Integrations (PMS, portals, locks)
Articles: 29
- Import Airbnb listings: via the channel connection
Import title, description, photos, and amenities of your Airbnb listings via the Channel Manager, what a co-host needs, and how to pull in updated photos.
- Airbnb discounts: what works via Xentra and what does not
Why you set mobile rates, weekly and monthly discounts, and promotions directly on Airbnb, and which extra guest fee Xentra sends to Airbnb.
- Connect Booking.com and Expedia via the Channel Manager
Step by step connect Booking.com and Expedia: allow Channex in the extranet, test Hotel ID, map rooms, go live, pause, and disconnect.
- Booking.com: send a price per guest count (OBP)
How Xentra sends a separate price for each guest count to a Booking.com hotel with "Price per guest count" (OBP) and what settings you configure for it.
- Booking.com: Pricing model of your hotel and single use
Which pricing model Booking.com uses for your hotel, what it means for your prices, and why you turn off single use for "One price per room".
- Connect iLoca Hotel
How you connect iLoca Hotel with the API key, enter the real-time webhook in iLoca, and what applies to messages and custom fields.
- Connect Lodgify
How to connect Lodgify with the API key, map properties, and what arrives afterwards: real-time bookings, messages, and door code.
- Connecting multiple Airbnb accounts, and why co-host access is not enough
How to bring listings from other Airbnb accounts into your Xentra when you manage them, why co-host is not enough, and how to disconnect an account again.
- Multiple apartments under one Booking.com hotel ID
How to connect multiple apartments as separate rooms under one Booking.com hotel ID, when you need categories, and how to merge two hotel IDs.
- Smoobu import: what comes along and what does not
Which data the Smoobu import takes over, what you set up anew in Xentra, and how you collect open remaining payments from imported bookings.
- Who sets the price when a portal is connected via Channex
With a Channex connection, your overnight prices come from Xentra, plus portal surcharges. The cleaning fee is not sent.
- PMS integrations: what each PMS can do
Which PMSs you can connect to Xentra, what each integration can do (bookings, webhooks, writeback, messages), and how to import properties.
- Booking tool on your own website: return link
After a request or a bank transfer booking, lead the guest back to you with “Back to website” and inform your website about the completion.
- Sending bookings to your PMS
How Xentra sends bookings from the calendar, booking tool and Data API to Smoobu, Guesty, Hostaway, Lodgify or Beds24, and where you turn it on.
- Channex: Disconnect channels, map rooms, and minimum stay type
How to disconnect a channel or unit from Channex, map Booking.com rooms, and choose the right minimum stay type.
- Connect Guesty
How to connect Guesty with client ID and client secret, map listings and send bookings from Xentra back to Guesty.
- Connect Hostaway
How to connect Hostaway with account ID and API secret, map listings and rooms and send bookings back to Hostaway.
- Replacing Smoobu: Xentra as a complete PMS
What you need to cancel Smoobu or another PMS, in which order, and what the import brings along and what it does not.
- Connecting Beds24
Connect Beds24 as your PMS: invite code or token, room assignment, message history, reviews and what Beds24 does not deliver.
- Booking.com: derived extranet rates ignore your minimum stay
Derived Booking.com rates (monthly, weekly, mobile) adopt your price, but not your minimum stay, and guests book short stays at the discount price.
- Connect Agoda via the Channel Manager (Beta)
How you connect Agoda using the hotel ID from Agoda YCS via the Xentra Channel Manager, step by step.
- Do I need a PMS alongside Xentra? iCal, Channex, or PMS in comparison
What iCal, the channel manager in Xentra, and a standalone PMS each provide, what each PMS can do, and PriceLabs without a PMS.
- Channel Manager: what it costs and how you set it up
The Xentra Channel Manager (Channex) is included in the Pro Plan, without a separate Channex account; this is how you connect it and what changes afterwards.
- Integrations: the Marketplace
What you find in the Marketplace under Integrations: guest registration, communication, locks, pricing, accounting, sensors, and storage.
- Connect MasterMind · Tech to Xentra
How to connect StayControl (noise and smoke sensors) and StayAssist from MasterMind · Tech to Xentra via API key.
- After the Airbnb import: Use prices and sync
## After the Airbnb import: Use prices and sync After importing Airbnb listings as a unit, Xentra shows you under…
- Connect PriceLabs to Xentra
Connect PriceLabs via add-ons, select units, what happens next with prices, rules, and rates, mirror units, and what PriceLabs costs.
- Number of bedrooms: how PriceLabs compares your unit
The number of bedrooms sets the comparison group in PriceLabs, and if it is wrong, all price suggestions are wrong. Where you set it.
- Set up Smoobu: register new API key with secret and webhook
How to switch Smoobu to the new API key with secret, fix "API key invalid", and enter the Xentra webhook in Smoobu.