How to do Channel Mapping and Room Mapping for Trip.com

Hello Softinn PMS user & Softinn Channel Manager subscriber!

After the setup the Room Type & Rate Plan is completed, you can proceed with the Channel Mapping and Room Mapping in Softinn PMS.

Before you start to map Softinn Channel Manager to OTAs, please make sure that you have :

Completed setup the Room Type and Rate Plan in Softinn PMS
Completed your OTAs listing for your property

Softinn Channel Manager is connected to 100 over OTAs. The mapping process will be different for each OTAs.

In this guide, we will show how you could proceed with the channel mapping to Trip.com.

Check out the video & guidelines below to find out how to do Channel Mapping and Room Mapping for Trip.com in Softinn PMS :

Steps to do Channel Mapping for Trip.com on Softinn PMS:

Follow the guidelines below:

Step 1 : Go to Softinn PMS

Step 2 : Select the right property

Step 3 : Go to ‘Setup‘ & click ‘General‘

Step 4 : Click ‘Booking Source & Connectivity‘

Step 5 : Create a new Booking Source for Trip.com

Name : Trip.com V2
Refence Code : TRP2

Step 6 : Save changes.

You will see ‘Channel Mapping’ if you’re Softinn Channel Manager subscriber.

Mapping with Trip.com:

Follow the guidelines below:

Step 1 : Select ‘Trip.com V2‘

Step 2 : Click ‘+‘ icon

Step 3 : You may refer to the Mapping Guide by clicking the ‘Mapping Guide’ button

Step 4 : Email to your Hotel’s Trip.com Market Manager (whom the Hotel signed the contract with) and request to enable Softinn or ‘OTASwitchV4_RP’ as channel manager

In your email to Trip.com, you will also need to request Channel Manager Hotel ID.

Step 5 : Your Trip.com Market Manager will revert in email to inform you about the connectivity status & provide the following details:

Rates Plan Name
Rates Plan ID

Note : Inform us once you have received the email reply from your Trip.com Market Manager

Step 6 : Go to Softinn PMS to setup Channel Mapping and Room Mapping

Step 7 : Insert your Trip.com Channel Hotel ID

Step 8 : Select the Room type that you sell on Trip.com

Step 9 : Select Rate either Net or Sell

Step 10 : Put the status ‘Inactive’ until you’ve done the room mapping

Step 11 : Click ‘Save‘

Channel mapping with Trip.com is successfully done!

Step 12 : Next, you need to do Room Mapping, click ‘Map’

Step 13 : Select the rate plan that you sell on Trip.com

Step 14 : Select the PMS Rate Plan

Select the same rate plan with Trip.com account

Step 15 : Select the no. of guest

Make sure the info you update here is the same as Trip.com account

Step 16 : Click ‘Save‘

Room Mapping with Trip.com is successfully done!

Step 17 : Make sure the Price & Availability are pushed from PMS and reflected correctly in Trip.com Extranet

Important Notes:

Before you flush the information to Trip.com, change the status to ‘Active‘ first
After the status was turned to ‘Active‘, all the availability and rate plans in Softinn Channel Manager will be pushed to Trip.com
The information will be flushed to Trip.com within 2-3 minutes

Let’s start to do Channel Mapping & Room Mapping for Trip.com! 🙂