Channel Manager
Best Channel Manager
RevHub provides a fully integrated & affordable Channel Manager & All in One Software for hotels & short term rentals with seamless integration with online travel agencies (OTAs).
Key Features
- Integration with 1000+ OTAs (Eg booking.com, AirBnb, Expedia..)
- Low Cost & Affordable
- Instant update of Rates, Inventory & Restrictions & Reservations
- Advanced Analytics & Reporting
- Dynamic Pricing & Revenue Management
- API for connectivity with PMS
- Detailed Channel Manager Logs for troubleshooting
- Simple API connectivity for PMS companies
- Ability to create multiple users with permissions / privileges
- Guest messages are part of channel manager feature
- Extremely simple & quick to setup
Benefits
- Manage rates, inventory across all OTAs seamlessly with one login
- Connected to all major OTAs (including short term rental & hostel providers)
- Channel Manager seamlessly integrated with PMS
- Can update rates for multiple properties in single page (Central Reservation System)
- Included booking Engine, Google Free links & payment gateway
- Can integrate multiple vacation rental listings into single channel manager login
- Can use inbuilt Dynamic Pricing & Revenue Management System.
- Calculations of OTA commissions included
Frequently Asked Questions
If you want to enjoy benefits beyond increased hotel bookings with zero efforts, then invest in a hotel channel manager that includes:
A channel manager is a software product that connects a hospitality accommodations provider (eg: hotel or vacation rental) to online travel agencies and distribution channels to generate demand for the property.
The software helps send rates, inventory, and availability to OTAs using APIs from a common user interface and gets bookings / reservations from all online channels into a common easy to view and use platform.
This ensures that the hotel does not need to manage each OTA individually by pooling all data into a common system, and hence ensuring there are no overbookings or rate disparity.
Most basic functionality of a hotel channel manager are as follows:
Send room inventory and rates to all OTAs (like booking.com, expedia, agoda, Ctrip, Traveloka etc)
Pool all new, cancelled or modified reservations from all OTA platforms in real-time into a common user interface
Ability to set rates and inventory for each room type and rate plan in a hotel in a simple/ usable manner.
Provides ability to bulk update rates, inventory or restrictions for a longer period of time.
Supports several restrictions and availability parameters like stop sell, minimum and maximum length of stay, minimum & maximum advance reservation.
Provide periodic reports and analytics regarding booking data, patterns, pick-up, and source of business generation.
While there are many channel manager software companies available, there are few features that make the best hotel channel manager stand out from the legacy simple software systems. Legacy systems will do simple updates of rates, inventory and bookings, however the best channel manager systems like RevHub will do the following:
- Have dynamic pricing & automated pricing ability to change rates based on market demand, and competition conditions
- Have 2 way seamless connectivity with Property Management System (PMS) system, so bookings do not have to entered manually by reservations team.
- Channel Manager is integrated as part of Hotel Management System and All in One Hotel software, so that all data is seamlessly available for value-added analytics and superior guest experience.
- Ability to measure hidden data from each OTA like commissions, guest preferences, tax details, company details like GST / VAT, etc.
- Ability to send and receive messages from guests from channel manager interface.
- Manage multiple hotels (chain or multi property hotels) using a common login and central reservation system
- For multiple vacation rental listings , have ability to connect to separate listings on booking.com or Airbnb using one account on channel manager.
- API Connectivity with Google Free Links and Google Hotel Ads so that hotel can generate direct bookings to save OTA commissions.
- Consolidate reviews, ratings , and guest feedback from all OTA channels seamlessly into the channel manager software.
- Manage OTA content (photos, description, room / rateplan details) along with promotions using a common platform.
- Update of rates, inventory and reservations should happen instantly without any delays
Most hotels, resorts or vacation / short term rentals need to use a channel manager software for the following reasons:
- Reduce time / effort required to manage multiple OTA channels
- Avoid overbookings as all room inventory is pooled together
- Maintain rate parity across all OTA platforms
- Manage rate changes using automated or manual methods to increase revenues
- Understand the source & segment of business generation for hotels
Most hotels, resorts or vacation / short term rentals need to use a channel manager software for the following reasons:
- Reduce time / effort required to manage multiple OTA channels
- Avoid overbookings as all room inventory is pooled together
- Maintain rate parity across all OTA platforms
- Manage rate changes using automated or manual methods to increase revenues
- Understand the source & segment of business generation for hotels