Food service and hospitality
Hotels, hostels and lodging
Folios, rooms and outlets. Core operations map to planned catalog modules; remaining gaps are listed on the industry page.
Close fit Planned NAICS 721
Status
Planned The coverage below describes the planned catalog as of repository commit 455b2c8. No app is released. Everything on this page is a plan. The repository contains a catalog and design documents, not a released app.
How the industry works
Operating characteristics
- rooms and rates
- guest folios
- restaurant, bar and spa outlets
- housekeeping
- group bookings
- night audit
Typical roles
- front-desk agent
- housekeeper
- night auditor
- revenue manager
- outlet staff
- general manager
Day-to-day flows
- check in a guest
- post charges to a folio from outlets
- take deposits
- check out and settle
- run the end-of-day audit
- manage housekeeping status
Tenders and payments seen
- cash
- cards
- transfers
- city ledger
- deposits
- foreign currency recorded manually
Inventory and assets
- outlet stock (F&B)
- minibar
- linen counts
- consumables
Reports they ask for
- occupancy and revenue per room
- outlet sales
- folio balances
- night-audit report
Integrations they need
- channel managers and booking sites
- door-lock systems
- accountants
A day in the life (illustrative scenario)
What the catalog covers
Statuses: C catalogued, P partial, G gap, N no claim. Modules involved: SALE, TKT, TBL, MENU, KDS, BILL, INV, PRC, DISC, RET, RSV, CRM, LOYL, GIFT, EMP, CASH, PAY, BK, LITE, RPT, ANL, MULTI, SEC, DATA, FAIL, HW, PE, LATAM, ECOM, PLAT, SET, LNCH, PKGR, SVC.
| Capability | Status | Catalog modules |
|---|---|---|
| Selling and checkout | C Catalogued | SALE, TKT |
| Restaurant floor, menu, kitchen, bills | C Catalogued | TBL, MENU, KDS, BILL |
| Inventory, lots, purchasing | C Catalogued | INV |
| Pricing, discounts, tax rules | C Catalogued | PRC, DISC |
| Returns, credit, special sales | C Catalogued | RET |
| Reservations and appointments | C Catalogued | RSV |
| Work orders, rentals, services | P Partial | SVC |
| Cash drawer, shifts, safe | C Catalogued | CASH |
| Tender types and payments | C Catalogued | PAY |
| Customers, loyalty, gift cards | C Catalogued | CRM, LOYL, GIFT |
| Staff, time clock, payroll basics | C Catalogued | EMP |
| Bookkeeping and ledger | C Catalogued | BK, LITE |
| Reports and analytics | C Catalogued | RPT, ANL |
| Multi-store, multi-register, sync | C Catalogued | MULTI |
| Security, audit, backup, failsafes | C Catalogued | SEC, DATA, FAIL |
| Hardware and peripherals | C Catalogued | HW |
| Country fiscal packs | C Catalogued | PE, LATAM |
| Integrations, API, settings | P Partial | ECOM, PLAT, SET, LNCH, PKGR |
| Lease and rent ledgers | N No claim | no dedicated module |
Gaps
- the catalog has a hotel/hostal preset and reservation items but no full property-management system: no channel manager, no room rack, no housekeeping board, no door-lock integration, no night-audit module
Closest catalog items
Items whose names or descriptions match this industry. Matching is by keyword, so read each as a pointer, not a promise.
- Table capacity vs reservations check TBL-0025
- Stock reservation INV-0049
- Table/room service delivery (hotel PMS) DLV-0027
- Reservation book RSV-0001
- Reservation table assignment RSV-0002
- Reservation calendar view RSV-0003
- Reservation status RSV-0004
- Reservation deposits RSV-0005
- Reservation reminder list (manual share) RSV-0006
- Reservation capacity rules RSV-0009
- Table booking to POS order link RSV-0011
- Event/private room booking RSV-0012
- Resource/room calendar RSV-0014
- Calendar sources overlay TASK-0020
- Reservation / no-show report RPT-0098
- Document number reservation blocks MULTI-0028
Sub-verticals
Hostal and guesthouse
few rooms, owner at the desk
Open →Sub-verticalBoutique hotel
restaurant and spa outlets
Open →Sub-verticalResort
all-inclusive plans and activities
Open →Sub-verticalServiced apartments
long stays, monthly billing
Open →Regulation themes to verify
These are themes, not advice and not compliance claims.
- guest registration rules for police or tourism authorities
- tax and tourism levies
- data-protection rules (themes to verify)
Edge cases that break naive systems
- guest disputes a charge
- early departure
- currency exchange
- room move
Classification
- NAICS
- NAICS 721 (indicative; verify codes) · sectors 72
- Fortune 500 industry labels
- Hotels, Casinos, Resorts
- Fit
- Close fit
Public references consulted
- Hotel PMS functions: folios, night audit, city ledger (EloPMS, Roommaster, SynXis docs) (excerpt)
Questions
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