In larger hotels many services continue to be offered throughout the night and thus the front office is staffed by multiple employees.
The purpose of the night auditor includes, but is not limited to, ensuring the accuracy of all financial information and gathering all needed paperwork to complete the audit.
[4] Prior to the computerization of the front desk procedures, night audit checks were performed by hand and later supplanted by mechanical tools.
Manual checks often failed to detect data input errors and by the early 2000's were almost fully replaced by specialized computer software.
Before the end of day procedure takes place, the night auditor backs up the reservation system in order to prevent the loss of data.