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Channel Property Parameters
Use the Channel Property Parameters screen to activate a property specific conversion parameter or configure a property specific setting for a channel.
Select Setup > System Configuration > Channels > Channel Property Parameters to access the Channel Property Parameters screen.
Select the Property check box to limit your search to a property. De-select the Property check box to search at a global level.
Choose from the following search criteria and select Search to view a list of available parameters or settings for the channel.
Note: To search at a global level, you need to select only the channel. To search at property level, you must select both a channel and a property.
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Settings
To activate a parameter or configure a setting, highlight it on the grid and select the Edit button. The Channel Property Parameters - Edit screen opens. To activate a parameter, select the Value down arrow and choose Y. For a setting, select the Value down arrow and choose a value from the list. Select OK to save the configuration.
The following parameters are available:
ALLOW BOOK PRIOR CC EXPIRY DATE - Determines whether or not to allow bookings to be made via OWS if the CC EXPIRY DATE is prior to the booking arrival date. The available values are Y and N (active and inactive). If active, then bookings can be made. If not active, then bookings cannot be made.
ALLOW MAKE PAYMENT WITHOUT CREDIT CARD NUMBER. Payments can be made without the credit card details. This is used in situations where the payment settlement is handled by a third party on a website before calling the OPERA Web Services and the payment details are sent later. When this parameter is active, the credit card information will not be validated if the information is not provided in the web service request. If credit card details are provided, then the credit card will be validated.
ATTACH PROFILE ROOM FEATURES TO RESERVATION. The room features attached to the profile will be auto attached to the reservation.
AUTO INVENTORYITEM TRACE. Controls if Trace Text is automatically added or deleted when an Inventory Item is added to a Reservation via the OPERA web services (OWS). The required configuration for trace text must be configured on the OPERA screen MNT_ITEM/Item Detail for the relevant item.
BILLING EMAIL REQUIRED. Sets the email_yn value for a profile which is used during PrintPreCheckoutBill.
CALENDAR AVAILABILITY CACHE. When set to Y, if the cache is valid for the requested criteria, the price and restrictions will be read from the calendar cache table to return OWS FetchCalendar response. This parameter does not support the calendar mode NONE and does not support FetchCalendar requests when using Block codes. To activate this option you must enable application parameter 'CACHE AVAILABILITY' under OEDS group and channel parameter 'CACHING' under Channel set up.
CHANNEL GENERIC ROOM TYPE. Enable mapping of one channel room type to multiple OPERA room types.
CHANNEL INVENTORY. Activate the Channel Level Inventory Functionality.
DEFAULT PAYMENT METHOD PER CHANNEL. A default payment method will be assigned to the reservation, and the payment method on the incoming booking will be assigned to a designated window.
GENERAL AVAILABILITY CACHING. When set to Y, if the cache is valid for the requested criteria, the general availability reads the data from general availability cache table to return an OWS GeneralAvailability response. To activate this option, you must enable the application parameter CACHE AVAILABILITY under OEDS group and the channel parameter CACHING under Channel setup.
IGNORE PROFILE HISTORY. When set to true will not save profile history in OPERA.
IGNORE REQUESTED CURRENCY IN RATE RANGE DISPLAY. Applies to regional availability requests. When the request contains only one RPC code, the response will return the requested code in the currency set up in the rate-header/rate-details. If the request contains more than one RPC code, the response will return the rate-range in the property currency of the hotel and exclude any rate that is loaded in a currency that is not the property currency. If another rate range currency is set up in the property level application settings, RATE RANGE CURRENCY CODE, then the response will be returned in this currency. When this parameter is set to N, the property will return the expected rate range and currency to the GDS channel in the GDS Regional Availability response.
INCLUDE PACKAGE PRICE IN ROOM TOTAL IN GENERAL AVAIL RESPONSE FOR BLOCKS. Include package amount in the room total in general availability response for blocks.
LOG RESERVATION REGRETS. When set to Y, availability calls to the channel will log reservation regret information. When the parameter is set to N, availability calls to the channel will not log reservation regret information. If the Turnaway parameter for a property is set to Y, the default value for LOG RESERVATION REGRETS will be Y. Otherwise, the default value will be N.
ONLINE CC AUTHORIZATION. Enables online credit card authorizations. For GDS and ODS channel types, this parameter appears when the global OEDS application parameter "ENABLE CC SECURITY CODE FOR GDS" application parameter is active.
OVERRIDE AR SETTLEMENT VISIBLE ON FOLIO. When enabled, Direct Bill payments will be returned in an InvoiceRequest call even if the OPERA Application Parameters are set to not show the transaction on the guest folio.
OVERRIDE RATES CLOSED DUE TO RANKING. Enables booking rate codes closed due to rank restriction. For example, if a guest’s profile has a player ranking of 5, he or she will only see rate codes configured for rankings 5 or higher. However, if this parameter is active, all rate code rankings will be returned to the guest.
OWS GOOGLE CALENDAR MAX NIGHTS STAY. To access, select the Setting option button, and Search. This parameter setting allows Google to request availability for a maximum number of nights. The value should not exceed the value set in this parameter. If no parameter is set, the default is 7 nights. The maximum number of nights allowed is 50 nights. This applies to the calendar availability for a Google request.
OWS UPDATE PROFILE FOR RESERVATION. When set to Y, it will update profile attached with reservation during modify booking from OWS Webservices if request has existing profile id with new profile address, phone, email. When Value is set to N profile attached with reservation will not be updated when profile id is in the request.
PREFERENCE COMMENTS OVERLAY. When enabled, the external channel must provide a full overlay of the comments, specials, preferences, features, and memberships associated with the reservation.
PUSH DYNAMIC RATES TO ADS. When enabled, the property will be able to send Dynamic Base and Advanced Dynamic Base Rate update messages to the ADS Channel as part of the ARI Rate update message.
REGIONAL AVAILABILITY CACHE. When set to Y, if the cache is valid for the requested criteria, the price and restrictions will be read from the REGIONAL cache table to return OWS RegionalAvailability response. To activate this option you must enable application parameter 'CACHE AVAILABILITY' under OEDS group and channel parameter 'CACHING' under Channel set up.
REQUESTED LANGUAGE CODE FOR GDS. Return the translated descriptions of channel rates, rooms, guarantee information, policies, marketing and error texts in the language code that is sent in the RLC element (Requested Language Code)of availability and booking requests from the GDS. If there is no translation configured for the language code sent, the response will default to the English description.
RESERVATION STATUS WINDOW. If changes are made to a new reservation within the time period specified in this parameter, the Reservation Status will be returned as "Reserved" instead of "Changed" in the FetchBooking, FetchSummary, and FutureBookingSummary responses. The default value is 10 minutes.
RETURN EXPECTED CHARGES IN REGIONAL AVAILABILITY EXTENDED. Returns the expected charges for the minimum and maximum rates in the Regional Availability Extended response.
ADS MAX RATEROOM COMBINATIONS LIMIT. (Value defined must be between 1-500) This parameter setting will control the total number of rate and room combinations allowed during channel rate room distribution when PUSH DYNAMIC RATES PARAMETER is enabled. The Channel user will not be able to distribute rate room more than the value of this parameter set here.
Example:
If the setting is 100, the property can select multiple rates for a total allowed rate and room combination of 100. If the channel rates have 15 rate-room combinations each, the property will not be able to select more than 6 rates (the rate-room total will be 90.) If a 7th rate is selected, a message will display to indicate the number of allowed rate-room combinations has been exceeded.
CHANNEL GENERIC ROOM TYPE SELECTION. When set to SEQUENCE, room category order will be sequence set in channel management. When set to MaxAvail, room category order will be available rooms for room type. When set to MaxAvailPercentage, room category order will be percentage rooms available for room type.
CONFIRMATION EMAIL FROM. This parameter can be used to set the sender email address for the confirmation letter.
DEFAULT PAYMENT METHOD. The payment method on the incoming reservation message will be assigned to a Designated Window and this Default Payment Method will be assigned to the incoming reservation in Window 1. This setting is displayed only when Channel Parameter 'DEFAULT_PAYMENT_METHOD_PER_CHANNEL' is active.
DESIGNATED PAYMENT WINDOW. The payment method on the incoming reservation message will be assigned to this window, and a Default Payment Method will be assigned to the incoming reservation in Window 1. This setting is displayed only when Channel Parameter 'DEFAULT_PAYMENT_METHOD_PER_CHANNEL' is active.
MASTER ALLOCATION BLOCK ID. Master Allocation Block ID to be used when creating a block through OWS.
MAXIMUM NUMBER OF ROOMS PER BLOCK. Maximum number of rooms that can be allocated when creating a Block/Allotment through web.
MINIMUM NUMBER OF ROOMS PER BLOCK. Minimum number of rooms that can be allocated when creating a Block/Allotment through web.
OWS CALENDAR MODE. This parameter offers a selection of two different modes for the fetch calendar functionality. The following modes are offered on one multiple selection screen. Ensure that multiple modes are not selected.
RETURN REQUESTED OR BARS OR PUBLIC RATES. This channel property parameter has the following setting options that will determine which rates are included in an Availability response:
