HRS rolls out ‘meetings-as-a-service’ tool

Accommodation and payment technology company HRS has launched a new tool to streamline the management of simple meetings.

Labelled HRS Connect, the new platform is billed as offering ‘meetings-as-a-service’ by combining venue search and booking capabilities with online payment and expense management tools.

The platform is now live and uses AI and automation to provide ‘instant’ pricing. The company said its “new instant-pricing technology leverages pricing history and preferred supplier agreements to significantly reduce the time it takes to consider rate options and lock in the right combination of meeting space and room nights”.

It also features digitised invoice reconciliation and payments and provides planners with a…