{"id":2358,"date":"2026-04-07T10:33:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aaxonix.com\/resources\/?post_type=case_study&#038;p=2358"},"modified":"2026-04-24T11:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:15:15","slug":"budget-hotel-chain-ota-commission-reconciliation","status":"publish","type":"case_study","link":"https:\/\/aaxonix.com\/resources\/case-studies\/budget-hotel-chain-ota-commission-reconciliation\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Budget Hotel Chain Recovered Rs22L in OTA Commission Leakage"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n\/* \u2500\u2500 Case Study: Budget Hotel OTA Commission \u2500\u2500 *\/\n:root{--cs-orange:#E8650A;--cs-navy:#0A1628;--cs-ink:#1a202c;--cs-muted:#4a5568;--cs-dim:#718096;--cs-surf:#f7f8fa;--cs-bg:#ffffff;--cs-bdr:#e2e8f0;--cs-bdr2:#cbd5e0;--cs-r:10px;--cs-rsm:6px;--cs-sh-s:0 2px 8px rgba(0,0,0,.08);--cs-sh-m:0 8px 32px rgba(0,0,0,.12)}\n\n\/* Body wrapper 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class=\"cs-snap-val\" data-countup=\"68\" data-suffix=\"%\">68%<\/div>\n      <div class=\"cs-snap-label\">Vendor invoice processing time cut<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"cs-snap-tile\">\n      <div class=\"cs-snap-val\" data-countup=\"4.2\" data-suffix=\" days\" data-decimals=\"1\">4.2 days<\/div>\n      <div class=\"cs-snap-label\">Monthly accounts close achieved<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"cs-snap-tile\">\n      <div class=\"cs-snap-val\" data-countup=\"22\" data-suffix=\" props\">22<\/div>\n      <div class=\"cs-snap-label\">Properties on unified platform<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- The Problem -->\n  <h2>The Problem<\/h2>\n  <div class=\"cs-problem-grid\">\n\n    <div class=\"cs-problem-card\">\n      <div class=\"cs-pc-icon\">\n        <!-- Feather: alert-triangle -->\n        <svg viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path d=\"M10.29 3.86L1.82 18a2 2 0 0 0 1.71 3h16.94a2 2 0 0 0 1.71-3L13.71 3.86a2 2 0 0 0-3.42 0z\"\/><line x1=\"12\" y1=\"9\" x2=\"12\" y2=\"13\"\/><line x1=\"12\" y1=\"17\" x2=\"12.01\" y2=\"17\"\/><\/svg>\n      <\/div>\n      <h3>Unreconciled OTA Payouts<\/h3>\n      <p>MakeMyTrip and Booking.com settlements arrived with varying commission deductions, early-bird discounts, and cancellation chargebacks. Finance teams at each property logged payouts manually in spreadsheets, with no cross-check against the original booking value. Discrepancies aged for months before anyone spotted them.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"cs-problem-card\">\n      <div class=\"cs-pc-icon\">\n        <!-- Feather: file-text -->\n        <svg viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path d=\"M14 2H6a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v16a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h12a2 2 0 0 0 2-2V8z\"\/><polyline points=\"14 2 14 8 20 8\"\/><line x1=\"16\" y1=\"13\" x2=\"8\" y2=\"13\"\/><line x1=\"16\" y1=\"17\" x2=\"8\" y2=\"17\"\/><polyline points=\"10 9 9 9 8 9\"\/><\/svg>\n      <\/div>\n      <h3>Scattered Vendor Invoices<\/h3>\n      <p>Housekeeping supplies, laundry vendors, and contract maintenance staff sent invoices to individual properties. With no centralised AP workflow, duplicate payments occurred across sister properties, and month-end reconciliation required physical file audits across all 22 locations.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"cs-problem-card\">\n      <div class=\"cs-pc-icon\">\n        <!-- Feather: users -->\n        <svg viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path d=\"M17 21v-2a4 4 0 0 0-4-4H5a4 4 0 0 0-4 4v2\"\/><circle cx=\"9\" cy=\"7\" r=\"4\"\/><path d=\"M23 21v-2a4 4 0 0 0-3-3.87\"\/><path d=\"M16 3.13a4 4 0 0 1 0 7.75\"\/><\/svg>\n      <\/div>\n      <h3>Manual Housekeeping Rosters<\/h3>\n      <p>Housekeeping shifts rotated across contract and on-roll staff. Attendance was tracked on paper or WhatsApp, creating payroll errors each cycle. Overtime calculations for GST-impacted hospitality staff were done by hand, and leave balances had no system of record.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- Solution Stack -->\n  <h2>Solution Stack<\/h2>\n  <div class=\"cs-solution-stack\">\n\n    <div class=\"cs-sol-row\">\n      <div class=\"cs-sol-badge\">\n        <span class=\"cs-sol-product\">Zoho<\/span>\n        <span class=\"cs-sol-module\">Books<\/span>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"cs-sol-body\">\n        <h4>Centralised AP and OTA Reconciliation<\/h4>\n        <p>Each property became a branch entity inside a single <a href=\"https:\/\/aaxonix.com\/products\/zoho-books\/\" class=\"sp-content-link\">Zoho Books OTA reconciliation<\/a> organisation. OTA settlement CSVs from MakeMyTrip and Booking.com were mapped to custom reconciliation rules, auto-matching payouts to original invoices and flagging variance above Rs500 for review. Vendor bills flow through a three-way match before payment release.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"cs-sol-row\">\n      <div class=\"cs-sol-badge\">\n        <span class=\"cs-sol-product\">Zoho<\/span>\n        <span class=\"cs-sol-module\">People<\/span>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"cs-sol-body\">\n        <h4>Shift Rosters and Attendance for Contract Staff<\/h4>\n        <p>Housekeeping shift schedules are built in <a href=\"https:\/\/aaxonix.com\/products\/zoho-people\/\" class=\"sp-content-link\">Zoho People attendance tracking<\/a>&#8216;s roster module, with separate work schedules for on-roll and contract staff. Biometric integration captures attendance at each property; shift allowances and overtime trigger automatically based on configured pay rules, feeding clean data into payroll.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"cs-sol-row\">\n      <div class=\"cs-sol-badge\">\n        <span class=\"cs-sol-product\">Zoho<\/span>\n        <span class=\"cs-sol-module\">Payroll<\/span>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"cs-sol-body\">\n        <h4>Property-Level Payroll with Statutory Compliance<\/h4>\n        <p>Zoho Payroll processes payroll for each property independently, with GST hospitality exemption rules and PF\/ESI components pre-configured for contract and permanent categories. Payslips are generated and distributed digitally, cutting the previous 11-day payroll cycle to under 3 days.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"cs-sol-row\">\n      <div class=\"cs-sol-badge\">\n        <span class=\"cs-sol-product\">Zoho<\/span>\n        <span class=\"cs-sol-module\">Analytics<\/span>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"cs-sol-body\">\n        <h4>OTA Performance and Margin Dashboards<\/h4>\n        <p><a href=\"https:\/\/aaxonix.com\/products\/zoho-analytics\/\" class=\"sp-content-link\">Zoho Analytics property dashboards<\/a> pulls live data from Books and People to surface per-property OTA effective commission rate, vendor spend per occupied room, and payroll cost as a percentage of revenue. The GM of each property reviews a single dashboard every Monday instead of consolidating three separate reports.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- Before vs After -->\n  <h2>Before vs After<\/h2>\n  <table class=\"cs-ba-table\">\n    <thead>\n      <tr>\n        <th>Area<\/th>\n        <th>Before<\/th>\n        <th>After<\/th>\n      <\/tr>\n    <\/thead>\n    <tbody>\n      <tr>\n        <td>OTA reconciliation<\/td>\n        <td class=\"ba-before\">Manual spreadsheet matching, 3 to 4 weeks lag, Rs22L undetected variance annually<\/td>\n        <td class=\"ba-after\">Automated rules in Zoho Books, variance flagged within 48 hours of settlement<\/td>\n      <\/tr>\n      <tr>\n        <td>Vendor invoice processing<\/td>\n        <td class=\"ba-before\">Paper invoices routed by courier to head office, 14-day average processing time<\/td>\n        <td class=\"ba-after\">Digital bill upload at property level, 3-way match, average 4.5-day processing time<\/td>\n      <\/tr>\n      <tr>\n        <td>Housekeeping attendance<\/td>\n        <td class=\"ba-before\">WhatsApp roster shared daily, errors corrected at payroll run<\/td>\n        <td class=\"ba-after\">Zoho People roster with biometric sync, zero manual corrections in first 2 months<\/td>\n      <\/tr>\n      <tr>\n        <td>Payroll cycle duration<\/td>\n        <td class=\"ba-before\">11 days including manual overtime calculations and statutory deductions<\/td>\n        <td class=\"ba-after\">Under 3 days with pre-configured Zoho Payroll rules<\/td>\n      <\/tr>\n      <tr>\n        <td>Month-end accounts close<\/td>\n        <td class=\"ba-before\">12 to 16 business days due to inter-property consolidation delays<\/td>\n        <td class=\"ba-after\">4.2 days with branch-level real-time data in Zoho Books<\/td>\n      <\/tr>\n      <tr>\n        <td>Management visibility<\/td>\n        <td class=\"ba-before\">Each GM emailed a custom Excel report once a week<\/td>\n        <td class=\"ba-after\">Live Zoho Analytics dashboard, refreshed nightly from Books and People<\/td>\n      <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n  <\/table>\n\n  <!-- Implementation Phases -->\n  <h2>Implementation Phases<\/h2>\n  <div class=\"cs-timeline\">\n\n    <div class=\"cs-tl-item\">\n      <div style=\"text-align:center\">\n        <div class=\"cs-tl-badge\">\n          <!-- Feather: map -->\n          <svg viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><polygon points=\"1 6 1 22 8 18 16 22 23 18 23 2 16 6 8 2 1 6\"\/><line x1=\"8\" y1=\"2\" x2=\"8\" y2=\"18\"\/><line x1=\"16\" y1=\"6\" x2=\"16\" y2=\"22\"\/><\/svg>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"cs-tl-content\">\n        <div class=\"cs-tl-title\">Discovery and Chart of Accounts Design<\/div>\n        <div class=\"cs-tl-dur\">Weeks 1 to 2<\/div>\n        <p>Mapped OTA settlement formats from MakeMyTrip, Booking.com, and GoIbibo. Designed a unified chart of accounts with property-level cost centres and OTA-specific liability accounts for commission payables.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"cs-tl-item\">\n      <div style=\"text-align:center\">\n        <div class=\"cs-tl-badge\">\n          <!-- Feather: book-open -->\n          <svg viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path d=\"M2 3h6a4 4 0 0 1 4 4v14a3 3 0 0 0-3-3H2z\"\/><path d=\"M22 3h-6a4 4 0 0 0-4 4v14a3 3 0 0 0 3-3h7z\"\/><\/svg>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"cs-tl-content\">\n        <div class=\"cs-tl-title\">Zoho Books Setup and Branch Migration<\/div>\n        <div class=\"cs-tl-dur\">Weeks 3 to 5<\/div>\n        <p>Configured 22 branch entities, migrated 18 months of historical vendor data, and built OTA reconciliation templates. Vendor master clean-up removed 140 duplicate supplier records across properties.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"cs-tl-item\">\n      <div style=\"text-align:center\">\n        <div class=\"cs-tl-badge\">\n          <!-- Feather: users -->\n          <svg viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path d=\"M17 21v-2a4 4 0 0 0-4-4H5a4 4 0 0 0-4 4v2\"\/><circle cx=\"9\" cy=\"7\" r=\"4\"\/><path d=\"M23 21v-2a4 4 0 0 0-3-3.87\"\/><path d=\"M16 3.13a4 4 0 0 1 0 7.75\"\/><\/svg>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"cs-tl-content\">\n        <div class=\"cs-tl-title\">Zoho People and Payroll Rollout<\/div>\n        <div class=\"cs-tl-dur\">Weeks 5 to 8<\/div>\n        <p>Configured work schedules and housekeeping shift patterns in Zoho People. Integrated biometric devices at 22 properties. Built payroll components for contract and permanent staff with PF, ESI, and hospitality allowance rules compliant with current statutory norms.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"cs-tl-item\">\n      <div style=\"text-align:center\">\n        <div class=\"cs-tl-badge\">\n          <!-- Feather: bar-chart-2 -->\n          <svg viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><line x1=\"18\" y1=\"20\" x2=\"18\" y2=\"10\"\/><line x1=\"12\" y1=\"20\" x2=\"12\" y2=\"4\"\/><line x1=\"6\" y1=\"20\" x2=\"6\" y2=\"14\"\/><\/svg>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"cs-tl-content\">\n        <div class=\"cs-tl-title\">Zoho Analytics Dashboards and Go-Live<\/div>\n        <div class=\"cs-tl-dur\">Weeks 9 to 11<\/div>\n        <p>Built GM-level and finance-level dashboards in Zoho Analytics. Ran one parallel payroll cycle and one OTA reconciliation cycle alongside the old process to validate outputs before full cutover. Full go-live completed in week 11 with no payroll disruption.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- Results -->\n  <h2>Results<\/h2>\n  <div class=\"cs-stats-grid\">\n    <div class=\"cs-stat-card\">\n      <div class=\"cs-stat-num\" id=\"csStat1\">Rs0L<\/div>\n      <div class=\"cs-stat-lbl\">OTA commission leakage recovered<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"cs-stat-card\">\n      <div class=\"cs-stat-num\" id=\"csStat2\">0%<\/div>\n      <div class=\"cs-stat-lbl\">Vendor invoice processing time cut<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"cs-stat-card\">\n      <div class=\"cs-stat-num\" id=\"csStat3\">0 days<\/div>\n      <div class=\"cs-stat-lbl\">Monthly accounts close achieved<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"cs-chart-wrap\">\n    <div class=\"cs-chart-title\">Monthly OTA Variance Recovered (Rs Lakhs)<\/div>\n    <canvas id=\"csOtaChart\" height=\"200\"><\/canvas>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- Takeaway -->\n  <div class=\"cs-takeaway\">\n    <h3>The Core Takeaway<\/h3>\n    <p>OTA commission reconciliation is not a finance problem. It is an <strong>operational data problem<\/strong>. When booking values, settlement amounts, and commission schedules live in separate systems, variance accumulates invisibly. Connecting Zoho Books directly to OTA settlement data and giving finance a flagging rule rather than a spreadsheet turned a reactive audit exercise into a real-time control. The Rs22L recovery was not found in one big discrepancy. It was found in 400 small ones that no spreadsheet was ever going to surface on its own.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- FAQ -->\n  <h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n  <div class=\"cs-faq\">\n\n    <div class=\"cs-faq-item\">\n      <p class=\"cs-faq-q\">How does Zoho Books handle OTA commission reconciliation for MakeMyTrip and Booking.com settlements?<\/p>\n      <p class=\"cs-faq-a\">Zoho Books does not have a native OTA connector, but settlement CSV files from MakeMyTrip, Booking.com, and similar platforms can be imported against a custom reconciliation template. 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