Once you have an active Booking.com Direct connection (interface between Booking.com extranet and your BookingCenter MyPMS software), adding promotions to your profile can be quite simple.
The follow these steps:
- Contact your Booking.com market manager and set up the promotion in your Extranet. Please tell your Booking.com Market Manager that the promotion must be setup in "Instant Promo Mapping". This setting was designed to be for short-term promotions for properties who wanted to offer promotions with short notice and NOT require extra mapping from the Channel Manager (in your case, BookingCenter).
- Check with your Market Manager that you are set to "Double Occupancy/Derived Rates." We have you do this during the set-up of your connection, but if you missed this step, it will cause all your promotions to fail.
- The rate for the "Instant Promo" is derived from the Standard Rate you are pushing to Booking.com from BookingCenter. Please ask your Market Manager to help you set up the needed rate for the promotion.
- Once the "Instant Promo" is set up with Booking.com, there nothing else you need to do. The promotion will be active and bookable.
Managing Promotions and Bookings in your PMS.
- The rate for the "Instant Promo" s derived off the standard rate. This means that the promotional rate will be based off of the chosen standard rate and any changes to the standard rate will also change the rate of the promotion.
- Rate Restrictions for the promotion are also derived from the Standard Rate. Closed to Arrival, Min LOS are managed in your property management system in SETUP | RATES | MANAGE RATES
- BookingCenter will not see your Instant Promo Mapping. You will only see it in your Booking.com extranet.
- If you were to look in your BookingCenter software, the reservation will still come under agent BKGDIR, but will reflect the discounted rate.
If you have any questions about how the promotions are to work, please contact your Booking.com Market Manager.
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