My wife and I own a bed and breakfast, and our booking engine is web-based. We have a phone system that forwards all incoming calls to our iPhones, and thus we do not miss any reservations (at $150 to $240 each). We CAN use the iPhone to enter the reservations, however the additional screen space of the iPad will make our life much simpler.
We can check availability, accept the reservation, send a confirmation email, use it as a marketing tool to show full-screen pictures of our B&B to anybody who is remotely interested, bring up our guest reviews on TripAdvisor.com to show what our guests think (TA rates us the #1 B&B in PA), and do all of this anywhere there is an AT&T signal.
Our website is programmed (by me) in pure html with a little javascript and has optimized images so that it loads quickly even on the Edge network, never mind 3G.
Really I can think of so many business applications just with the web access, never mind iWorks (which I find more than adequate for my needs).
You can find my address at thecarlislehouse.com to send the Amazon Gift Certificate!
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