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Yield Management Add-On Module- More Power in Allocations: An additional BookingCenter tool that can be added to your BookingCenter program is the Yield Management Module. The YMM is able to automate these 'rate loading' events based on occupancy and time conditions for your property, without requiring you to manually managed each rate and agent separately. This is very powerful tool to add to your BookingCenter package and can make rate management conform to your business goals easily and seamlessly. See: http://www.bookingcenter.com/interfaces-and-modules/yield-management/ for details. |
Rate Loading for Agents:
Rate Loading for GDS and OTA channels.
If you simply want to increase or decrease your rack rate by a percentage to the GDS system (which encompasses Online Travel Agents and Travel Agent Databases), you can "load" the rate so that BookingCenter send them as a % - /+ (higher or lower) in order to compensate for the GDS and travel agent commission. You can thus have one price on your website and another to the Network partners and GDS systems.
If you wish to manually select different rates for different rooms in the GDS system and not have the rate loading apply to the entire agent, do the following: