Hoteliers Best Friend: Channel Manager

As we progress through the 21st century, everything we need to do gets easier and easier with technology. Why spend more time than you have to when you can do things much faster? Let me introduce you to the cutting edge technology called Channel Manager. 

What is Channel Manager?

Channel Manager is a well designed, easy to use, extremely useful platform which decreases the amount of time that hoteliers spend to do their day to day tasks such as opening or closing rooms to sale, new prices etc, also it provides an interface on which you can check your online reservations from all the online channels that you are working with. 

Imagine that you running a hotel and you need to set restrictions, allotments or prices for three online channels, lets call them Channel A, Channel B and Channel C.

You’ll need to open those three separate channels’ websites (extranets) to enter your current allotments and prices.It doesn’t seem like much of a problem right? That is only if you were working with Channel A, B and C.

However now imagine you’re working with 10 or more online channels, the time it would take you to make the necessary changes for all of the channels is massively increased. This is what Channel Manager is all about, it has Channel A, B and C and integrated in it which means you can enter your room prices, allotments room sale closing, opening, restrictions in one interface and it automatically transfers the data to Channel A, B and C itself. With Channel Manager you can save yourself the time that you can use more productively.

It Makes Your Job Easier

After adding the room types, minimum/maximum number of people, and rate types into Channel Manager, you can create formulations and it automatically calculates the price for occupancy or refundable/non refundable rates based on your designated room, saves you time while being convenient. 

• It is possible set time range when closing your rooms to sale, adding minimum/maximum nights to stay restrictions easily on Channel Manager.
• You can also manage your allotments effortlessly whether you want to set allotments for multiple days or singular day.

One System to Rule All

With Channel Manager you can set allotment, minimum/maximum stay, also you can update your prices or open/close to sale of your rooms just from one interface. You can check the reservations from both your website and from online channels from the same system and instead of setting your updates from separate extranets, you can use Channel Manager to update the online channels all at once with ease. 

In summary; to reduce the time to make transactions, remove the difference in price and allotments in online channels and to manage all the online channels from one place using Channel Manager is a need rather than a choice at this point.