Inventory Management for Accommodation
Say goodnight to inflexible hotel sourcing
xHotel is OpenJaw’s content, mapping and inventory management system
for accommodation. It is used by many of the world’s leading tour operators,
airlines and intermediaries to optimise their accommodation sourcing and sales.
It enables you to
• Connect to multiple sources of inventory, ensuring flexible contracting and improved allocations
• Quickly add multiple new suppliers and have the system determine who is giving you the best rates and availability
• Create dynamically packaged products which combines inventory from multiple sources
• Launch new marketing campaigns and promotions to market quickly and easily using simple business rules
Tell me more
The advanced features of xHotel, OpenJaw’s content, mapping and inventory system for accommodation, allows locally managed inventory allocations to be combined with direct connects to multiple suppliers for the same properties. This allows travel companies to optimise their accommodation sourcing and sales by providing access to multiple sources of rates and inventory for each property.
xHotel supports enhanced multi-lingual content management allowing travel companies to differentiate their offerings by combining locally managed content with externally sourced content. In addition, xHotel provides powerful mapping support with the ability to search for accommodation based on Geocode (longitude & latitude) information for properties within a radius of a point of interest such as an airport or an event.
Inventory Management
Contract management
Stores and manages negotiated rates and contracts from multiple suppliers. Manages variable release periods, supports all rate types and retrieves full policy details while supporting customisable child policies.
Hotel reservations
Supports block allocations and allows hotels and chains to load inventory, rates and content. Enables a client system to request a full list of rates or a rate range; allows users to modify existing bookings and to be used as part of Dynamic Packaging transactions.
Distribution
xHotel allows you to link specific allocations to designated customers and distribution channels. Inventory can also be made available in real time for use by Global Distribution Systems using OpenTravel messaging.
Room type flexibility
Unlike proprietary systems, there are no restrictions on the number of room types. xHotel also uniquely supports Dayrooms and 24 Hour Stay.
Tax policies
Creates customisable tax policies so as to achieve compliance with local tax regulations across multiple geographies and to provide pricing transparency to customers.
Content Management
Property Description
Allows you to override generic content to create unique and localised descriptions of properties. Content is supported in multiple languages, including the extended European, Far Eastern and Arabic character sets, allowing it to be used as a translation management system. Property images and virtual tour content can be imported from suppliers.
Mapping Service Support
Clients connected through an Internet Booking Engine can search for hotels by either using an address (city, state or country) or by Geocode searching which uses the longitude or latitude information for a property. xHotel also features integration with mapping services such as Google Maps to display exact locations and to enrich the user experience.