AI Hospitality Guide

THE FINANCE PLAYBOOK, GUIDE 5 OF 10.

Finance & Back Office in a working property

Finance & Back Office

Turn a pile of invoices into a ready-to-reconcile table in twenty minutes.

Turn a pile of invoices into a tidy list in twenty minutes. 28 ready-made prompts for the back office. Copy one, paste it in, use it today.

£19.99

LESS THAN THE COST OF PROCESSING TWO SUPPLIER INVOICES BY HAND.

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WHICH ONE ARE YOU?

Forty-odd supplier invoices arrive the same week a key team member's off sick, each one needing typing into the accounts sheet before anything can be reconciled or approved.

Two managers going through the week's figures on a tablet

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Carefully refined by hospitality professionals in boutique hotels and international hotel groups.

HOW THIS WORKS

You do not need to know anything about AI

If you can send a WhatsApp message, you can do this.

1

Open a free AI app

ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot or Google Gemini. On your phone or your computer. The free version is enough. You do not need to pay anyone but us.

2

Copy one of our prompts and paste it in

A prompt is just a set of instructions, already written for you. Change the bits in brackets to your own rooms, names and times.

3

Read what comes back and use it

It takes seconds. Change anything you do not like, print it, or send it to your team.

There is nothing to install. Nothing to set up. Nothing to connect to your booking system.

WHAT THE PAPERWORK IS COSTING YOU NOW

Operating costs grew roughly twice as fast as revenue across the industry last year, the pressure finance teams spend their days reconciling against (CBRE, 2025).

The average cost reported to manually process a single supplier invoice is £12.88, across industries generally, a useful benchmark for what automation is worth (Ardent Partners, 2024, cross-industry).

And every hour spent typing invoice details by hand is an hour not spent on the judgment call that actually needed a trained eye.

WORK OUT WHAT IT COSTS YOU A YEAR

£10,220

A YEAR, JUST ON LISTS, ROTAS AND PAPERWORK

THAT IS £256 PER ROOM, PER YEAR, ACROSS 40 ROOMS.

HOW YOUR FIRST WEEK GOES

Tonight

You finally have a plan.

Read the playbook and run the Invoice Pile on this week's supplier invoices.

Tomorrow

You can see it working.

Try the Daily Revenue Reconciliation against today's PMS report and actual takings.

Friday

Run the Duplicate-Invoice Check across last month's paid invoices.

WHAT THE PROMPTS DO FOR YOU

Ten jobs that stop eating your week.

These are ten of the prompts. The time savings are our own estimates, from using them in our own properties. They are not from an independent study, and your house may be quicker or slower.

No more afternoon of typing invoices

Extracts supplier, date, amount and category from a batch of invoices into a ready-to-paste table, flagging duplicates and anything needing approval.

Cost saved

TYPICAL TIME SAVED: 2–3 HOURS PER WEEKLY BATCH

Duplicate invoices caught before they're paid

Flags invoices that look like possible duplicates before they're paid twice.

Cost saved

TYPICAL TIME SAVED: AROUND 20 MINUTES PER CHECK

Revenue reconciled every day, not just Friday

Reconciles today's PMS revenue against actual banked takings, with a best guess at the cause of any gap.

Margin saved

TYPICAL TIME SAVED: AROUND 20 MINUTES EVERY DAY

A week-to-date P&L in minutes

Builds a rough week-to-date profit and loss from whatever figures you already have.

Time saved

TYPICAL TIME SAVED: AROUND 1 HOUR EVERY WEEK

Payroll mismatches caught before payday

Flags mismatches between rostered and paid hours before payroll runs, not after a queried payslip.

Time saved

TYPICAL TIME SAVED: 20–30 MINUTES PER PAY PERIOD

Overtime costs, brought into the open

Summarises which departments are running the most overtime and whether it's trending up.

Cost saved

TYPICAL TIME SAVED: AROUND 30 MINUTES EVERY PAY PERIOD

Tight weeks spotted before they bite

Builds a week-by-week cash position from your bank balance and known payments, flagging any tight week.

Time saved

TYPICAL TIME SAVED: AROUND 30 MINUTES PER SNAPSHOT

Out-of-policy claims caught before approval

Flags claims outside policy, missing receipts, over the limit, before you approve them.

Time saved

TYPICAL TIME SAVED: AROUND 15 MINUTES PER BATCH

Owner statements, explained in two minutes

Turns raw owner-statement figures into a two-minute plain-language read.

Time saved

TYPICAL TIME SAVED: AROUND 1 HOUR PER STATEMENT

Finance's briefing, in plain English

Writes finance's three or four lines for the weekly briefing, in words a non-finance GM will actually understand.

Time saved

TYPICAL TIME SAVED: AROUND 20 MINUTES EVERY BRIEFING

TRY ONE FOR FREE

Here is a free prompt. Use it on tonight’s work.

TRY IT FREE

Here are this week's supplier invoices [paste text or describe the photos]. Extract into a table: supplier, date, invoice number, net, tax, total, and your best guess at the expense category (mark guesses clearly). Flag possible duplicates and anything over [amount] for approval. Give me the table ready to paste into my accounts sheet.

Host or small-property variant: works exactly the same with a handful of invoices a month as it does with forty in a week, paste whatever you've got.

Run it on this week's invoice pile before it grows any bigger. If it doesn't beat an afternoon of typing, you've lost twenty minutes. If it does, the other 27 prompts are £19.99. Nothing here replaces your accountant, it just clears the admin from around their inbox and yours.

WHAT YOU PAY

Finance & Back Office Playbook, £19.99

You get every prompt for this department in one download, today.

AT CHECKOUT

Add the other nine departments for £79.01. That is all ten for £99, instead of £199.90 if you bought them one at a time.

THE NUMBERS

£12.88

average reported cost to manually process a single supplier invoice, across industries generally

Ardent Partners, 2024 (cross-industry)

~2x

roughly how much faster operating costs grew than revenue across the industry last year

CBRE, 2025

£19.99

the whole playbook, which is less than the cost of processing two invoices by hand

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Written by hospitality operators, for hospitality operators. Download it and use it the same day.

THE GUARANTEE

Full 30-day money-back guarantee

Get a full refund of the purchase price within 30 days of purchase, no questions asked. Email hello@aihospitalityguide.com with the email address used for your order. Access to that order’s files ends once the refund is given. Refunds can take 5 to 10 working days to show on your statement.

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