Establishing a successful hotel business can be quite a herculean task. But, it is not possible to manually allocate inventories at your property, check availability, take care of overbookings and more. This is where hotel channel management software comes to your help. It connects hotel channels around the world and maps out your hotel business. This software bridges the gap between supply & demand and helps you send and synchronize your availability and rates in real-time.
Moreover, it covers all aspects of your hotel business, from the inventory to reservation. The powerful tools of these software streamline every activities and operation of hotels. Flexible and scalable technology platform combines the power of artificial intelligence. This enables hotels to maximize revenue. Here is a list of the 3 best hotel channel management software.
1. eZee Centrix
eZee Centrix software handles the entire hotel distribution system. This software connects your hotel with several hundreds of travel booking websites. This also connects you with travel agents globally. It streamlines and automates the entire inventory management processes. Moreover, this software enables hotels to stop room sales and inventory in real-time. This is especially useful in cases of group bookings 
Features
- eZee Centrix software enables quick, easy and accurate distribution of services. It provides real-time updates on the rate management and distribution systems. Also, you can control all hotels and distribution services across a single platform.
- This software provides automatic updates on the availability of rooms and the rates. This maximizes the profits by getting more room sold out of its client hotels.
- It brings in harmony with the local currency and the current exchange rate. With this software, one can accept different currencies from across the world such as currencies given by travel agents, websites and foreign guests. Also, it gives live updates on foreign currency rates.
- Provides analytics and reports that enable hotels to analyze success rates and profit. It enables tracking the progress of hotel business channels and the received revenue.
Pricing
The pricing of the eZee Centrix hotel channel manager falls under four categories:
- Free Trial - This hotel channel management software comes with a free trial.
- Classic - The price of this plan is ₹2000 per month. It includes only that channel manager, OTA, inventory distribution management, real-time inventory, rate updates and more.
- Hero - The price of this plan is ₹3500 per month. It provides access to the booking engine and the channel manager. This includes the integration with Google hotel ads, trip advisor and Trivago metasearch.
- Star - The price of this plan is ₹3645 per month. It includes the online hotel PMS and channel manager.
- Champion - The price of this plan is ₹834 per month. eZee Centrix offers access to the online hotel PMS, booking engine and channel manager.
2. SiteMinder
This software enables you to reach out to potential customers and online visibility. It helps in boosting hotel revenue by featuring across 400 distribution channels. It combines the power of property management systems that prevents human errors.
Features
- This software grants access for advertising across channels the single time. There is no extra cost involved. Availability of rooms and its rates updated across all channels.
- Helps to increase the occupancy of rooms across hotel chains. It not only helps to boost profits but also to keep commissions low. It features a special stop sell tool that ensures rooms are not overbooked.
- Automatically updates room rates as per the current currency exchange rates. This saves a lot of time and effort which spent manually updating each channel.
- With this software, one can upload photos with rooms information across channels. This increases the attraction of guests, conversion rates, and boost room sales.
- Selling Hotel property in foreign currencies. This enables the localization of hotel accommodations globally.
Pricing
The pricing plan package falls under five categories:
- Free Trial - A free trial, granted for every pricing pack to every user.
- Channel Manager - This pricing plan comes at $56 per month. It provides access to the all-powerful hotel channel manager feature.
- Online Booking Engine - This pricing plan comes at $37 per month. It provides access to the online booking engine. Facilitates direct booking without any commissions.
- Hotel Website Design - This pricing plan comes at $37 per month. It enables hotel owners and managers to design the websites. It provides an easy and attractive way of displaying your hotel property to guests.
- Hotel Business Intelligence - This pricing plan comes at $47 per month. It comes with the all-powerful business and market intelligence feature.
- Global Distribution System - This is a quote upon request plan. The quotation, sent via email upon request.
3. Hotelogix
This integrated hotel channel management software manages hotels and properties globally. Hotelogix enables hotels to reach out to targeted global audiences. It is suitable for small hotel businesses, hotel chains, and mid-sized properties. Moreover, this software facilitates effective integration with every hotel front desk. The input of details about hotel rooms, updated and access across every channel. Also, it enables smooth and error-free management of hotel chains across the world. 
Features
- Its single-window interface features pave for easy optimization of room availability. Automates room availability updates across all booking platforms.
- Establishing greater rate parity and this establishes trustworthiness and credibility amongst hotel guests. Ribs loss of revenue as a result of late bookings and cancellations.
- Hotelogix provides updates on the current discounted rates. It keeps up to date with the latest market trends and traveler preferences. This software enables hotel owners to make changes across OTAs based on availability.
- Facilitates smart management of room occupancy with check-in and check-out. It also comes with the one-click cancellation feature, update inventory and more.
- This software comes with a special real-time two-way interface mechanism. This enables hotel owners to feed room details which is automatically updated.
Pricing
The pricing of the Hotelogix hotel software categorized based on the property: Independent Property Pricing:
- Free Trial - Every user enjoys a free trial to test out its features.
- Premium - The premium pricing pack comes at a price of ₹250 per month for each room. This package features the front desk, web booking engine, housekeeping, review express. Also, it includes rate intelligence, 24/7 support, point of sale, a Facebook booking engine.
- Premium - The premium plus package comes at a price of ₹375 per month for each room. It includes all premium features and any three desired interfaces such as payment gateway front desk, payment gateway web, GDS. Also, it includes channel manager, loyalty connect, and accounting system.
- Platinum - The platinum pricing package comes at a price of ₹599 per month for each room. It includes all features of premium as well as any desired 6 interfaces, gateway web, payment gateway front desk, channel manager, accounting system.
Multi-Property Pricing:
- Free Trial - This package comes with a free trial, offered to every user.
- Quote Based Plan - The pricing plan package is a quote based plan, provided upon request.
