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Maintainly: Free Maintenance Software for Healthcare, Hospitality, and Offices
Managing maintenance shouldn’t feel like juggling spreadsheets, chasing emails, or losing track of who’s doing what. At Maintainly, we built our software to make life easier for maintenance teams, facility managers, and businesses of all sizes. Whether you’re in healthcare, hospitality, or running busy offices, our free CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) is designed to streamline the way you plan, track, and execute work.
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Pros and Cons of Using Free Maintenance Management Software
When you’re responsible for keeping equipment, facilities, or assets running smoothly, the right maintenance management software can feel like a lifesaver. But when budgets are tight, many teams start with one big question: Should we just use free maintenance management software?
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Tips for Migrating Your Maintenance Tasks to Software
Switching software tools can feel like a lot. For many maintenance teams, the story starts the same way: a handful of spreadsheets, paperwork orders pinned to a board, and lots of walking around to check who’s doing what. It works until it doesn’t.
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Audit Trails and CMMS: Accuracy, Reliability, and Compliance in Maintenance Management
Audit trails are essential for accountability, compliance, and efficiency, but manual methods fall short in today’s fast-paced operations. A CMMS streamlines record-keeping, ensuring accurate, reliable audit trails that support troubleshooting, predictive maintenance, and regulatory confidence.
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Maximizing Efficiency in Hospitality: Tips for Implementing CMMS in a Hotel
In the hospitality industry, guest satisfaction is paramount, and a clean, functional, and well-maintained environment plays a significant role in achieving it. From air conditioning systems and elevators to lighting and housekeeping equipment, hotels rely on hundreds of assets that require regular maintenance.
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Learn how to quickly submit maintenance requests using Maintainly CMMS in this step-by-step tutorial.
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Video: Create Preventive Maintenance Tutorial
Learn how to streamline your preventive maintenance (PM) process in Maintainly CMMS using task templates and automations. In this step-by-step walkthrough, we’ll show you how to set up recurring work orders, with standardized preventative maintenance procedures, and ensure every asset is serviced on time - without the hassle of manual scheduling.
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Corrective Maintenance Software vs Preventive Maintenance Software: What's Best for Your Business?
One thing's for sure: when equipment breaks down, your workflow stalls, your team scrambles, and your bottom line takes a hit. That's why having the right maintenance approach and the right software can make all the difference.
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Hotel Maintenance Software: Key Features and Why Your Hotel Needs It
If you manage a hotel, you know that running it is no easy job. Hotel managers have plenty of tasks on their plates, ranging from guest satisfaction to housekeeping. However, there’s one area that often gets overlooked: maintenance.
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How to Choose the Best Maintenance Tracking Software in 2025
If you've ever juggled spreadsheets, sticky notes, and whiteboard scribbles to keep maintenance on track, you know it's a recipe for headaches. In 2025, businesses are finally catching up to the fact that old-school methods can't keep up with the complexity of modern equipment, compliance demands, and growing maintenance teams.
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