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Departures List Report Overview

Parent Hub: 🛎️ Front Desk & Guest Services Reports

Category: 🚨 Downtime & Contingency

Target Roles: Front Office Managers & Supervisors, Front Desk Agents, Guest Relations & Concierge

Key Value: Serve as a critical offline backup and downtime manifest for managing daily checkouts, tracking guest balance liabilities, verifying contactless departures, and coordinating room turnover during power, network, or PMS system outages.

Executive Summary

The Departures List Report is an essential operational and emergency contingency tool within the 🚨 Downtime & Contingency section of the 🛎️ Front Desk & Guest Services Reports hub. Designed for both daily front desk workflow management and offline business continuity, it provides an itemized manifest of all guest reservations scheduled to depart on a given date (defaulting to the current business date) or across a custom date range of up to 365 days.

By combining primary guest demographics (Confirmation Number, Room Number, Guest Name, First Name, Last Name, Additional Guests) with operational departure metrics (Estimated Departure Time, Actual Departed Time, Status, Digital Check Out Eligible, Linked Reservations) and loyalty indicators (Greener Stay Points, Guest Tier, VIP Guest), this report enables front desk agents and housekeeping teams to maintain seamless checkout operations, prioritize dirty room cleaning queues, verify multi-room party departures, and eliminate uncollected balance walkouts—even when primary PMS systems are offline.

Key Capabilities

  • Offline Contingency & Downtime Manifest: Printed or saved locally prior to system maintenance or outages to ensure uninterrupted front desk checkouts and balance auditing.

  • Full Operational Departure Tracking: Renders scheduled departures for the current operational day or across custom date ranges up to 365 days.

  • Digital & Contactless Workflow Control: Highlights guests eligible for contactless checkout (Digital Check Out Eligible) and tracks eco-program participation (Greener Stay Points).

  • Multi-Room & Linked Booking Visibility: Displays connected reservation confirmation numbers (Linked Reservations) to ensure synchronized checkouts for families and group parties.

  • Real-Time Financial & Housekeeping Audit: Identifies unpaid guest liabilities (Total Guest Balance) prior to guest departure and passes priority cleaning instructions (Housekeeping Remarks) directly to room attendants.

Report Views & Functional Breakdown

The Departures List Report organizes departing reservation data across three structured operational perspectives:

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                        DEPARTURES LIST REPORT                          │
├──────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────┬──────────────────┤
│ 1. Guest & Stay          │ 2. Departure Workflow &  │ 3. Financial &   │
│    Demographics          │    Housekeeping Tracking │    Special Care  │
└──────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┴──────────────────┘

1. Guest & Stay Demographics

Itemizes departing guest profiles, individual room assignments, stay durations, and linked group/family reservations.

  • Primary Use: Verifying departing guest identities offline, reviewing length of stay, and managing multi-room party departures during system downtime.

  • Key Metrics: Confirmation Number, Additional Guests, Room Number, Guest Name, First Name, Last Name, Check In Date, Number Of Nights, Local First Name, Local Last Name, Linked Reservations.

2. Departure Workflow & Housekeeping Tracking

Tracks real-time departure states, digital checkout readiness, estimated vs. actual departure timestamps, and room cleaning instructions.

  • Primary Use: Coordinating priority room turnover with housekeeping supervisors, auditing late checkouts, and facilitating contactless departures.

  • Key Metrics: Status, Estimated Departure Time, Actual Departed Time, Pending Departure, Digital Check Out Eligible, Housekeeping Remarks, Greener Stay Points.

3. Financial & Special Care Audit

Monitors outstanding folio balances, daily room rate yields, VIP status levels, and guest stay preferences.

  • Primary Use: Preventing uncollected folio balance walkouts during manual processing, ensuring VIP departure recognition, and verifying booking channel origins.

  • Key Metrics: Total Guest Balance, Average Room Rate, VIP Guest, Guest Tier, Booked By, Stay Requests.

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Departures List Report

Data Dictionary (Dynamic View Columns)

Customize your default view using the Configure (⚙️) icon on the report page. Below is the full data dictionary representing every column available in this report:

💡 Tax & Balance Treatment Note: Total Guest Balance represents net remaining unpaid guest liabilities (including taxes and fees). Average Room Rate represents base net daily room revenue exclusive of taxes and fees.

Column Name

Description

Data Source / System Mapping

Includes Taxes & Fees?

Confirmation Number

Unique system reference code assigned to the reservation.

System Reservation ID

N/A

Additional Guests

Names or flags indicating additional guests attached to the reservation.

Reservation > Additional Guests

N/A

Room Number

Physical room number assigned to the reservation.

Reservation > Room Number

N/A

Guest Name

Combined full primary guest name (Last Name / First Name).

Guest Profile > Full Name

N/A

First Name

Primary guest first name.

Guest Profile > First Name

N/A

Last Name

Primary guest last name.

Guest Profile > Last Name

N/A

Check In Date

Scheduled or actual arrival date of the reservation.

Reservation > Check In Date

N/A

Number Of Nights

Total length of stay calculated in nights.

Check Out Date - Check In Date

N/A

Status

Current reservation state (e.g., Booked, In House, Pending Departure, Checked Out).

System Reservation State

N/A

Total Guest Balance

Net remaining balance due on the reservation folio (Total Charges - Total Payments).

SUM(Charges) - SUM(Payments)

🟢 Yes

Estimated Departure Time

Expected departure time entered on the Stay Tab.

Reservation > Stay Tab > Estimated Departure

N/A

Actual Departed Time

Exact system timestamp when the reservation was marked as Checked Out.

System Check-Out Timestamp

N/A

VIP Guest

Indicates if the guest holds VIP status (Yes / No).

Guest Profile > VIP Flag

N/A

Guest Tier

Membership or loyalty tier assigned to the primary guest profile.

Guest Profile > Loyalty Tier

N/A

Housekeeping Remarks

Operational comments or room turnover instructions for housekeeping.

Reservation > Stay Tab > Housekeeping Remarks

N/A

Local First Name

Primary guest first name rendered in the local language/script.

Guest Profile > Local First Name

N/A

Local Last Name

Primary guest last name rendered in the local language/script.

Guest Profile > Local Last Name

N/A

Digital Check Out Eligible

Indicates if the reservation is eligible for automated contactless mobile check-out.

Mobile / Digital Key Engine

N/A

Linked Reservations

Identifies connected reservation confirmation numbers (e.g., multi-room family bookings).

Reservation > Linked Reservations

N/A

Pending Departure

Flag indicating if the reservation is scheduled to depart on the current business date.

Departure Date = Current Business Date

N/A

Average Room Rate

Average daily rate (ADR) calculated across the stay duration.

SUM(Total Room Revenue) / Number of Nights

❌ No

Booked By

User ID, staff name, or external distribution channel that created the booking.

Reservation > Audit Log > Booked By

N/A

Stay Requests

Special amenities, high floor preferences, or bedding requests attached to the stay.

Reservation > Stay Requests

N/A

Customization & Platform Features

User & Property Preferences

  • Personal Preference: Tailor your individual view by hiding, repositioning, or dragging columns. Your preferences save automatically for future sessions.

    • Property Defaults: System Admins can configure standard default layouts across all property users to streamline operational reporting. To maximize audit efficiency, group the columns into 4 logical blocks:

      • Room & Guest Identification (Cols 1–8): Room Number | Guest Name | First Name | Last Name | Confirmation Number | Additional Guests | Local First Name | Local Last Name

        Departure & Stay Timing (Cols 9–13): Check-in Date | Number of Nights | Status| Estimated Departure Time | Actual Departure Time

        Guest Profile & Stay Indicators (Cols 14–19): VIP Guest | Guest Tier | Housekeeping Remarks | Digital Checkout Eligible | Linked Reservations

        Financial Balance & Audit (Col 20): Total Guest Balance

Advanced Interactive Controls

  • Exporting: Download and save the departures list into alternate file formats (Excel, PDF, CSV) for offline front desk or housekeeping logs.

  • Filtering: Apply criteria-defined filters to narrow down departures by reservation Status, Room Number, VIP Guest status, or Pending Departure flags.

  • Highlighting (Conditional Formatting): Apply custom rules to automatically highlight critical values, such as non-zero Total Guest Balance figures (Total Guest Balance > $0.00) or VIP departures.

Within 🛎️ Front Desk & Guest Services Reports:

  • 🚨 Downtime & Contingency:

    • Arrivals Report – Essential emergency backup list for tracking expected arrivals during system outages.

    • In-House Guest Report – Critical offline manifest of all currently occupied rooms and registered guests.

    • Cash Guest List Report – Backup audit log for managing non-credit card and cash guest transactions offline.

  • 🧳 Arrivals & Departures:

  • 🧾 Guest Folios & Billing:

Cross-Pillar Deep Dives:

  • 🧹 Rooms & Facilities: Cross-reference departures with the [🧹 Rooms & Facilities] reporting page (e.g., Room Status / Housekeeping Board) to assign clean rooms to arriving guests and optimize dirty room turnover queues.

  • 💰 Finance & Accounting Reports: To review closed folios and post-settlement accounts after system recovery, review Closed Folio Balances Report.