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Future Inn Focus

Strategic Budgeting & Forecasting

The FutureInnFocus budgeting and forecasting models are all about making budgeting and forecasting a valuable strategic process, not a tedious administrative task. We've condensed more than 20 years of Hospitality and technical expertise into a pair of powerful, flexible and robust Budgeting and Forecasting systems that make your budget process easier, quicker and more accurate.

 

Professionally Designed to make Budgeting and Forecasting Better by:

Working with your Accounting System to Avoid Manual Data Entry

 

The downside to spreadsheet-based Budgeting and Forecasting has always been transferring data to and from your Accounting System.  But Future Inn Focus's automated data uploads and downloads make pulling in Actuals and uploading Budgets and Forecasts quick and painless.

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  • If your accounting system can export to Excel, to Text, or to CSV files, your data can be uploaded into FutureInnFocus.

 

  • If your accounting system can import from Excel, Text or CSV files, your Budget and Forecasts can be pulled in.

Using Excel's Analytical Power to Budget More Accurately, More Quickly

 

The best predictor of future performance is generally past performance. Future Inn Focus uses your hotel's historical operating ratios to help budget the future. We make it easy to budget reasonably, and easy to avoid mistakes.

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  • A reasonable starting budget can be drafted in seconds using the PreLoad tool to replicate historical operating ratios for accounts, sections, departments, or even the entire P&L.

 

  • Or use Future Inn Focus' QuickInput options to populate a year's worth of inputs for an account in just two clicks, then view your proposed budget against historical results on a graph.

Balancing Flexibility with Data Security and Formula Integrity

 

Future Inn Focus harnesses Excel's flexibility to offer you a surprising array of choices, while protecting you against the hidden formula errors that plague most home-grown models.

 

  • The Future Inn Focus template is customized to your company:  your P&L formats, departments, accounts and account numbers, your allocations -- even your company colors, graphic standards and logos.

 

  • Clients can designate accounts to be locked for Home Office input or open for the hotels, and which ratios (CPOR, % Revenue, etc.) are used to budget.

 

  • Clients can also establish different hotel types:  for example Full Service, Select Service, or Extended Stay, allowing designated accounts or departments to be hidden for smaller hotels.

 

  • But the flexibility doesn't end once the models are launched. Where permitted, users can show or hide comparison columns and even change budgeting ratios  -- for example, budgeting Room Attendant payroll based on $/Occ. Rm., or switching to Minutes per Room times an Average Wage -- all without corrupting formulas.

Prioritizing Ease of Use

 

Every FutureInnFocus model is configured to mirror the client company's P&L Format so it looks reassuringly familiar; and every Hospitalitech model follows consistent design guidelines with help screens and color-codes.

 

  • For example, user-input cells are always shaded yellow, so users know just where to enter their estimates.

 

  • Macro toolbars appear at the top of every page, with information buttons and help notes generously placed where needed throughout the model.

 

  • Providing generous training upfront and keeping tech support calls free encourages your hotels to call before they become frustrated. We want your hotels to love their Budgeting & Forecasting model, and helping them through any difficulties they encounter is the best way to make that happen.

Designed for Affordability with a Pricing Structure that's Rational and Fair

 

Prices include a one-time company-level setup and configuration fee, plus a monthly per-hotel subscription rate determined by the length and complexity of your company’s P&L Statement. 

 

For established companies with ten or more participating hotels and a streamlined P&L, Future Inn Focus fees start as low as $1,000 for initial configuration, plus onging charges of $75 per hotel per month.  Monthly fees include both initial and ongoing training plus as much online, email and telephone support as your hotels need, assuring your team members get the help they need to budget successfully.

 

Please contact us for a quote and demo.

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