Operating models register

Screen /operating-models · Roles: Admin, Account Manager, External Accountant

Every unit posts to the books under an operating model - the fact that decides whose money the guest’s payment is:

• Owned outright - the unit is yours; revenue is your revenue.
• Leased - you pay the owner a lease; revenue is yours, the lease is a fixed cost.
• Managed - you run it for the owner; the guest gross is the owner’s money you’re holding, and only your fee is your income.
• Investor-funded - the unit belongs to a capital pool; net results split per the investment agreement.

The register shows the model in force for every live unit at once. It’s read-only by design: the model is changed on the property’s Finance tab, beside the agreement it belongs to, and every row deep-links there with its Finance tab button. Read here, edit there - one write path onto money configuration.

Reading a row

• Model in force - the model the ledger actually posts under, or the warning tag “Not set - posts as owned” (see below).
• Set at - whether the model comes from the property default or was set for this unit only, and since when. A unit-level model overrides the property’s.
• Counterparty - who’s attached (a management agreement, a lease, or a lease with a profit share), or “nobody attached”.

A counterparty and a model that don’t look like a pair is not automatically wrong - mixed combinations are legitimate (an investor-funded unit can carry a management agreement). Only two states are flagged.

The two findings worth acting on

Not set - posts as owned

A unit with a live agreement but no model row falls back to “owned”: the ledger books the guest gross as yours and the counterparty is invisible to the money path. That’s someone else’s money reported as your revenue. Open the property’s Finance tab and state the model - editing the agreement also fills it in.

Owned, yet somebody is attached

“Owned” means there’s no counterparty to owe - so an owned unit with an agreement attached is stale data from before the guard that now refuses that combination. Either the model or the agreement is wrong; the property’s Finance tab is where to settle it.

The Units needing attention tile counts both, and Show the N flagged filters the table to them.

Where the model shows up

The model isn’t a label - the reports respect it everywhere: the P&L groups by it and excludes managed gross, the Treasury carries owner and investor money as a liability, and Break-even & ROI splits capital by it.

What’s next

• Set a model: your property’s Finance tab, under Properties & listings.
• See the effect: Read your P&L.
• Owner-side consequences: Onboard a property owner.