Rates and availability across connected OTAs
Hotel channel manager
Manage OTA rates and availability from one place.
Zotel’s hotel channel manager connects online travel agencies (OTAs) with your hotel’s rates, availability and reservations. Manage distribution alongside your PMS and direct booking engine instead of repeating everyday updates in separate extranets.
Connected PMS and direct bookings
Demand context and optional pricing automation
Channel connections
Connect the channels your property sells on.
Zotel’s channel offering includes the channels below. Each property’s active connections depend on its channel accounts, room mapping and supported integration. Google Hotels is a discovery channel, rather than an OTA.
Booking.com
Agoda
Expedia
MakeMyTrip
Goibibo
Airbnb
Traveloka
Google Hotels
Connected distribution
Control what you sell, where you sell it and when.
Room types and rate plans are mapped to each channel during setup. Those connections let Zotel exchange the supported rates, inventory and booking information for your property.
Core capabilities
Rates by room and date
Manage prices for mapped room types and rate plans across the dates you want to sell.
Availability updates
Keep connected channels informed as available room inventory changes.
Sales controls
Use stop-sell controls to close selected inventory or rates. The controls available depend on the connected channel and its mapping.
Connected reservations
Bring supported OTA reservations into the same operating system used by your front desk.
Who this suits
Hotels selling rooms on multiple OTAs
Teams updating rates and availability manually
Properties connecting OTA sales with direct bookings
Pricing support
Plan rates and automate direct offers.
Add demand context and direct-rate automation to your distribution workflow with Elite.
Plan rates with AI-assisted demand context
Review AI-generated event and demand context in the Demand Calendar when planning rates for upcoming dates.
Automate direct-booking discounts
When enabled, compare OTA offers on Google Hotels with your booking-engine prices and automate eligible direct discounts under configured pricing rules. This changes direct offers; OTA rates remain under channel controls.
Your questions
Hotel channel manager: common questions
Can Zotel connect my PMS, OTA inventory and direct bookings?
Yes. Zotel’s channel manager exchanges rates, availability and supported reservations with mapped OTA connections. Its PMS brings those reservations together with direct bookings for the front-desk team.
Explore the connected PMSI already sell on Booking.com and Agoda. What needs to be set up?
Your existing OTA accounts need supported connections to Zotel, with the property’s room types and rate plans mapped to each channel. The team can then manage supported rates, availability and reservations through those connections. During onboarding, confirm the room and rate-plan mapping and which restrictions each connection supports.
Which rates does Zotel’s price automation change?
The direct-rate automation described here manages eligible booking-engine discount campaigns using available OTA prices on Google Hotels for comparison. OTA rate changes remain part of channel management. The Demand Calendar separately provides AI-generated event and demand context for staff to review.
Does a channel manager prevent every overbooking?
It helps reduce the risk by updating shared availability across connected channels. Simultaneous bookings, connection interruptions and incorrect room or rate mapping can still require staff attention.
Is Google Hotels an OTA?
Google Hotels helps guests discover a property and compare booking offers. A direct booking link can lead to the hotel’s booking engine; this is different from a reservation made through an OTA.
See booking engine and Google connectivity