OTA Extranet - One-Stop Solution for All Your Travel Business Needs

 

What Is OTA Extranet ?

 

An extranet, in the context of online travel agencies (OTAs), refers to a web-based platform offered by the OTA, particularly for hoteliers. This platform enables hotels to handle their inventory, rates, and content on the OTA platform smoothly. Through the extranet, hoteliers can update room availability, adjust rates, upload photos and descriptions, and handle promotions. Extranets provide a central hub for hotels to maintain their presence and offerings on the OTA platform.

A booking extranet, also known as an OTA extranet, refers to the admin panel used in the hospitality sector, where hoteliers can manually handle all information about their properties displayed on a particular OTA website, including availability, rates, bookings, and other information. Each accommodation provider uses a unique login and password to access the extranet.

An Online Travel Agency (OTA) Extranet is a secure, web-based platform that enables travel providers (hotels, airlines, car rental companies, etc.) to manage their inventory, rates, and availability on several OTAs.

Generally, using an OTA offers many advantages compared to using an offline travel agency, including increased convenience and a more self-service approach. They will also include an integrated booking system, allowing for instant bookings.

Additional facilities are prevailing for the hotel/tour/activity/Car/Bus industry recognized as the extranet system. Through this system, travel companies provide login facilities to multiple contracted suppliers and let them maintain their updated itinerary on the company portals.

Extranet system owners can control commission increases or decreases depending on market demands. It is only due to extranet system integration, which makes a website more significant for customers.

Extranet is a specialized webpage for an OTA’s suppliers (usually hotels) where they can manually build and manage inventory listings. In particular, they can

• add descriptions and photos,
• check and update availability and rates,
• define policies,
• configure payments,
• control what’s displayed on an OTA, and so on.

 

Why Is OTA Extranet Solutions Ideal For Travel Companies ?

 

OTA Extranet System is a way for travel companies to reach a larger global audience. This further ensures their customers improved travel services. If you have a large range of contracted suppliers, then Extranet solutions are ideal for you because you can manage commissions depending on market demands. This depends on travel agents what service they want they can go with either with extranet solutions.

OTAs are travel agencies offered to customers on the internet. These systems that simplify your travel habits easier are actually well-known systems. In spite of the fact that OTAs are not as profitable as direct sales from the hotel, they have a great contribution in terms of increasing the sales of hotels and achieving certain occupancy. For this reason, it is incredibly important for facilities to expand their sales channels by using the right strategy. Some of the most well-known OTAs are ETS, Hotels, Otelz, Booking, and Expedia.

The Booking Extranet also includes a search engine, making it much easier to find specific information and multiple tools for monitoring and analyzing performance. Finally, the Booking Extranet offers hotels options to participate in promotional offers and partner programs.

Extranet allows hoteliers to manage and distribute their property information, room inventory, rates, and availability to various online travel agencies (OTAs), booking websites, and other distribution channels.

Companies in the transportation sector can improve overall efficiency, reduce errors, and optimize their operations by implementing travel extranet solutions. Travel agents may effectively manage bookings and reservations in a single interface due to the integration of flight booking software for travel agents and car rental software systems in these extracts.

 

Why Choose Us For Developing OTA Extranet System ?

 

Travelopro is trusted by global organizations for our unparalleled expertise in OTA extranet development, providing a wide array of options for both consumers and suppliers. Our seamless booking and reservation management system ensures comprehensive resource tracking, coupled with simplified payment policy management, offering you an unparalleled solution in the industry.

Our Extranet tool is especially designed for tour operators, destination management companies, online travel agencies, and corporations.

Our flexible technology enables travel agents to quickly build up a new, fully branded online booking engine with connections to hotels, flights, and dynamic bundles of hotel and flight inventory in any destination globally.

OTAs can develop their own unique company look and feel to separate themselves from competitors, as well as manage and promote their travel products to engage travelers based on their search and booking history.

Using the Travelopro platform and the Booking Extranet, hotels can boost visibility on the platform, keep their hotel information up-to-date, access performance data, and generate more bookings.

Additionally, by using Travelopro, OTAs can engage in various areas and sell unique content by creating multiple domains with distinct branding that are connected to the same booking engine.

 

Types Of OTA Extranets:

 

• Hotel Extranet
• Flight Extranet
• Car Extranet
• Cruise Extranet
• Transfer Extranet
• Sightseeing Extranet
• Activity Extranet
• Bus Extranet
• Tour Extranet

 

Hotel Extranet:

 

Travelopro is one of the well-known hotel extranet integration service providers. As a result, it is a matter of pride for us to develop and deliver the best systems to our esteemed clients.

Travelopro offers Hotel Extranet Solutions, where hoteliers get registered and manage their room inventory, real-time availability, and pricing. Managers do complete configuration and management and are able to distribute hotel inventories on a markup or discount basis via XML API and their B2B and B2C sales channels.

Our hotel extranet is a robust tool designed to improve your hotel booking experience. With our cutting-edge platform, we aim to provide a smooth and effective way for hotels and accommodation providers to manage their inventory and connect with travelers through our online travel agency.

Our hotel extranet system offers the opportunity to secure more bookings and increase your occupancy by giving you the facility to book several rooms available at the last minute. The customers are paying online by credit card or debit card at the time of booking, resulting in a very low cancellation rate and helping you to increase your occupancy.

It enables hoteliers, vendors, and partners to streamline their tasks, such as managing their inventory, room rate management, meal plan, images, hotel details, and so on. It gives them access through a special login and password, where they can check reports and bookings through this online channel. Agents and customers also register here to get the best b2b hotel rates from suppliers.

Our user-friendly Extranet admin segment does it quick and effortless to manage your real-time online reservation. Enrolled hoteliers can see profiles for every reservation executed by our website and manage the bookings through their records in the CRS Extranet system.

At Travelopro, we offer a state-of-the-art hotel extranet system that is customizable to meet the unique needs of your property. Our solution is designed to streamline your operations, increase your market exposure, and drive higher profitability.

Use of Travelopro’s hotel extranet booking system empowers hoteliers to manage their inventories, rates, minimum night stays, cut-off dates, etc. The leading management tools are accessible through this platform of the hotel extranet booking system. This productive system gives the hotel partners the ability, through Travelopro’s hotel extranet booking system, to distribute the inventories.

In hotel extranet websites, the super admin or hotelier/supplier can control the hotel inventory, such as hotel info, room types, images, amenities, and meals provided by specific hotel availability day-wise on twin, triple, and quad sharing.

The advantages of a global hotel extranet include the ability for hotel managers to easily mention the hotel's description and all details regarding room availability. Access to the extranet hotel booking system will also give you access to rates, special discounts, and privacy policies.

With us, you gain access to their amazing expertise in the Hotel Extranet booking system. As a result, you can leverage the excellent skills and experience in getting a powerful solution to your specific requirements.

 

Features Of Hotel Extranet

 

• End to end connection for real-time data and availability of inventory.
• Hold room time limit management
• Room price plan id
• Controlled access to agent dashboard, customer dashboard, and vendor dashboard.
• Auto email and SMS notification
• Payment policy management
• MIS reporting and statistics
• Role management under supplier module
• Price plan and promotion mapping
• Loyalty points management
• Rooms left badge
• Hotel distance from sightseeing, airport, railways etc.
• Handle hotel blackout
• Handle rooms on the basis of occupancy, extra bed, permit pets or not
• Manage seasons
• Dynamic markup management settings
• Customizable functionality as per requirements

 

Flight Extranet:

 

Travelopro provides flight extranet features for B2B, B2C, and B2E as well. In the flight extranet, the admin can add own fares for any airline, and that will be reflected on the website. 

We develop a Flight Extranet system for the customers where they get the option of uploading your day-to-day inventory of flights. Flight Extranet System as a tailored system is good for updating the day-to-day flight deals.

Our flight extranets can streamline the booking process for both airlines and their partners, enhancing efficiency and decreasing costs. They also make it easier for travel agents and other partners to offer their customers an extensive range of flight options and customized travel experiences.

Our advanced Flight Extranet system develops bookings and gives features to ensure booking at the last minute. It keeps your property booked all the time and offers a flawless booking experience to travel agencies.

At present, travel agencies are more interested in buying flight tickets in advance, which is typically known as group series fare or private fare. So, the travel agents who buy the flight tickets in advance can sell their advance-purchased inventories online through this flight extranet system. Website super admin can enter all the details of air tickets, such as flight number, airline, departure arrival time, duration, seats left, fare breakup, markup, discount availability date wise, etc.

In this type of software, a vendor can add airline fares, airports, airlines, and several more from backend software. Vendors can produce the customer’s ticket and invoice. In Flight Extranet Software, the vendor can take the payment online as well as manually.

It is developed for flawless online reservation and communication for online flight booking business. The hoteliers can build their business and handle their complete inventory in the CRS. It enables setting up rooms, property facilities, etc.

 

Features Flight Extranet System

 

• Real Time Booking.
• User-Friendly Interface.
• Booking Details Through SMS and EMAIL
• Easy Management of Fares and PNRs.
• Integrated Payment Gateway.
• Customisation And Editing Facility.
• Live Tracking
• 24/7 support
• Feature to manage daily service accounts
• Social Media Integration

 

Car Extranet:

 

Travelopro provides one more extranet to our customer, which is a car extranet system. With the aid of this module, Admin can add offline cars with all the major and minor details. This process is very simple and very helpful to our customers.

Integrate our Car Extranet System into your website with the admin module, supplier module, B2C module, and B2B module, where you can register different suppliers as well as agents in your website. Suppliers can control their own inventory of cars in the portals, including car availability, number of cars, available dates, and price. We provide tailored booking portals as per the needs of clients.

Furthermore, the car extranet system provides a variety of features such as inventory management, reservation management, reporting and analytics, payment processing, and customer relationship management. 

With these features, rental car companies can smoothly monitor their vehicle inventory and availability, manage reservations and payments, generate insightful reports on business performance, and provide better customer service by managing customer information and preferences. By utilizing these features, car rental companies can streamline their operations, simplify their processes, and provide a flawless rental experience to their customers.

 

Features Offered for Car Extranet System:

 

• Fully Flexible and Scalable Solutions
• Real Time Availability and Pricing Management
• Instant and On Request Booking
• Easy Booking and Cancellations
• User friendly Interface
• B2B/B2C Sales Channels
• Print/Email Invoices & Vouchers
• Accounting & Invoicing
• Multi-language Support
• Extensive Merchandising Capabilities
• Robust Tracking and Reporting
• Markup & Discount Management
• Secure Payment Gateway Integration

 

Cruise Extranet:

 

Travelopro provides extranet services, which are the most popular architecture meant to access inventory, uploaded from the back-office of the system. In addition to being able to access the inventory from the front end through the booking engine, an admin has the facility to upload the inventory manually from his admin panel.

Integrate our Cruise Extranet System into your website with the admin module, supplier module, B2C module, and B2B module, where you can register several suppliers as well as agents in your website. Suppliers can control their own inventory of cars in the portals, such as cruise availability, number of cruises, available dates, and price. We provide tailored booking portals as per the requirements of customers.

 

Features Offered for Cruise Extranet System:

 

• Fully Flexible and Scalable Solutions
• Real Time Availability and Pricing Management
• Instant and On Request Booking
• Easy Booking and Cancellations
• User friendly Interface
• B2B/B2C Sales Channels
• Print/Email Invoices & Vouchers
• Accounting & Invoicing
• Multi-language Support
• Extensive Merchandising Capabilities
• Robust Tracking and Reporting
• Markup & Discount Management
• Secure Payment Gateway Integration

 

Transfer Extranet:

 

Travelopro is integrated with major suppliers (GTA, Hotelbeds, A2B Transfers, Destination of the World, and Tourico Holidays) for transfers from hotels to airports and vice versa. The transfer booking engine is a module that allows travel agents to easily compare several transfer suppliers. During the reservation, your customer can choose his own comfort level; the proposed transfers include cars and minibuses. It is very useful when you are cross-selling other services to your client.

Our transfer extranet helps travel companies upload their direct contracted rates of transfer. The travel companies can also give access to their extranet to suppliers to upload their transfers. Additionally, it can also have a quickly contracted rate of transfer that can be uploaded through the extranet. Transfer booking engine real-time inventory for both agents and direct customers.

 

Features of Transfer Extranet:

 

• Cancellation Policy
• City Zone Management
• Manage Vehicle Types and Categories
• Multilingual and Multi Currency Capability
• Point To Point Transfers
• Zone and Hotel Mapping
• Flexible Markup Management
• Define Preferred Timings, Pickup & Drop Location

 

Sightseeing Extranet:

 

The Sightseeing Extranet system is typically a web-based platform that allows travel and tourism companies to manage their sightseeing tours and activities. It provides a central hub for tour operators to manage their inventory, pricing, availability, bookings, and payments.

Travelopro is integrated with major suppliers (GTA, MIKI, and Hotelbeds Apitude, Viator, and BeMyGuest) for the sightseeing booking system. Sightseeing and day tour operators have a special set of requirements that blend elements of tour and shuttle services.

 

Features of Sightseeing Extranet:

 

• Advanced Markup Management
• Tour booking with Minimum Deposit
• Manage Tour Description & Images
• Manage Multiple Sightseeing Categories
• Tours for Specific Date & Duration
• Fully Flexible and Scalable Solutions
• Multilingual and Multi Currency Capability
• Real Time Availability & Pricing Management

 

Activity Extranet:

 

Activity Extranet is an activity reservation system where travel agents upload real-time inventory of their partner and supplier and provide them access to their online system, so they can put the data about the accommodation, tour, transfer, rates, and special deals.

Travelopro offers Activity Extranet Solutions, where suppliers get registered and manage their activity inventory, real-time availability, and pricing. Managers do complete configuration and management and are able to distribute activity inventories on their B2B and B2C sales channels via XML API on a markup or discount basis.

 

Features of Activity Extranet:

 

• Advance search available with multiple options
• See overview of pickup location chart
• Get the real time data at recent activities
• Private and group transfer bookings
• Easily Generate different Report

 

Bus Extranet:

 

Travelopro provides a platform for the Bus Booking System, in which a customer feels free to book the same services. Our Bus Extranet System is a custom-made solution where bus suppliers can register in the portal and can control their bus seats and availability with price. These services display the specific city as per the search by the customer.

The travel agencies that want to build networks, such as Red Bus and Travelyaari,  use this tool. With the help of this tool, they contact bus operators and give them logins to handle their inventory’s online availability. Thus, they establish their own bus networks with online seat availability and booking management.

 

Features Offered for Bus Extranet System

 

• Secure, Scalable and Robust Reservation Architecture
• Real Time Availability and Pricing Management
• Additional Special Offers Management
• Markup & Discount Management
• Instant and On Request Booking
• Easy Booking and Cancellations
• B2B/B2C Sales Channels
• Print/Email Invoices & Vouchers
• Accounting & Invoicing
• Multilingual and Multi Currency Support
• Value Added Services
• Extensive Merchandising Capabilities
• Robust Tracking and Reporting
• Secure Payment Gateway Integration

 

Tour Extranet:

 

Tour Extranet is a tour booking engine where suppliers get registered and manage their tour inventory, real-time availability, and pricing. It effortlessly configures and automates tour inventory management on B2B and B2C travel portals and facilitates inventory distribution via an XML API on a markup basis.

Travelopro provides the best tour extranet solutions and provides companies with the centralized center they need to streamline processes, increase client interactions, and maintain their competitiveness in the ever-evolving travel industry. The concentrate on the hotel booking extranet ensures seamless connectivity, improving passengers' online exposure and accessibility.

 

Features Offered for Tour Extranet System

 

• Supplier Registration
• Inventory Management
• Configuration Management
• Sales Channel Management
• XML API Integration
• Booking Management
• Reporting and Analytics
• Multilingual and Multi-currency Support

 

Conclusion

 

If you have a wide range of contracted suppliers, then OTA Extranet solutions are best for you, where you can manage commissions based on market requirements. This depends on travel agents and what service they want; they can go with extranet solutions.