Distribution inventory matrix
The grid of how much each channel can sell of each type, day by day, with the cut that stops you overselling.
What it solves
When the split stops being "twenty to the OTAs" and starts being "no suites to this wholesaler, but every double in January", you need to see it. A list of rules cannot be read at a glance; a grid can.
You notice it in things like these
- Nobody can say, looking at one screen, how much each channel has open next week.
- A bad split is discovered with two bookings for the same room.
How it works
Channel by type, across dates
Each cell is how much that channel can sell of that type that day. The default window is what fits on screen; the rest is requested by date.
The cut lives underneath, not on screen
The rule that stops you handing out more than exists is enforced by the engine, not by the form. Validation that only lives on screen is bypassed by opening the browser tools, and the price of bypassing it is an oversell.
The same count as the calendar
Each night's free count comes from the same source as the calendar's availability layer: physical minus sold minus blocked. Two ways of counting free rooms would give two figures on two screens of the same panel.
Where it lives in the panel
- Distribution & revenue
- Distribution
- Distribution inventory matrix
What it needs first
Channels created and rooms registered.
Physical inventory
What it does not do yet
The limits, told by us
- The inventory tools and the distribution matrix were pulled from the menu: they offered screens over what is already answered here and on the channel page, and their bulk actions had nothing behind them.
Carry on here
Shall we walk through it with your hotel on screen?
Half an hour, your rooms and your rates, and whatever questions you have. No commitment and no card.