Your Mews direct booking engine sells rooms directly through your website, without the commission you pay to an online travel agency. With Mews Channel Manager, you set it up as a channel on the same screen you use for your online travel agencies, so direct booking and your online travel agencies live in one place.

The setup flow is different from an online travel agency setup because your direct booking engine is part of Mews. You do not need external credentials or a connectivity partner. Instead, you select the stay service the booking engine sells and configure the engine itself.

 

 

In this article you can learn about the following steps to set up the Mews direct booking engine as a channel in Mews Channel Manager:

• Step 1: Select a stay service
• Step 2: Configure the direct booking engine
• Step 3: Map space categories
• Step 4: Map room rates
• Step 5: Preview the direct booking engine

Step 1: Select a stay service

1. In Mews Operations, go to the main menu  > Revenue > Tools > Channels.
2. Click Booking Engine.
3. Click to select the stay service you want the booking engine to sell.
4. Click Continue.

Step 2: Configure the direct booking engine

In the Booking Engine screen, fill in the details according to the Mews Booking Engine: An overview of configuration settings help article.

Step 3: Map space categories

Mews automatically maps your space categories, you can remove any you do not wish to send. If you want to add more, you can manually map them. When you add new space categories, you can preview them to check how your categories appear.

To map space categories:

1. In the Booking Engine screen, click Category mappings.
2. Click + Category mapping.
3. Under Category, click to select the space category you want to map.
4. In the Ordering field, enter the order in which you want to list your space categories. Note: Lower numbers appear higher on the list, for example “-10” appears higher than “10”.
5. Click Create.

Step 4: Map room rates

1. In the Booking Engine screen, click Rate mappings.
2. Click + Rate mapping.
3. Under Rate, click to select the rate you want to map.
4. Click Create > Save.

Step 5: Preview the direct booking engine

Once the direct booking engine is configured, you can preview it. To preview, in the Booking Engine screen, click Preview.

Your direct booking engine is now set up as a channel in Mews Channel Manager. You can monitor the sync status on the Revenue overview and its performance in the Channel Performance dashboard, alongside your online travel agencies.