Connection to RoomPriceGenie

RoomPriceGenie is a revenue management software (RMS) that uses smart pricing technology to automatically increase a hotel's RevPAR (revenue per available room).

RoomPriceGenie can either be connected to the property management system (PMS) or to the Hotel-Spider channel manager.

This article refers to a connection between RoomPriceGenie and Hotel-Spider.

There are 5 steps to setting up the interface in Hotel-Spider:

1.) Adding the service to your contract subscription:

There is a monthly fee for using the RMS interface. Please contact our Customer Care Team for a quote. After activation, the interface can be added and activated as an RMS channel in the Hotel-Spider extranet:

2.) Passing on and inserting the connection IDs:

- RoomPriceGenie needs your Hotel-Spider HotelID (1) to be able to establish the connection. Share this ID with RoomPriceGenie.
- You will then receive a HotelKey (2) from RoomPriceGenie which needs to be entered in Hotel-Spider:

3.) Adjusting the product structure in Hotel-Spider

RoomPriceGenie only sends prices to a single rate type. This rate type will be your "base rate" in the future, from which all other rate types will be derived. Determine which rate should be your base rate and inform RoomPriceGenie of this. Then set the structure in Hotel Spider accordingly.

-> Detailed instructions for product derivation can be found here: Setting up price derivations

4.) Activation of price transmission by RoomPriceGenie & deactivation of price transmission by your PMS

If the prices were previously transmitted from your property management system to Hotel-Spider, then you must ensure that this synchronisation is deactivated as soon as RoomPriceGenie starts transmitting the prices.
From this moment on, your PMS should only send us availabilities and booking rules, but no more prices. Otherwise, the price updates from both systems will keep overwriting each other.

5) Check (!)

As soon as the first rate transfer from RoomPriceGenie has been completed, please check the price calendar in Hotel-Spider thoroughly for all products and various time periods. This is the only way to ensure that the connection has been set up correctly and that the derivations have been configured properly.

Note:

After successful integration, the additional section "RoomPriceGenie" will appear in the Hotel-Spider menu. In this section you can see the price suggestions of the revenue tool, adjust rates manually and upload them directly to the Hotel-Spider base rate: