Yield Management

How does Yield Management work?

Step 1: Create a Yield Profile

The first step is to create a Yield Profile where you set either occupancy and/or time rules to alter rates. See Setup Yield Profile. There are four combinations of occupancy and date range settings to choose from:

• Occupancy Only
• Time Only
• Occupancy and Time
• Occupancy or Time (deprecated 2023, replaced with Yield Sheets in January 2024)

For example, An Occupancy Yield Profile could be used to:

• Raise rates by 10% when occupancy is above 80%.
• Lower rates by 10% when occupancy is below 20%
• Offer a discounted Rate for bookings made 60 Days in advance.

Step 2: Add Rates to Yield Profile

Then, add the Rate(s) that you want to apply the Yield Profile.  A Yield Profile can be applied to one or more Rate Plans and a Rate Plan can have multiple Yield Profiles applied. See Yield Profile - Add Rate

Step 3: Allocate the "Yielded" Rate Plans to Agent Channels

Allocating a Room Type and Rate Plan involves the same function for all channels in Agent Relationships.To see which Room Types and Rate Plans are allocated to an Agent Channel or to ADD or DELETE a Room Type/Rate Plan allocation.  See Add or Delete Allocation. If you are creating new Rate Plans for your Yield Profiles then you will need to allocate them to the Agent Channel needed. If the Rate Plans (such as a RACK Rate) are already allocated to a channel and you simply want to enable Yield Management for that Rate Plan, then simply Activate Yield Management for the Rate Plans in a specific channel. See Step 4 for Activation Steps.

Step 4: Activate Yield Management in Agent Channels

After the 'Yield Profiles' have been built and the selected Rate Plans have been added, there is one more step needed to activate Yield Management for each Room Type in an Agent Channel. Since Yield Management can be activated by Room Type in each Channel, you can offer yielded rates for one or all of the Rate Plans, on one or all Agent Channels. See Activate Yield Management

For Example, Yield Management could be activated for the TWIN Rate Plan on Booking.com and Expedia, but not not for the TWIN Rate Plan allocated to MyPMS Front Desk and Website.

Yield Grid

Finally, in order to easily view how Yielded rates are affecting your Agent Channels, we have a 'Yield Grid' that allows you to see how rates are being set, per Agent Channel, based on a calendar view. This tool, when set next to the 'normal' Rate Grid', visually shows how rates are being affected to each Agent Channel. Note that the example below assumes that the Agent Channel has a 'Rate Loading' set in addition to the Yield, making the Rate first 'loaded' by 11% and then 'yielded' by the amount set in the Yield Profile.. Thus there are two modifying calculations being applied to the rate via this Agent Channel. See Yield Grid