Setting up and Managing Booking.com promotions in MyPMS
Once you have an active Booking.com Direct connection (connection between Booking.com extranet and your BookingCenter MyPMS software), adding promotions to your profile can be quite simple. We do recommend that if you have any current promotions in Booking.com prior to your direct connection that you put those on hold during the connection.
After your connection has been activated, you can then set up promotional programs in Booking.com that will interface with availability and rates in MyPMS.We support the following two promotional programs with Booking.com: "Instant Promo Mapping" or “Extranet Only”. The most common of which is the "Instant Promo Mapping" promotion which does not require extra mapping and is derived from your standard rate.
To Set up a "Instant Promo Mapping" promotion in Booking.com follow these steps:
"Extranet Only" Promotions in the Booking.com Extranet
If you do create an “Extranet Only” promotion on Booking.com, please ask your market manager to to enable rate plan updates to “Follow Closed” for standard rates. This setting must be changed for “Extranet Only” promotions on Booking.com so that these non-mapped rate plans update correctly.If this setting is NOT enabled in your Booking.com extranet, then will not process updates for “Extranet Only” promotions.
Managing Promotions and Bookings in MyPMS
Things you should know about Promotional Programs
We recommend that you begin with the Booking.com Standard Program (BKGDIR) until you have experience managing the Booking.com agent, and then add additional programs when/if needed.
Booking.com offers numerous promotions and as we progress, you will need to communicate to your Market Manager that in order for the connection to work, you MUST ONLY use their "Instant Promo Mapping based on the Standard Rate." or “Extranet Only” . If you do any other promotional tool, including the Booking.com Promo Wizard, these promotions will not be mapped to your BookingCenter software, and this can lead to overbookings. Please note that these Instant Promo Mappings will assume the policies of your Standard Rate, as set in Booking.com.
If done correctly, BookingCenter will never handle your promotions or the details of your promotions. Instead they will flow into your MyPMS with the same agent as Standard Rate. However, you will see the promo reflected in the price you set inside Booking.com for the promo.
For example, a stay 3 nights, save 30% is perfect because the 30% discount will be based on the Standard Rate that is already loaded, and will dynamically be applied when booking 3 nights inside Booking.com. Please know that any other ways to set promotional rates will NOT work correctly from your BookingCenter software via the connection. If you have any promotional questions, those need to be addressed with your Booking.com Market Manager.