An API is the door through which two programs talk and pass data with no human in the middle. In a hotel it is what lets the PMS, the booking engine and the channel manager share availability instantly. When a vendor has no good API, the integration is done by hand and that is where money leaks.
Example Thanks to the API, a booking made on the website shows up in the PMS by itself a second later.
A two-way integration is one that sends data both directions, not just from one system to the other. The PMS...
Hotel technologyThe property management system is a hotel's core software. It handles reservations, check-in and check-out,...
DistributionA channel manager syncs a hotel's rates and availability across all its sales channels at once. When a room...
Hotel technologyA central reservation system centralizes a hotel or chain's availability and rates and pushes them to every...
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