Most planning software is designed to fit every industry and ends up fitting none of them properly. DRM Budget was written for hotels only — that is the difference.
ADR, RevPAR, board type, room nights, covers, GOP, departmental profit — these are not fields bolted on afterwards, they are the data model. A generic budgeting tool has no concept of a room night; you end up inventing a column and tracking it by hand.
The report structure arrives aligned with the USALI 12-department model, so you are ready when an operator, investor or bank asks. The template is not locked: build your own P&L structure and define your own subtotals.
The application is multi-tenant from the ground up. Adding a second hotel needs no separate installation, no separate licence and no manual consolidation. A cluster (brand, region, ownership) is a reporting dimension of its own.
Market currency, transaction currency and reporting currency are distinct concepts. The budget FX table locks to the scenario, so you compare against real performance rather than exchange-rate noise.
Access is governed by a permission matrix, not by fixed roles. Scope narrows per user: a regional manager sees their hotels, a department head their department. You decide how many steps the approval chain has.
Drill from a line to an account, from an account to a record. Who changed what and when, and which approval it passed — it is all in the audit trail. The answer to “where does this number come from?” is three clicks away.
Let us be honest: not every business needs this. The table below shows where we sit.
| Excel | Generic ERP / BI | DRM Budget | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Setup cost | None | High | Moderate |
| Hotel-specific metrics | Built by hand | None | Native |
| USALI P&L structure | Manual | Needs customisation | Out of the box |
| Multi-property consolidation | Manual merge | Extra module | Instant |
| Approval chain | None | Yes | Yes |
| Audit trail | None | Yes | Yes |
| Usable by a department head | Easy | Hard | Easy |
If you run a single 40-room boutique property, Excel is probably enough. The picture changes once you pass three hotels, involve department heads in the budget, and report to investors.
No. DRM Budget does not replace your accounting system, it sits on top of it. Actuals come from your existing system and are mapped to report lines. Your books stay where they are.
Yes, and most customers prefer to. A mapping layer ties your local accounts to shared report lines. In a group, each hotel can keep its own chart while the consolidated report still comes out in one structure.
Typically 2-4 weeks for a single property. What determines the timeline is not the software but the account mapping and historical data migration. In groups the first hotel takes longest; the rest are quick because the template already exists.
On servers hosted in Türkiye. Each tenant’s data is logically isolated, and users reach only the branches and departments they are authorised for. We share our backup and access policies before any contract.
We quote based on room count, number of properties and the modules you need. We do not publish a standard price list, because a single hotel and an eight-property group do not have the same requirements. After a demo call we send a firm quote.
Mobile access focused on approvals and reporting is on our roadmap. Today the application runs in a mobile browser; a store app is in progress.
Let us walk you through it in 30 minutes — on your department structure, your chart of accounts and your numbers. Not a canned demo: your scenario.