Transmission of the booking rules

Owned by Marco Baurdoux
Last updated: Mar 17, 2017 by Yannick Blondeau
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As explained in the "Different levels of data" chapter in the beginning of this documentation, the booking rules in Hotel-Spider are managed on 4 different levels. However, since we do not expected from an online booking system to also maintain these 4 levels, the online booking system needs to inform us of which booking rules are maintained on which level.


Which booking rules are transmitted?

Only the booking rules agreed on and available on the online booking system at time of the integration testing will be transmitted from the Hotel-Spider system towards the online booking system.



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.


Precisely for the reason described above, the Hotel-Spider has several distinct methods to transmit the agreed booking rules for the agreed levels: