Your Group Agent Tracks Every Room Block From Contract to Cut-Off
The AgentWorks Group Agent manages your group and event room blocks from the signed contract to the final attrition review. It reminds planners before the cut-off date, processes rooming lists into the property management system, tracks pickup against the contract minimums every day, and alerts sales when pickup is trending below the threshold. The person it frees is your group coordinator, who today keeps each block in a spreadsheet separate from the PMS, and the sales manager who signed the contract.
What it takes off your plate
Ask a director of sales about a busy wedding season. The contract is signed, the block is set aside, and then the details live in a spreadsheet. The cut-off date passes without anyone reminding the planner. The rooming list arrives as an email attachment with half the names missing, and it takes days to key into the PMS while the planner waits for confirmations.
Nobody watches pickup until the week of the event. By then, releasing unsold rooms back to general inventory is too late to sell them, and the attrition calculation happens by hand after the group departs. The coordinator spends the season chasing lists instead of talking to the planner about the rehearsal dinner.
What the Group Agent does, step by step
The Group Agent starts with the planner communication, then does the block tracking behind it.
- Sets up the block. It reads the signed group contract and records the room block, dates, rates, cut-off date and attrition terms against the group in the PMS.
- Reminds the planner. It sends the group contact reminders ahead of the cut-off date, with the current pickup and what happens to unclaimed rooms.
- Collects the rooming list. It asks for the rooming list in the format the property needs, checks it for missing names, dates and room types, and asks the planner for anything incomplete.
- Processes the list. It loads each reservation into the block in the PMS, matches special requests and sharers, and sends the planner a confirmation list back.
- Tracks pickup daily. It compares rooms picked up against the contract minimum and the pickup pattern your revenue team expects at each point before arrival.
- Alerts sales early. When pickup trends below the threshold, it alerts the sales manager with the numbers and the planner's recent messages, while there is still time to call the planner or release rooms.
- Calculates attrition. After the event, it compares final pickup to the contract terms and prepares the attrition summary for the sales manager to review.
- Hands off what needs a person. Contract changes, rate negotiations and a planner asking to renegotiate the block go to the sales manager with the history attached.
Where the work is recorded
An agent that cannot record its results is a chatbot. Every reminder, rooming list exchange and pickup alert the AgentWorks Group Agent handles lands on the group's account in the CRM your sales team already sees, so the sales manager knows exactly what the planner was told and when.
The block, the reservations and the rates live in the property management system, not in a separate spreadsheet. The next morning, the director of sales opens a group summary: every active block, pickup against the contract, cut-off dates coming up, rooming lists still missing, and which groups are trending short.
What your people do instead
Your group coordinator stays with the clients. She walks the wedding couple through the ballroom, sits with the conference planner on the meeting room setup, and greets the group on arrival day. The sales manager spends the week on the next contract rather than reconciling pickup. The front desk checks the group in smoothly because every reservation is already in the block.
The Group Agent keeps the reminders, rooming lists and pickup tracking moving. Guest service and client satisfaction stay with your people.
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One next step
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