Receive reservations using the Vertical Booking channel manager integration for Mews Operations

The Vertical 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 Vertical 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 Vertical Booking before connecting this integration.
• Request Vertical Booking support to set up a Fallback rate to the code "ZERO". This is needed for reservations that arrive into Mews Operations with unmapped rates, Mews then creates these with a Mews default rate.
• When setting end dates in the Vertical Booking extranet, make sure that they do not conflict with any restriction dates in Mews Operations. Otherwise, these updates will generate an error.

 

You can learn more about Vertical Booking here.

 

In this article, you can learn how to receive reservations in Mews Operations through the Vertical Booking integration:

 

• Step 1: Connect and configure the Vertical Booking integration
• Map companies and travel agency contracts (optional)
• Step 2: Send mapping info to Vertical Booking
• Step 3: Test the integration
• Step 4: Enable the integration

 

Step 1: Connect and configure the Vertical Booking integration

To connect and configure the Vertical Booking integration, complete steps 1 – 3 in the article here.

Note: Vertical Booking works with mapping codes generated in either Mews Operations or Vertical Booking.

 

 

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 info to Vertical Booking

1. In Mews Operations, go to Main menu  > Marketplace > My subscriptions.
2. Locate the Vertical Booking integration, then click Edit to go to the settings.
3. Find and copy the Channel manager code. Note: Vertical Booking refers to this code as a "connection token."
4. Send this code to Vertical Booking support at [email protected].

Vertical Booking support pulls the Mews Operations mapping information to Vertical Booking and instructs you on how to complete the mapping in Vertical Booking. When finished, you can continue to the next step.

 

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 Vertical Booking channel manager integration from the Mews Marketplace.

 

Vertical 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 Vertical Booking channel manager integration.

 

You can learn about troubleshooting channel manager errors here.