Hotel Accounting Software: What Hotel Finance Teams Need Before They Scale
Hotel accounting software should connect PMS data, AP, bank reconciliation, owner reporting, and BI so hotel finance teams can close faster across properties.
Hotel accounting software should connect PMS data, AP, bank reconciliation, owner reporting, and BI so hotel finance teams can close faster across properties.
Hotel finance teams are living with two forms of third-party AI — one from their vendor, one they built themselves — and both fail for the same underlying reason. There's a pattern playing out in hotel accounting departments right now. A controller finishes the monthly close, exports the P&L to a spreadsheet, and uploads it...
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There’s a pattern I’ve started to notice with my recent conversations with hotel finance teams. Many know they have to address the fragmented systems that are causing delays, but they’re taking more of a “wait and see” approach instead of making fundamental changes to consolidate the data. Why? Because AI is evolving really quickly right...
Cost control is top of mind for most hotel finance teams at the moment. Controllers might suspect that they might be overpaying somewhere, but if something really was off, they’d be able to see it, right? That was exactly the thinking of one VP of Finance who managed a 25-property hotel group. Because workflows were...
Q1 2026 brought a strong slate of new capabilities to the HIA platform — all built to make your team’s day-to-day work faster, more accurate, and easier to manage. This quarter’s highlights include a brand new daily report monitor dashboard that puts monitoring and troubleshooting in your hands, enriched PMS integrations for HotelKey and Stay...
Over the past decade, hospitality tech stacks have exploded, with more apps and services promising better visibility and deeper insights to make reporting easier and let decisions happen faster. And in many ways, they delivered. Teams now have access to more data than ever before. But as many hoteliers have had time to sit with...
If 2025 taught the industry anything, it’s that tighter margins and fragmented technology created a strong desire for consolidation and unification. To get the advantage for 2026, hotels need processes to help them get real-time data visibility and to cut out the repetitive work slowing teams down. The first step to a smarter, more efficient...
If you’ve spent enough time in hotel finance and operations, you’ve seen how the pressure to operate smarter, faster, and with more visibility (all while walking tighter margins) has grown exponentially in the past decade. The need for consolidation and access to everything in one place has never been more in demand. It’s one of...
That short window between year-end close and the January 31 deadline can feel like a sprint for hotel finance teams rushing to get 1099s out the door. From chasing down missing W-9s and balancing year-end reports to last-minute runs to Staples and stuffing envelopes in triplicate, the cycle can feel like a mix of pressure,...
The heated debates over next year’s numbers are around the corner, and no amount of crisp fall air can take the edge off. You know the drill: the spreadsheets, the endless back-and-forth, the painstaking process of pulling data. It's a familiar battle that feels like an uphill climb every single year. But what if it...
In today’s hyper-connected world, data is the new currency. And your back office systems hold the keys to your vault. Think about how much data quietly filters through your back office systems—P&L reporting, employee payroll, accounts payable, procurement, HR. No one sets out to leave their systems open to attack. But in hospitality (where staff...
At HIA we are continually innovating to keep our customers at the forefront of hospitality technology. We are excited to share some of the newest features built by our in-house product development team in Q2 2025. These features include a new timely integration, enhanced existing integrations, and general system enhancements to functionality and security. New...
Automating your Accounts Payable with an HIA integration partner like Factura.ai enables a huge time savings compared to scanning and uploading invoices manually. Learn how an automated AP integration can help turbo-charge your HIA experience.
Hotel management companies need true, versatile, and automated intercompany accounting capability to handle to frequent transfers between management company and hotels, and transfers between hotels. Hotel Investor Apps ERP & Accounting Software automates the "due to" and "due from" entries to reduce manual labor, increase accuracy, and save time for more important, value-add tasks.
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Hotel Investor Apps (HIA) is excited to share that we are the recipient of the “2025 Excellence Award" for an ISV vertical from Acumatica ERP.This award recognizes HIA for the high degree of innovation, overall excellence, and high performance of it's ERP & Accounting software designed for hotels. (With it's foundation on the Acumatica platform.)HIA's...
Hotel Investor Apps (HIA) regularly releases new updates to keep improving our ERP & Accounting platform. We are pleased to announce that the next roll-out period for updates will be February 15th to March 15th, 2025, during which new features will be gradually deployed to all customers. “We are excited to get out of the gate...
As hoteliers work their way through budget season, it’s a time when their attention rests once more on that simple, yet vital, backbone of hotel accounting, the Chart of Accounts.The Chart of Accounts is a list of financial categories and account codes used by a business to record and categorize its financial transactions. This humble...
Hotel Investor Apps (HIA) is excited to announce a series of powerful new enhancements to its Budgeting & Forecasting Module, as part of its hospitality ERP platform. These improvements are designed to streamline budgeting workflows, reduce repetitive tasks, and provide greater control and precision over financial planning for hotel operators.