Room Configuration

Last updated: 2026-05-08

Room Configuration is where you tell Sigma Revenue what room types your hotel sells and how their prices relate to each other. The pricing model uses this setup to generate recommendations: one room type — the Reference room — gets a price directly from the model, and every other room type derives its price from the reference with a fixed offset.

Where it lives

Open Settings → Room Configuration. You'll see one row per room type, with columns for the display name, base price, derivation, min/max price, rates, and number of rooms.

Reference vs Derived rooms

Every account has exactly one Reference room. Its price is whatever the recommendation engine produces. All other rooms are Derived: their price equals the reference price plus an offset, either as a percentage (e.g. +15%) or an absolute amount (e.g. +€20).

Picking the right reference matters. Choose the room type you sell most of and trust the price signal from — usually a mid-tier double. If pricing for that room is right, every other room is automatically right too.

Steps

Sync rooms from your PMS

The first time you connect a PMS, click Sync rooms from PMS. Sigma Revenue pulls the room types and adds them to the table. Each room shows its PMS identifier alongside the display name.

Pick the reference room

Open the room you want as the reference and set Reference / Derived to Reference. Set its Base Price — the starting point the recommendation engine adjusts up or down. A reasonable base is your average weekday rate from a normal month last year.

Configure derived rooms

For every other room, set Reference / Derived to Derived, pick the reference room, and choose a derivation type:

Percentage — e.g. +15% for a deluxe room that sells at 15% above the standard.
Absolute — e.g. +€30 for a suite that always carries a fixed premium over the reference.

Set Min and Max prices

Min Price and Max Price are guardrails. The recommendation engine never pushes a room below Min or above Max, no matter what demand suggests. Use these to protect brand positioning during deep troughs and to cap rates during sold-out events.

Map rates to OTAs

Each room has a Main Rate (the rate the model writes prices to) and optional Derived Rates for other rate plans. If you sell the same room on multiple plans (e.g. Standard, Non-refundable −10%), add each as a derived rate and Sigma Revenue keeps them in sync.

When in doubt, fewer rooms is better

If two room types behave identically — same audience, same channels, same response to price — collapse them into one type with a single derivation. Each extra room type adds noise to the pricing signal without adding revenue lift.

Don't change the reference room casually

Switching which room is the reference re-anchors every derived room and can produce surprising recommendations for a few days while the model recalibrates. Only do it when your sales mix has shifted permanently.