Points to remember

Partial Updates:

• RG Channel Manager will always send partial updates to the channel.

  • Purpose: Allows a hotel to change any specific field (Allocation/ClosedOut/any restriction/Pricing type) for a day.

  • Validation: There should not be any validation at the channel end to expect any mandatory field in the update.

• Allocation:

  • Manageable at Room level only by a channel partner.

  • Separate RQ for Allocation updates; other fields will be updated in another RQ.

• Price:

  • Channel Manager will reject any updates with price=0; this should not be supported for any channel partner.

• MinLOS and MaxLOS Rule:

  • MinLOS (Minimum Length of Stay) should always be lesser than or equal to MaxLOS (Maximum Length of Stay).

  • If MinLOS=4 and the current MaxLOS is 3 for the same product, the channel should fail the request with an error message.

• Monthly Data Updates:

  • Channel partners should accept an update with 1 month of data in a single RQ.

  • If there are 20 days updated for a month, RezGain will send 1 update RQ with all 20 days included.

• Invalid Test Scenarios:

  • Invalid credentials/HotelCode/RoomCode/RateCode cannot be tested through the sandbox; this will be validated during the certification process.

  • Only 14 days of updates can be tested through the sandbox tool.

• Cross-Month Updates:

  • Allows a hotel to update multiple dates across the month, e.g., 25 Jan-3 Feb in a single update RQ.

• Cross-Year Updates:

  • Allows a hotel to update multiple dates across the year, e.g., 25 Dec-3 Jan in a single update RQ.

• Continuous and Discontinuous Dates:

  • A request message can contain data for continuous and discontinuous dates as received from the hotel.

Multithreading:

• API should support multiple parallel updates for a single hotel with different Product Types (A Product is a combination of 1 RoomType + 1 RatePlan).

• Example of parallel updates to the HotelARIUpdate operation:

  • Update 1: RoomType A + RatePlan 1

  • Update 2: RoomType B + RatePlan 2

  • Update 3: RoomType C + RatePlan 3

Request#	HotelCode	RoomCode	RatePlanCode	StartDate	EndDate	Updates Made
RQ1	HTL1	DLX	STD	1-May-20	10-May- 20	Allocation=10, 1Adult=250USD
RQ2	HTL1	SUP	BAR	1-May-20	10-May- 20	Allocation=10, 1Adult=500USD
RQ3	HTL1	SUI	ADVP	1-May-20	10-May- 20	Allocation=10, 1Adult=1000USD

• The partner should implement the API accordingly.

• Alternate date updates allow a hotel to update multiple days with non-continuous dates in a single Update RQ.

• Only 1 MealPlanCode can be supported for a given check-in date.