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Troubleshooting channel inventory updates

Updated over 4 months ago

Check the following settings

If your rates, availability or restrictions (such as min stay, max stay, or CTA/CTD) aren't syncing or are showing incorrectly on a channel, check these settings first:

  • Confirm all room rates are properly mapped to channels

  • Verify channel room rates are enabled with Start updating channel set to Yes

  • Check the channel is enabled in channel settings

  • Confirm your channel supports the specific inventory update

  • Check if there are yield rules set up

  • Refresh your mapping by saving your channel rate configuration (even if you don’t make any changes)

Check your channel mapping

Verify that all room rates are mapped to the channel correctly, ensuring no rates are unmapped or disabled. Note that certain channels, such as Expedia, may require mapping a single room rate to multiple rate types (such as sell rates, package rates and derived rates).

  1. Navigate to Distribution > Channels

  2. Click the ellipsis button (three dots button) next to the channel name

  3. Select Edit room rates mapping

  4. Verify all room rates are mapped correctly

  5. Click each channel room rate and select Configure

  6. Confirm Start updating channel is set to Yes

  7. Filter by Unmapped to see unmapped rates

  8. To view disabled rates, navigate to More filters and select Disabled under the Rate update status

If there are any disabled channel rates, fix the error, then re-enable the rate. To do this, click on the channel rate > click Configure > make sure Start updating channel is set to Yes, then click Save.


If a specific rate is missing for channel mapping, contact the channel to confirm the room rate is active.

Check the Inventory grid is correct

When channel inventory appears incorrect:

  1. Navigate to Distribution > Inventory for the correct values

  2. Compare your inventory grid values against what appears on the channel

Not all channels support every type of inventory update. Look for dashes (-) which indicate features that are not supported by a specific channel.

If a reservation is received even though Little Hotelier is sending zero availability to a channel:

  • Check the audit logs to confirm zero availability was sent

  • Contact the channel directly and request the XML logs for the reservation to investigate why the booking was accepted

Availability updates may take up to 5 minutes. To avoid double bookings, consider setting up an automatic closure yield rule to apply a stop sell when room availability reaches 1.

If availability is lower than expected, check for active yield rules in Distribution > Yield rules.

Refresh the mapping

If channel inventory is still incorrect, manually resend/push inventory to the channel by refreshing the mapping. This is done by saving the Channel rate configuration, regardless of whether changes were made.

  1. Navigate to Distribution > Channels

  2. Find the channel and click on the ellipsis button (three dots button)

  3. Select Edit room rates mapping

  4. Click Configure on the channel room rate

  5. Click Save to push the updates again (even if you don’t make any changes)

After completing the troubleshooting steps, if the issue persists, please contact our support team and provide one example of the following information:

  • Room type affected

  • Room rate affected

  • Stay date

  • The value that is displayed in Little Hotelier

  • The correct value

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