Hospitality·April 2025

Harbor Light Hotels lifted RevPAR 24% and freed $1.8M with a unified PMS and dynamic pricing engine

A 9-property boutique hotel group was running each property on a different PMS and pricing rooms from a rate sheet updated weekly. A unified property management platform with channel management and AI-driven dynamic pricing lifted occupancy and RevPAR at the same time — and collapsed 6 tools into one.

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Harbor Light Hotels — Harbor Light Hotels lifted RevPAR 24% and freed $1.8M with a unified PMS and dynamic pricing engine

Illustrative case study. Company names and identifying details changed to protect client confidentiality.

/ The challenge

Where they started

Harbor Light's 9 properties across 3 coastal cities each ran a different PMS — three were on legacy on-prem systems, two on spreadsheets, and the rest on a patchwork of SaaS tools that didn't talk to each other. The revenue manager set rates on a Monday morning rate sheet, emailed it to the OTAs, and hoped it held through the week. Overbooking happened once a month, the central team had no real-time view of occupancy or ADR across the portfolio, and the group was leaving an estimated $2.6M a year on the table by pricing off stale data — under-pricing on peak weekends and over-pricing into empty rooms on shoulder nights.

/ The solution

What we built

We deployed our ERP System configured as a unified hospitality PMS across all 9 properties, with a channel manager that syncs inventory and rates to every OTA in real time, a dynamic pricing engine that adjusts rates by demand, lead time, and competitor positioning, and a portfolio dashboard showing occupancy, ADR, and RevPAR by property and by night. Housekeeping and maintenance workflows feed the same system, so room status updates the moment a room is turned. The platform went live property-by-property over 10 weeks with zero data loss.

/ Results

Target outcomes

+18%
Occupancy rate
+24%
RevPAR
12/yr → 0
Overbooking incidents
1 → 4,200
Rate decisions per week
$1.8M
Annual margin recovered
We had 9 properties and 9 versions of the truth. The first week the unified PMS went live, the revenue manager caught a sold-out weekend two weeks out and pushed rates 30% — that one weekend paid for the platform. We haven't overbooked a single room since.
Daniel Osei
Group Revenue Director, Harbor Light Hotels

Representative testimonial — name and role changed to protect client identity.