Third party inventory
Learn about affordable sell rates coming from our third party inventory and the benefits that having them enabled can bring to your business
What are Sell rates?
We call Sell rates to those affordable prices that are sourced from third party inventory sources and are accessible when they are cheaper than those directly sourced from Booking.com.
Key benefits
These are some of the benefits of having Sell rates enabled:
How can these rates be booked?
These rates are retrieved when using online payments (pay_online_now) only, as these are all prepaid rates across different cancellation policies.
Refer to the Payment timings section for more details on pay_online_now.
These are some of the considerations to take into account to retrieve affordable rates from our third party repository:
| Accepted timings | ✓ pay_online_now✗ pay_online_later |
| Cancellations | ✓ Sell rates bookings can be cancelled only 30 mins after the booking. |
| Modifications | ✗ Modifications to the booking is not allowed. |
| Bookings | ✓ We currently offer only a single room (1 adult occupancy) price search to be booked. ✗ Combine booking Sell rates along with regular Booking.com rates. |
| Payment methods | ✓ Credit cards & Virtual credit cards (VCC). |
How to get Sell rates enabled?
- Check whether you meet the minimum requirements.
- Refer to the How to section for instructions, recommendations and examples on retrieving third party inventory rates.