What a channel manager is and why your hotel needs one

If you sell your hotel on Booking, Expedia, Airbnb and your own website at the same time, you need all those channels to talk to each other. That’s what a channel manager does.

What it does exactly

A channel manager updates your availability and rates across every connected channel in real time. When a booking or cancellation comes in, the system updates everywhere automatically, so you don’t do it by hand or risk an overbooking.

Channel manager vs PMS

The channel manager distributes your inventory across sales channels. The PMS is the system you run day to day with: bookings, check-in, housekeeping, guests. A platform that has both, like Octopus24, simplifies everything.

Octopus24 connects your hotel to 200+ channels and keeps them synced 24/7, with no per-booking commission.