Assisiting Housekeeping and Data Services with PMS Data via BookingCenter APIs

The easiest way to incorporate Housekeeping Services is to install the Housekeeping App and register the Housekeeping Service or individual(s) with an ID and password so they receive Housekeeping 'requests' automatically.  The notification usually occurs via a push notification to their mobile phones (iOS and Android both supported) but also emails can be used and the email used by the recipient for their needed automation.  The notifications are automated to occur when manually assigning housekeeping tasks, autonating them at checkout, or when a clean as been set for 'review', and/or 'complete'. This is built to work for many housekeeping services and is the cheapest way toward automation when working with offsite vendors.

But there are times when an outside service needs to have awareness of summary booking info to be able to analyze or schedule tasks ahead of time.  In such as situation, we have an API that we recommend.  The OTA_ResRetrieveRS - (Get Booking Summaries) call that queries bookings - and their status' - in order to plan ahead.

Date Type "All" "LastUpdateDate" "MadeOnDate" "ArriveDate" "DepartDate" "CancelledDate"

Status: "All" "Confirmed" "Unconfirmed" "Canceled" "Active" "Complete"

The result of the query is an array of bookings with sufficient details, such as the Booking ID (confirmation #), number of adults/children/Infants, Guest Name on the booking, and arrival and departure dates for each booking.  Note that this message also includes basic financial details of the rate and total projected income, so there is financial data shared with this message.