Night audit

The night audit is the end-of-day close: reconciling the day's charges and payments, rolling the business date forward, and producing the day's figures.

Why it matters

In a large hotel it is a formal nightly process run by a dedicated person. At ten to fifty rooms it usually is not run at all, and the reconciliation happens at month-end instead — by which time nobody remembers the day in question.

The useful part at this size is not the ceremony; it is that the day's cash and charges get checked while the day is still fresh.

If you do want the discipline without the ceremony, the practical version at this size is a nightly cash count against the day's cash-tender sales, and a quick read of the day's bookings before closing the desk. Both take ten minutes and catch nearly everything a formal audit would.

In MangoHost

There is no formal night-audit routine. Revenue is recognised as payments are confirmed rather than at a nightly close, and shift reports carry the operational side. For a restaurant, a cashier session with a Z-reading is the closest equivalent, and it is on the roadmap rather than in the product.

Related terms

Shift reportA shift report is a short record filed by the staff member at the end of a shift: hours, rooms handled, tasks completed, and anything that went wrong.
FolioA folio is the running account attached to a stay — the room charge plus everything the guest adds to it, settled at check-out.

MangoHost gives Philippine properties these numbers without a month-end spreadsheet. Book a 30-minute walkthrough and see them on your own rooms.