All Room Type and Rate Plan allocations to Agent Channels are listed and managed in SETUP | RELATIONSHIPS | AGENT RELATIONSHIPS. Examples of Agents Channels include: your website, promotional codes, buuteeq, GDS, Booking.com and other online travel agents.
Because you can setup and manage a unique set of Room allocations and Rate Plans to each Agent Channel, we refer to this as an Agent Relationship. There are three general categories of Agents each of which can have multiple channels depending on the online distribution channels you choose to setup. Some Agents are set up by BookingCenter (Master Agents), some are created by you (Special Agents and Promo Codes) and some are added automatically after you have signed up for an OTA contract Rate program (Net Rate Agents).
Agent Categories
In Agent Relationships you can see the details for each Agent Channel listed: AgentID, Agent Name, Number of Rooms Allocated, Commission percentage and Rate Loading percentage. To see the contact details of each Agent, click the Agent ID.
To see which Room Types and Rate Plans are allocated to an Agent Channel or to ADD or DELETE a Room Type allocation, click on blue link that displays the number of rooms allocated in the "Rooms Allocated" column for the corresponding Agent. For example, 15 of 17. When you click on this number a new screen will open with a List of the Room Types and corresponding Rate Plans you have allocated to that Agent. At this point you can Add or Delete a Room Type Allocation.
To Add a Room Type Allocation, Rate Plan or Package:
To Delete any Room Type Allocation
Managing Room Type and Rate Plan Allocations
Room Type and Rate allocations can be customized to each agent, however there are three agents that MUST have all ROOM TYPES allocated.
To manage your Availability and Rates to each channel there are three options.
To see Room Type and Rate allocations to this channel, click on the number of rooms shown in the the column labeled Room Allocated. For example 26 of 32.
Managing Availability to GDS and OTA Channels
Selling rooms online or, Online Distribution is process that first involves setting up your Agents and then allocating the Rooms and Rate plans to those Channels. The number and types of channels you will manage depend on what you have elected to sign-up for or activate.
Each Agent a corresponding channel is Availability and Rates plans to each of these channels is setup and managed individually. and distribution is managed in each individual channel.
under Rooms Allocated for that agent. In the example below we have 100% of our rooms allocated to the MyPMS agent at the rack rate for each room type.
To manage rooms and rates to your Front Desk, Website, GDS or OTA in MyPMS, you have three choices.
To manage Rooms and rates to your Front Desk, GDS or website from MyPMS, you have three choices.