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Every asset reliable, every job closed out.

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Preventive Maintenance
Schedule

Planned service calendars driven by a full asset register — every asset, warranty and job history in one place.

HIS Maintenance Master Control System: asset management, preventative (planned) maintenance scheduling and work-order tracking software, a hotel CMMS, for hotels, resorts and lodges, with a property-wide preventative maintenance calendar, statutory compliance tracking, and independent verification and sign-off on every completed job. Used by properties across the United States, the Middle East, Europe and Africa.

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System Three

HIS Maintenance Master Control System

A professional maintenance system for hotels, resorts, safari lodges and properties of every size, self-hosted, no subscription, simple by design, so your people fix things instead of running software.
The Discipline

Maintenance is the easiest thing in your building to let slide.

A fault goes out over the radio and is gone. A job is marked done that nobody checked. An asset fails years early because the warning signs were never logged. One system logs every fault, assigns every job, and closes nothing until the work has been independently verified and signed off.

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Log Control

Every fault captured the moment it happens, from any device, with a job card behind it. Nothing lives on a radio call or a notice board.

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Work Control

Planned maintenance and reactive faults, assigned, prioritised and tracked to completion, on paper exactly the way your team already works.

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Verification Control

Every job is independently checked and signed off before it closes, so the standard is confirmed, not assumed.

Logged. Done. Proven. Closed.

Everything maintenance needs. Nothing it doesn't.

Fault Logging

Anyone reports a fault in seconds, from any device, with a job card raised behind it.

Asset Register

Every asset, location, warranty and service history held in one place.

Preventative Maintenance

Recurring schedules that raise their own job cards automatically, from daily checks to statutory annual servicing, before things fail.

Job Assignment

Route work to the right person or contractor, with priorities and due dates.

Independent Verification

A separate, independent sign-off on every job, so completion is always confirmed.

Job History & Audit Trail

A full timestamped record behind every job, from first report to final close.

Reporting & Analytics

Open jobs, overdue work, preventative maintenance compliance and asset downtime by property, at a glance.

Self-Hosted & Offline

Runs on your own server, works offline, no monthly fee, 5 to 500 rooms.

Fix it before the guest finds it.

Reactive maintenance proves you fixed it. Preventative maintenance proves it never broke. Set the schedule once, from weekly generator runs to statutory annual fire servicing, and the system raises each job card automatically on its due date, checklist printed on the card. A ready-made library of hotel schedules is built in; switch on what applies to your property.

The Preventative Maintenance Calendar

The whole property sees what's coming.

A month-by-month calendar of every scheduled job, visible to every user, so front office sees room blocks coming, contractors are booked ahead, and nothing lands as a surprise.

Checklist Job Cards

The paper card is the checklist.

Every scheduled job prints its checklist as tick boxes on the card. The technician works on paper, ticks, signs and returns it, and the same rule still applies: verified independently before it closes.

One job, done properly.

Most properties still run maintenance on radio calls and memory. The front desk radios the handyman, nothing gets written down, and "it's done" is whatever comes back over the radio. The big facilities-management platforms promise to fix that, then bury you in SLA matrices, parts inventories and asset tagging built for a 280-room resort with a full engineering team, not a small lodge with one handyman. The people who should be out fixing things end up stuck at a screen, doing admin.

HIS Maintenance Master Control System does one job, and does it properly. A fault gets logged, a job card prints, and the work gets done on paper exactly the way your team already works. Then a second person verifies the work against the card and closes it. That last part is the whole point. Completion is confirmed independently, never just assumed. Every job is checked before it closes, so nothing sits marked "done" without confirmation.

The result is a clean flow from the moment a fault is reported to the moment it's verified and signed off, with a full timestamped record behind every job. Your maintenance team spends the day fixing things, not feeding a system.

It runs on your own server, on your own network, with no internet dependency and no monthly fee. That matters as much for a remote safari lodge off the grid as for a city hotel. Load five rooms or five hundred. Same system either way.

What sets it apart.

Simple On Purpose

Everything it doesn't do is deliberate.

No parts modules, no dashboards to administer, nothing slowing down the people who have to action the work.

Built By Operators

More than 30 years running properties like yours.

A working system from people who have lived the problem, not a tech product chasing the hospitality market.

Every job is verified before it closes.

Maintenance gets the job done and marks it complete. Verification and close then sit with someone independent: housekeeping, the relevant HOD, or an executive. It is built into the software, not left to good intentions, so a job is only ever "closed" once it has been checked against the signed card. Clear accountability, a complete record, and no disputes about what was done.

Simple. Controlled. Logged. Big or small.

Self-hosted on your own server, configured to your departments, locations and roles, and live with your team logging and closing jobs the right way from day one.

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Your data, your server, your brand. Runs on your own hardware with no internet dependency and no monthly fee. No third party holds your maintenance records. Deployable on a single property or across your whole portfolio. Runs alongside CapEx on the same server.
The Standard

Built to the standards the industry teaches.

The maintenance disciplines inside the system are the ones taught to hotel engineers and general managers at the industry’s leading schools — and the ones your inspectors, insurers and guests quietly audit you against.

Cornell Nolan School

The engineering mandate

Hotel-school engineering teaching starts from one obligation: no guest ever experiences a failure caused by deferred maintenance. Independent verification of every job — built into the software — is how that promise is enforced.

Facilities-management curricula

Preventative maintenance

The taught framework runs daily to annual: filters and pool chemistry daily, generator runs weekly, fire-suppression tests monthly, full audits annually. The scheduling engine raises exactly these cycles as printed job cards.

Forbes Travel Guide · AAA

The physical product score

A quarter of a Forbes star rating is the physical product, and AAA diamond inspections walk the building. A worn property cannot service-recover its way to a rating — the condition record is the rating’s foundation.

Certification cycles

Statutory & insurance compliance

Fire, lift, gas and electrical certifications are legal and insurance obligations with hard dates. The statutory register tracks each one to the day and keeps the proof.

Designed by a Certified Hotel Administrator. Every HIS system is designed by founder Joel Papenfus, CHA — Certified Hotel Administrator (AHLEI), hotel General Manager and Divisional Operations Manager, with more than 25 years in four- and five-star hotels, resorts, safari lodges and cruise ships. The systems grew out of that career: operational knowledge refined into software.

Questions

Hotel Maintenance System — frequently asked questions

The questions engineering and general managers ask us most often.

What is the HIS Maintenance Master Control System?

It is an operational maintenance system — a hotel CMMS — covering asset logging, planned preventative maintenance and work-order tracking, built to be simple enough that your team fixes things instead of running software.

Does it handle preventative maintenance schedules?

Yes. Planned service calendars are driven by a full asset register, so every asset carries its own schedule, warranty position and job history in one record.

How do you stop jobs being closed before they are actually done?

Every job is independently verified before it closes. Nothing is marked complete on the word of the person who did the work alone, which is what keeps the physical product score honest.

Is it a cloud subscription?

No. It is self-hosted with no subscription. The system runs on your own server and your maintenance history stays on the property.

Is it suitable for lodges and smaller properties?

Yes. It is used by hotels, resorts, safari lodges and properties of every size. The workflow scales down to a small team without forcing enterprise complexity on them.

Does it help with statutory and insurance compliance?

Yes. Because every asset, inspection and completed job is logged and verified, you can evidence a maintained, compliant property when an inspector, insurer or brand auditor asks.

Let's Build Your Framework

Whether you're looking to implement one system or several, we'd love to understand your property and show you how HIS can help.

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