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Dexterously handling all your booking sources,
channelmanager is a compelling online hotel channel manager that effectively
automates the process of online rates and inventory distribution and minimizing the hassles associated with overbooking and mismatched inventory.

EASY, SWIFT AND ACCURATE ONLINE DISTRIBUTION SERVICE

channel management software will automate the online rate
management and your hotel’s online inventory distribution with real-time updates on 100+ connected OTAs and global distribution systems.

Instantly Manage all your Distribution Sites from a Single Platform

No matter if it is 2, 10 or 100; perform multiple channel management easily through channel manager
No matter if your property is connected with 1, 2, 10 or 100 of OTA channels; with one click, our OTA synchronizer instantly updates your hotel’s rates and inventories on all connected channels including OTAs (Hotel Booking Portals), metasearch engines (TripAdvisor, Google Hotel Finder etc), Global Distribution Systems (GDS), Vacation Rental Portals (AirBnB, Flipkey), hotel website and even your hotel Facebook page. Avoiding petty human errors, the centralized allocation process helps you encourage a constant online presence while ensuring that you don’t miss a single booking.

Efficiently Utilize Complete Hotel Inventory

Our channel management software updates all your data in real-time, thereby enabling you to benefit from utilizing your complete inventory online, without the fear of over-bookings.
Owing to the flawless 2-way connectivity between hotel distribution system and numerous distribution sites, you can easily update your hotel’s complete inventory instantly on all connected OTAs and global distribution system.

Automatic Room Rate Updates for Maximum Profit

As per various conditions you set, the distribution channel management system lets you smoothly derive the best room selling rate for maximum profit.
As per the market scenario and conditions you set, channel manager distribution inventory management system lets you derive the Best Available Retail Rate (BAR) for selling the correct room at the right price, subsequently helping you sell more rooms while yielding maximum revenue. Example, when bookings are high during peak seasons and your hotel’s occupancy rate reaches more than 60%, the system will automatically increase the room rate by 15% on all connected websites. On the other hand, the distribution channel manager will slash the prices during low selling seasons ensuring your hotel receives maximum bookings.

Stop Sale At One Click

At the press of a button, instantly stop the sale of your live inventory on all connected OTAs and global distribution systems.
The “Stop Sale” feature of shriram’s inventory distribution system allows you to instantly stop the sale of your live inventory distributed across numerous channels. This feature is especially useful when there’s a sudden group booking and you need to utilize the entire inventory which is currently live on the channels.

Foreign Currency Rate Updates

From our inventory distribution channel manager, accept payments in foreign currencies and convert the revenue in local currency.
Things get really messy when the currency you operate your hotel with is different from the currency opted by the associated channels or the guest. Keeping that in mind, we offer you the ability to accept foreign currency from the travel sites, agents, and guest. However the system will continue running operations on local currency in harmony with the latest exchange rate.

Make Hotel Overbooking A Thing Of The Past

Using the latest technology of shriram channel manager, we assure you that the issue of overbooking at your hotel would be a rare phenomenon.
At some point or the other, you must’ve faced the distress that comes with accidentally overbooking rooms. However, with the help of the latest technology, channel manager instantly updates the latest availability across the integrated PMS and all your connected OTAs and GDSs which leads to minimal hotel overbookings as well as underbookings.

Maintain Hotel Rate Parity Without Any Effort

From our inventory distribution channel manager, accept payments in foreign currencies and convert the revenue in local currency.
Keeping the rate parity clauses in mind, our channel management software ensures that all changes updated in real-time, leaving one in a million chance for errors.

Get more: connect your hotel with 100+ travel portals

Our channel management system acts as a bridge between your
hotel and numerous travel booking platforms increasing your online reach for higher booking contingency.

Benefit From Our 100+ Connected Online Distribution Channels

Our OTA synchronizer offers integrations with over a hundred online travel booking sites including OTA, GDS, Vacation Rentals and more.
Don’t miss out on a single booking, easily maintain your online presence on 100s of esteemed global as well as national OTA channels such as Expedia, booking.com etc. What’s more, you can also get bookings from various GDS channels like Galileo and Pegasus along with Meta Search sites TripAdvisor, Google Hotel Finder etc. Apart from that, the channel manager also offers seamless connectivity with 30+ rental vacation rental lodging websites like AirBnB, HolidayLettings and more.

Take Advantage Of Our Channel Manager API

Quickly and effortlessly connect your our channel manager with numerous 3rd party solutions for better hotel management.
shriram’s tech-experts have developed channel manager with an industry-standard compliant API, allowing you to efficiently link the online channel manager with numerous 3rd party solutions. In case we do not have an interface with any of your preferred 3rd party application such as hotel PMS or booking system, we would be glad to create a new interface as well.

Synchronization With Vacation Rental Portals

We will efficiently synchronize the Availability Calendar on leading vacation rental websites and allow you to get receive booking from this rising booking market.
The market for Vacation Rentals is growing quickly with the rise of small property owners and individual unit sellers such as rooms, apartments, villas, etc. However, when it comes to distributing inventory on multiple vacation rental portals, this particular segment is still lagging behind. Significantly assisting the small property owners, channel manager will efficiently synchronize the Availability Calendar on leading vacation rental websites. As a result, this will enrich your online visibility, help you upsurge services and result in higher contingency for booking conversion.
Till date, channel manager is connected with more than 30 reputed vacation rental lodging websites and new channels are added on regular basis.

Flawless Interface With Hotel Software And Booking Engine

The seamless integration of our inventory distributor with hotel PMS and booking system, enables you to update live inventory on connected channels.
Constructing an absolute connectivity, ShriRam Technosys online distribution system integrates with hotel management solutions and online booking system, which allows you to publish complete hotel inventory on OTA websites in real-time. As all the systems are connected, as soon as you receive a booking from OTA, the PMS detects the incoming booking. Once the booking is confirmed, the distribution system will further update the revised inventory on all connected channels along with the hotel website and Facebook. This entire process takes place in a matter of seconds ensuring that you don’t miss a single booking.
One of the best parts is that all our cloud solutions are built on the same platform, thus channel manager offers seamless connection with our hotel management software and booking engine ensuring maximum online exposure and minimum over-booking. Additionally, this also saves you from a lot of to and fro communication involved in integration with 3rd party PMS and booking engine, ultimately affecting the quality of the integration.

Enumerated analytics and reports

Through shriram’s channel management system, easily analyse and quantify the success of connected
channels as per the revenue and bookings received from them. Thus, further evaluating the future strategies and taking necessary measures.

OTA Commission / Billing Management

Easily manage numerous commission and bills associated with various connected channels as per the contract you sign with them.
To ensure uninterrupted presence at the booking sources and draw in a high number of guests, a hotel maintains an association with various travel agents (online and offline) each having a different commission agreement with the property. For each booking you receive from these associated channels, our system automatically detects the contract and the invoice is generated in accordance with the contract. Additionally, automating the process, our channel manager provides you with all the details in ready to use format.

Analytics

Aiding you to get an efficient and strategic plan, shriram’s channel manager provides you with detailed reports giving you real-time data of the hotel.
Aiding you to get an efficient and strategic plan, our channel manager provides you with detailed reports, giving you real-time data of the hotel. Merging the data collected from various resources, channel manager system provides numerous benefiting reports in easy to read formats. These relevant data is bifurcated in different formats such as Revenue Analysis-OTA wise, revenue monthly breakdown, channel wise bookings etc and can be accessed anytime from anywhere.

Audit Logs

Recording all the updates taking place in the system, the audit logs in shriram system ensure that your hotel data is always on record and secured.
Keeping a track of all the edits and updates made in the system, the audit log in shriram system ensures that your hotel data is completely secured. Till date, we offer 3 types of audit trails including transaction log which records all transactions along with the user information who triggered the action. The inventory log is to store information about the updates in the rates, inventory or stop sale transactions. Lastly, the master log gives you direct access to the changes taking place in the master module dedicated for sensitive operations where any user added, updated or deleted anything according to user wise.

Keep An Eye On Your Competitor's Rate

Keeping in par with the live market scenario, shriram’s Rate Shopper Tool gives you live information of your competitors’ hotel room rates on connected OTAs and GDSs.
Along with accurate online inventory distribution, the Rate Shopper tool in channel manager allows you to inspect your opponent’s real-time rates gathered from various connected channels and provide you a forecasting of their rates for next 30 days. Thus, you are up to date with the market scenario, thereby helping you devise effective pricing strategies for your hotel and earn maximum revenue.

Added to the complete distribution ecosystem

Our channel manager also offers numerous value-added features such 24×7 live support, exclusive account manager and more

Exclusive Expert To Help You Anytime Anywheret

Devotedly looking after your property’s progress, your shriram appointed consultant will help you get the best returns on your investment.
Your expert and consultant will religiously watch over your property’s complete onboarding, training and any other queries you might have. Aiding you to get the most out of the channel manager, the account manager will exclusively help you in taking care of your online distribution needs pre as well as post-sale.

Reap The Benefits Of Mobile Channel Manager

In the fast world of mobile phones, shriram’s mobile channel manager allows you to practice all channel manager activities right from your smartphone.
Regardless of where you are, through shriram’s mobile channel manager you can instantly update your hotel’s online rates and inventories at the touch of a button. Additionally, from your smartphone, you can monitor your property’s online sales, change hotel rates and even utilize the stop sale feature. All the changes will instantly reflect on all associated channels, hotel’s website as well as the connected hotel PMS.

Roll Over Updates

Ensuring that your hotel is bookable for the next 365 days from present day, the daily system performs a process called ‘Roll Over Date’.
Assisting you further, shrirram’s online channel manager extends the allocation calendar for 2 years, while the same details in OTA calendar in extensible for only one year. Ensuring the booking ability for the next 365 days from present day, the system performs a process called ‘Roll Over Date’ on a daily basis. For instance, in your distribution you configure your hotel’s rates and inventory for 2 years, on the other hand, as you can configure only one year’s data, your property is available only for a year. What channel manager does is that it changes the date in the system on day to day basis, which results in the OTA system to process the next day as a new year. At the same time, the distribution system will retrieve the configured inventory from the hotel system, connect it with the OTA and ensure that your property is available for the entire year.

Synchronizing Master And Derived Rate Plans

Our channel manager adjoins your hotel’s master and derived rate plans. Thus, any updates made on master rate plan, derived plan will replicate it.
Additionally, aiding you with easy inventory distribution, our online channel manager synchronizes the master rate plans with derived rates, similar to the system of major distribution channels. Thus, if you make any updates to the master rate plan, the system will automatically update the edits on the derived rate plan.