The Simple Booking channel manager integration enables you to distribute your property's rates and availability on a global scale, directly from Mews Operations. With its bidirectional functionality, this integration ensures that both availability and reservations are managed and updated in real-time between Mews Operations and Simple Booking, offering a cohesive and efficient booking management experience.
Note:
- If you're already live with Mews, Mews does not configure the entire channel manager integration for you. If you have any problems fixing the mapping errors within Mews Operations, contact the Mews support team to help you troubleshoot.
- Make sure to purchase Simple Booking before connecting this integration.
- If you have any specific questions, you can reach out to [email protected].
- Simple Booking works with mapping codes generated in both Mews Operations or Simple Booking.
You can learn more about Simple Booking here.
In this article, you can learn how to receive reservations in Mews Operations through the Simple Booking integration:
- Step 1: Connect and configure the Simple Booking integration
- Map companies and travel agency contracts (optional)
- Step 2: Send mapping information to Simple Booking
- Step 3: Test the integration
- Step 4: Enable the integration
Step 1: Connect and configure the Simple Booking integration
To connect and configure the Simple Booking integration, complete steps 1 – 3 in the article here.
Note: Simple Booking does not support Closed to arrival and Closed to departure restrictions on the rate level.
Map companies and travel agency contracts (optional)
This step is optional. You should complete this only if you want to assign reservations received from the channel manager to a company in Mews Operations.
For each travel agency profile, you want to map, complete the steps in the article here.
Step 2: Send mapping information to Simple Booking
- In Mews Operations, go to the main menu
> Marketplace > My subscriptions.
- Locate the Simple Booking integration and click Edit to go to the settings.
- Find and copy the Channel manager code. Note: Simple Booking refers to this code as a "connection token."
- Send this to Simple Booking support.
Simple Booking support pulls the Mews Operations mapping information to Simple Booking and instructs you on how to complete the mapping in Simple Booking. Once complete, continue to the next step.
Step 3: Test the integration
Testing the integration allows you to check whether you configured the integration correctly. You can test this with a small set of reservations for the next 7 days.
To test the integration, complete step 4 in the article here.
Step 4: Enable the integration
To enable the integration, complete step 5 in the article here.
This completes the connection and configuration of the Simple Booking channel manager integration from the Mews Marketplace.
Simple Booking provides real-time updates of your properties rates and availability across multiple channels. Now you can start receiving reservations in Mews Operations from the Simple Booking channel manager integration.
You can learn about troubleshooting channel manager errors here.