Availability Modifiers
Channex has some special settings that can affect the availability of rate plans
This setting will limit the availability for the rate plan
Example: If you have 10 rooms and set Max Availability to 5 then the channel will only see 5 rooms available even if you have 10 total.
If one room is booked and now 9 total is left the channel will still get an update to show 5. It will work like this until the total available is less than the max available rooms and then it will work as normal.
Typical Use Cases:
- Limit rooms available so you don't get large group bookings
- Limit rooms available so rooms look more scarce on the channel
This setting just applies a negative amount to the availability, you don't need to enter a negative sign.
If you set "2" to the offset and you have 10 double rooms total then you will have 10 - 2 = 8 rooms to sell.
Once you have 2 rooms left you end up with 0 rooms left (2 - 2 = 0)
Use Case:
- Stop giving availability to some high commission channels when only a few rooms left
- Give last room availability to selected channels or own website