You may be a partner of an additional distribution channel (to OTAs connected to elloha in XML format such as Booking, Expedia or TripAdvisor) and this channel may offer to synchronise you with it via iCal.
In the Main Menu, click on Sales Channels
Then click on the relevant channel,
And click on Configure synchronisation
The list of your services will be displayed as shown below:
Click on the first service you wish to synchronise
And specify whether you only wish to synchronise stocks from your elloha account to your distributor or whether you also wish to receive bookings from this distributor: this option is available, in particular, to elloha subscribers who only wish to communicate their availability to a third party without receiving bookings from them,
In the first block (sending your stock to the distributor), copy the synchronisation address supplied by elloha and paste it in the field provided for this purpose in your distributor's back office
In the second block (receiving bookings from the distributor), paste the synchronisation address that the distributor has given you in its back office. Do not hesitate to contact the distributor's support team for any further information
Don't forget tosave your operations so that your synchronisation can start.
Icalendar distribution channel
as elloha is not a connectivity partner with all distributors offering online booking in iCal format, the Icalendar distribution channel will enable you to send your stock to these distributors.
This synchronisation will only work in this direction: your elloha stock => your schedule of the distributor who is not an elloha partner.
In the block entitled "Send outgoing elloha stock to Icalendar", copy the synchronisation address supplied by elloha and paste it into the field provided for this purpose in your distributor's back office.
All you have to do is repeat the operation for all your other services.
Note: As you can see, you are free to synchronise all or part of your services with a distributor, depending on the commercial agreements you have signed with them.
Note that Ical synchronisation does not apply to cancellations.
So when a file is cancelled on an Ical-synchronised platform, you will also need to cancel the file on elloha in order to release the stock.