Configuring Discount Reasons
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Occupancy %:
Advance Discount Occupancy = Total Rooms Sold / Total Inventory Rooms.
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Total Rooms Sold: Includes Day Use, Complimentary, No Show, and Advance Discount reservations.
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Total Inventory Rooms = Total number of physical rooms configured at your property. Does not subtract Out Of Order (OOO) or Out Of Service (OOS).
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Average Daily Rate (ADR):
Advance Discount ADR = Total Gross Room Revenue - Advance Discount Revenue / Total Rooms Sold.-
Total Gross Room Revenue = Includes all lodging (type) charges, including No Shows, Day Use, Cancellation fees, Late Checkout fees, Upgrade fees. Does not subtract revenue adjustments (credits). Does not include Advance Discount postings.
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Total Rooms Sold = Total room sold per business day. Includes Day Use & Points and Cash and No Show reservations. Does not include Complimentary or Advance Discount reservations.
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Adding a Discount Reason
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From the Administration menu, select Booking, select Reservation Management, and then select Discount Reasons.
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Click New and complete the following fields:
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Code: Enter the code you want to assign to a discount reason. For example, ERR, WALK, RG, or MGMT.
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Description: Enter a discount reason explanation, such as agent error, walked guest, repeat guest, management decision, and so on.
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Display Seq: Enter a number that controls the position of this code in listings. Codes without a sequence number assigned are listed in alphabetical order following codes with a sequence assigned.
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Adding Advance Discount Calculation Rules: Advanced Discount Reasons allow you to configure rule based discounting based on an occupancy range, discount amount, and a calculation rule (% of ADR).
Note:
Advanced Discount Reasons do not appear in the discount field list in Reservation Stay Details.-
Click the Advanced check box to identify the discount reason as an Advanced discount.
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Click Add Row to add new rules.
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Enter the Max Occupancy and the Discount (% of ADR) per rule:
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The Min Occupancy % auto-populates for the new rule added.
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Click X to delete a rule.
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Click Save and Continue to add another rule.
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Click Save.
Editing a Discount Reason
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From the Administration menu, select Booking, select Reservation Management, and then select Discount Reasons.
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Enter search criteria and click Search.
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In the search results, select the code, click the vertical ellipsis Actions menu, and then click Edit.
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Update the configuration.
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Click Save.
Deleting a Discount Reason
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From the Administration menu, select Booking, select Reservation Management, and then select Discount Reasons.
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Enter search criteria and click Search.
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In the search results, select the code, click the vertical ellipsis Actions menu, and then click Delete.
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Click Delete to confirm.