Your Sales Proposal Agent Chases Every Corporate Rate to a Signature
The AgentWorks Sales Proposal Agent handles the paperwork between a good sales conversation and a signed corporate agreement. It builds proposals from your approved templates with current rates and terms, routes them to the general manager for approval, follows up with the client and warns your director of sales before an offer expires, so your sales team spends its time with corporate accounts and on property tours rather than in documents.
What it takes off your plate
Here is how most hotel sales offices build a corporate rate proposal. The seller opens last year's proposal for a similar account, changes the name and the dates, and hopes the terms are still right. Cancellation language differs from one seller to the next. The draft goes to the GM for approval and sits until someone walks it down the hall.
Once it is out, follow-up depends on how busy the week is. The travel manager asked for a revised last-room-availability clause and nobody replied. The proposal expired quietly. The director of sales has no view of the pipeline beyond each seller's inbox. The cost is accounts signed by a competitor, terms the hotel did not mean to offer, and sellers spending their afternoons on formatting instead of relationships.
What the Sales Proposal Agent does, step by step
The Sales Proposal Agent begins with the conversation that follows an inquiry.
- It acknowledges the request. When a corporate client asks for a rate, it replies to confirm receipt, asks for the missing details such as expected room nights, travel dates and amenities, and tells the client when to expect the proposal.
- It builds the proposal. Using the template your revenue and sales leaders approved, it fills in current rates from the rate plan, standard terms, inclusions and the client's details. Anything outside the approved range is marked as an exception.
- It routes for approval. It sends the draft to the GM or director of sales with the exceptions highlighted, reminds them if it has not been signed, and records the approval.
- It sends and confirms. It delivers the approved proposal to the client with an electronic signature request and confirms it arrived.
- It follows up. It checks in with the client on the schedule your team sets, answers questions about the terms in the proposal, and passes any negotiation on rate or terms to the seller with the client's question written out.
- It watches the expiry date. Before a proposal lapses without a response, it alerts the seller and the director of sales so someone can call.
Where the work is recorded
Every email, reminder, approval and signature is logged on the account in the CRM your sales team already uses, next to the client's contacts and history. When the travel manager calls with a question, anyone in the sales office can see which version was sent, what was approved and what the client asked last.
The signed agreement and the negotiated rate are recorded where the hotel will use them: the rate code set up in the property management system and the contract filed with the account. The next morning your director of sales opens a pipeline showing every open proposal, its stage, its next follow-up and anything close to expiring. The Sales Proposal Agent keeps that view current without anyone updating a spreadsheet.
When a corporate account becomes a group, our post on tracking every room block from contract to cut-off picks up the story.
What your people do instead
Your sellers spend their time with clients: touring the travel manager through the property, hosting a site visit, learning what the account's travellers need and negotiating the terms that matter. The GM approves proposals from one queue instead of being chased down a hallway, and your director of sales coaches sellers from a pipeline that shows every account rather than asking each seller for an update at the weekly meeting.
The relationship with a corporate account, and the hospitality that makes its travellers ask for your hotel, is human work. The agent keeps the drafting, the approvals and the follow-up moving around it. Once the account's guests are staying with you, see our post on answering every loyalty question.
One next step
If corporate proposals at your property still start from an old file, take the free Hospitality Industry Assessment. It shows which workflow an agent should take first. To see every agent built for hotels, visit the AgentWorks hospitality page.
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