At the heart of on-line hotel reservation systems is the ability to determine the availability levels of rooms on particular dates. The vast majority of time therefore spent by hotel staff in maintaining such a system is time spent keeping inventory levels up to date. The crucial point here is that human resources (man-hours) required to do this will vary dramatically from system to system depending on how the Inventory Management component is structured and laid out.

Resmac On-line Reservations have focused 90% of all development in optimizing their systems approach to Inventory Management and as result the Resmac system is faster by far than any other system on the world market. What this means to hotels is that the overall cost of labour to maintain inventory is considerably less and that changes in occupancy rates (cancellations or bookings) can be updated on the system by adjusting inventory levels very quickly.

To complete the inventory management model most effectively, room pricing should be as dynamic as possible. The Resmac system allows hotels to amend room prices at will so as to respond pro-actively to changes in market trends or occupancy levels.

In the case of hotel groups inventory may be managed just as easily from one point.

See example of Inventory Management pages here.