Expedia Channel Manager: the benefits of a certified connection
The RoomCloud Channel Manager is an Expedia Certified Partner with an official 2-way XML connection. This means that you can manage all the information of your property in a simple and immediate way. All directly from your channel manager’s dashboard!
What is Expedia and why register your property?
Expedia Inc. is an online travel company that brings together portals such as Expedia.com, Vrbo, Hotels.com, Orbitz, Travelocity Hotwire Group, and trivago metasearch.
In particular, Expedia.com is the main OTA used in the United States and the second in Europe (after Booking.com).
For this reason, being present on Expedia ensures that every type of property has global visibility. Hotels, apartments, b&bs, hostels, holiday homes can show their ads to 60 million visitors every month.
Finally, few portals in the world match Expedia in terms of advertising and communication. By registering your property on the portal, you can benefit from the investments made by the company and sell your accommodation to millions of potential guests.
The advantages of the connection between Expedia and the Channel Manager
The bidirectional connection between RoomCloud and the portal guarantees:
- Simultaneous update of rates, availability and property details in both directions
- Reduction of overbooking thanks to the speed of sending changes
- Send content such as photos and descriptions from the channel manager in just a few clicks
- Management of reviews directly from a dedicated section of the channel manager
- Ability to create promotions on the portal from a menu in RoomCloud
- Quick and easy onboarding
- Responsive support available 7/7 for any need
What you can sync with the Channel Manager on Expedia
Thanks to the certified connection, it will therefore be much easier to manage the distribution of content on the portal. This is essential to ensure that the online brand reputation remains positive and monitored.
How does the information update from the Expedia channel manager work?
The details of your property (such as prices, inventory, images and texts) are updated via the Push method. This means that the changes are pushed by the channel manager to the portal, without overwriting the data already online.
This method is opposite to the Pull method, used instead for the certified connection with Vrbo. In this case, every time you make a change within the channel manager, Vrbo downloads (Pull) the information in the portal, overwriting the data already present.
