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Once you have decided to sell your rooms online, it is time to think about how you will manage the availability and rates of these rooms to each Agent Channel. Since each Agent has a unique set of conditions and commission rates, you many want to tailor Room Allocation and Rate Plans to fit each channel.Managing Availability and Rates on Website. Each of these Channels can be further managed through Rate Loading and modifying the percentage (%) of the Rooms allocated in a Room Type. See Rate Loading
If you are ONLY selling rooms on your website, go to Master Agents.
If you are selling your rooms on your website AND through general GDS distribution
If you are selling rooms ONLY on buuteeq
If for each Agent Channel that you have setup. Selling your rooms through these channels is online distribution and managing these rooms and rates is done in AGent Relationships
There are two important parts to the process of selling your rooms online:
MyPMS offers several options for managing Rates and Availability depending on the needs of your property.
There are two important parts to the process of selling your rooms online:
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Each online channel you choose to connect to MyPMS will be listed in Agent Relationships and will grow as you add more channels. For example, you may start with one online channel like your website and then choose to increase your online distribution through GDS and OTA Channels. The number of channels will depend on what you have elected to sign up for or activate.
Once the Agent Channels are set up and listed in Agent Relationships, they can then be managed independently in each channel.
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Room Type and Rate allocations can be customized to each agent, however there are three Master Agents that MUST have all ROOM TYPES allocated
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Once you have decided to sell your rooms online, it is time to think about how you will manage the availability and rates of these rooms to each Agent Channel. Since each Agent has a unique set of conditions and commission rates, you many want to tailor Room Allocation and Rate Plans to fit each channel. Each of these Channels can be further managed through Rate Loading. See Rate Loading
Once you have determined which channel you will be working with, proceed to the following sections:
Common Agent Channels
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Types of Agents
Master Agents:
The BookingCenter PMS system automatically provides four Master Agent Channels by default. These agents control the availability and rates to your basic channels: frontdesk, members area, website and GDS (if activated). They must have Room and Rate allocations in order to function properly and are automatically populated with the Room Types and Rate Plans you setup in your system.
There are two standard channels used to sell online These channels must have subscriptions and be activated before the will be live online and be able to accept bookings.
The other channels that sell online are either added by you (MyPMS Agents) or added when you sign up for an OTA Contract Rate Program.
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PMS Agents :These are agents that you have set up in the My Agents area.
Agent BUT: Choose the Agent BUT and follow the steps above to manage the allocations to your buuteeq website
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Net Rate Agents: These agents will only be visible if you have signed up for a Contract Program with a major OTA
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such as Expedia, Booking.com,
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Usually we recommend waiting a few months to see the results of the distribution and marketing BookingCenter can do on your behalf, before signing up for a Net Rate contract. We have a complete list of Net Rate companies we can automate at: http://www.bookingcenter.com/products/net_rate.html. Contact mailto:GDS_Support@BookingCenter.com to request enrollment into any Net rate program.
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etc.Each channel must be managed individually.