HotelDruid stores reservations in a normalised set of tables: a prenota row for each reservation with its own tipo_prenotazione status and linked rows for guest, room, and rate data. The plugin's planner view shows a Gantt-style grid of nights, which is great for seeing occupancy but unhelpful for triage. You cannot see at a glance how many new requests are waiting on confirmation, how many guests still need to be checked in today, and how many checkouts are done.

SleekView Kanban reads the same HotelDruid tables, treats the reservation status as the natural axis to group by, and renders one column per value. Cards show the guest name, the room and rate, the check-in and check-out nights, the guest count, and the total. Filters can scope the board to a single property, room type, or arrival night so each role in the operation sees exactly what they need to act on.

Drag a card from New to Confirmed and SleekView writes the new status back through HotelDruid's reservation update path. Drag to Checked-in when the guest arrives and the room status updates in the planner. Drag to Cancelled and the cancellation flow runs, freeing inventory. Every write follows the same path HotelDruid's own admin uses, so reporting stays accurate.

HotelDruid's planner is excellent at showing you what rooms are sold on what nights. It is much less helpful at showing you what stage each reservation is in right now. A new reservation needs confirmation.

A confirmed reservation needs check-in. A checked-in guest needs to be marked checked-out when they leave. A cancelled reservation may need a refund and follow-up.

Those four verbs are the entire front-desk workflow, and the Gantt view buries them behind colours and icons that staff have to learn. A kanban turns the same data into four columns of cards, with a count on each so today's workload is obvious. The front desk sees that there are ten new requests still waiting and works them down.

Housekeeping sees that there are eight checkouts done and four still to confirm. Multi-property operators see four boards side by side on one screen. Drag becomes the verb that moves the work forward, and because the writes go through HotelDruid's own update path, the planner stays in perfect sync.