Rate Categories
The Rate Categories screen
displays the list of defined rate categories.
Navigate to
.For each rate category, these details are displayed:
- Order: Indicates the importance of the rate category in terms of prices and LOS (Length Of Stay) optimization. In the Multi-Day Decision screen, if restrictions are enabled, the rate categories are displayed based on the defined hierarchy, where the lowest one is displayed first.
- Rate Category: Rate Categories are extracted from the PMS. They can be managed from this screen.
- Description: Short descriptiion of the rate category.
- Dynamic: Average discount that rate codes in this rate category have on BAR/unrestricted rates.
- Group: Indicates whether the rate category is used for groups or transient business.
- Direct: Indicates whether the source of business for a rate category is direct or indirect.
- Average Discount: Average discount that rate codes in this rate category have on BAR/unrestricted rates.
- Rate Class: Groupings of rate categories that can be used for optimization, yielding and reporting. Users can create or modify rate classes by typing in a cell in this column. Rate categories with the same rate class are optimized and managed together.
- Created By: Shows who created the rate category.
- Creation Date: The date on which the rate category was created.
- Edited By: Shows who last edited the rate category.
- Last Edit: The date on which the rate category was last edited.
- Upload (TARS): Indicates whether a rate category is currently in use by an upload.
Note: To make changes to Upload settings, navigate to
Within each column of the table header, are these elements:
- Search field: Specify the text or value to look for.
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- In text columns, this is the sort criteria:
- Contains
- Does Not Contain
- Equals
- Does Not Equal
- Is Empty
- Is Not Empty
- Ends With
- Does Not End With
- Starts With
- Does Not Start With
- In date or number columns, this is the display criteria:
- Equals
- Does Not Equal
- Is Empty
- Is Not Empty
- Less Than
- Less Than Or Equals
- Greater Than
- Greater Than Or Equals
- In the Is Active and Use For Upload columns, you can select one of these
options:
- Yes
- No
icon: Select the filter
criteria. - In text columns, this is the sort criteria:
Note: On the upper right side of the Rate
Categories screen, select to remove any filter that you applied on the table.