Protection level
Rooms to hold back for guests who book late.
OpenThe Owner’s Desk
Check a number before the meeting.
Five calculators for the figures an owner is shown most often, and twelve more across the site. They work on your own numbers, in your browser. Nothing is stored and nothing is sent.
Flow-through and flex
How much of a change in revenue reached profit. Enter two periods: this year and last, or actual and budget.
Result · example figures until you change them
Change in revenue—
Change in GOP—
GOP margin, earlier—
GOP margin, later—
Flow-through—
Market index: MPI, ARI, RGI
Whether the hotel takes its fair share of the market, and whether it does so through occupancy or through rate.
Result · example figures until you change them
Hotel RevPAR—
Competitive set RevPAR—
MPI (occupancy index)—
ARI (rate index)—
RGI (RevPAR index)—
Rate and volume variance
Why rooms revenue differs from budget: because of the price achieved, or the number of rooms sold.
Result · example figures until you change them
Budget rooms revenue—
Actual rooms revenue—
Volume variance—
Rate variance—
Total variance—
Management fees and what remains
What the operator’s fees and the FF&E reserve take from gross operating profit, on a common fee structure.
Result · example figures until you change them
Base fee—
Adjusted GOP (GOP less base fee)—
Incentive fee—
Fees as a share of revenue—
Fees as a share of GOP—
FF&E reserve—
Left after fees and reserve—
Total management fees—
Value and debt
A first estimate of value from income, and three measures of how much debt that income can carry.
Result · example figures until you change them
Value per room—
Loan-to-value—
Debt service coverage—
Debt yield—
Indicative value—
More calculators
Twelve more, each on the page that explains it.
Overbooking limit
Reservations to accept on a sold-out night.
OpenGroup displacement
The lowest rate at which a group pays its way.
OpenRevPASH
What each seat earns for each hour.
OpenPlate cost and guide price
From purchase price and yield to a price to test.
OpenThe menu matrix
Stars, plowhorses, puzzles and dogs.
OpenSpirit and cocktail pour
Cost per drink and the price that meets a target.
OpenWine: bottle and glass
List price and by-the-glass price.
OpenArea programme
Built area by zone for a hotel of a given size and tier.
OpenFunction room capacity
How many people a room holds in each layout.
OpenCampaign funnel
Cost per booking beside the agent’s commission.
OpenDirect against an agent
What each channel leaves after its cost.
OpenA caution
These tools give a first reading, built on standard definitions. They are no substitute for the accounts, the agreement or a valuation. The terms are defined in the glossary and explained in the answers.
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