Hotel PMS · Ujjain · Simhastha Mahakumbh 2028
Hotel software for Ujjain, ready for Simhastha.
SutraStack is hotel management software for how an Ujjain property fills: pilgrims for the Mahakal darshan and the dawn Bhasma Aarti, crowds on Shravan Mondays and Mahashivratri, families and travel agents’ groups from Gujarat, Maharashtra and Rajasthan — and, from March to May 2028, the Simhastha Mahakumbh on the Shipra.
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— Simhastha Mahakumbh 2028
The Mahakumbh is coming. Be ready for it.
Once every twelve years the Kumbh comes to the Shipra, and crores of pilgrims come with it. Ujjain’s Simhastha is expected from March to May 2028. The hotels that sell best will be the ones with their prices, minimum stays and advances in place before the rush — and SutraStack does all three today.
- Expected
- March – May 2028
- Comes
- Once in 12 years
- Last held
- 2016
Sales & promotion
We help you sell, too.
Through our partnership with mahakumbhujjain.com, hotels on SutraStack are promoted on the portal to pilgrims planning their Simhastha trip — to help you sell more rooms in the season.
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The whole season’s prices, in one go.
SutraStack sends your rates to the OTAs up to a year ahead. As the Simhastha dates come into that year, set them date by date in one bulk update and send them to MakeMyTrip, Goibibo and your other OTAs with one click.
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No room sold twice.
A booking on any OTA, on your website or at the desk drops the room count everywhere else on its own. The night the whole city is full is the night it matters most.
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Minimum stays on the big days.
Ask for two or three nights around the main bathing days, or close a date altogether, and send it to your OTAs.
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An advance before they travel.
Your own booking website takes an advance online when the guest books — the full amount, a percentage, the first night or a fixed sum — so every Simhastha booking made there comes with money paid.
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Every guest’s ID, on file.
Scan the ID of every adult in each room, not only the one who booked, and see who is staying in which room at any hour — on the desk computer or your phone.
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Families and agents’ groups.
A joint family or a travel agent’s bus is one booking across many rooms, with one bill for all or one per room. Mark it as the agent’s, and their account shows what they owe.
— In short
SutraStack in Ujjain, at a glance.
Simhastha
2028
Expected March to May 2028. Season rates, minimum stays and advances, in SutraStack.
Channel manager
100+
OTAs — MakeMyTrip and Goibibo direct, plus Booking.com, Agoda, Expedia and the rest.
Room GST
5%
Up to ₹7,500 a night, 18% above. CGST + SGST for state code 23.
Pilgrim groups
One bill
A family or an agent’s bus across many rooms, kept as one booking.
Every guest
ID
An ID scan for each adult in the room, kept with the booking.
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— Area by area
From Mahakal to the Narmada.
A lodge by the station and a hotel by the temple share a city, not a guest. Pick your area to see who comes, when, and what SutraStack takes off your desk.
Mahakal & Harsiddhi
Mahakaleshwar, Mahakal Lok, Harsiddhi, Bada Ganesh, Rudra Sagar
- Why guests come
- Darshan at the Mahakaleshwar jyotirlinga, the Bhasma Aarti before dawn, the Mahakal Lok corridor that opened in 2022, and the lamp towers of the Harsiddhi temple.
- Who comes
- Pilgrim families from Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and across Madhya Pradesh, devotees who booked the Bhasma Aarti online, and day-trippers from Indore.
- Busy months
- All year; Mondays, weekends, Shravan and Mahashivratri most of all
The hard part
Guests arrive at two in the morning off a night bus to queue for the Bhasma Aarti, and leave by noon. Most stays are one night, so nearly every room turns over every day.
In SutraStack
Check guests in at any hour on their arrival date, and add an early check-in charge to the bill when they come before your time. Housekeeping marks each room clean as it is done, so the desk sees which rooms are ready for the next arrival.
Ram Ghat & the Shipra
Ram Ghat, Narsingh Ghat, Gau Ghat, Datta Akhara, Triveni
- Why guests come
- The evening aarti of the Shipra at Ram Ghat, a dip on festival bathing days, and — in 2028 — the main bathing ghats of the Simhastha.
- Who comes
- Families who come for a festival dip, older pilgrims who want a room they can walk to the ghat from, and devotees performing rites for their ancestors.
- Busy months
- Festival bathing days, Kartik, and Simhastha 2028
The hard part
On a bathing day every room within walking distance of the ghat sells by evening, and half the calls are “Is a room free tonight?”
In SutraStack
The booking chart shows every free room, night by night, so the desk answers the phone without turning the pages of a register. Raise tonight’s rate and send it to your OTAs with one click.
Freeganj & the station
Freeganj, Tower Chowk, Dewas Gate, Madhav Nagar, Ujjain Junction
- Why guests come
- The railway station and bus stands, the markets around Tower Chowk, and the city’s older hotels and lodges.
- Who comes
- Pilgrims off overnight trains, business travellers, and families who want a room near the station for an early train home.
- Busy months
- All year; mornings, when the night trains arrive
The hard part
A lodge by the station lives on walk-ins and phone calls, and a register is the only record of who stayed and who paid what.
In SutraStack
Every walk-in becomes a booking on the chart, with the guest’s ID scan and each payment — cash, UPI or card — on it. At night the day’s takings are on the owner’s phone, not in a notebook.
Nanakheda & the highways
Nanakheda, Indore Road, Dewas Road, Badnagar Road
- Why guests come
- Newer hotels and wedding venues along the highways, the Nanakheda bus stand, and quick roads to Mahakal and to Indore.
- Who comes
- Families travelling by car, wedding parties, and travel agents’ coach groups.
- Busy months
- Weekends, the wedding season, and festival dates
The hard part
A wedding books twenty rooms for two nights and pays in parts. A coach group’s agent wants one bill and pays after the trip.
In SutraStack
Book the wedding as one booking with one bill, each part-payment recorded against it. The coach group goes on the agent’s account — what they sent, what they paid and what they still owe.
Kal Bhairav & the temple circuit
Kal Bhairav, Mangalnath, Sandipani Ashram, Gadkalika, Siddhavat, Chintaman Ganesh
- Why guests come
- The rest of Ujjain’s temple circuit: Kal Bhairav, the Mangal Dosh puja at Mangalnath, the Sandipani Ashram where Krishna studied, and the rites for ancestors at Siddhavat.
- Who comes
- Families who do the whole circuit by auto or taxi over two days, and devotees who come for a puja fixed for a particular day.
- Busy months
- All year; Tuesdays at Mangalnath, and the dates the panchang favours
The hard part
A family wants two nights around a puja on Tuesday, booked over the phone with a promise to pay on arrival — and then they do not come.
In SutraStack
Send them your booking link instead: they pick the room and pay an advance online, and the booking lands on your chart with the payment already on it.
Omkareshwar & Maheshwar
Omkareshwar, Mamleshwar, Maheshwar, Mandleshwar
- Why guests come
- The Omkareshwar jyotirlinga on its island in the Narmada, the parikrama and the boat rides, and the ghats and fort of Maheshwar.
- Who comes
- Pilgrims who visit both jyotirlingas — Mahakal and Omkareshwar — in one trip, and families on a Narmada weekend from Indore.
- Busy months
- Shravan, Mahashivratri, and winter weekends
The hard part
You run a lodge in Ujjain and another in Omkareshwar, and each has its own register, its own staff and its own phone.
In SutraStack
Multi-property is built in: one login opens both, each with its own rooms, rates, staff access and reports.
Indore
Indore, Rajwada, Sarafa, Vijay Nagar, Mhow
- Why guests come
- The airport most pilgrims fly into for Ujjain and Omkareshwar, the Rajwada, the night food stalls of Sarafa, and the city’s business hotels.
- Who comes
- Pilgrims flying in for Mahakal and Omkareshwar, business travellers on weekdays, and wedding parties.
- Busy months
- All year; weekdays for business, weekends and festival dates for pilgrims
The hard part
Business guests on weekdays and pilgrims at weekends — and each wants a different price and a different meal plan.
In SutraStack
Set rate plans for each — room only, with breakfast, or with meals — and weekday and weekend rates, then send them to every OTA with one click.
— Who it's for
Every kind of stay in Ujjain, one system.
Three rooms or three properties — you set up only what you use, and add the rest when you grow.
1—10roomsHomestays
A five-room homestay in a lane near the Mahakal temple, run from one phone by the family that lives upstairs.
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10—50roomsBoutique hotels
A twenty-room hotel on the road to Mahakal or near Ram Ghat, with a front desk, a restaurant and a full house every weekend.
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50+rooms · multi-propertyHotel groups
Two or more properties — say Ujjain and Omkareshwar, or Ujjain and Indore — under one login.
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Also runs
Guest houseLodgeResort— What an Ujjain front desk deals with
From Bhasma Aarti to Shravan rush, handled.
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“Guests arrive at three in the morning for the Bhasma Aarti and want a room straight away.”
Check a guest in at any hour on their arrival date. If they come before your check-in time, add an early check-in charge to the bill, so it is not forgotten at checkout.
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“A Shravan Monday, the phone never stops, and the register says a room is free when it isn’t.”
The booking chart shows every room, night by night. A MakeMyTrip or Goibibo booking drops the room count everywhere else on its own, so the last room is sold once.
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“5% GST or 18%? And does a guest from Gujarat pay IGST?”
Rooms up to ₹7,500 a night are billed at 5% and above that at 18%, worked out from each night’s rate. A room is taxed where it stands, so every bill shows CGST + SGST for Madhya Pradesh (state code 23) — for a guest from Gujarat too.
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“A travel agent in Ahmedabad sends a bus every month and settles up later.”
Mark each booking as the agent’s and record their payments against it. Their account shows what they sent, what they paid and what they still owe — so the season ends with a number, not an argument.
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“A family of twelve across four rooms: one bill for everyone, or does each room pay its own?”
Keep the family as one booking across four rooms, and choose one bill for all of them or one bill per room.
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“Every adult needs an ID on file, and the photocopies are in a drawer.”
Scan each guest’s ID into the booking — not only the person who booked — and see at any hour who is staying in which room. Managers can download the bookings in the house as a spreadsheet.
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“The owner lives in Indore, and the only report is a phone call.”
At 6 am an email lists today’s arrivals, the guests staying on and the checkouts. Open SutraStack on your phone any time for bookings, money collected and rooms sold.
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“The families who come back every Shravan still ring three times to ask if a room is free.”
Your own booking website shows them the free rooms and takes the booking and an online payment directly, with promo codes for repeat guests and quiet summer weekdays. Share the link on WhatsApp.
— More than a PMS
A channel manager, built in.
Most Ujjain properties sell through apps. SutraStack keeps every one of them in step with your front desk — one set of rates, one room count, and no extranet logins on a sold-out Saturday.
100+
OTAs your rooms can reach
- Direct
- MakeMyTrip and Goibibo
- Also connected
- Booking.com, Agoda, Expedia and 100+ more OTAs
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One room count, everywhere.
A booking on any channel lowers the rooms left on every other one — and the front desk sees the same number. The last room is sold once.
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Every rate from one screen.
Set season, weekend and festival rates once. Add a markup or a markdown for each channel, and SutraStack sends them out.
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Close dates. Set minimum stays.
Stop selling the weeks you shut, or ask for two nights over New Year — on every channel at once, not app by app.
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Your own booking website.
Guests book and pay on your own site with no OTA commission. Share the link on WhatsApp and Instagram, with promo codes for repeat guests.
— Your year in Ujjain
Shravan, Shivratri, Simhastha. One system all year.
What happens · Shravan
On every Monday of Shravan, Mahakal’s sawari leaves the temple for the Shipra and the city fills. Kanwariyas and families come from across Malwa and beyond.
In SutraStack
Price each Shravan Monday and weekend on its own, send the rates to every OTA with one click, and let the booking chart show what is left.
What happens · Navratri & Diwali
Navratri fills the Harsiddhi and Gadkalika temples, Diwali brings family trips, and the Kartik fair draws crowds to the city.
In SutraStack
Book a family into several rooms as one booking with one bill, and keep MakeMyTrip and Goibibo in step so the last room is never sold twice.
What happens · Winter & Mahashivratri
Winter weekends and New Year bring families from across India, and Mahashivratri is one of the biggest days of the year at Mahakal.
In SutraStack
Set a minimum stay over Mahashivratri and New Year, stop selling the dates you are full, and take an advance online so a held room is a paid room.
What happens · Summer
The heat thins the crowds on weekdays, while school holidays and weekends still fill the rooms near the temple.
In SutraStack
Fill quiet weekdays with a lower rate or a promo code on your own booking website, and see the money collected each day.
What happens · Simhastha 2028
The Simhastha Mahakumbh comes to the Shipra once in twelve years, and rooms across Ujjain — and in Indore and Dewas — are wanted for weeks on end.
In SutraStack
Set the season’s rates as the dates open on the OTAs, a minimum stay on the big days and an advance on every booking made on your website — and be promoted to pilgrims on mahakumbhujjain.com.
— A day at your front desk
One Saturday near Mahakal, start to finish.
A twenty-room hotel a short walk from the temple, in October, full for the weekend. Tap through the day to see where SutraStack does the work.
6:30 am
Back from the Bhasma Aarti.
Guests who went to the dawn aarti are back for tea. An email at six has already listed today’s arrivals, the guests staying on and the checkouts — the same list the desk opens at eight.
Reservations · Sat 17 Oct
- B-00421₹7,200
Sharma
3 nights · Deluxe
- B-00420₹1,400
PatelHourly
4 hours · Suite
- B-00419₹2,400
KhanHeld
22h hold · Standard
- B-00418₹12,800
VermaMulti
2 rooms · 2 nights
- B-00417₹2,400
MehraOTA
1 night · Standard
10:00 am
Checkout before the train home.
The Sharma family’s bill already holds three nights, the early check-in and the extras, at 5% GST. The ₹8,000 they paid by UPI is on it, and so is the balance.
Folio · #B-00421 · Sharma
- Deluxe · 3 nights₹7,200
- Early check-in₹800
- Minibar · night 2₹400
- Spa · 60 min₹1,800
- GST 5% · stay, minibar, spa₹510
11:30 am
Rooms turned round by noon.
Most guests stay one night, so most rooms turn over today. Housekeeping marks each room clean as they finish, and the desk knows which ones are ready for the afternoon trains and buses.
Housekeeping · 12 rooms
2 in progress
High priority
- 204Checkout · Priyain progress12m
- 308Stayover · Meeraqueued—
- 101Inspect · Rahuldone8m
- 404Deep clean · Priyain progress24m
- 212Turndown · Unassignedqueued—
1:15 pm
A MakeMyTrip booking for tonight.
It appears on the chart without anyone touching it, and the count of rooms left drops on Goibibo, your website and every other channel.
Inventory feed · 5 channels
Live- Booking.comSyncedjust now
- MakeMyTripSynced2s ago
- GoibiboSynced5s ago
- AgodaSynced11s ago
- ExpediaSyncing—
4:00 pm
A family from Ahmedabad.
Four rooms for three generations, one booking — with the advance they paid on your website already recorded.
Booking chart · Week 42
Live6:30 pm
Two guests from abroad.
In town for the evening aarti at Ram Ghat. Their passport scans go in at check-in; file Form C on the FRRO portal and upload the copy to the booking.
Check-in · Room 204
- GuestEmma Clarke
- NationalityBritish
- Passport•••• 4821 · scan pending
Form C · FRRO filing for foreign guests
11:00 pm
The owner checks in — from Indore.
Occupancy, average rate and revenue for October, on the phone. No call to the desk needed.
Oct performance · Month-to-date
Occupancy
80%
+2 pt · vs Sep
ADR
₹3,210
+11% · vs Sep
RevPAR
₹2,568
+14% · vs Sep
GOPPAR
₹1,860
+7% · vs Sep
Exports · PDF · Excel · Daily close locked
— Why hotels trust us
Simple to use. Easy to check.
People, not a ticket queue.
Message or call the team on WhatsApp. We set SutraStack up with you and train your staff, and the Support screen inside it shows who to call for your hotel.
Easy for every member of staff.
Each person gets their own login and sees only the screens their job needs, so a new hire learns a few screens, not the whole system — on the phone they already carry.
Every rupee explained.
Each bill lists every night, every extra and every payment, with the balance due always on screen. A guest never has to take anyone’s word for the total.
Every change on record.
Bookings, payments, refunds, bill charges and rate changes are saved with who made them and when. The owner can read the whole trail in the audit log.
Your data stays yours.
Each hotel sees only its own bookings and guests. Passport and ID scans are never on a public link and open only for signed-in staff. Accounts lock after repeated wrong passwords.
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— Ujjain hoteliers ask
Questions, answered.
Yes. An Ujjain hotel can set its rates for the whole Simhastha season date by date and send them to MakeMyTrip, Goibibo and other OTAs with one click — SutraStack sends rates up to a year ahead, so from spring 2027; ask for a minimum stay or close dates; take an advance on every booking made on its own website; keep one room count across every channel, so no room is sold twice; and keep an ID scan for every guest.
Ujjain’s Simhastha Mahakumbh is expected from March to May 2028. The exact bathing dates are announced officially — check them before you fix your season’s prices. Simhastha comes to Ujjain once every twelve years, when Jupiter is in Leo (Simha); the last one was in 2016.
Your rooms reach MakeMyTrip, Goibibo and 100+ other OTAs, and your own booking website takes direct bookings with an advance. We also help with sales and promotion: through our partnership with mahakumbhujjain.com, hotels on SutraStack are promoted on the portal to pilgrims planning their Simhastha trip.
Yes, on bookings made on your own SutraStack booking website. For each rate plan you choose the full amount, a percentage, the first night or a fixed amount, and the guest pays it online through Razorpay when they book. An advance is never less than ₹500 — or the whole stay, if that costs less. The balance stays on their bill.
Since 22 September 2025, rooms up to ₹7,500 a night are taxed at 5% (without input tax credit) and rooms above ₹7,500 at 18%, split equally into CGST and SGST. A room is taxed where the property stands, so an Ujjain hotel charges CGST + SGST even to guests and agencies from Gujarat, Maharashtra or other states. SutraStack applies this automatically.
Yes, directly. Their bookings arrive on your booking chart, and your rates and available rooms are sent back from SutraStack. The same rates and rooms also reach 100+ other OTAs, including Booking.com, Agoda and Expedia. You also get your own booking website for direct bookings.
Yes. Book a group into as many rooms as it needs as one booking, with one bill for all or one bill per room. Mark a booking as the agent’s, choose whether the agent or the guest pays, and the agent’s account shows what they sent, what they paid and what they still owe.
Yes. The ID of the guest who booked is taken at check-in, and every other guest in the room is added with their own ID scan on the booking. You can see at any hour who is staying in which room, and managers can download the bookings in the house as a spreadsheet. For guests from abroad, Form C is still filed on the FRRO portal; upload the copy to the booking.
Look for four things: a channel manager built in, so MakeMyTrip and the front desk never sell the same room twice; GST worked out at 5% or 18% on its own; a way to take an advance before a pilgrim travels; and screens that work on a phone. SutraStack does all four, and it is ready for Simhastha 2028.
Yes. Multi-property is built in — no enterprise upgrade. One login opens every property, each with its own rooms, rates, staff access and reports.
Himachal Pradesh. Sutra Stack Private Limited is registered there and was incubated at IIT Mandi Catalyst with funding from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. It is made in India for India’s budget hotels, lodges and homestays — from the hills to the temple towns.
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