Knowledge BaseFor instance, if you have 3 rooms and one of them is on allotment, and a reservation is made on that OTA, the availability becomes 2 e the allotment is consumed for the length of the reservation's stay.
☞ Docs: What is a Channel Manager?
ï¼ Web: What is an Allotment
N.B. The allotment is an agreement that the hotelier makes with the OTA portal. Not knowing the conditions can cause overbooking!
Allotment release
Some OTAs use allotment release: It's an X number of days, starting from A to B, where the allotment is not active. It means that for that given period (A to B), the OTA doesn't apply allotments for that room/rooms. You should ask more information about allotment release to the OTA's assistance.
Managing Allotments
For instance, if you have 10 double rooms and one of them is in allotment on Booking.com, you have to set the availability to 9 instead of 10. When you get the very first reservation from Booking.com on the double room, for a certain period of time (allotment reservation), WuBook won't delete its availability.
For other OTAs that require the allotment of rooms (Expedia, Agoda etc.), it's possible to insert (on the respective interfaces) as availability on WuBooK the one that the OTA allotted. This will reduce the risk of overbooking due to allotments: this risk isn't removed at all, because if the channel manager finishes all rooms on the other channels and on the channel X the allotted room has not yet been sold, this room will remain on sale.