A revenue department for your hotel, without the hire.A dedicated Revenuenaire revenue manager runs your daily rates, restrictions, forecasting and channels for Des Moines hotels, resorts and serviced apartments, on a monthly plan priced by hotel size from $650 with no long-term lock-in. Delivered remotely, scheduled in Central Time (UTC-6).
Revenuenaire provides hotel revenue management outsourcing for hotels, resorts and serviced apartments in Des Moines, United States, remotely and in Central Time (UTC-6). In Des Moines, rates peak August and soften January to March, so the work is built around that calendar. Hotel revenue management plans are priced monthly by hotel size: Core from $650 a month, Plus (adding OTA, channel and segment optimization) from $900, and Pro (adding forecasting and a monthly strategy call) from $1,150, after a one-time Hotel Pricing Strategy Setup from $750. They run month to month with no long-term lock-in and are never a percentage of revenue.
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No long-term lock-in
Fixed scope and price, agreed before work starts
Hotel revenue management outsourcing means an external team takes over the revenue manager role: daily rate and inventory decisions, restrictions, forecasting, distribution and reporting. You keep control of the hotel and see every decision; the work, the tools and the expertise are provided for a monthly fee instead of a salary.
Demand drivers in Des Moines: The Iowa State Fair; The Drake Relays; Iowa Events Center conventions and concerts; State government and insurance-sector business travel. Typical guests: Fair-goers and event visitors on 2 to 4 night stays, midweek business travellers, and families attending tournaments. Where the work starts: State Fair premiums set months ahead, weekday business rates, and winter floors.
Des Moines hotels balance corporate accounts from the insurance and financial firms, government rates during the legislative session, convention groups at the Iowa Events Center and weekend sports teams. We keep separate comp sets for downtown and West Des Moines, set group displacement rules around State Fair and tournament dates, and keep team blocks away from weekends that transient guests will fill at higher rates. In winter, packages tied to arena events help soften the drop.
The full service is described on our outsourced revenue management for hotels page; this page covers how it applies in Des Moines.
Rates are monitored daily against the comp set and moved as demand shifts: BAR levels by room type, rate plans, seasonal, event and day-of-week rules, and length-of-stay and minimum-stay restrictions.
Channel mix, rate parity and promotions managed together across Booking.com, Expedia, Agoda, Google and your direct channel, so the cheapest route to a booking is not the most expensive for you.
Demand forecasts by month and segment, an annual budget and a re-forecast process, with a 12-month pricing calendar built on the market's seasons and events.
A monthly performance summary, a full ADR, occupancy and RevPAR report on Plus and Pro, a monthly strategy call with a dedicated strategist on Pro, and a quarterly business review.
A Des Moines hotel lives on two rhythms that rarely line up: Monday to Thursday corporate travel from the insurers and banks, and weekend surges from arena shows, wrestling and basketball championships and summer festivals. Then the State Fair arrives and every property within reach of East 30th Street sells out. An outsourced revenue manager keeps those calendars, the group pace and the daily rate decisions in one place.
We start by mapping twelve months of fair, tournament and Iowa Events Center dates against corporate account volume, then set length-of-stay controls for each compression night.
Cold weeks carried by business travel and the legislative session. State high school wrestling and basketball at Wells Fargo Arena are the clear exceptions worth pricing up.
The Drake Relays bring athletes, families and alumni in late April, and spring graduations lift May weekends while weekdays follow corporate demand.
Boutique streets below the Capitol, a short drive from the fairgrounds. State Fair demand is strongest here, and legislative and lobbying travel fills weekdays during the session.
The full Des Moines calendar, areas, rules and pricing moves are in the Des Moines revenue management market guide.
No revenue manager
The role left, was never hired, or the GM prices rooms between other duties.
Performance has flattened
RevPAR is stuck while the comp set grows and the market moves on.
A growing hotel group
You want one consistent method across several properties without building a department.
Owners and asset managers
You want revenue decisions made by a specialist and reported in numbers you can check.
Tell us your room count, room types, channels and systems. We confirm the level (Core, Plus or Pro) and the monthly price for your size.
Same day
We study your market, comp set and current rates and build the strategy, then connect your PMS or channel manager and pricing tool.
About a week
Your revenue manager adjusts rates, restrictions and promotions as demand moves and manages your OTAs on Plus and Pro.
A monthly report against budget and last year, and on Pro a strategy call, so decisions stay visible and the plan keeps improving.
Priced monthly by your hotel's size, not per room. Prices below are for a boutique hotel of up to 20 rooms; larger hotels move up the size bands shown under Plans explained. Month to month, never a percentage of revenue. Hotels of 200 or more rooms, luxury properties and multi-property groups are a tailored quote.
| Option | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Hotel Pricing Strategy Setup | One-time: market, comp set, room types and rates turned into your strategy, done first | From $750 |
| Core | Managed pricing, run for you every day | From $650/mo |
| Plus | Core plus OTA, channel, parity and segment optimization and a full monthly report | From $900/mo |
| Pro | Plus with forecasting, group and corporate strategy and a monthly strategy call | From $1,150/mo |
Every plan is a monthly retainer, priced by your hotel's size and not per room. Pick your hotel's size first, then the level of service. Each level includes everything in the one before it, and you can move up or down month to month.
Step 1 · How many rooms does your hotel have?
Prices shown for a boutique hotel (up to 20 rooms), billed monthly.
Step 2 · Choose your level
Managed hotel pricing, run for you
$650/mo
Best for: Hotels that already manage their own OTA content, promotions and reporting, and want a specialist to set and move rates every day.
What is included
Pricing plus channel and segment optimization
$900/mo
Best for: Hotels selling on several OTAs and Google that want pricing, channels, rate parity and promotions managed together, with a full monthly report.
What is included
Full revenue management with a monthly strategy call
$1,150/mo
Best for: Larger or busier hotels, groups and owners who want forecasting, group and corporate strategy, and a monthly strategy call with a dedicated strategist.
What is included
Before your plan starts: a one-time Hotel Pricing Strategy Setup ($750 for a boutique hotel), where we study your market, comp set, room types and current rates and build your strategy.
| Included | Core | Plus | Pro |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily rate and comp-set monitoring, rates moved as demand shifts | Included | Included | Included |
| BAR and rate-plan strategy by room type | Included | Included | Included |
| Seasonal, event and day-of-week pricing rules | Included | Included | Included |
| Length-of-stay and minimum-stay restrictions | Included | Included | Included |
| One leading hotel pricing tool, connected to your PMS / channel manager | Included | Included | Included |
| Monthly performance summary | Included | Included | Included |
| OTA and metasearch optimization (Booking.com, Expedia, Google) | - | Included | Included |
| Rate-parity checks and promotions strategy | - | Included | Included |
| Competitor and comp-set rate tracking | - | Included | Included |
| Segmentation across OTA, direct and corporate | - | Included | Included |
| Monthly ADR, occupancy and RevPAR report | - | Included | Included |
| Near-daily active management | - | - | Included |
| Demand forecasting and a 12-month pricing calendar | - | - | Included |
| Group, corporate and event rate strategy | - | - | Included |
| Monthly strategy meeting on Zoom and a dedicated strategist | - | - | Included |
| Quarterly business review | - | - | Included |
Core, Plus and Pro are per month; setup is paid once.
| Hotel size | Core | Plus | Pro | Setup (one-time) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BoutiqueUp to 20 rooms | $650/mo | $900/mo | $1,150/mo | $750 |
| Small21 to 50 rooms | $950/mo | $1,300/mo | $1,650/mo | $1,250 |
| Midsize51 to 100 rooms | $1,400/mo | $1,900/mo | $2,450/mo | $1,750 |
| Large101 to 200 rooms | $2,000/mo | $2,700/mo | $3,500/mo | $2,500 |
| Large & luxury200+ rooms, luxury or multi-property | Custom | Custom | Custom | Custom |
Every hotel starts with a one-time Hotel Pricing Strategy Setup, where we study your market, comp set, room types and current rates and build the strategy, then moves onto Core, Plus or Pro. Plans run month to month with no long-term lock-in and are never a percentage of revenue. Hotels of 200 or more rooms, luxury properties and multi-property groups get a tailored quote.
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Answers written for Des Moines, United States.
Peak demand in Des Moines: August for the Iowa State Fair, plus June and July event weekends and the Drake Relays in late April. June to July: The Des Moines Arts Festival, Iowa Cubs games at Principal Park, summer concerts and youth tournaments keep weekends busy as business travel holds steady. August: The Iowa State Fair runs eleven days in mid August. Homes near the fairgrounds earn the highest rates of the year and justify longer minimum stays. For hotel revenue management outsourcing, your revenue manager raises floors and tightens minimum stays ahead of these windows and reviews pace every week, so the strongest dates are not sold early at a shoulder rate.
For hotel revenue management outsourcing, rates, comp sets and restrictions are set per area and per room or listing type, not as one citywide number. Downtown and Court Avenue: Closest to the Iowa Events Center, Principal Park and the insurance head offices. Convention and concert dates justify premiums, while quiet weekends need sensible floors. East Village and the east side and West Des Moines and Valley Junction behave differently and are treated separately.
Add premiums for the state wrestling and basketball tournaments, which fill rooms in the coldest months when everything else is quiet. Next: treat Drake Relays week in late April as a short peak, with the strongest lifts on homes near Drake University and the Drake neighbourhood. For hotel revenue management outsourcing, the first weeks go to the base rates, the seasonal calendar and the restrictions, because that is where a Des Moines property usually leaks the most.
For hotel revenue management outsourcing, the work in the soft months is to protect the floor, fill the gaps with length-of-stay and last-minute rules, and keep the property visible on every channel. Softest period in Des Moines: December to February. January to March: Cold weeks carried by business travel and the legislative session. State high school wrestling and basketball at Wells Fargo Arena are the clear exceptions worth pricing up. April to May: The Drake Relays bring athletes, families and alumni in late April, and spring graduations lift May weekends while weekdays follow corporate demand.
We keep separate comp sets for downtown and West Des Moines, set group displacement rules around State Fair and tournament dates, and keep team blocks away from weekends that transient guests will fill at higher rates. In winter, packages tied to arena events help soften the drop. This is the context hotel revenue management outsourcing is built around in Des Moines.
For hotel revenue management outsourcing, channel mix, rate parity and promotions are managed together so the cheapest route to a booking is not always the most expensive one for you. Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. com visibility on winter weekdays. com brings business travellers and drive-in event visitors comparing apartments with hotels.
Short-term rental rules differ between the City of Des Moines and suburbs such as West Des Moines, Ankeny and Urbandale, and can include registration, inspections and zoning limits, so check the current requirements for the exact address. Iowa applies a state hotel and motel tax plus local option lodging taxes to short stays on top of sales tax; confirm which of these each platform collects and remits. For hotel pricing work, occupancy and tourist taxes decide whether rates are shown inclusive or exclusive; licensing and night caps mainly apply to short-term rentals. For hotel revenue management outsourcing, these rules go into the pricing and restriction logic from day one, so a tax change or a night cap never shows up as a surprise in the numbers.
State government and insurance-sector business travel, The Iowa State Fair and The Drake Relays are the demand drivers we build hotel revenue management outsourcing around in Des Moines. September to December: Autumn conventions, the World Food and Music Festival and Iowa State football weekends in nearby Ames carry the season before December slows.
For hotel revenue management outsourcing, you get a dedicated revenue manager with a tool stack and 18+ years of experience behind the role, at a fraction of an in-house salary. Revenuenaire has optimized 100+ properties in and around Des Moines and works remotely in Central Time (UTC-6). Locally, that knowledge shows up in decisions such as this: build a weekday rate for insurance, finance and government travellers, with a lower weekend rate when no arena event or tournament is on.
Hotel revenue management plans are priced monthly by hotel size: Core from $650 a month, Plus (adding OTA, channel and segment optimization) from $900, and Pro (adding forecasting and a monthly strategy call) from $1,150, after a one-time Hotel Pricing Strategy Setup from $750. They run month to month with no long-term lock-in and are never a percentage of revenue. The scope of hotel revenue management outsourcing is the same in every market, but the plan is not: in Des Moines we would start from June to July: The Des Moines Arts Festival, Iowa Cubs games at Principal Park, summer concerts and youth tournaments keep weekends busy as business travel holds steady. To start, open the chat or send an email with your property type and size in Des Moines.
Yes. Hotel Revenue Management Outsourcing in Des Moines is delivered remotely and scheduled in Central Time (UTC-6), and 100+ properties in and around Des Moines have been optimized by Revenuenaire, including in areas such as Downtown and Court Avenue. A dedicated revenue manager works in your time zone, reports monthly, and the engagement runs month to month with no long-term lock-in. Start in the chat or by email and tell us what you run in Des Moines.
Everything else Revenuenaire offers in Des Moines, for hotels and for Airbnb and short-term rentals. Each service has its own page for this market.
Back to revenue management in Des Moines, or read the national page for outsourced revenue management for hotels.
If you also run properties outside Des Moines, the same services are available in these markets, each page written for that market's own seasons, areas and rules.
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