Profitento

AI hotel revenue optimization platform that helped a U.S. resort integrate seasonal demand, guest data, direct bookings, and upsell offers into a connected profit control system.

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AT A GLANCE

The client operated a 420-room coastal resort and spa in the USA catering to leisure travelers and families as well as conference and wedding attendees, wellness travelers, and seasonal vacation demand. The resort experienced strong occupancy during holidays and peak travel periods. Still, revenue varied by room type, travel package, booking channel, and ancillary services. Pricing relied on exports from the property management system, OTA dashboards, competitor price comparisons, spreadsheets, and a manual pricing effort. 

Computools engineered Profitento as an AI hotel revenue optimization platform that combined dynamic pricing and demand forecasting with guest data, OTA exposure, direct booking, and upsell management. With this solution, the client was able to make rapid revenue decisions based on integrated and structured data rather than fragmented hospitality revenue management systems.

THE CLIENT

The client is a US-based resort operator managing a large coastal property featuring 420 guest rooms, suites, and spa services along with multiple restaurants and a variety of beach activities. The resort offers paid upgrades, wedding packages, family offers, and seasonal promotions. Branded resorts, boutique coastal hotels, vacation rentals, and listings on OTAs are among the resort’s main competition. Demand is highly variable based on school travel, long weekends, destination weddings, local events, and travel impacted by the weather. 

Before Computools, the revenue team worked across disconnected systems. The client needed custom hotel revenue management software that could connect pricing logic, guest profiles, booking channels, resort packages, upsell execution, and profit visibility in one operating model.

BUSINESS CHALLENGE

The resort’s main challenge was revenue leakage caused by delayed pricing decisions and fragmented data. During peak vacation periods, competitor prices and package offers changed faster than the internal review process. The team often noticed demand shifts after rooms, suites, or packages had already been sold at outdated rates. OTA commissions reduced net revenue, while spa, dining, upgrade, activity, and late checkout offers depended on manual follow-up. 

A booking engine or isolated CRM could not solve the issue. The client needed hotel pricing optimization software within a wider AI hotel revenue management system. Computools supported the project with product design, data integration, hospitality workflow analysis, and AI development services.

SOLUTION SUMMARY

Computools designed and delivered Profitento as a hotel revenue intelligence platform that combined pricing intelligence, forecasting, guest data, OTA margin control, direct booking workflows, and AI-supported upsell logic. 

The solution consolidated booking, guest, pricing, channel, package, and service data into one decision-support environment. It included hotel demand forecasting software capabilities, dynamic pricing rules, competitor rate tracking, seasonal demand signals, CRM segmentation, a guest data platform, a direct booking platform for hotels, OTA Margin Monitor, hotel upsell software, reports, alerts, and role-based administration. Each module addressed a specific revenue loss point across pricing, channels, forecasts, guest value, and ancillary revenue.

IMPACT

Within six months after launch, the client improved revenue performance across several key metrics.

  • RevPAR rose by 11.4%;
  • ADR improved by 7.8%;
  • occupancy climbed by 5.2%;
  • direct bookings grew by 24%;
  • OTA dependency dropped by 18%;
  • forecast accuracy advanced by 32%;
  • guest lifetime value increased by 17%;
  • upsell revenue expanded by 14%.

Results were measured against the six-month pre-launch baseline using PMS data, channel reports, booking engine data, OTA performance data, CRM records, upsell activity, and revenue dashboards. 

The direct booking platform for hotels, guest data platform, and hotel upsell software helped the resort protect margin and monetize guest demand more effectively.

WHY COMPUTOOLS

Computools was chosen as the end-to-end technology partner because this project extended beyond hotel software development. The client required a team that mapped resort revenue workflows and integrated hospitality systems in addition to designing scalable data flows. The operator needed the technology to help it make daily operational trade-offs based on pricing, guests, packages, and channels. 

Computools’ expertise includes product design, data engineering, integration, AI development, cloud infrastructure, and travel and hospitality software development. For Profitento, the team integrated property management systems, channel managers, booking engine, CRM, POS, online travel agencies, and spas and restaurants to create a unified operational system for pricing approval, demand forecasting, direct booking, channel control, upselling, and executive reporting.

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STORY IN DEPTH

Background

After multiple peak seasons of inconsistent revenue, the client reached out to Computools. While occupancy was high during peak periods, profitability fluctuated by room type, package type, OTA type, and resort services. The General Manager noticed high demand, yet the resort lost margin because of old pricing, high OTA commissions, and lost opportunities for ancillary sales.

The Revenue Manager could analyze the demand after the season, but didn’t have enough data points to proactively address it. Data from the PMS, OTAs, competitor pricing, booking engine, CRM, spa bookings, dining, and package sales had to be pulled for analysis individually.

The situation worsened by the time-sensitive, seasonal demand. Families reserving during school breaks, couples booking wellness and spa stays, wedding groups with customized packages, and weekend guests that responded to last minute weather and local events. The resort could no longer afford to let sales and pricing decisions take hours when the opportunity was time-sensitive.

Approach to solution

Computools designed Profitento as a profitability control system and outlined four key goals that included forecasting and pricing improvements, reduced dependence on OTAs, and monetizing customer data within revenue streams from accommodations, spa, dining, and activities.

The discovery phase included interviews with the General Manager and Revenue Manager and the reservations, marketing, front office, spa and restaurant managers, and finance. We defined several tasks for the daily and weekly reviews of revenue related to the analysis of pickup, competitor pricing, and performance of packages. These also included seasonal demand analysis, reviews of direct booking campaigns and OTAs, guest segmentation, as well as cancellation and upsell reviews. 

Profitento combined AI-assisted recommendations with manager control. The system was designed to capture demand signals, recommend pricing options, forecast occupancy and RevPAR gaps, identify demand for booking and/or upsell, and provide revenue management actions. Revenue Managers retained the authority for approving pricing, while marketing, reservations, and front office teams received action lists for campaigns and guest offers.

Computools role

Computools was the end-to-end delivery partner and was responsible for the following:

  • auditing resort revenue workflows and recognizing where profit leakage was occurring;
  • documenting data flows of PMS, channel manager, booking engine, CRM, POS, spa, OTAs, and revenue;
  • creating user experiences for the revenue, marketing, reservations, front office, spa, restaurant, and executive user roles;
  • developing the Revenue Command Center, forecasting tool, pricing logic, guest segments, direct booking initiatives, and campaign workflows and upsells;
  • executing demand forecasting and pricing recommendations assisted by the use of AI;
  • connecting PMS and channel manager APIs for reservations, rates, availability, and channels;
  • creating dashboards, alerts, and reports and setting role-based access and audit trails;
  • assisting in the rollout, training of staff, and testing and optimizing the system post-launch.

Key decisions and outcomes

Computools created a Revenue Command Center to be the primary workspace for the daily decisions. Rather than having to log into multiple systems daily, the Revenue Manager can now view occupancy, pickup, ADR, RevPAR, competitor activity, OTA share and cancellation risk, as well as package performance and demand for the season in one single view. 

The platform introduced seasonal demand signals. Profitento connected booking pace, competitor rate movement, holiday calendars, local events, weather-sensitive travel patterns, and package demand. When demand increased around a holiday weekend, wedding period, or local event, the system flagged affected dates, room categories, and package types.

The dynamic pricing module used rules with manual approval. The system recommended rate changes based on occupancy pace, competitor pricing, remaining inventory, cancellation risk, seasonality, room category, package demand, and OTA exposure. Revenue Managers could approve, edit, or reject recommendations.

The guest data platform connected stay history, source channel, average spend, room preferences, spa purchases, restaurant spend, package type, and cancellation behavior. This helped the resort identify high-value guests, repeat families, wellness guests, wedding-related bookings, OTA guests worth converting to direct booking, and guests likely to accept upgrades or add-ons.

The direct booking ecosystem supported targeted campaigns. OTA guests received direct booking offers before their next expected stay window. Families received room-plus-breakfast or activity bundles. Wellness guests received spa package offers. Wedding guests received pre-arrival upgrades and dining offers.

The upsell engine created new revenue opportunities before arrival and during the stay. Guests booking standard rooms received suite upgrade offers. Families received activity and dining packages. Wellness guests received spa treatment offers. Front office staff could see recommended offers directly in the guest profile.

Design

The design focused on helping resort teams move from scattered data review to fast, controlled decisions across pricing, forecasting, direct booking, guest segmentation, package performance, and upsell workflows.

USER PERSONA → SITE MAP → WIREFRAMES → USER INTERFACE

USER PERSONA

The user persona was created to define how different hotel teams interact with Profitento and what each role needs to make faster revenue, guest, and upsell decisions.

SITE MAP

The sitemap was structured around the hotel’s daily revenue decisions, helping teams move from performance monitoring to pricing actions, guest campaigns, upsell execution, and management reporting.

WIREFRAMES

The wireframes simplified how users moved from demand signals to pricing decisions, from guest segments to campaigns, and from booking data to upsell actions.

USER INTERFACE

The UI gave each role a focused workspace. Revenue Managers saw pricing and forecast priorities. Marketing teams saw guest segments and campaign lists. Front office staff saw guest-level upsell prompts. Spa and restaurant teams saw relevant guest demand signals. Executives saw revenue performance, channel profitability, and demand risk.

DIGITAL PLATFORM & TECHNOLOGY

PROJECT MANAGEMENT METHODOLOGY

Computools used Scrum with a dedicated engineering team and planned work in two-week sprints.  The team aligned delivery to operational workflows, such as revenue, price, and demand, guest segmentation, and direct booking, as well as tracking parcels, and upselling, and preparing executive reports.

This approach helped validate assumptions before full rollout. Revenue scenarios were tested with resort stakeholders before engineering work moved into production. Iterative delivery reduced risk because the platform evolved around the resort’s daily work, seasonal demand patterns, and guest monetization model.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT METHODOLOGY

PROJECT TIMELINE

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WHAT OUR CLIENT SAID

Before Profitento, our revenue team had the data, but it lived in too many places. We had to check PMS reports, OTA dashboards, competitor prices, booking engine data, spa bookings, restaurant spend, guest records, and spreadsheets before making pricing decisions. During peak periods, that delay affected both rate control and channel profitability.

Computools helped us turn resort revenue management into a connected workflow. Now our team can see demand changes, pricing recommendations, guest segments, OTA exposure, package performance, direct booking opportunities, and upsell prompts in one place. The biggest difference is speed. We can act earlier, protect margin, and make better use of the guest data we already have.

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