Hostel management software built for Indian hostels
Nohho replaces the paper register, the Excel sheet and the endless WhatsApp follow-ups with one app. Manage rooms and beds, onboard residents, collect rent and give your staff the right access — from your phone, wherever you are.
₹20 per active tenant · 0% commission on rent · English, हिंदी, తెలుగు
What is a hostel management system?
A hostel management system is software that keeps every part of running a hostel in one place: rooms and beds, resident records, rent and dues, payments, staff and house rules. Instead of checking a register to find a free bed or scrolling through chats to see who has paid, the owner opens one dashboard and sees occupancy, collections and pending dues at a glance.
Nohho is a hostel management system designed for privately run hostels in India — hostels for students, working professionals and long-stay residents. It is built around how Indian hostels actually work: monthly (and sometimes weekly or daily) rent cycles, advance deposits settled at exit, electricity billed per unit, meal plans, UPI payments and WhatsApp as the main way to reach residents.
Running a hostel on paper doesn't scale.
Who's in which bed?
Room allotment lives in a register or in someone's head. Finding a vacant bed means walking the floors or calling the warden.
Rent day is chase day
Every month starts with calls and messages to residents who haven't paid — and no single view of who owes what.
Resident records go missing
ID copies, phone numbers and emergency contacts are scattered across files, phones and old notebooks.
Nothing moves when you're away
Staff call you for every decision because there's no shared system they can safely use.
Everything a hostel needs, in one app.
Nohho covers the daily work of a hostel — from the first enquiry to the final checkout settlement.
Room & bed management
Organise rooms floor-wise, define room types (single, double, triple, dormitory) and track every bed as available, occupied or under maintenance.
Resident onboarding with OTP consent
Add residents digitally with OTP verification. Store Aadhaar, PAN and other ID documents, emergency contacts and stay history permanently.
Automated WhatsApp rent reminders
Residents get rent reminders on WhatsApp on the due date with a payment link — no manual follow-ups.
UPI rent collection with approval
Residents pay by UPI and submit the transaction ID; you approve and the payment is recorded. Rent goes straight to you — 0% commission.
Flexible billing for hostels
Monthly, weekly, daily or single-month rent cycles, pro-rating, advance deposits, per-unit electricity and meal plans — configured per property.
Staff roles & permissions
Give your manager, caretaker or helper their own login with only the access they need. Track staff records and salaries.
Notice periods & checkouts
Track residents on notice, settle advances in the final bill and send check-in and checkout messages on WhatsApp.
Multi-hostel dashboard
Run several hostels under one login and switch between them instantly. Occupancy and collections for each, at a glance.
Set up your hostel in minutes.
- 1
Add your hostel
Create your property, add floors, rooms and beds, and set room types and rent per cycle.
- 2
Configure billing & rules
Choose the rent due date, advance amount, notice period, electricity rate, meals and house rules.
- 3
Onboard residents & staff
Add residents with OTP consent and invite staff with the right role.
- 4
Run it from your phone
Reminders go out automatically. You approve payments and watch occupancy from anywhere.
Built for every kind of private hostel.
- Boys' and girls' hostels
- Student hostels near colleges and coaching centres
- Working professionals' hostels
- Hostels with meal plans and mess
- Owners running multiple hostels across cities
- Small hostels with 10 beds to large ones with hundreds
Pay only for occupied beds.
₹20 / active tenant / month
- First 3 months free — no credit card
- 0% commission — rent goes straight to you
- No per-property fee · ₹199 monthly minimum