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In order to stop sales for the Booking Engine you can follow the steps described below.  
 
In order to stop sales for the Booking Engine you can follow the steps described below.  
  
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1. Go to Setting -> Booking Agencies -> Contracts and select the contract you have associated with the Booking Engine.
 
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2. Once you open the relevant contract, you can go to the 'Rooms' tab, and change the sales target to '0'
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Note that you can stop sales in the Booking Engine only at a ''''Room type'''' level and not at ''''rate'''' level.
  
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For the booking engine you cannot stop sales like you do for the '''[[channel manager]]''' through the tools.
 
  
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You can only reduce target sales or put 0 at contract-target sales for a specific season (you can add more seasons at your special calendar).  
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Go to '''Setting''' -> '''Booking Agencies''' -> '''Contracts''' and select the contract you have associated with the Booking Engine.
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Once you open the relevant contract, go to the ''''Rooms'''' tab. This is where you will change the allotment sent to your Booking Engine.
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[[File:bestep1.jpg|20px|]] Select the '''period''' you when to stop sales for.
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[[File:bestep2.jpg|20px|]] Select the '''days of the week''' you wish to include for the period selected in 'Step 1'
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[[File:bestep3.jpg|20px|]] Select for which ''''Room types'''' you would like to stop sales.
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[[File:bestep4.jpg|20px|]] Set the 'Sales target' as '''0'''.
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[[File:bestep52.jpg|20px|]] Click ''''Set''''.
  
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Or if it is easier, you can just enter reservations in your calendar with status confirmed. This will reduce the availability to all channels connected and the booking engine. Then you can delete these reservations, or enter the correct details once confirmed.
 
  
 
Keep in mind:
 
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Reservations from your website(booking engine) are direct and without commission, so you want to give all available rooms, don't stop sales on your booking engine.
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* If you enter manually a reservation in your calendar, with status confirmed, it will reduce the availability to all the channels connected and the Booking Engine.  
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The booking engine looks if there is a room available for the whole stay, so you won t have to spit a reservation (move customer to different rooms for his stay) instead of just looking for free nights as the channels do.  
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* The Booking Engine shows available rooms for the whole stay that a guest is interested to book. Therefore, you won't have to split a reservation (move customer to different rooms for his stay).  
  
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When you reduce the target sales from 17 to 10 double rooms, it means that instead of 17 reservations, the booking engine can send you 10 reservations only as long as you have 10 available rooms in your calendar.
 
  
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The availability of the hotel always wins. For example you set target sales 10 rooms but if you have less rooms available, for example only 4 available, then only 4 reservations can be done through the booking engine even thought you applied 10 rooms at target sales. So what you set at target sales, the system will calculate and send your availability as follows: '''target sales - confirmed reservations = available rooms'''
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* The system will calculate and send your availability as: '''target sales - confirmed reservations = available rooms'''

Latest revision as of 21:56, 28 September 2021

In order to stop sales for the Booking Engine you can follow the steps described below.


Note that you can stop sales in the Booking Engine only at a 'Room type' level and not at 'rate' level.


Go to Setting -> Booking Agencies -> Contracts and select the contract you have associated with the Booking Engine.

Be.png


Once you open the relevant contract, go to the 'Rooms' tab. This is where you will change the allotment sent to your Booking Engine.


Be2.png

Be3.png


Bestep1.jpg Select the period you when to stop sales for.

Bestep2.jpg Select the days of the week you wish to include for the period selected in 'Step 1'

Bestep3.jpg Select for which 'Room types' you would like to stop sales.

Bestep4.jpg Set the 'Sales target' as 0.

Bestep52.jpg Click 'Set'.


Keep in mind:

  • If you enter manually a reservation in your calendar, with status confirmed, it will reduce the availability to all the channels connected and the Booking Engine.


  • The Booking Engine shows available rooms for the whole stay that a guest is interested to book. Therefore, you won't have to split a reservation (move customer to different rooms for his stay).


  • The system will calculate and send your availability as: target sales - confirmed reservations = available rooms
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