bought online.

Cashing Up & Expenses

Every till balanced at the end of the shift, and every expense recorded, approved and posted to the books.

Maintenance

Repair tickets for rooms and equipment — assign them, use parts from stock, and order what you don't have.

Channel & OTA Sync

Sync availability and rates across booking channels so you never get double-booked.

Coming Soon
Simple pricing

Plans for every size of property

Pricing and feature limits are managed centrally through your Utsanzi billing account, so what you see here always reflects your current plan.

OTA & channel manager sync is coming soon to every plan below — including Lite — at no extra cost.
Lite
$20 / month
  • Reservations & front desk
  • Check-in / check-out management
  • Billing & invoicing
  • Guest profiles & history
  • Room & rate management
  • Housekeeping management
  • Cash shift reconciliation
  • Multi-currency support (USD, ZWG, ZAR)
  • Staff accounts & role permissions
  • Email & in-app notifications
  • Day-use / hourly room bookings
  • Basic reports (occupancy, revenue, reservations)
  • OTA & channel sync Soon
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Advanced
$28 / month
  • Everything in Lite, plus:
  • Food & Beverage / POS
  • Conference & event bookings
  • Stock & inventory management
  • Purchasing & supplier management
  • Expense tracking
  • Advanced financial & VAT reports
  • Guest, channel & purchasing analytics
  • API access for integrations
  • Company / corporate billing accounts
  • OTA & channel sync Soon
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Business
$38 / month
  • Everything in Advanced, plus:
  • Multi-property / organisation management
  • Custom email domain
  • Priority support with dedicated account manager
  • Unlimited staff accounts
  • OTA & channel sync Soon
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All plans include a free trial. Prices and features are managed via your Utsanzi account and may vary by region.

Coming Soon

Kubhuka Pro

Built for hotel groups, resort chains, and larger multi-property operators.

  • Central dashboard across every property in the group
  • Group-level reporting and consolidation
  • Custom roles and multi-level approval chains
  • Dedicated onboarding and support
Register Your Interest We'll reach out when Kubhuka Pro is ready to onboard groups.
Getting started

Live in three steps

Most properties are taking bookings on Kubhuka within a day of registering.

1

Register your property

Tell us about your property, rooms, and pricing. Takes about 10 minutes.

2

We review & approve

Our team verifies your details — usually within 1–2 business days.

3

Start managing bookings

Your dashboard unlocks, your trial begins, and your team can sign in.

See the full product overview
About Kubhuka

Built in Zimbabwe, for African hospitality

Kubhuka Lite is a property management system built by Utsanzi Tech for hotels, lodges, and guesthouses across the region. It's designed around how properties here actually operate — multi-currency by default, mobile-friendly for teams working from the front desk, and priced for independent and small-group properties rather than large international chains.

Guests can book and pay on your own website, with EcoCash, OneMoney, InnBucks, card or PayPal, and every booking lands straight in the system for your team to attend to — no commission, no re-typing.

It's also a full set of books, not just a booking system. You don't need separate accounting software or a spreadsheet on the side — every booking, payment, expense and stock movement keeps your Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow accurate on its own, so you always know where you stand.

Every property on Kubhuka is billed and licensed through Utsanzi's central portal, so your subscription, invoices, and feature access stay in sync automatically — whether you're running a single guesthouse or a small group of properties.

Kubhuka Pro is coming soon — built for hotel groups and larger multi-property operations that need centralised, group-level management.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

What is Kubhuka Lite?

Kubhuka Lite is a property management system (PMS) for hotels, lodges and guesthouses. It brings reservations, the front desk, billing and invoicing, housekeeping, stock and reporting into one system, and is built for how properties operate across Zimbabwe and the wider region.

How much does Kubhuka Lite cost?

Pricing is tiered by property size, with a free trial that begins the moment your property is approved. See the Pricing section on this page for current plans, or register to view plans for your property.

Which countries and currencies does it support?

Kubhuka Lite is multi-currency by default and is used across Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Mozambique and Namibia. You set your base currency and can record payments in others.

Do I need to install anything?

No. Kubhuka Lite runs in the browser on any device — desktop, tablet or phone — so your front desk, housekeeping and management teams all work from the same live system with nothing to install.

Can it manage more than one property?

Yes. Several properties can sit under one organisation and account, each with its own rooms, rates, staff and reports, and you switch between them from the top bar. Kubhuka Pro, for larger hotel groups, is coming soon.

How long does setup take?

Most properties are taking bookings within a day of registering. Registration takes about 10 minutes; our team then verifies your details, usually within 1–2 business days.

Does Kubhuka Lite include accounting and bookkeeping?

Yes. Every payment, invoice, expense and stock movement posts itself to a proper set of books automatically — no separate bookkeeping software or manual data entry. You get a Trial Balance, Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow report at any time, plus budgeting and fixed-asset depreciation tracking, all built in at no extra cost.

Can guests book and pay on my own website?

Yes, on plans with Online Booking. Your website connects to Kubhuka with a website key: guests see live availability and prices, book a room, and pay online with EcoCash, OneMoney, InnBucks, card or PayPal through Utsanzi Pay. The booking, invoice and payment land in Kubhuka automatically, and guests can change, cancel (within your rules) and download invoices themselves.

How does my team know about online bookings?

Every booking, event enquiry and services order from your website opens an Operational Log for the right team and shows on the dashboard under “From the website — to attend to”, with the guest's contact details and whether it is paid. If a guest doesn't pay online, staff take the payment the usual way.

Can I take event enquiries and sell services online too?

Yes. Your website can show your conference venues, packages, restaurant menus and services. Event organisers send enquiries that your team accepts or declines; staying guests add extras like transfers or spa treatments to their booking; and visitors can buy services and pay online.

Can I see combined reports across more than one property?

Yes, if your properties share the same base currency. Account › Organisation gives you a combined Trial Balance and Profit & Loss across every property in the group, alongside each property's own individual reports.

Ready to get your property online?

Registration takes about 10 minutes. Your trial starts the moment you're approved.