Raines Hospitality transitions to Aptech

Hotel management, development and investment group Raines Hospitality is nearing completion of a systemwide rollout of hospitality financial-management system Aptech. By Jan. 1, 19 properties in the company’s portfolio—representing Marriott International, Hilton, Hyatt Hotels Corp., Choice Hotels International and Best Western Hotels & Resorts brands—will have Aptech’s browser-based accounting solution, PVNG, and soon, the company will launch Aptech’s new business intelligence tool, Execuvue.
 
PVNG provides hospitality accounting features incorporating accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, statistics, financials and bank reconciliation.

“PVNG’s flexible, browser-based configuration made it possible for our entire accounting team to work from home for three months at the onset of the pandemic,” said Marsi Cameron, SVP of accounting at Raines Hospitality. “With the safety of our employees being a top priority, this was huge. We migrated to Aptech because it is Windows-based and because it features a high-power reporting package. As a multibrand hotel operator, it’s critical from a sales and revenue perspective to be able to access data in one place, rather than having to access multiple systems to gather the data we need.
 

“PVNG is easy for our managers to use, and we can generate vendor, investor and owner reports on the fly,” she said. “We can import and export journal entries and process invoices quickly; even the weekly payroll process is faster than before. Efficiency is key, and PVNG has proven to be a real game changer.”

Upgrades

In October, Aptech released the next version of its Execuvue business intelligence solution. The web-based hospitality application gathers and coordinates data from a variety of corporate systems into accessible information for ad hoc viewing and reporting. The new Execuvue's redesigned user interface makes the customized reporting and data gathering tool more intuitive to the business user.
  
“We are looking forward to being trained on Execuvue,” Cameron said. “We expect that the Dashboard—which graphically displays our finance and operations data—will help us make smarter business decisions and give us actionable insights more quickly. As soon as we log in, we will have immediate access to the prior day’s information. Everyone from the top down is really looking forward to that functionality. Until then, we will continue working with Aptech on customizing the reconciliation module based on our feedback. They are an extremely responsive and customer-service oriented company.”