Hotel Extranet

 

What Is a Hotel Extranet System or Hotel Extranet Booking Engine? 

 

Hotel extranet stands for Hotel Central Reservation network and is used by resorts, lodges, and hotels to offer premium service to clients.

It enables customers to receive all the necessary details on accommodation, prices, exclusive offers and photos uploaded by the hotel agency to prove the authenticity.

FlightsLogic provides Hotel Extranet Solutions where hoteliers get registered and track their room inventory, real-time availability, and pricing.

Managers do overall setup and management and able to sell hotel inventories on their B2B and B2C distribution platforms and even via XML API on markup or discount basis.

Hotel Extranet provides hoteliers with access to the exclusive username and password management. Through Hotel Extranet, hoteliers can access their inventory and rate management and decide whether they are able to increase or less room and apply a competitive rate for their room category.

Hotel Extranet System operates as a single application that enables travel agents to upload their own contracted hotels (suppliers) and give them access to their online system so that they can enter their own hotel data (description, allocations, prices, special offers, restrictions).

Booking Extranet Admin is a password protected program for your approved hotels to track their inventory, upload prices, show confirmed bookings and provide special offers.

 

Sell Your Own Contracted Room Inventory Online with Hotel Extranet System

 

Built for smooth online booking, communication for online hotel booking business. Hoteliers will set up their company and handle their complete inventory in the CRS. It allows rooms, property buildings, etc. to be set up.

The Hotel Extranet or Hotel CRS system allows travel agents to upload their own contracted hotels and gives you access to all inventory management online and can manage the day-to-day booking logs and payment logs travel agents can upload their partner hotels or their suppliers can add their hotels.

The Extranet program lets you connect the dynamic pricing of hotels, villas, resorts and update it automatically to your sales channel without any extra effort.

As the prices are constantly being changed by hoteliers on the basis of market volatility, inventory, competitive pricing, events and so on, the travel business needs the Best Available Prices (BAR) to succeed.

The Hotel Extranet is an excellent solution for being competitive, for having the best available prices, corporate rates, advanced sale rates all in one system.

Adding a Contracting Tool to your Extranet would also allow you to add your preferred negotiated rates directly coordinated with hotels to that system.

FlightsLogic is among the companies that can merge multiple rate plans in a single platform, streamlining the workload of your team.

With our Hotel Extranet CRS, you can manage your inventory, cut off dates and stay for a minimum night without any difficulties. It will increase profitability, reduce the margin of error and build customer loyalty.

Aside from these, we're helping you establish and sustain a positive relationship with your potential clients.

The FlightsLogic Extranet system lets you connect the dynamic pricing of hotels, villas, resorts and update it automatically to your sales channel without any additional effort.

With the support of our Hotel Extranet System clients can easily manage their inventory, upload and retain rates for different seasons, manage booking confirmation information and add any special deals or multiple deals.

Online Travel agents and hoteliers can conveniently track their inventory via the Central Reservation System or the Hotel Extranet.

 

Why Choose FlightsLogic  for Hotel Extranet System Integration?

 

Our Hotel Extranet solution offers the ability to log in to Hoteliers where they can manage their own room rates directly and availability can also be updated with immediate effect as and when necessary.

They will adjust prices for various seasons if and when any changes are needed. The Central Reservation System (CRS) is a computerized system that stores and distributes hotels, resort or other accommodation information.

Hotel CRS is primarily assistance for hoteliers to handle both their online marketing and sales activities. Where they can upload their prices & availabilities to all selling platforms using the CRS.

The system allows you to take complete control of your hotel inventory and pricing structures and take advantage of powerful sales and distribution networks across your channel.

It is a computerized reservation system that revolves around the collection and distribution of information about hotels, resorts or lodges.

The Hotel Extranet System enables your travel company to connect directly to the different Channel Managers used by the hotels you prefer to have in your inventory, in order to receive modified dynamic pricing and availability.

Hotel Extranet is used as a tool to enter the global distribution network or GDS along with the internet distribution system from a single point system. Hotel managers use this tool to manage their online sales and marketing strategies.

They also plan their rates and availabilities which can be easily viewed through the distribution channel. Add or grant hoteliers access to manage the data (inventory, description, photo gallery, services, policies) and dynamic pricing in the Extranet Network (with unique username and password).

The hotelier is in a position to add or reduce their room inventory and apply a competitive rate for their room category, period and many more.

These updates will then be made available directly to you to benefit from the best available prices and further synchronize them to your distribution channels.

The best part of integrating hotel extranet into your online travel platform is that it is versatile, so hoteliers can immediately add numerous latest deals or updates, and allows scaling up the business margin.

It also allows users to track their purchases, upload and monitor price charts, confirmation bookings, and special offers.

 

Key Features of Hotel Extranet:

 

• Own Branding: Tour Operators can have their own branded interface for system access by hotels and suppliers via own domain/URL.

• Markup: Option of defining markup or commission respective to a property both in Percentage and Fixed amount.

• Cancellation policies: Multiple cancellation policies, terms and conditions, amendment policies can be defined as per room/s and season dates.

• Smart Inventory: The system shows room’s status, price, promotions, availability etc. on the calendar on room basis. The same can be edited in very a user friendly and flexible way.

• Promotions: Multiple promotions can be defined such as Discounts, Stay/Pay, Early Bird, Min Nights, Book by Date, Special Price.

• Season Creation: Multiple seasons with various date ranges and description e.g. high, low, peak, shoulder etc.

• Bulk Update: The prices, allocations, mark-ups, blackout and policies can be updated in bulk on a date range basis.

• Contracting: Easy and user-friendly interface to upload contract entries on room category basis. Further apply seasons, allocations, release period, room prices, extra guest charges, child charges (as per age criteria) on board basis.

 

Some of the primary functions in hotel extranet as below:

 

• Completely flexible and scalable to expand businesses
• Platform quite user friendly
• Price, availability and content management, or information from a single entry point
• Hotel integration with GDS, on-line travel agents and mobile booking engines
• Various channels of distribution emphasized by use of channel manager
• Deal with Room Facility
• Take care of supplements, mandatory or optional supplements
• Auto email and SMS notifications for confirmation and verification bookings
• Using content as required and local marketing
• Rates – Adjust prices, raise or decrease prices on a season-by-season basis
• Generate daily report, reservation details report, billing information report, cancelation report, inventory report and nationality rate report
• Manage policy – payment plan, retraction approach, assessment of arrangements, terms and conditions and property policy

 

Key Benefits of Hotel Extranet:

 

• A website that allows your customers to access all the required details related to accommodation
• A user-friendly portal where the user can access all the details with a single search
• Connectivity with online travel agents and mobile booking engines
• Flexible and scale up the margin of your enterprise
• Agent allocation
• Use various mark-up on agents
• Take care of supplements, mandatory or optional supplements
• Handle hotel blackout
• Handle rooms based on minimum, maximum and usual occupancy, extra bed, permit pets or not
• Manage seasons
• Auto email and SMS notification for booking verification and confirmation
• Deal with room facilities
• Deal management system to enter package plans and make them accessible on all B2B and B2C reservation channels.

 

Key Capabilities:

 

• Connect directly to the B2B or B2C delivery network
• Connect to the Hotel by Channel Manager to automatically send and receive dynamic prices
• Connect to the Contracting Tool to add the preferred and negotiated prices
• Enable access to hotels in the program to be operated by themselves: their rates, availability and details
• Types of properties: hotels, villas, resorts, apartments, camping
• Overview of the product, pictures, amenities, categories of accommodation, types of meals, policies
• Management of availability
• Cancellation policies, extra-bed policies and child policies
• Special offers management (pay-stay, discount, special rates, conditions)
• Reservation management (cancelation, confirmation awaiting booking) with real-time notification
• Generate auto-mail invoices to hotels for commissions; allow hotels to view and access commission invoices (applicable for commissionable rates)
• Support multiple pricing plans as specified by the hotel (BAR, corporate rates, advanced purchased rate)
• Multi-language & multiple currencies