UseROSS has a constantly growing list of booking channels it’s connected to, encompassing the world’s largest and best-selling accommodation sites.

What Is A Channel?

A channel is a website that guests can book online. Each channel will have store availability and rate updates from UseROSS and process bookings directly on the site which UseROSS will then pick up and adjust your overall availability.

How Do I Connect To A Channel?

Each channel is its own company (although they can have sub-brands that they also sell rooms on, e.g. Connecting to the Expedia channel will mean you’re sites are also listed on Hotels.com, which Expedia manages. In order to connect UseROSS to a channel you first need to contact the channel and make an account with them. Once that’s done you enter the log-in details onto the channels page of UseROSS, link the rooms in the Rooms Page, copy the settings across using the Copy Tool, and you’re done. If you need any assistance with this the support team at UseROSS is always happy to help.

What is a Rate Plan?

A Rate Plan is a way of selling a room on a channel. Channels do this so they can sell your room in multiple ways, e.g. Standard Rates, Packaged with Flights, Corporate Groups, to different companies, etc. A rate plan will be displayed beside the Room Name in brackets on the Inventory Page.

If you add a rate plan to a channel then you may need to re-map the rooms on the Rooms Page to have it displayed.

What Is A Channel Aggregator?

A channel aggregator is a website that collects the rates on various channels and displays them to the guests in one area. Examples of channel aggregators are TripAdvisor, Trivago, HotelsCombined and Google Hotels. The key difference is that an aggregator doesn’t process the booking of the guest, they’ll instead direct the guest to a channel where the guest will make the booking.

The growing list of booking sites

Channel Name	Stop Sell	Availability	Dynamic Rates	Minimum Stay	Rate Plans	Commission	Channel Contact Info	Payment Confirmation
Booking.com						12	?	UseROSS VCC
wotif						12	?	VCC
Book Now Button						0%	+61 3 9784 4111 (BNB Link)	UseROSS VCC
Agoda 4.0						15	?	VCC
Expedia QuickConnect						15	?	MIX
ARRA						5	?	VCC
The Hotel Network				?	?	10	?	?
bookeasy				?		10	?	?
Lido (AADX)				?		?	?	?
AA Travel (NewZealand)				?	?	?	?	?
AtlasCRS				?		?	?	?
quickbeds				?	?	?	?	?
BookIt				?	?	?	?	?
Jetstar				?		?	?	VCC
Orbitz				?	?	?	?	?
needitnow				?	?	?	?	?
Jasons				?	?	?	?	?
ARRA Corporate				?	?	?	?	?
Stay247				?	?	?	?	?
holiday				?	?	?	?	?
AAA Tourism (Australian)				?	?	?	?	?
checkin				?	?	?	?	?