Accommodation Online Booking

A key part of being able to sell accommodation stock through a destination site is being able to access provider availablity. The DMS offers an availability extranet for providers to facilitate the gathering of this information.

Each accommodation provider has direct access to the Availability Extranet, allowing them to manually update their room allocation as required and therefore building up a repository of available stock. The provider can indicate if this is a guaranteed or indicative allocation. The former means that the rooms can be sold directly to the public through the site, without any interventions.

The indicative method requires the provider to confirm availability before the room can be sold, and offers a flexible approach for establishments who still wish to take advantage of this sales channel without having to commit guaranteed stock.

In both of these methods, the provider simply logs into the extranet and can then update number of units, cost and basis against each of their room types for the current week. This information can then be copied simply from one week to the next, so the updating process is made simpler.