En:Channel Manager

You can find the function under Services - Rooms.

Basics

A channel manager is used to offer your rooms on channels such as booking.com, Expedia.com or Airbnb.com and to rent them out there. At the same time, the channel manager regulates availability so that double bookings are excluded.

We have developed an interface to DIRS21 that you can use. DIRS21 offers interfaces to all common channels. You can find an overview here

What can the Channelmanager/DIRS21 do?

The channel manager offers your rooms on various platforms. New bookings are created directly as a webshop order in Winestro.cloud. Every booking from Winestro.cloud, including those you create manually, are transferred to the channel manager. This ensures that all booking periods that you define in Winestro are automatically marked as unavailable on all platforms. This completely eliminates the tedious typing of new bookings and the manual adjustment of availabilities on the various platforms and minimizes errors.

In addition to the channel manager, DIRS21 also offers you a booking calendar for your own homepage. This is a kind of webshop specializing in room bookings. All bookings from this calendar are also created as a webshop order in Winestro.cloud.

What are the costs?

The monthly costs for the interface between DIRS21 and Winestro amount to approx. 15 € per month, the one-time setup approx. 300 €, the current prices can be found here. On the DIRS 21 side, 3 channels (e.g. Booking, Expedia and Airbnb) cost approx. 70 € per month. The private booking calendar costs approx. 60 € per month. One-off costs for setting up DIRS21 amount to approx. 600 €. To find out the final prices for DIRS, please contact their support.

What data is transmitted?

We only exchange new bookings and availabilities for all linked rooms between Winestro and DIRS 21. What we do not synchronize is master data such as room descriptions, prices or your personal address. You create this data in your DIRS21 account at the beginning and update it later if necessary.

Where can I find settings for the channel manager

Under System - Settings - Access - DIRS 21 Channelmanager you will find (when using the Channelmanager) an overview of all your offered rooms. The rooms offered on the various platforms are also assigned to the room articles in Winestro here. The services can also be assigned to the service articles here.