Channel Manager
eGlobe Channel Manager is a cloud-based solution designed to automate the process of online rate and inventory distribution for hotels. This innovative technology minimizes the hassle and stress associated with overbooking and mismatched inventory, by providing real-time updates and advanced reporting.
2000+ properties are connected with Channel Manager
- Increased Efficiency: The system automates the process of online rate and inventory distribution, reducing manual tasks and freeing up staff time to focus on delivering exceptional customer experiences.
- Improved Accuracy: The system provides real-time updates, ensuring that the hotel’s rates and inventory are always accurate and up-to-date. This minimizes the risk of overbooking and mismatched inventory.
- Advanced Reporting: eGlobe Hotel Channel Manager provides advanced reporting, enabling hotels to track their performance, monitor occupancy levels, and make informed decisions.
- Rate Parity: The system alerts hotels when their rates deviate from the rates listed on other online platforms, ensuring rate parity across all channels.
- Occupancy Based Pricing: The system enables hotels to set prices based on occupancy levels, ensuring maximum revenue and profitability.
- Easy Management: The system can be managed via a mobile app, making it easy for hotel staff to manage operations on the go.
- PMS Integration: eGlobe Hotel Channel Manager integrates with the hotel’s PMS, providing a comprehensive view of the hotel’s operations.
- Cost-Effective: The cloud-based technology eliminates the need for expensive hardware and software installations, maintenance, and upgrades, making it a cost-effective solution for hotels of all sizes.
- Improved Customer Satisfaction: The system streamlines the process of managing rates and inventory, reducing manual tasks and freeing up staff to focus on delivering exceptional customer experiences.
- Increased Revenue: By automating the process of online rate and inventory distribution, hotels can increase revenue and maximize their profits.
- Increased Visibility: The system provides a comprehensive view of the hotel’s operations, making it easier for hotels to track their performance, monitor occupancy levels, and make informed decisions.
- Improved Brand Reputation: By ensuring rate parity and providing accurate rates and inventory information, hotels can maintain a strong brand reputation and attract more customers.
- Increased Market Reach: The system integrates with multiple online platforms, enabling hotels to reach a wider audience and attract more customers.
- Improved Time Management: The system streamlines the process of managing rates and inventory, reducing manual tasks and freeing up staff time to focus on delivering exceptional customer experiences.
- Improved Data Management: The system provides real-time updates, ensuring that the hotel’s data is always accurate and up-to-date. This minimizes the risk of errors and improves decision-making.
- Improved Communication: The system integrates with the hotel’s PMS, making it easier for hotel staff to communicate and collaborate on operations.
- Scalability: The cloud-based technology makes it easy for hotels to scale their operations as needed, without incurring significant costs.
- 24/7 Accessibility: The system is available 24/7, making it easy for hotel staff to access and manage their operations from anywhere, at any time.
Occupancy Based Pricing
Occupancy Based Pricing is a feature of eGlobe Hotel Channel Manager that helps hotels to optimize their revenue and occupancy levels. In today’s highly competitive and rapidly changing online marketplace, it can be difficult to predict hotel rates and ensure that they remain competitive. The Occupancy Based Pricing feature of eGlobe Hotel Channel Manager addresses this challenge by automating the process of setting rates up to 60 days in advance.
The system calculates the best possible rates based on time and inventory levels and pushes these rates across all online travel agencies (OTAs). This ensures that hotels are always offering competitive rates and maximizing their revenue. The Occupancy Based Pricing feature can be triggered automatically every few hours or manually run whenever required, making it easy for hotel staff to manage their pricing strategy.
By using Occupancy Based Pricing, hotels can increase their average room rate (ARR) and occupancy levels, helping them to stay ahead of the competition and maintain a strong revenue stream.
Rate Parity Alert
Rate Parity Alert is a feature of eGlobe Hotel Channel Manager that helps hotels maintain consistent pricing across all online travel agencies (OTAs). Maintaining rate parity is crucial for hotels as it helps them maintain their ranking and visibility on these platforms, which can ultimately lead to more bookings and revenue.
The Rate Parity Alert feature of eGlobe Hotel Channel Manager provides hotels with real-time alerts and warning emails in case of any rate discrepancy across any of their OTAs. This makes it easier for hotel staff to quickly identify and resolve any pricing issues, ensuring that they are always offering competitive and consistent rates across all platforms.
By using the Rate Parity Alert feature, hotels can maintain their ranking on OTAs, increase their visibility, and attract more customers, helping them to achieve their revenue goals and maximize their profits.
Complete, Real-Time Integration
The eGlobe Channel Manager offers a real-time integration solution that utilizes cutting-edge technology. It sends multiple requests to OTA’s and updates the screens in real-time using JQuery, without the need to refresh the page. With user-friendly interfaces, this solution provides a seamless two-way integration experience.
100+ channels are connected with us
Channels
Efficient Inventory Management
Maintaining inventory is a crucial and ongoing task for hotel staff. eGlobe provides you with the ideal tools to complete these tasks quickly and effectively.
Calendar View
The Calendar View option enables you to update inventory or mark sold-out dates for different days in a month. You can also easily copy the inventory of any given date forward or backward.
Bulk Inventory View
The Bulk View option allows you to update inventory for an extended period, including options for marking sold-out dates, closing for arrival or departure, and setting minimum and maximum lengths of stay. You have the flexibility to update inventory for any day of the week or for a selected channel.
Common Inventory Pooling
Common Inventory Pooling helps multiple hotels pool their available room inventory together to create a larger, combined pool of rooms. it helps to increase the visibility and distribution of rooms across multiple channels, which in turn can lead to higher occupancy rates and revenue for the participating hotels.
You can sell rooms through our central reservation system, which makes it easier for travelers to search and book rooms across multiple properties. Our central reservation system tracks the availability of rooms in real-time and updates the information across all channels. This creates a more efficient distribution of rooms and maximizes revenue opportunities for all hotels in the pool..
Manage Rate
With eGlobe Channel Manager, updating or programming rate changes is simple and straightforward. The following tools are available to assist you:
- Bulk Rate Update – a tool for updating rates across multiple dates or rooms in bulk.
- Monthly Rate Screen – a visual calendar view of your rates, which makes it easy to update rates for specific dates.
- Derived Pricing – a feature that enables you to set rates based on a formula or calculation.
- Dynamic Pricing – a tool that allows you to set rates based on occupancy levels, demand, and other factors.
- Percentage Increase – a feature that enables you to increase or decrease rates by a specified percentage.
These tools provide a range of options to help you manage your rates effectively and efficiently, ensuring that you are maximizing revenue opportunities.
Manage Everything on the Go
Our channel manager mobile app is a powerful tool that allows you to manage your property from anywhere, at any time. With its advanced features and user-friendly interface, it is the ideal solution for maximizing your efficiency and staying on top of your business.
Features
- Real-time updates
- Inventory management
- Rate management
- Channel synchronization
- Advanced reporting
- Notifications and alerts
- User-friendly interface
- Manage Multiple Properties from single login
- Centralized Management of Multiple Properties from a Single Login
Task Manager
The Task Manager serves as a log of all inventory pooling and rate updates that take place on your channel manager, keeping you informed and reducing the risk of errors. This feature offers a clear and concise overview of all the changes made, allowing you to monitor and manage your channels more effectively.
With the Task Manager, you can stay on top of all updates and changes to your channels, ensuring that your property is always accurately represented and maximizing your revenue opportunities. The easy-to-use interface makes it simple to track updates, minimizing the risk of mistakes and improving your overall efficiency.
Manage easily through Different Devices
Enjoy a responsive admin panel that adapts to the screen size and orientation of your device. The layout automatically adjusts to fit desktop, laptop, and mobile devices, ensuring that you can manage your property with ease even when you are on the go. With this feature, you can stay in control and access all the information you need, no matter where you are.
The ability to manage your property through different devices provides you with greater flexibility and allows you to work more efficiently. Whether you are at your desk or on the road, you can stay connected to your channels and make updates as needed.
Reports
The channel manager provides detailed reports that offer a comprehensive overview of your hotel’s performance, allowing you to make informed decisions and improve your business. With the system’s reports, you can compare your current data against historical data, gaining a clear understanding of your hotel’s progress and potential areas for improvement.
The reports offer a detailed breakdown of your hotel’s performance across multiple metrics, including occupancy, revenue, and guest satisfaction. This information allows you to identify trends and make data-driven decisions to improve your property’s performance and maximize your revenue.
Additionally, the reports are available for download in Excel or CSV formats, giving you the flexibility to access and analyze your data in the way that works best for you. Whether you need to share information with your team, or analyze your data in more detail, the channel manager provides you with the tools you need to succeed.
Derived Pricing
Our Derived pricing is a pricing strategy that uses algorithms to automatically set room rates based on market data, including the prices of comparable hotels, seasonality, and local events. Derived pricing takes into account a variety of factors to determine the optimal room rate for a given day or period. The idea behind derived pricing is to ensure that the hotel’s room rates remain competitive and in line with market demand.
Frequently Asked Questions
What benefits does a Hotel Channel Manager offer?
A Hotel Channel Manager offers numerous benefits, including increased efficiency, reduced manual work, and increased revenue. Hoteliers can manage their room inventory and rates in real-time, reducing the risk of overbooking and ensuring that their hotel is always fully booked. Additionally, the software can help hoteliers increase their visibility and reach on OTAs, helping them to attract more guests and generate more revenue.
How does a Hotel Channel Manager integrate with OTAs?
Our Channel Manager software integrates with multiple OTAs (100+ channels) through an API (Application Programming Interface). This allows the software to communicate with the OTAs and update room inventory and rates in real-time. The integration is two-way, which means that changes made on the Hotel Channel Manager will be reflected on the OTAs, and vice versa.
Can a Hotel Channel Manager help increase revenue?
Yes, a Hotel Channel Manager can help increase revenue by making it easier for hoteliers to manage their room inventory and rates across multiple OTAs. By using our software, hoteliers can ensure that their hotel is always fully booked, reducing the risk of overbooking and maximizing revenue. Additionally, the software can help hoteliers increase their visibility and reach on OTAs, attracting more guests and generating more revenue.
How much does a Hotel Channel Manager cost?
The cost of eGlobe Channel Manager varies depending on the features and services offered. We offer a free trial, allowing hoteliers to try the software before committing to a purchase.
Is a Hotel Channel Manager easy to use?
Yes, eGlobe Channel Managers are designed with ease of use in mind. The software typically features an intuitive user interface, making it easy for hoteliers to manage their room inventory and rates, even if they have limited technical experience. Additionally, we offer free training and support to help hoteliers get started with the software.