What is STLP?
STLP — Same Time Last Period — allows you to compare your current booking position against where you stood at the equivalent point last year or other periods such as last month, 2 years ago, etc.
For example, if today is 2 June 2026, STLP (compared by date) for a December 2026 stay date would show you what your On-The-Books (OTB) position was on 2 June 2025 for December 2025.
How FLYR calculates STLP
FLYR uses the creation date and update date of each booking to reconstruct your historic OTB position.
Specifically, it asks: "Which bookings existed on this same calendar date last year, for a stay in the equivalent future period?"
This means:
A booking created after the STLP reference date will not appear in that STLP snapshot
A booking that was cancelled before the STLP reference date will not appear either
Amendments to a booking (e.g. date changes) are reflected based on the update timestamp
Comparing by Date vs. Day of Week (DoW)
When viewing STLP, you can switch between two comparison modes:
Date — compares against the same calendar date last period. For example, June 12 this year is compared against June 12 last year. This is useful when you want a like-for-like calendar comparison.
Day of Week (DoW) — compares against the same day of the week last period. For example, a Tuesday this year is compared against the equivalent Tuesday last year. This is often more meaningful for identifying demand trends, since hotel performance is closely tied to day of week rather than fixed calendar dates.
You can toggle between these two modes depending on which context makes most sense for your analysis. In the Home Dashboard, do this by selecting the appropriate comparison mode:
In Insights, you can toggle between the two modes by selecting the appropriate comparison period type:
Why might STLP show zero or look incorrect?
The most common reason is data migrated into FLYR either through a PMS-to-PMS migration (where both systems were connected to FLYR and data transferred between them) or a traditional export of historical data where the previous PMS was not connected.
In these cases, you will have previous period actuals but not STLP.
FLYR can only reconstruct your historic STLP from the moment it started receiving booking data from your PMS, at the individual booking level — not from a historical bulk upload of data.
For a full explanation of how FLYR builds STLP figures and what to expect in the early stages after onboarding, see Understanding STLY Data Accuracy After Onboarding.
Using the Pick-up Topic in FLYR
If you want to investigate a specific booking's update history, you can use the Pick-up Topic view in FLYR to see which booking changes FLYR has recorded and when.
This is useful for auditing whether amendment timestamps are flowing through correctly from your PMS.