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Hotel connectivity

Channel manager integration for rates, availability and bookings

Connect your booking engine to the hotel channel managers your properties already use. Rates, availability and restrictions arrive as they change, and every booking, amendment and cancellation goes back, so your B2C site and agent portal never sell a room that is gone.

  • Real-time rate and availability updates
  • Rate parity checks
  • Policy-aware cancellations
  • XML and JSON APIs

How it works

One connection between your engine and hotel channel managers

A hotel channel manager API is a set of endpoints that keeps rates, availability and bookings aligned between a property and every place it sells. PHPTRAVELS connects to it with push and pull APIs and maps each provider to the same objects and flow: search, rate and availability, revalidate, book, amend or cancel, sync. Your B2B and B2C engines read from one shared booking record, so a room sold on one channel closes everywhere else.

  1. Pick the channel manager your hotels already work with
  2. Add the property codes and API credentials in the admin
  3. Map room types, rate plans and boards to your inventory
  4. Test rate updates, bookings and cancellations in a test environment
  5. Go live and keep rates, availability and bookings in sync
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Environment
Test
Channel manager
SiteMinder · push and pull
Credentials
Hotel code: •••• · API key: ••••
Room mapping
6 room types · 4 rate plans
Format
JSON · XML fallback

API flow

From search to sync, one flow for every provider

The same objects and steps whichever channel manager a hotel uses, so your team supports one process.

  1. Search

    Hotel, room and rate payloads are normalised into the same fields and returned as clean results.

  2. Rate and availability

    Live prices, open rooms and restrictions for the dates and occupancy requested.

  3. Revalidate

    Price and availability are confirmed again just before the guest pays.

  4. Book

    The booking is created and sent to the channel manager, with a full timeline for support.

  5. Amend or cancel

    Date changes and cancellations apply the rate policy and calculate any fee.

  6. Sync

    Changes are pushed back so every channel shows the same rooms and rates.

Channel managers

Connect the channel managers your hotels use

Examples include SiteMinder, RateTiger, TravelClick, Vertical Booking, D-EDGE and SynXis. Coverage varies by market and connectors are added on request; vendors are named for interoperability only, with no affiliation implied.

  • Incoming updates

    The channel manager sends rates, availability and restrictions, and your search reflects them at once.

  • Outgoing bookings

    Your engine sends new bookings, amendments and cancellations, so allotments close on every channel.

  • Adapters for new providers

    A new channel manager is added as an adapter that maps its XML or JSON to the same objects and flow.

See every integration

One system

What the channel manager connection feeds

Synced hotel inventory flows into the rest of your business, so sales, finance and payments work as one system.

  • Supplier extranet

    Hotels without a channel manager keep updating rooms and rates in your extranet, side by side with synced ones.

  • B2B and B2C engines

    Your public website and agent portal sell the same synced rooms, with separate markups.

  • Multiple branches

    Contract hotels centrally and distribute them to branches with their own controls.

  • Accounting integration

    Sales, refunds, reconciliation and settlements reported from the same booking records.

  • Payment gateways

    Online payment and refunds through the gateways you connect, tied to each booking.

  • CMS integration

    Keep WordPress or another CMS for content while PHPTRAVELS runs bookings and inventory sync.

Compare

Script, clone or plugin vs PHPTRAVELS integration

Agencies usually weigh a quick script or plugin against a full integration. This is how the paths typically differ; check the details with any vendor you consider.

CriteriaScript, clone or pluginPHPTRAVELS
Speed to launchScript, clone or pluginFast front end, sync logic often limitedPHPTRAVELSFront end plus booking and sync APIs from the start
Rate parityScript, clone or pluginTypically scheduled imports or manual updatesPHPTRAVELSRate updates applied as they arrive, with parity checks
OverbookingScript, clone or pluginRisky when bookings are not pushed backPHPTRAVELSBookings and cancellations sent back to release or close rooms
B2B and B2CScript, clone or pluginUsually a B2C front end onlyPHPTRAVELSPublic site and agent portal on the same inventory
New providersScript, clone or pluginEach channel manager becomes a separate projectPHPTRAVELSAdded as adapters mapped to the same objects
Cost over 12 to 24 monthsScript, clone or pluginLow start, recurring fixes and add-onsPHPTRAVELSOne-time licence, source code included

Use cases

Who needs channel manager integration

  • OTAs and TMCs

    Sell directly contracted hotels with live rooms and rates, without a bed bank in the middle.

  • DMCs and tour operators

    Keep allotments with local hotels in sync while packaging stays with tours and transfers.

  • Hotel groups and hotel tech startups

    Run a direct booking engine and agent portal that stay aligned with every other channel.

Why PHPTRAVELS

Your hotels, your connections, your code

  • Source code included

    Self-hosted under a commercial licence, so your developers can extend any adapter.

  • Your credentials

    Hotel codes and API keys stay in your own installation and admin.

  • 24 languages

    Sell synced hotels in your markets' languages and currencies, including right-to-left.

  • B2C and B2B

    One installation for your public website and your agent portal.

FAQ

Channel manager integration questions

What agencies and hotel groups ask before connecting a channel manager.

Talk to sales

A set of endpoints that syncs rates, availability and bookings between your booking engine and a hotel's channel manager, so rooms are not oversold and rate parity holds across channels.

You add the property codes and credentials in the admin and map rooms and rate plans once. Rates and availability then flow into your search, and bookings, amendments and cancellations are pushed back automatically.

Examples include SiteMinder, RateTiger, D-EDGE and TravelClick. Coverage varies by market, and new channel managers are added as adapters on request.

Yes. Search, price, book, cancel and push updates are handled over REST, with JSON and XML supported depending on the provider.

Yes. WordPress stays your content system while PHPTRAVELS handles booking logic and inventory sync.

Yes. Every plan includes the full source code under a commercial licence and you host it yourself, so your developers can change or add channel manager adapters.

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