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Introduction

Dida Travel is an OTA that can be integrated with the Channel Manager. Through this integration, you can manage your property listings, synchronize room availability, rates, and restrictions, and receive bookings directly within the system.

Once the integration is fully configured, all reservations from Dida Travel will appear in the Booking List, allowing you to manage them efficiently in one place.

Accessing Dida Travel Setting​

Here’s how you can access Dida Travel setting:

  1. On the Channelku, navigate to the Channel Manager menu, then click Control Panel. control-panel-menu
  2. Select Dida Travel from the channel list, or you can search from the list by type the OTA name. access-dida-travel.png

Dida Travel Information​

This section provides general guidance for connecting your property to Dida Travel. However, specific connection instructions are not shown within the system. dida-travel-information-v1.png To proceed with the integration, please contact your Channel Manager Support team. They will assist you with the required credentials and activation process.

Username​

The Username tab is used to view or update the credentials required to connect with Dida Travel.

How to Update Credential​

  1. Navigate to the Username tab. Enter the Hotel ID assigned to your property by Dida Travel. dida-travel-credentials-v1.png
  2. Click the save  (✓) button to apply the change. If you don’t want to save the change, click cancel (x).

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Troubleshooting Credential Update​

Failed to Save Hotel ID

  • Make sure the Hotel ID field is valid and correctly copied from Dida Travel.
  • Check your internet connection and try again.

Changes Not Reflected After Saving

  • Refresh the page to confirm if the changes have been applied.
  • If not saved, re-enter the Property ID and click the save (✓) button

Mapping​

How to Import Rooms​

The Import Rooms feature allows you to retrieve room and rate plan data from the OTA extranet into Channel Manager. This step is required before you can create mappings.

Note: Make sure that active rate plans are available in the OTA extranet before importing.

  1. Go to the Mapping tab and click Import Rooms.
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  2. A pop-up will appear displaying the active room and rate plans from the OTA. Configure how Channel Manager will push updates to the OTA:
    • If Availability Only is checked, only inventory (availability) will be updated.
    • If Availability Only is unchecked, the system will push availability, rates, and restrictions.
  3. Click Update Rateplans to import the data into Channel Manager.
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  4. A Warning notification will appear, indicating that the import process was successful. You can now proceed to create mappings.
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How to Add Mapping​

The Mapping feature is used to link your internal rooms and rate plans with the corresponding rooms and rate plans from Dida Travel. To create room mapping, please follow the steps in How to Add Mapping.

Settings​

The Settings tab controls how your system interacts with Dida Travel, including data synchronization and reservation handling.

How to Configure Setting​

To modify Dida Travel parameters, navigate to the Settings tab. This section contains several configurable option: dida-travel-setting-v1.png

  1. Enable Channel: Enable this option to activate the connection between the property and Dida Travel.
  2. Activate Updates: Turn on this option to allow the system to push rate, availability, and restriction updates to Dida Travel.
  3. Activate Reservations: Enable this option to receive bookings from Dida Travel.
  4. Send Reservation Voucher Email: Enable this option to trigger the automated delivery of a reservation voucher upon receipt of a new booking.
  5. Currency (if Different) section: Choose the currency if it differs from the system’s default. Enter the conversion rate and click the save (✓) button to apply the changes. set-dida-travel-currency-v1.png
  6. Manual OTA Update: To synchronizes rates, availability, minimum stay requirements, and "Stop Sell" statuses across all connected channels. Data can be synchronized up to the maximum date range permitted by each individual OTA (typically between 12 and 24 months in advance).

How to Configure Manual OTA​

Use this feature to manually push updates to Dida Travel .

  1. Scroll down to the OTA Update section.
  2. Click the OTA Update button to open the pop up window. ota-update.png
  3. Complete the required fields: ota-update-2.png
    • Date Selection : Choose the duration of the OTA update (e.g 1 month, 3 months, etc)
    • Room Type : Select the room type from the list.
    • Rate : Choose one or more rate plans. You can also select all rate plan if needed.
  4. Click Sync OTA to save and apply the changes.

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Troubleshooting Settings​

Enable Channel or Activate Updates not working

  • Make sure the checkbox is selected and click the Update button afterward.
  • If the changes do not apply, refresh the page and try again.

Not receiving reservations from Dida Travel

  • Confirm that Activate Reservations is turned on.
  • Make sure rate plans are mapped and active on both Dida Travel and the system.

Reservation voucher email not received

  • Ensure Send Reservation Voucher Email is enabled.
  • Check your spam or junk folder, or confirm your email address in the notification settings.

Currency field not saving properly

  • Click to clear, then re-select the currency code.
  • If left empty, the system will auto-detect the correct currency at the time of booking.

OTA Update not sending changes

  • Select at least one room or choose All Room Types before clicking OTA Update.
  • Wait a few minutes and review the Last 10 Updates section to confirm if it was logged.

Update marked as failed

  • Hover over the failed update entry to view the error message.
  • Confirm that the rate plan and room are still active in Dida Travel’s extranet.
  • Retry sending the update using the OTA Update button.