Rate recommendations

Rate recommendations records a unit type, stay date, current rate, proposed rate and reason. Its linked reservation gives Revenue Manager a concrete case to examine. Proposed is the review state; Approved records the approval decision, and Published records the released recommendation. An invalid submission returns a reason for correction. The review should check the linked reservation and ensure the proposed amount is positive before deciding.

• Queue. Recommendations Awaiting Review holds proposed changes with their reason and linked stay.
• Decision. Revenue Manager compares current and proposed amounts for the specified stay date.
• Release. Published Rates shows the decisions made available to the operating team.

Suppose booked units rise for a holiday Saturday while a competitor observation also changes. Revenue Manager can cite those facts in the reason and propose a new nightly amount for that Saturday. Approval records the decision on that recommendation. Publication follows approval; it does not rewrite an existing reservation’s recorded nightly rate. An invalid submission remains unchanged so the owner can correct it and try again.

Agree who may enter a proposal, who decides approval and who publishes the approved result. Keep the proposal linked to the intended reservation and check that its unit type and stay date describe the same case. Require a positive proposed amount and a reason that a reviewer can inspect. Decide how Revenue Manager handles a rejected recommendation while retaining the earlier decision record. Publication should follow approval without rewriting the nightly rate already recorded on the stay.

Start with a Saturday reservation and a demand observation for that stay date. Revenue Manager records the current and proposed amounts with a reason, then approves the valid proposal. Publish that approved recommendation and compare its status with the reservation rate, which remains the booked amount. Try another proposal with a nonpositive proposed amount. Show the reasoned rejection and unchanged proposal, then correct it as a separate review step. Ask Property Manager to inspect the same linked stay.

• Recommendations Awaiting Review — Shows proposed rate changes with reason and linked stay.
• Published Rates — Shows approved changes released for the stay date.
• Demand by Stay Date — Shows the observation that informs the review.

Walk the linked records in the rate review process. Use implementation to agree the first operating cycle and the data model to check the imported references.