How to automate your hotel reporting
More than 30 years in hotel rooms division, from hostels to five-star chain hotels; focused on revenue management since 2009.
To automate hotel reporting, connect your booking system to a tool that calculates the figures the same way every week and writes the explanation for you. A good weekly report shows revenue, occupancy, ADR and RevPAR against last year and budget, the months ahead on the books, pickup and cancellations, and says in plain language what changed and why.
What a good weekly report contains
- Revenue, occupancy, ADR and RevPAR, against the same time last year and against budget
- The same figures net of commission, so OTA costs are visible
- The coming months on the books against the same time last year
- Pickup and cancellations of the last seven days, and which channel they came through
- Two or three sentences that explain what changed, why, and what deserves attention
Why manual reports go wrong
Copying figures by hand takes hours every week and creates small differences: a filter set differently, a week sliced differently, VAT included one week and not the next. The explanation is written from scratch every time and depends on who has time.
What changes when it is automatic
The figures are calculated the same way every week, straight from the booking system. The report arrives on Monday morning, before the weekly meeting, and the time that went into copying goes into deciding what to do.
RevView sends a weekly report every Monday and a monthly report on the 1st as a PDF, in plain language, written from your own figures.
Questions
Can I keep my own report layout?
In RevView you choose which pages go into your reports (Plus).
Who writes the explanation?
RevView writes it from your own figures with a language model, in short sentences: what changed, how much and why.