What Is the Inventory Module?

The Inventory module manages room availability in a property. This is done by setting:

•The number of rooms available for each room type in a property.

•Allotments that enable you to set aside rooms for specific markets or clients.

•Reservation behaviours created using allocated rooms, booking limits and release patterns to manage bookings from different market segments.

•Mapping between inventory allotments and rate plans to price rooms and distribute them through different channels.

The Inventory module provides up-to-date availability to the rest of the system. Availability of information is maintained through:

•Booking counters that are updated in real time, combined with regular updates made whenever a rule is modified.

•Daily controls that launch dated processes, such as releasing rooms held for a specific segment to another allotment on a preset date.

The Planning module of the system enables you to access and modify Inventory information.

•At property level: You can retrieve information on occupancy and room availability for the property for a set date or a given period. You can also modify certain inventory settings "on the fly" in order to respond to exceptional situations.

•At brand level: You can retrieve information on reservations and availability as well as on occupancy for each property belonging to the brand. However, you cannot modify the inventory in any way.

For information about how to access and modify Inventory information using the Planning module, see Planning .