How to Create & Manage Revenue Categories

How to Create & Manage Revenue Categories

A Revenue Category describes a source of an organization's revenue. Revenue Categories can be defined at the corporate level (org) and at the property level. The revenue management team defines these during onboarding with Thynk and ensures that every accounting category at the product level maps back to a corporate accounting category. Read more about Revenue Categories here.

To Create and Manage Revenue Categories


1. In the App Launcher, search for revenue categories
Search for revenue categories

2. Click on Revenue Categories

Click on Revenue Categories

3. Click on New

Click on New

4. Name the revenue category and provide an optional description
Currency will be defaulted to your user settings.

Name the revenue category and provide an optional description

5. Click on Save

Click on Save

6. Click on Related

Click on Related

7. Any accounting categories connected to the revenue category will appear here. These will be shown across all properties.

Any accounting categories connected to the revenue category will appear here. These will be shown across all properties.

8. To manage the accounting category, search for accounting categories

To manage the accounting category, search for accounting categories

9. Click on Accounting Categories

Click on Accounting Categories

10. Click on an existing accounting category or create a new one

Click on an existing accounting category or create a new one

11. See revenue category

See revenue category



To View Which Accounting Categories Are Assigned To A Revenue Category

If you want to familiarise yourself where accounting categories appear under a revenue category…  

  1. Go to your Revenue Categories, click on the down arrow on the right to select ‘All’

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  1. Click on ‘All’

Click on All

  1. Click on ‘Guest Rooms’

Click on Guest Rooms

  1. In the the next window, click on the ‘Related’ tab.

Click on Related

  1. This says, you have more than 6+ accounting categories. To view them all click on ‘View All’…

  1. Now you will see more extensive list. Click on any category here to open the window and see it's information.

 



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