What is GOPPAR and why does it matter more than RevPAR?

GOPPAR is gross operating profit divided by available room-nights. RevPAR tells you how much revenue each available room earned; GOPPAR tells you how much of it you kept. Two properties with identical RevPAR can have very different GOPPAR once commission and operating cost are subtracted.

Cost per occupied room — what it actually costs to deliver one sold room-night, covering housekeeping, utilities, amenities and the variable share of staffing. It is the figure that tells you whether a discounted night is still worth selling.

How does myrevai calculate OTA commission?

From the commission recorded against each booking, per channel, at the rate that channel actually charges you — not a blended assumption. The module also totals the commission your direct bookings saved you over the period.

Do I need to enter my costs before this is useful?

No, but it improves. Commission and platform fees are known exactly from your bookings. Operating cost starts as an estimate scaled to your property size and every figure depending on it is labelled estimated until you enter real costs.

Module 05 · Profit Analysis

Revenue is a headline.
Profit is the business.

A record month on OTAs can leave less in the account than a quieter one sold direct. Profit Analysis walks the same period the dashboard measures all the way down — commission, fees, operating cost — and shows what survived.

View: Gross → net waterfall
Ratios: GOPPAR · CPOR · NRevPAR
Cuts: By channel and room type
Range: 30 days · 90 days · 12 months

The waterfall

Four subtractions between the top line and the bank.

Gross revenue, minus OTA commission, minus platform fees, minus operating cost, equals net profit — with the margin stated as a percentage. Each step is sized so you can see instantly which one is doing the damage.

For most independent properties, the surprise is not the operating cost. It is the commission line, which never appears on a booking confirmation and rarely appears on a monthly summary.

GOPPAR — profit per available room-night, the metric that survives comparison across properties.
CPOR — what an occupied room actually costs to deliver.
NRevPAR — revenue per available room after commission, the honest version of RevPAR.
Profit margin, tracked period over period rather than quoted once.

Profit Analysis · revenue waterfall, last 30 days

Gross revenue₹8,42,000

OTA commissions₹−1,04,300

Platform fees₹−6,200

Operating costs (est.)₹−4,17,500

Net profit (est.)₹3,14,000

GOPPAR

₹872

CPOR

₹1,704

NRevPAR

₹2,049

Revenue Dashboard — total, room and F&B revenue with ADR, RevPAR and TRevPAR — Gross revenue split into room and F&B, with pending payments called out separately — the top of the waterfall, and the reason margin is never computed on money that has not arrived.

Collections

Profit assumes the money arrived.

A margin calculated on invoiced revenue is optimistic if a seventh of it is still outstanding. Pending payments sit on the same screen as the revenue they belong to, so the gap between booked and banked is visible rather than assumed away.

Ancillary revenue is separated from room revenue for the same reason. F&B carries a different cost base, so folding it into ADR flatters both numbers.

Profit Analysis · channel revenue split

Directno commission

₹3,45,000—₹3,45,000

Booking.com16% take

₹2,38,000₹−38,080₹1,99,920

MakeMyTrip18% take

₹1,52,000₹−27,360₹1,24,640

Airbnb15% take

₹1,07,000₹−16,050₹90,950

Commission saved by direct bookings this period: ₹55,200

Channel margin

The channel that books the most is rarely the one that pays the most.

Every channel is shown three times: what it grossed, what it cost in commission, and what it left behind. A channel at 18% take needs to bring meaningfully more volume than your direct site to be worth the same to you — and now you can see whether it does.

The module also totals commission saved through direct bookings, which is usually the clearest argument for whatever you are spending on your own booking page.

Commission, itemised

Per channel and in total, at the rate each OTA actually charges you rather than a blended assumption.

Mix over time

Whether your direct share is genuinely growing, or simply moving between OTAs.

Room-type profitability

Which rooms carry the property. Revenue ranking and profit ranking are often not the same list.

Monthly profit trend

Twelve months of margin, so a seasonal dip is distinguishable from a structural one.

Honesty about estimates

Labelled as estimated, until you tell us otherwise.

Commission and platform fees are known exactly — they come from your bookings. Operating cost usually does not exist in any system on day one, so the module starts with a cost-per-occupied-room estimate scaled to your property size, and marks every figure that depends on it.

As you enter real costs — housekeeping, utilities, staff, food and beverage — the estimates are replaced and the labels come off. Nothing is presented as measured when it was inferred.

Known: commissionKnown: platform feesEstimated: operating costEstimated: GOPPAR, CPOR

Profit Analysis · what feeds each line

Gross revenue

measured

Room revenue plus ancillary revenue — meals, extras and charges raised during the stay.

OTA commissions

measured

The commission recorded against each booking, per channel.

Platform fees

measured

Payment and platform charges on direct booking revenue.

Operating costs

estimated

Cost per occupied room × sold room-nights, until real cost data replaces the estimate.

Net profit

estimated

What remains, and the margin it represents on gross revenue.

Figures shown across this site are illustrative. Yours are computed from your own bookings.

Closing the loop

Profit is where pricing decisions get graded.

A rate increase that pushes guests onto a higher-commission channel can raise revenue and lower profit. A discount that fills a monsoon Tuesday might be the most profitable decision of the month once you count the cost of an empty room at zero revenue and non-zero fixed cost.

Because Profit Analysis, the Revenue Dashboard and aiREV all read the same booking data, you can follow a pricing decision from recommendation to applied rate to realised margin without reconciling three different reports.

Where the rates come from Where performance is measured

Same period. Same data. Two questions: what did we make, and what did we keep?

How the modules share one engine

Questions

Profit metrics, explained

What is GOPPAR and why does it matter more than RevPAR?: GOPPAR is gross operating profit divided by available room-nights. RevPAR tells you how much revenue each available room earned; GOPPAR tells you how much of it you kept. Two properties with identical RevPAR can have very different GOPPAR once commission and operating cost are subtracted.
What is CPOR?: Cost per occupied room — what it actually costs to deliver one sold room-night, covering housekeeping, utilities, amenities and the variable share of staffing. It is the figure that tells you whether a discounted night is still worth selling.
How does myrevai calculate OTA commission?: From the commission recorded against each booking, per channel, at the rate that channel actually charges you — not a blended assumption. The module also totals the commission your direct bookings saved you over the period.
Do I need to enter my costs before this is useful?: No, but it improves. Commission and platform fees are known exactly from your bookings. Operating cost starts as an estimate scaled to your property size and every figure depending on it is labelled estimated until you enter real costs.

Find out what last quarter actually earned you.

Send us a booking export with channel and commission data. We will produce the waterfall, the channel margin table and the room-type ranking, and walk you through what they say.

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