Expedia.com

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Synchronising Beds24.com with Expedia.com

http://www.expedia.com


Capabilities

  • Beds24.com can export inventory.
  • Beds24.com can export prices.
  • Beds24.com can import bookings.
  • Beds24.com can import modifications to bookings.


What you will need

  • Your Expedia Quick connect username and password
  • Your Expedia hotel code
  • Your Expedia room codes's
  • Your Expedia room rate code's


Expedia.com

To activate the connection of your hotel to Beds24 you will need to download this form and return it to Expedia.

To find your hotel and room id's login to Expedia.

1) Go to the Epedia RATES AND INVENTORY >> ROOMS AND RATE PLAN SUMMARY menu.

2) Click the Export Room Type and Rate Plan Information option.

3) Export this and open the file, you will find the following required information.

The hotel code is in the column called Expedia Hotel ID

The room code is in the column called Expedia Room Type ID

The rate code is in the column called Expedia Rate Plan ID


Beds24.com

Enable Expedia in the channel manager settings.

Enter your EQC username and password, note these will be sent by email from Expedia and are different to the username and password used to log into Expedia from a web browser.

Enter your hotel and room codes to match the rooms.

Use the check boxes to enable the required functions.


Bookings

Bookings are imported. Modifications and cancellations to bookings are also imported.


Rates

To export rates you need to enter the Expedia rate code.

This can be entered in the channel manager settings and will be used for daily prices and all rates which are not set to a specific rate code.

Each rate can have a specific Expedia rate code which will be used in place of the one set in the channel manager.

Daily prices are also exported if allowed by your daily price settings.

The end selling price on Expedia may be different to the price sent, please check if your Expedia account is set for "Sell Rate" or "Net Rate" type and adjust the prices accordingly.

The default rate model exported to Expedia is Occupancy based pricing.

If your Expedia rate needs to be sent as Per-Day pricing, this can be specified by adding /D to the end of the Rate code in Beds24. For example if the Expedia rate code is 12345678A, enter 12345678A/D as the rate code in Beds24.

Rate codes can be entered as a comma separated list. This will send the same Beds24 rate to multiple Expedia rates. If you do this you must ensure the same rate is not sent twice for any date, this will cause an error and not be accepted by Expedia.