Likuri Island Resort Fiji goes live on Daylight PMS, Infrasys POS and Astral Payments

Shiji says Likuri Island Resort Fiji is now live on three of its products at once: Daylight PMS at the front desk, Infrasys POS across the dining outlets, and Astral Payments handling the money in both. The announcement came out of Shiji's Sydney office on 19 October.

For a small island property, running the whole stack from one vendor is the interesting part. The integration points that usually break are exactly the ones Shiji is selling as already solved here.

What was deployed

Daylight PMS is Shiji's mobile-first property management platform. At Likuri it covers check-in and check-out, guest profile management and room operations.

Infrasys POS went in across the resort's food and beverage outlets, including the Likuri Bar, to handle orders during peak service.

Astral Payments sits across both systems and processes payments in one place, which is what makes reconciliation a single job rather than two. It also connects outward in two directions. Global Blue handles international guest transactions and tax-free processing across both accommodation and dining, which matters at a resort where most guests fly in. SiteMinder keeps rates and inventory in sync across distribution channels.

That last connection is worth noting. Shiji's own stack leans on SiteMinder for channel management, the same arrangement Mews moved to this year. Channel management is increasingly something PMS vendors buy in rather than build.

What the resort says changed

Navinesh Singh, Group General Manager at Likuri Group, said the technology gives his teams "greater efficiency, visibility and control across the resort."

Anthony Stevens, Shiji's General Manager for Australia and New Zealand, said the resort has established "a connected technology foundation."

Shiji reports four early outcomes: faster guest processing at reception, better service turnaround in food and beverage, more accurate revenue capture through automated room charge and payment workflows, and more reliable centralised reporting for management.

The numbers that are missing

Every one of those outcomes is an adjective. There is no room count for Likuri, no before and after, no check-in time, no reconciliation hours saved, no date for when the rollout started or finished. The only figures in the release are about Shiji itself: more than 91,000 hotels served and more than 5,000 employees.

That is normal for a customer win release, and it is also the reason to read one carefully. If you are comparing Daylight against OPERA Cloud, Mews or Stayntouch, this tells you the stack works at a remote resort with a bar and international guests. It does not tell you how much better it is than what was there before, because Shiji does not say what was there before.

Where Daylight is actually winning

Put this alongside Shiji's other announcements and a pattern shows up. Since mid-August the company has published Daylight PMS wins at Green Lodge Moorea in French Polynesia, Al Khoory Hotels in Dubai, Chatrium Residence Riverside in Bangkok, Grupo Baleine, First Central Hotel Suites in Dubai, and now Likuri in Fiji.

Six in roughly two months, concentrated in Asia-Pacific, the Pacific islands and the Gulf. Independent and small-group luxury, not chains. If you run that kind of property in that part of the world, Shiji is competing hard for you right now, and a reference site near you is probably available to call.