AA Travel

1. You will need to request AA Travel to set iBex as your channel manager and provide you with their property and room codes for the connection.

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2. Login to your Seekom iBex account.

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3. From left menu select Sales Channels > Add a sales Channel

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4. At the pop up window titled 'New Sales Channel' click the button Register Available Sales Channel

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5. Enter 'AA Travel' into search field at top right of window and press enter on your keyboard.
Matching results will be displayed - see example screen image below.

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6. If this the first and only connection to AA Travel click the green plus icon adjacent to AAA Tourism (see above example).
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If this is an additional connection select AA Travel (Connection 2 or 3) as appropriate.
Refer Important Notes section below.

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7. Optionally update General section fields as required.
Notes are private. Refer sample example screen image below.

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8. At Rules section:

• select required Selling Group (likely to be Agents)
• select Rate Modifier (Rate 1 will typically be same as you sell at, other options will be a % increase or discount)
• set Multi-booking Invoice as required (PMS accounts only.
  No means you will send an invoice for each booking, yes means you batch multiple bookings into an invoice)
• set Commission charged by AA Travel (PMS accounts only. )
• set Commission Extras Code (PMS accounts only. Likely to be Misc > Cmsn)

Refer example below.

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9. Click Register Sales Channel button.
You will progress to the Channel Mapping tab.

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10. Enter your email address at iBex Notification Emails To field.

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11. It is recommended that iBex Email on New Booking are set as follows:

• Block Operator – not checked
• Block Property – checked
• Block Customer – checked

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12. It is recommended that iBex Booking Email Rule is set to 'Do not send emails'.

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13. At Channel Property ID enter your AA Travel Property ID (as supplied by AA Travel - refer step 1).

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14. It is recommended that Send Rates is set as ticked.

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15. Complete each room mapping row as follows:
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• Remote Room ID - enter room codes supplied by AA Travel
• Rate Name - Select as required

To map any iBex room type to further room types at AA Travel (NZ) (eg. for differing minimum stays/rates - see notes at bottom of this page) click '+'

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16. Set Allocation Handling field as required (we recommend Total per Room).

This is really only relevant if you will be mapping a single room type from iBex to multiple room types at AA Travel (eg. for length of stay price variations, etc).

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17. Click Save button

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18. Room and rate mapping will now be set - refer sample screen image below.

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19. Complete each room mapping row as follows:

Channel Room ID – enter Room ID as supplied by AA Travel (refer step 1).
iBex Rate Name – select as required.
Channel Rate ID – enter Rate ID as supplied by AA Travel (refer step 1).

Click applicable '+' to map an iBex room and/or rate to further room/rates at AA Travel (eg. for differing minimum stays/rates - see notes at bottom of this page).
See image below for an example where Standard Room has been connected to another room/rate at AA Travel.

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20. Click Save button

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21. Click Save & Update Channel button.

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22. Wait a few minutes and click View Log button.

If the Remote Service Log Viewer indicates queued updates are pending, wait a further few minutes and click the 'Refresh' button.

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23. If you have performed the connection successfully you will see OK messages for inventory & rates uploaded.
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See example below.​

2012-10-05 11:24:02
11:24:01 AAT, aatravel, abchotel, 1234: NotifyRates([20133,20132], 2012-10-21, 2012-11-21); 11:24:03 OK
2012-10-05 11:22:46
11:22:44 AAT, aatravel, abchotel, 1234: NotifyInventory([9796,9795], 2012-10-21, 2012-11-21); 11:22:45 OK