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A night comes back into inventory and four channels learn about it at four different speeds. The order you touch them decides whether the gap resells or gets sold twice, and the instinct to free the night immediately is the one that causes the trouble.
A stay rule and a booking rule are indexed to different things, so both can fire on the same night. The second reduction lands on a number the first one already moved, and the price that comes out sits below the floor either rule set for itself.
Four channels in one week works when the calendar is settled before anything is connected. Done the other way round, the first double booking tends to arrive on day three, and it arrives on the unit you trusted most.
Agoda keeps more than one price for the same night, and the guest sees the one assembled at search time. That's why a saved change can look like it did nothing. Find the layer you're editing before you edit it, then verify in the order a guest would search.
Four channels means four rate plans pointing at one unit, and tabs can't be compared. A mapping sheet records which plan sits behind which offer. Here are the five columns that matter, a ten-minute audit you can repeat, and the triggers that tell you to run it again.
A channel calendar that hasn't caught up isn't always a broken connection. The source price tells you how far apart the two sides are, and the source status tells you whether the channel has accepted the change at all. Read them together and the guesswork goes away.
A reservation that exists on the channel and not in your calendar failed at one of three places: the channel, the mapping or the queue. Each has its own signature, and each asks for a different first move.
A price the guest sees and a price you receive can come from the same rate plan and still disagree. Work backwards from the offer that was actually booked, and four checks will usually find the layer that slipped.
A rate that never arrives on a channel is usually one of three mapping mistakes rather than a sync failure. Each one leaves a different trace, and the trace tells you which link broke. Read it before you touch anything, because a second push erases the evidence.
A booking is not cash, and the gap between the night a guest stays and the day money lands is set by the channel. Writing that gap down on your own payouts is what turns a permanently short account into a plan.