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Hotels & inventory
Sell a room instantly when you can guarantee it. Sell it on request when you can't: the agent books, the room is held, nothing is charged, and you answer by a deadline. When on request beats closing a date, what the agent sees, and why your public website should take an enquiry instead.
The iTravel team 8 min read
Hotels & inventory
An allotment is the rooms a hotel holds for you, the release period is when the unsold ones go back, and a stop-sale closes a date whatever is left. How the three interact, a 10-room worked example, and which control to use when.
The iTravel team 8 min read
Hotels & inventory
A cancellation policy agents can't misread is a set of rules, not a paragraph: steps by days before arrival, what each step costs, whose clock the deadline runs on, and what a no-show costs. How to build one, freeze it on the booking and show it once.
The iTravel team 8 min read
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