Transmission of the prices

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Last updated: Nov 28, 2016 by Yannick Blondeau
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As explained in the "Room-based pricing vs Occupancy-based pricing" chapter in the beginning of this documentation, the prices in Hotel-Spider can either be managed per room or per occupancy per room. Depending on the pricing structure the online booking system uses, the Hotel-Spider system will transmit the appropriate structure.


Re-use of previous implementations

Aware that establishing and maintaining interfaces with multiple providers can be time-consuming, the Hotel-Spider system disposes of multiple methods to interface with on online booking system.

Should an OTA interface with a competitor and/or partner of Hotel-Spider already have been implemented, then it should be easy to re-use that code for interfacing with the Hotel-Spider system.

On the other hand, once an interface with the Hotel-Spider system has been developped, it can quite certainly be re-used to connect with our competitors and/or partners.

No OTA logic corruption

The Hotel-Spider system will at all times strictly respect the OTA protocol structure and logic. Therefore, at no point in time, will the Hotel-Spider system be able to corrupt an outgoing request in order to compensate a faulty OTA implementation on the side of the online booking system.


Depending on the pricing structure management by the online booking system, the Hotel-Spider system has 3 distinct methods to transmit the prices: