Business phone systems, guest Wi-Fi, EPOS-ready broadband and CCTV for UK hospitality.
Hospitality is a punishing sector for technology — noisy environments, seasonal peaks, staff turnover, mixed connectivity requirements (EPOS, phones, guest Wi-Fi, CCTV, back-of-house), and margins that leave no room for a bad Sunday service. Atom IP deliver cloud phone systems, business FTTP with 4G failover, guest Wi-Fi with captive portal, commercial CCTV and managed IT to hotels, restaurants, pubs, cafes and multi-venue hospitality groups across Hampshire, Dorset and the south coast.
The problems this sector actually has.
Not a generic technology pitch — the specific patterns we see in Hospitality every week.
Reservation calls at peak — missed covers cost real money
A single missed booking call on a Friday night can cost more than a month of phone-system fees. Front-of-house cannot always answer, and no dedicated bookings team is affordable for small operators.
EPOS, phones, guest Wi-Fi and CCTV fighting for the same line
Most independents run everything over a single consumer-grade line. Card payments stutter when the guest Wi-Fi is busy. Phones drop mid-call when someone streams Netflix.
Sunday-service outages are catastrophic
A broadband outage during service is not an inconvenience — it is 200 diners walking out without paying. Failover is not optional.
Staff churn creates admin overhead
Passwords, fobs, deskphone extensions and CCTV access all need updating every time a team member joins or leaves. Manual admin does not scale in a sector with 60% annual staff turnover.
Multi-venue consistency
A group with four hotels or a chain of restaurants needs consistent phone menus, brand-consistent hold music, and a manager view across every venue — not four separate systems glued together.
Phones, broadband and CCTV — designed as one system.
Most providers deliver these separately. In Hospitality, that's where the problems start. Under one team, everything is designed to work with everything else.
Cloud phone systems that stop missed bookings and lost covers.
Explore business phone systems- Reservation calls ring in-venue first, then overflow to a central bookings team after a defined ring window.
- Missed-call SMS notification to the venue manager with caller number and time.
- CRM screen-pop with previous booking history — no repeat asking of the same question.
- Multi-venue central admin with per-venue routing.
- Front-of-house DECT and Wi-Fi cordless handsets for kitchen, bar and reception.
- Ring groups for reservations, kitchen and back-of-house.
- Out-of-hours voicemail with automatic email transcript to the manager.
Connectivity engineered for service, not for a household.
Explore business broadband and leased lines- Business FTTP at every venue with 4G/5G failover — Sunday service is not going down.
- VLAN segmentation — EPOS on one network, guest Wi-Fi on another, CCTV on a third, phones prioritised across all.
- Cloud-managed firewalls with two-factor admin.
- PCI DSS-aligned network design for card-payment environments.
- Guest Wi-Fi with captive portal — collect email addresses, brand the login, comply with the code of practice.
- SD-WAN across multiple venues for central management.
CCTV that catches what matters — from till-side to loading bay.
Explore commercial cctv- 4K cameras on tills, bar areas, dining rooms, back-of-house and delivery entrances.
- ANPR on car parks for hotels and larger restaurants.
- People-counting for footfall analysis in bar and dining areas.
- Kitchen-fire compliance cameras where insurance requires.
- Multi-venue central viewing for GMs and area managers.
- GDPR-aligned retention, signage and lawful basis.
How it plays out.
Anonymised, illustrative of the kind of Hospitality business we work with every month.
Four-venue hospitality group across the south coast
Restaurant group with venues in Southampton, Winchester and Portsmouth. Each on ageing FTTC broadband with EPOS, reservations, guest Wi-Fi and CCTV all fighting for the same line. Reservations manned inconsistently — Friday and Saturday nights routinely miss 15+ calls per venue. CCTV on a 5-year-old DVR nobody trusts. Sundays occasionally lost to broadband outages.
Business FTTP with 4G failover at every venue. Full VLAN segmentation — EPOS, guest Wi-Fi, CCTV and phones on separate networks. Cloud phone system with per-venue routing and central overflow to a shared bookings team when no venue picks up. Missed-call SMS to the venue manager on every dropped call. 88 4K CCTV cameras across the four venues with central multi-site viewing. One bill, one support team, central management. Bookings recovered pay for the entire project within four months.
The differences you'll feel in hospitality.
Same technology on paper. Very different experience in practice.
The tools your team already uses.
Click-to-dial, screen-pop, call outcomes and AI call summaries flow into the systems you already run.
Common questions from hospitality.
Can you keep our card payments running during a broadband outage?
Yes. Business FTTP with 4G/5G failover keeps card payments running seamlessly during a fibre outage. We also segment card-payment traffic onto its own PCI-aligned network so it never fights with guest Wi-Fi at peak.
Do you handle guest Wi-Fi with captive portal and data capture?
Yes. Branded captive portal, email/social login, marketing-consent capture aligned to GDPR, and a code-of-practice-compliant terms flow. Guest Wi-Fi is always segregated from EPOS, phones and CCTV by VLAN.
Can you route calls between multiple venues centrally?
Yes. Reservations ring in-venue first, then overflow to a central bookings team (or a defined secondary venue) after a configured ring window. Every venue also has its own dedicated queue and manager dashboard.
Do you install CCTV in a kitchen environment?
Yes — IP66-rated cameras that cope with heat, steam and grease, positioned to satisfy insurance and kitchen-fire compliance without impeding service.
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Tell us about your hospitality.
Send us your current phone bill and broadband contract — we'll come back within 48 hours with practical options and clear pricing.