Connecting Novohit PMS to Siteminder Channel Manager How to Start?

Connecting Novohit PMS to Siteminder Channel Manager How to Start?

Hotels can maintain a highly competitive advantage in the dynamic tourism market. For this, Novohit® and SiteMinder™ have joined their technologies, offering our clients a powerful tool for room inventory management from the Front Office module of Novohit PMS, this solution is integrated with Novohit Front Office (not with hotelRSV).
Thanks to the new integration between Novohit® and SiteMinder, the benefits go beyond the reservations department, as it will also allow centralizing the rate planning and sales process not only of the online channels, but of 100% of the channels, including the corporate channel and the direct channel, all from Novohit®.

If you have not yet Hired a Siteminder Channel Manager

You must first fill out the application for the Channel Manager product at the following link: www.siteminder.com/channel-manager/ indicating that you will require the connection between Siteminder and the Novohit PMS. They must ensure that they are doing so for all the hotels they wish to activate.

In the message area it is important that they notify that they will need to connect to the Novohit PMS.

Once the form is completed, a Siteminder sales representative will contact you to conclude the service contracting process and at the same time you will contact Novohit through a dedicated internal channel and provide the initialization data and interface access credentials.  

If required, our support staff can help you to carry out the contracting process with you, for this, place a support ticket at help.novohit.com.
Once the service is contracted, our staff will move on to the start-up phase, which consists of simple configuration testing and training, steps described in this guide. 

If you have already contracted a Siteminder Channel Manager 

Once we receive the credentials from Siteminder, we will contact you for the next steps: configurations, initial connection, dry run and go live, as described in this guide.
Notes
If you already have Siteminder Contracted, start the integration process.

Detailed Benefits of Connecting Novohit PMS with Siteminder



With this integration you will be able to have control of rates, restrictions and actual availability in electronic distribution channels controlled directly from the Novohit HBI PMS generating:
  1. Increase the number of online bookings:
    1. Increase hotel Visibility on electronic channels internationally.
    2. Automatic synchronization of bookings from electronic channels (OTAs) through SiteMinder.
  2. Revenue maximization:
    1. Revenue control from Novohit, with ability to modify rates per day.
    2. Simultaneous use of channels and room types.
    3. Streamlining of different processes, being more efficient in daily management.
  3. Elimination of the risk of overbooking:
    1. Real-time distribution of availability on all channels to the first to sell it.
  4. Time reduction:
    1. Time savings in the daily eCommerce process.
    2. Shorten online channel management times with procedures such as availability management or automatic price change.
    3. Increased competitiveness.
  5. Online reinforcement of direct booking:
    1. Possibility of adding new OTAs and GDS channels (that are available in SiteMinder) thanks to one of the most far-reaching Channel Managers.
  6. Elimination of manual processes for online sales*:
    1. Elimination of human error by having a manual management of the channels they work with.
  7. Integration and Security of information by controlling online distribution from Novohit (a single platform):
    1. Increase security by preventing staff from sharing passwords for each OTA.
    2. Centralization and unification of commercial management.
  8. Centralized knowledge of distribution:
    1. Management will have real-time information and control of the performance of all distribution channels.
    2. Efficient decision making allows to adapt the distribution strategy, both direct and electronic channels.

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