Changes

1) Enter your Booking.com Hotel Id into the SETTINGS -> CHANNEL MANAGER -> BOOKING.COM XML "Property Code " setting and then SAVE.

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3) Identify the Booking[[Image:booking_com_2.com Room Id numbers for each room and enter them in the Room Code setting in Beds24png|350px|link=]][[Media:booking_com_2.png|view large]]

43) Identify the standard Rate Id number for each room and enter this in the Rate Code setting in Beds24. It is normal for bookingBooking.com to use the same rate code Room Id numbers for each room.

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6) Make sure your rates have the Booking[[Image:booking_com_4.com XML channel checkbox ticked and the rate's channel manager setting is enabled (set to USE NORMAL PRICES to send your normal rate prices or set to USE EXPORT PRICE to send the value in the Export Price field)png|350px|link=]][[Media:booking_com_4.png|view large]]

75) Make sure Identify your inventory standard rate id number. It is correct usually the same for each room. [[Image:booking_com_5.png|350px|link=]][[Media:booking_com_5.png|view large]]  6) For each room, enter your Booking.com standard rate id in the Beds24, it will field called rate code and then SAVE. It is normal for booking.com to use the same rate code for each room. [[Image:booking_com_6.png|350px|link=]][[Media:booking_com_6.png|view large]]  7) Make sure all rates to be sent to Booking.com have the Booking.com XML channel checkbox ticked. Make sure all rates to be sent to bookingBooking.comhave the channel manager setting enabled, (set to USE NORMAL PRICES to send your normal rate prices or set to USE EXPORT PRICE to send the value in the Export Price field). Block  If you do not have any dates which are rates enabled for Booking.com your rooms will be unavailable either by entering a booking manually for those dates or using on Booking.com [[Image:booking_com_7.png|350px|link=]][[Media:booking_com_7.png|view large]]    '''Multiple rates on Booking.com''' 8) Identify the inventory and override functions on additional rate ids. If you do not have the control panel calendarappropriate rate ids you need to request Booking.com to add them.  [[Image:booking_com_8. Failure png|350px|link=]][[Media:booking_com_8.png|view large]]  9) If you dont already have it make an additional rate in Beds24 to do this could allow match your additional rate in Booking.com [[Image:booking_com_9.png|350px|link=]][[Media:booking_com_9.png|view large]]  10) Set up your new bookings on dates rate with the prices and conditions you want to send to Booking.com. The highlighted items are not availablesome of the commonly used fields when setting alternate rates. [[Image:booking_com_10.png|350px|link=]][[Media:booking_com_10.png|view large]] 11) Enter the rate id directly in the Beds24 RATE >> CHANNEL settings. It will override the standard rate id entered in the CHANNEL MANAGER settings. Create as many Beds24 rates as you need and enter the appropriate Booking.com rate id's in each. All rates in which the rate id is left blank will use the standard rate id.  [[Image:booking_com_11.png|350px|link=]][[Media:booking_com_11. png|view large]] 

1) Make sure your inventory is correct in Beds24, it will be sent to Booking.com. Block any dates which are unavailable either by entering a booking manually for those dates or using the inventory and override functions on the control panel calendar. Failure to do this could allow new bookings on dates you are not available.  [[Image:booking_com_12.png|350px|link=]][[Media:booking_com_12.png|view large]] 2) Enable the connection in Beds24 [[Image:booking_com_13.png|350px|link=]][[Media:booking_com_13.png|view large]] 3) After all setup is complete open a support ticket to let us know you are ready.

24) Once we enable the connection at Beds24 you will need to make the final step to enable the connection (go live) from the booking.com extranet.

35) '''When you go live your rates and inventory will be deleted from booking.com and a full reload will occur from Beds24.''' You can use the "Send Update" button to speed this up. Your bookings will not be deleted from Booking.com but make sure the dates are blocked in Beds24 before going live so they will not be reopened.

46) Once updated, check all your values in the booking.com extranet for correctness and if required make any adjustments to the settings to fix.

57) New bookings made after XML is enabled will Import. We can manually request bookings going back 3 months from Booking.com. Please let us know via a ticket if you want us to perform this manual import. It's success depends on Booking.com returning the bookings, sometimes they do not and it is out of our control to import them, if this is the case you will need to block the dates manually to avoid double bookings.