Requesting a Complete Hotel Availability

Business Description

Returns all available booking codes (room rates) for one specified property.

If an Alternate Availability was requested from an Inside Availability vendor, and the requested property has no availabilities, the vendor returns alternate properties in the same hotel chain or an affiliated chain that has available room inventory.

Request

The RoomMaster Property ID is required to request complete availability.

Response

Complete Availability is requested for a specific property to display information needed to process a sell. The Complete Availability response includes a fuller description of each room type available. Complete Availability is generally used following a Standard Availability to select a specific booking code.

The Complete Hotel Availability retrieves rates from the vendor's own host system for those vendors that participate in Inside Availability. Complete Availability returns from the RoomMaster database for vendors who do not participate in Inside Availability. RoomMaster™ requires Complete Availability because this transaction is the only way to establish a proper booking code to sell the hotel segment.

Recommended Use

Complete availability can be used as the first hotel booking task, if the RoomMaster Property ID is already known. However, in many hotel business processes, a hotel index or standard hotel availability task is used first to select a property or obtain the RoomMaster Property ID.

Hotel Complete Availability is required as a pre-requisite to selling a hotel segment, unless a direct hotel sell is made. Direct sells require the Property ID, room rates, and other necessary data to be entered directly into the sell segment transaction.

Technical Overview

Associated Transactions

For more information about the functionality of this task, see the associated transaction: HotelCompleteAvailability_11.

Sample Transaction Flow

Hotel Transaction Flow 1: Step 3

Hotel Transaction Flow 2: Step 3