Applies to:          Stayntouch PMS          

Beacon

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

• Beacon – Rate Radar:
  • The intelligent hotel rate shopper that tells you when to act.
  • Most rate shoppers hand you a wall of numbers and leave the interpretation to you. Rate Radar does the hard work for you. It monitors your competitors across multiple room types, tracking daily rate changes, availability status and pricing patterns across a rolling 365-day window.
  • When something changes, signals surface it. High-priority signals, such as a competitor selling out or low on availability, rise to the top. Informational changes sit below. You spend less time scanning data and more time making smarter pricing decisions.
  • A built-in Parity Monitor watches for rate discrepancies. When a secret discount is found, it flags the affected dates, shows the price difference and gives you the evidence needed to raise a dispute.
  • Rate Radar connects to Stayntouch to pull real-time left-to-sell rooms for future stay dates, so remaining inventory sits alongside competitor pricing in a single view. You see the market and your position together.
  • Key features include a daily rate overview with competitor comparison charts, a calendar view with signal and availability indicators, room type mapping for genuinely like-for-like comparisons, 30 days of pricing history, and multi-property support for hotel groups.
  • Rate Radar is built for properties that want competitive intelligence without the complexity or the cost.
  • Get started in minutes with a 7-day free trial, no credit card required.
• Beacon – Explorer:
  • Real-time hotel analytics with AI Insights.
  • See your revenue three ways: 
    • Gross – what the guest paid. 
    • Net (excluding tax) – the figure your PMS records. 
    • Net (excluding tax and commission) – what you actually kept.
  • Switch between them on any report with one click and track your property's true revenue performance, or benchmark booking sources to identify the most profitable. Visibility boosters can be tracked, too, so your revenue figures stay accurate when an OTA's commission changes.
  • Explorer updates the moment a booking is made, changed, or cancelled. Revenue, ADR, RevPAR, occupancy, sources, and segments, live and in one place.
  • Cancellations are reported two ways: revenue lost and kept. You see the true cost of cancellations by source, segment, and room type, and the patterns behind them.
  • Upload your budget and Explorer keeps track, month by month. You know what's ahead, what's behind, and where to push before the month closes. Messy PMS segments can be grouped into the lines you actually budget on.
  • Compare any period against any other with a click. This month against last year, this week against last, stay date or booking date, gross or net. Comparisons line up by day of the week, so Mondays compare to Mondays.
  • Every page has an AI Insights panel. It reads the data you're looking at and tells you what's going well, what's worth watching and what needs attention, with the numbers behind each point.
  • Explorer is built for hoteliers, not data analysts. Every report is clear enough for front-of-house and detailed enough for the general manager, so the whole team works from the same numbers.

WHY BEACON?

• Beacon – Rate Radar:
  • Know when to act, not just what changed.
  • Signals rank what matters: sellouts, price shifts, and availability fluctuations rise to the top; informational changes sit below. Less time scanning rates, more time making pricing decisions.
  • See rates and your inventory together.
  • The Stayntouch connection pulls real-time left-to-sell rooms for future stay dates, so competitor pricing sits alongside your remaining inventory. One view tells you both the market and your position.
  • Catch parity issues before they cost you.
  • The built-in Parity Monitor watches for rate discrepancies. When a lower price appears, it flags the affected dates, shows the difference, and gives you the evidence needed to raise a dispute.
  • Like-for-like comparisons, 365 days out.
  • No more comparing your standard double against a competitor's suite. Room type mapping keeps comparisons honest, across a rolling 365-day window with 30 days of pricing history.
• Beacon – Explorer:
  • Reports, not a report builder.
  • Multiple curated reports covering sources, segments, cancellations, length of stay, on-the-day bookings, and budget. Nothing to design, nothing to configure. Open the page, and the answer is there.
  • See your revenue three ways: Gross, Net (excluding tax), and Net (excluding tax and commission), on any report with one click. Benchmark each booking source's true performance, with visibility boosters recorded so the numbers stay accurate.
  • Cancellations, lost and kept revenue.
  • Cancellations reported as revenue lost and revenue kept, by source, segment, and room type.
  • Budget vs reality. Upload your budget, and Explorer keeps score by month and by segment. See what's ahead, what's behind, and where to push before the month closes.

WHO AT THE HOTEL USES IT?

Hotels run on data, yet most tools still leave the work to you: exports, spreadsheets, and figures that don’t agree. Beacon gives you one clear view and a plain answer on when to act.

KEY FEATURES/BENEFITS

• Beacon – Rate Radar: 
  • Track up to 6 properties (you + 5 competitors).
  • 365 days auto-updated daily + extra updates.
  • Signals that turn data into insights.
  • Rate parity monitoring.
  • Room and rate type monitoring.
  • 30-day pricing history.
• Beacon – Explorer:
  • Real-time revenue, ADR, RevPAR, and occupancy.
  • Gross, Net (excluding tax), and Net (excluding tax and commission) on every report.
  • Cancellations as revenue lost and kept.
  • Budget upload and tracking by month and segment.
  • Compare any period, by stay or booking date.
  • AI Insights on every page.

The integration can be used globally.

Stayntouch Implementations will generate API OAuth keys to Beacon.

To activate this integration for your property, please contact Customer Support.