This article will walk you through the process of connecting your HotelTonight account with ThinkReservations. Hotel Tonight
HotelTonight can be a great way to sell last-minute availability for your property. Each reservation is 100% non-refundable, so funds are guaranteed for each booking.
Step 1: Sign Up for HotelTonight
If you are interested in partnering with HotelTonight, please sign up here. HotelTonight will let you know if your property is in a geographical area that HotelTonight is looking to expand. https://www.hoteltonight.com/hotel-partners
Once your HotelTonight account is set up, you are ready for the next step.
Step 2: Ask HotelTonight to Enable Your Account for Connectivity
Please contact your HotelTonight Market Manager and let them know you would like to connect to HotelTonight through your ThinkReservations account.
The process will go like this:
You will receive an email from your HotelTonight Market Manager with a room mapping spreadsheet.
You will fill in the room name and send it back to your Market Manager. If your property uses Room Types in ThinkReservations, you fill in Room Type names in the spreadsheet.
Your Market Manager will set rate plan codes for any missing Room Types.
Your Market Manager will then create gateway codes.
Once your gateway codes have been created, you will receive an email with your Hotel ID.
Once you have your Hotel ID and mapping information from your Market Manager, your HotelTonight account and your ThinkReservations account are ready to be connected.
Step 3: ThinkReservations Connects to your HotelTonight Account
Let ThinkReservations know the below three pieces of information when you are ready for ThinkReservations to connect your two accounts together.
Please email ThinkReservations. We need to know the following to properly connect your accounts together. When you submit your ticket, please include the following information:
HotelTonight Hotel ID This is a unique number for your HotelTonight Account.
The room in ThinkReservations that you want to connect to each Gateway Code. This allows us to properly map your rooms.
Please share the rate type you would like with HotelTonight. If a new rate should be created, please create it first. Please don't hesitate to let us know if you need assistance in creating the new rate type.
Once we have the above information, a member of the ThinkReservations OTA team will make the final connection and map your rooms and rate plans for you. At that point, your connection is complete!
If you have questions or need any assistance, click here to schedule a meeting with a member of the ThinkReservations OTA team.
Using HotelTonight
HotelTonight does not share the guest's email address with channel managers. To be clear, HotelTonight does not currently send the guest's phone number, email address, and other information through its channel manager connections.
Note: Reservation's from HotelTonight sent to ThinkReservations will include the guest's name only.
When a HotelTonight reservation is made, the reservation will be posted to your calendar, and you will be notified via email from ThinkReservations in the same manner as bookings made on your own website.
All reservations are paid in full at the time of booking. HotelTonight reimburses you with a virtual credit card. To charge the HotelTonight Virtual Card in ThinkReservations, retain the card as you would a normal credit card. The card is sent to you in an email from HotelTonight. You can also view the card when you log into HotelTonight. We recommend setting the cardholder name to "HotelTonight."
Note:
ThinkReservations requires you to have the channel manager module to use the connection with HotelTonight.