A guide to setting up Booking Sources in RMS.

Overview

Booking Source is a Lookup Table that you can use to record and report on the source of a reservation.

Lookup Tables are user-created lists that you can use to record and report on additional information for Reservations.

You can set a Booking Source on a Guest Profile, Company, Travel Agent, Online Channel Connection, or Rate Type so that RMS fills in the Reservation's Booking Source automatically.

Selecting a Booking Source as a 'Walk-in' will include Reservations with that Booking Source in reported 'Walk-in Reservation' figures on the Flash Report, Night Audit Statistics and Financial Exports.

You can set up a Booking Source Contact as the person for the purpose of correspondence related to that Booking Source.

The Marketing Report, Occupancy Report, and Reservation by Lead Time Report all include options to view data by Booking Source.

A Booking Source you set on an online channel's connection in Setup > Online Bookings > Channel Management applies to reservations arriving from that channel only when neither the booking nor its Rate Type supplies one. That setting is held separately for each property, so on a multi-property database, set it on every property that uses the connection.

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Guide

In the side menu of RMS, go to Setup > Lookup Tables > Booking Source.

1. Select Add.
   
    
2. Enter the Booking Source.
   (Optional) Enter the Code.
3. Enter a Short Description.
   (Optional) Enter Contact Details.
   (Optional) Select a Grouping.
   (Optional) Select a Colour.
   (Optional) Select Walk-In.
4. Select Save/Exit.