Booking & Payment ProcessingPurpose
1.2. Enable automated calculation of daily, weekly, and monthly revenue metrics.
1.3. Automating categorization of income based on accommodation type, payment method, origin channel (website/OTA/offline).
1.4. Generate and distribute automated revenue analytics and performance reports to management.
1.5. Deliver automated comparisons with previous periods, flag trends, and anomalies using business intelligence features.
1.6. Support automated reconciliation of payments with bookings, reducing manual errors.
1.7. Automator provides automated dashboards with drill-down features for further financial insights.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Scheduled automation (e.g., nightly, weekly, monthly revenue report runs).
2.3. Payment gateway update triggers automated reporting.
2.4. Manual data sync request triggers revenue automation.
2.5. Error detection in payment reconciliation automates custom analytics.
Platform Variants
• API: `/v1/balance`, `/v1/payouts`—automate fetching and aggregating payment data.
3.2. PayPal
• SDK: Payouts API and Transaction Search—automate revenue data extraction.
3.3. Square
• API: `/v2/payments`—automating sales data pull per day/week/month.
3.4. Xero
• Endpoint: `/reports/ProfitAndLoss`, `/invoices`—automate report generation.
3.5. QuickBooks Online
• Endpoint: `/reports/ProfitAndLoss`, `/payment`—automate financial analytics.
3.6. Booking.com (Partner API)
• Function: ‘Get Reservations’ + ‘Transactions’—automate booking and revenue sync.
3.7. Airbnb API (for Partners)
• Endpoint: Reservations, Financial Reports—automate pulling and reconciling guest payments.
3.8. Cloudbeds
• API: `/getReservations`, `/getTransactions`—automate revenue extraction for analytics.
3.9. Oracle Hospitality OPERA
• Feature: Report Scheduler API—automate delivery of customized revenue reports.
3.10. Zoho Books
• API: `/reports/profitandloss`, `/customerpayments`—automate transaction analytics.
3.11. FreshBooks
• API: `/invoices`, `/payments`—automate financial report creation.
3.12. Microsoft Power BI
• Connector: Dataflows—automate pulling and transforming revenue data from all sources.
3.13. Google Data Studio
• Connector: Automate scheduled imports from Google Sheets/Data Warehouses.
3.14. Tableau
• Data Source: Web Data Connector API—automating ingestion of real-time hostel revenue data.
3.15. Zapier
• Automation: Trigger on “New Payment” or “New Booking” across integrated apps—automating downstream analytics.
3.16. Make/Integromat
• Scenario: Automate scraping, aggregation, and reporting of booking/payment events.
3.17. Salesforce
• Feature: Reports & Dashboards; API for automating customer revenue segmentation analytics.
3.18. Sage Intacct
• API: `/GLACCOUNTBALANCE`, `/getARInvoices`—automate syncing and reporting financials.
3.19. Mollie
• API: ‘List payments’, ‘List settlements’—automating revenue reporting automation.
3.20. Pabbly
• Trigger: “New Sale” webhook—automated analytics sent to accounting dashboard.
3.21. SumUp
• API: `/v0.1/me/transactions`—automating daily hostel revenue pull.
3.22. Shopify (if hostel sells add-ons)
• API: `/admin/api/2023-04/orders.json`—automate accommodating add-on revenue in reporting.
3.23. Lodgify
• API: Reservations, Payments—automate complete financial analytics for hostels.
3.24. Slack
• Feature: Incoming Webhook—automated notification when revenue goals are hit.
Benefits
4.2. Automates faster financial decision-making via near real-time analytics.
4.3. Enables automated notification of revenue trends and outliers.
4.4. Automating customizable, on-demand, and scheduled reporting.
4.5. Automator consolidates diverse payment and booking sources, improving financial clarity.
4.6. Automatedly supports regulatory and audit requirements via consistent reporting.
4.7. Saves staff hours with full automatable data sync and delivery mechanisms.