What is a channel manager?
It is the connection that pushes your availability, rates and restrictions to Booking.com, Airbnb and other platforms, and pulls their bookings back into one calendar.
A channel manager can be a standalone tool or part of a property management system (PMS). Standalone tools only solve syncing; a PMS also knows the guest, the payment, the check-in and the invoice.
For a small property, a standalone tool usually means one more login and one more monthly fee for something a single system can include.
How Ovilo handles it
Channel management in Ovilo is part of the system, not an add-on: the same Booking.com reservation carries guest messages, check-in, NTIS status and the invoice.
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