Atrium Ask

Hotel purchasing reports without building the spreadsheet.

Email Atrium what you need. It uses the purchasing data already captured from your invoices and supplier agreements to build the report, and sends the Excel file back.

Ask in plain English at ask@atriumhotels.ai. Reports cover the invoices Atrium has already received, and only the properties you're authorized to see.

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Build my August month-end purchasing report. Group it by supplier and include price increases and agreement exceptions.

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August_Month_End_Purchasing.xlsxInvoices · Line items · Price changes · Exceptions
What Atrium Ask is

Email Atrium like you'd email an analyst.

Atrium Ask lets you request reports from the purchasing data Atrium has already structured out of your supplier invoices and agreements. Instead of filtering an export or rebuilding a spreadsheet, describe what you need in plain English and the workbook comes back by reply.

The model reads the request — the date range, the property, the supplier, the filters, the grouping. It does not invent the numbers. Every figure in the workbook comes from Atrium’s structured invoice data and the same application logic that produces the on-screen reports, so an emailed report and the product agree.

How it works

Three steps, and two of them are yours.

Step 1

Ask

Email ask@atriumhotels.ai from the address on your Atrium account.

Send me every supplier price increase over 10% this quarter.

Step 2

Atrium builds the report

Atrium works out the date range, properties, suppliers, metrics, filters and groupings, then queries the purchasing data you are authorized to see.

Step 3

Get the Excel file

The workbook comes back attached to a reply, with real numbers, live totals and a summary tab.

Q3_Supplier_Price_Increases.xlsx

Need it differently? Reply to the email — “remove F&B and break this out by property” — and Atrium builds the revised version.

What people ask for

The reports hotel finance teams rebuild every month.

Each of these is a real request you can send today. Reply to any answer to narrow it, widen the date range, or change how it is grouped.

Hotel month-end purchasing reports

Build my August month-end purchasing report.

Instead of reopening supplier invoices one by one at month-end, Atrium has been structuring them as they arrived. The workbook can carry supplier, invoice number, invoice date, product, SKU, quantity, pack size, unit price, line total, tax, freight, fees, category, price changes and compliance status.

Supplier price increase reports

Send me every item that increased in price this month.

Atrium compares each invoice line against what the same item cost the last time it arrived, so it can report the products and fees whose prices moved and what the change cost on that invoice. A price change is not automatically a contract violation — it is a change worth seeing.

How price tracking works

Supplier agreement compliance reports

Send me all invoice lines above agreed pricing this month.

Where a supplier agreement is uploaded and active, Atrium checks invoice lines against the agreed rates and reports the ones above agreed price or otherwise needing review. Without an agreement on file there is nothing to compare against.

How agreement checks work

Multi-property purchasing reports

Compare what our properties paid for coffee this quarter.

For users authorized across more than one property, Atrium can line up the same item across properties. Results depend on the product being matched and pack sizes being comparable — where they are not, the properties are reported separately rather than presented as like-for-like.

Portfolio purchasing

Supplier spend reports

Break August purchasing out by supplier.

Total spend per supplier over any period you name, down to the invoices and line items behind each total, so a number can always be traced back to the document it came from.

Where this fits in AP

Fees and surcharge reports

Show me every delivery fee and fuel surcharge we paid this quarter.

Delivery fees, fuel surcharges and other add-ons are captured as their own line items rather than folded into product cost, so they can be totalled separately and tracked over time.

Month-end

Month-end should be a review. Not a reconstruction.

The work that makes month-end long is not the reporting — it is rebuilding the month from documents nobody structured at the time. Atrium does that part as the invoices arrive.

  1. 01

    Invoices arrive throughout the month

  2. 02

    Atrium structures each one as it lands

  3. 03

    Finance emails Atrium for the report it needs

  4. 04

    The Excel workbook comes back

Permissions

Your reports only use data you're authorized to see.

Atrium Ask does not have its own idea of who you are. It inherits the permissions your Atrium account already carries, and applies them to every report it builds.

Only the address on your account

Atrium Ask replies to the email address registered to an Atrium user, and only ever to that address. An unrecognized sender receives no reply and no data.

A property user sees their property

Someone with access to one hotel gets reports about that hotel. Naming a different property does not widen what they can see.

A portfolio user sees their portfolio

An operator authorized across a hotel group can report across the properties in that group — the same set the application already grants them.

Before you ask

Atrium reports on the invoices it has.

Atrium Ask is a way to query your own purchasing history, so it needs that history to exist first. Start by forwarding invoices — once they are structured, ask for the report you need.

Forward supplier invoices to Atrium as they arrive, or upload PDFs and photos. There is no integration to install and no need to change suppliers or accounting systems.

The Free plan covers 5 invoice uploads every month with no card required, and includes 4 Atrium Ask questions a month. The Property plan removes the invoice limit.

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FAQ

Hotel purchasing reporting FAQ.

Ask for the report. Skip the spreadsheet.

Start free with 5 invoice uploads a month. Forward the invoices you already receive, then ask Atrium for what you need.