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Booking.com Channel Manager Connection Guide

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IMPORTANT

Derived Rates and promotions, such as discounts, weekly rates or monthly rates, need to be managed on Booking.com. If you have some, you need to delete the derived rates inside Booking.com, and after connecting the listing inside Mangobeds, make them new again in Booking.com. If not, they and other rules such as the min. Stay won’t work. After deleting the derived rates and promotions inside Booking.com, connect the listing, map the rooms, and recreate the derived rates and promotions inside Booking.com, and make sure they are working fine.

Request connection to Channex.io in booking extranet

  1. Log in to the Booking.com Extranet: https://account.booking.com/
  2. Copy the Property Code (top-left navigation)—you’ll paste this later in Channex.
  3. Go to Account → Connectivity Provider.
  4. Click Search, type “Channex”, select Channex.io.
  5. Click Next, tick the XML Service Agreement box, hit Yes, I accept.
  6. Booking.com now shows Waiting for provider approval—Channex will approve the link.

Create Booking.com Channel in Mangobeds

  1. Open Apps → pick Channel Manager.
  2. Click Get Started.
  3. Click on the “Create” button to start a new connection
  4. Select the channel “Booking.com”
  5. Follow the on-screen steps for that channel. Hotel ID: This is where you enter the property ID of the property from booking.com.
  6. Test Connection Button – Checks if the property is accessible to map
  7. Once the settings are filled and the test gives a positive result we can move onto the mapping
  8. Mapping is important that all rate plans be mapped, any non mapped rate plans or rooms will cause issues later. On the left side you will see all the rooms and rates on the channel, and on the right side you can see what is mapped. Once mapping is completed please save the channel by pressing the save button at the bottom
  9. Activate the Connection. To activate please click on “Actions” button on the channel and select “Activate”
  10. Optional: Schedule a Full Sync. Click on the options of the channel and select Full Sync

That’s it—rates, availability, and reservations are now synced in real time.

Before you connect any channel

Currency, rates and restrictions are set once for every channel, not per OTA, and it is worth getting them right before you connect. Read the channel manager guide for that setup and for every other channel Mangobeds connects to.