How MainStay Suites manages extended stays across 7 properties with one PMS

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Years on RMS

Creating a home away from home — MainStay Suites shares how technology helps them deliver it

MainStay Suites is Choice Hotels' extended stay brand in Australia with over 700 rooms and a team spread across every state.

Nu Nizam, Chief Operations Officer at Extended Stay Australasia, takes us through how RMS gives his team full visibility across every property, reporting to help make informed commercial decisions, and integrations to support growth without friction.

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"RMS gives me everything that I need"

I've been a user of RMS for 10 plus years. Having a PMS such as RMS makes life easier for us.

Nu Nizam, Chief Operations Officer, MainStay Suites

Nu Nizam, Chief Operations Officer at Extended Stay Australasia for MainStay Suites

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Built for the long stay. Designed to feel like home.

MainStay Suites is designed for corporate and government travellers, relocating families, and anyone who needs more than a hotel room and plans to stay long enough to notice the difference. Fully equipped kitchens, real workspaces, pet-friendly rooms, children staying free. Not just a place to stay: a place to Live Like Home.

With ambitions to grow that footprint nationally and internationally, RMS is at the heart of how they run the operation and the strategy that gets them there.

Hospitality is something that I live and breathe... It really is about being there for the resident, we try everything that we can do to make their stay with us as if it was home away from home. Nu Nizam

What the operation needs from a PMS

Consistency is non-negotiable when your guests are staying for weeks or months. And when the ambition is to grow, more properties, more regions, more residents, the technology holding it all together needs to scale without the operation feeling it.

  • Multi-property operations: full visibility from one system, aligned teams, and a resident experience that's consistent across locations. 

  • Growth and strategy: seamless integration with Choice Hotels, data to drive commercial decisions, and a PMS that keeps pace with where extended stay is heading.

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How RMS delivers for MainStay

Nu has been using RMS for over ten years. When MainStay Suites launched across seven properties, RMS was live across the whole operation from day one, powering everything from front desk to group reporting.

One dashboard to manage operations across every property

Managing a multi-property extended stay operation means knowing what's happening across every site, at any moment. The RMS front desk dashboard gives Nu's team real-time visibility over arrivals, departures, and daily workload, across all seven properties simultaneously. Each team can customise their dashboard view to surface what matters most to their role, so the right information is always front and centre.

My favourite thing about RMS is the dashboard. I can see check-ins, check-outs, the team's movements, across every property, without being there — Nu Nizam 

The result: All the information the operation needs, at a glance. Teams stay aligned, communication sharpens across properties, and senior leadership can monitor the business remotely.

I can't be in seven locations at once, but my RMS dashboard is. Arrivals, departures, the team's movements. It's all there.

Nu Nizam, Chief Operations Officer, MainStay Suites

Nu Nizam, Chief Operations Officer at Extended Stay Australasia for MainStay Suites

Group reporting and data insights

In extended stay, commercial decisions, pricing, promotions, segment targeting, need to be synced with demand, and responsive to trends across all locations.

That's crucial for our business, so that we make stronger and smarter decisions to move forward. Nu Nizam

With RMS's reporting tools, MainStay Suites consolidates performance data across every property, so that trends, opportunities, and shifts in the business surface automatically.

The result: the library of built-in reports and the flexibility to create custom ones gives the team a timely view of business performance, so decisions can be made fast and backed by data. And, the ability to schedule reports to automatically land in the right inboxes saves time and keeps the operational pace optimal.

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Trends, segments, promotions, I get all the data I need from reports. It makes it so much easier to make meaningful decisions.

Nu Nizam, Chief Operations Officer, MainStay Suites

Nu Nizam, Chief Operations Officer at Extended Stay Australasia for MainStay Suites

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An open platform built to scale

What I need from our PMS is really about seeing us grow and being able to support that growth. We need partners to deliver what we want to achieve, such as RMS. —Nu Nizam

For MainStay Suites, operating as part of the Choice Hotels franchise means connectivity is foundational. RMS's open API connects directly with the Choice Hotels booking system, keeping reservations, rates, and availability in sync, while the wider integration ecosystem ensures every tool the operation relies on works together.

 The result: the Choice Hotels booking system connects seamlessly, the wider tech stack integrates without friction, and new tools plug in as the operation grows.

The right PMS doesn't just run your operation, it grows with it. That's why we use RMS.

Nu Nizam, Chief Operations Officer, MainStay Suites

Nu Nizam, Chief Operations Officer at Extended Stay Australasia for MainStay Suites

Ready to see it for yourself?

The easiest way to find out if RMS is right for your operation is to see it in action. 

 

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