Channel Manager

When it comes to distributing room and rate availability, most hotels know that today's internet channels are bigger than the GDS. This reality is at the core of evolution's Channel Manager approach and products.

Our direct connects

evolution supports hotels in this new reality by offering a wide range of direct connects to key Internet Distribution Services (IDS) [link opens a pdf document] that can be managed individually through evolution's Demand Manager interface or collectively via the software's Channel Manager.

Our Channel Manager

Many of evolution’s direct connects to major sites allow hotels to distribute net and merchant rates through one system.

By enabling net and merchant rates distribution this way, evolution Demand Manager not only minimises the extranets a hotel may have to manage — saving time and ensuring rate parity — but does so in a way that allows hotels more control and content distribution options than a traditional CRS and channel manager set-up.

evolution Demand Manager has second generation channel management functionality, taking the concept to a new level by being fully integrated into the Demand Manager. With evolution, the existing concept of a channel manager becomes a Channel Manager — allowing for greater control of bookings thanks to a two-way writing using direct xml links.

Unlike traditional channel managers, the evolution Channel Manager actually manages your bookings instead of just updating rates and availability. This enables intelligent and centralised reporting, making vital decisions much easier.

Our public rates

evolution also distributes a hotel's public rates to over 1,700 hotel booking websites via the Pegasus switch.