What is the best way to sync hotel reservations with Airbnb and Booking.com?

Question

Hi, has anyone worked on making a hotel booking page? How did you sync reservations through pages like Airbnb or Booking.com? Did you use a PMS or Channel Manager? Or did you use an internal tool? I have a client who needs the page, but I don't know what to tell them. Should I tell them to go buy a PMS or Channel Manager, and I'll connect my page to it, or should I tell them I'll make a web service to sync the platforms?

Answer 1

I would assume you would need what you have already tagged: an API.

One thought that comes to mind is that for example, once a user books something on Booking.com, when the form is submitted, there would be some kind of API call via a POST request to Airbnb as well so that others would not book what was already taken via Booking.com

User books room via Booking.com -> Booking.com books room via Airbnb API

Something along those lines.