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Hotels stay in control. Authorized partners sell. Every booking is revalidated against the PMS, reconciled end-to-end, and audit-logged. Not a PMS. Not a channel manager. Not an OTA. Not a bed bank.
Hotel Berlin
Double Room · €370 · 2 nights
Partner: Globetrotter Agency
Not a PMS · Not a Channel Manager · Not an OTA · Not a Bed Bank
Hotel distribution is broken at the policy layer — not the wire.
The fix isn't another connector or another marketplace. The fix is a layer the hotel actually governs.
Distribution is fragmented.
Hotels are connected to channels they do not directly govern. Visibility ends at the first intermediary.
Margin leaks silently.
Repricing, opaque markups, and channel fees compress yield. The hotel discovers the leak from the wrong end of the booking.
Hotels lose control.
Who sells your inventory, at what price, on what terms — often invisible until something breaks.
Hotel distribution was built in layers. Escapra makes it governable.
Same supply. Same demand. A different layer in the middle — one the hotel actually controls.
Inventory crosses hands the hotel cannot see.
Hotel / PMS
Channel manager / connectivity
fragmented
GDS / switch layer
unmanaged
Bed banks / OTAs / resellers
downstream
End buyer
One layer the hotel governs end to end.
Hotel / PMS
Escapra governance layer
authorize · validate · settle · audit
Authorized partners
permissioned demand
End buyer
- Hotel-defined authorization
- Booking-time revalidation
- Settlement lineage
- Append-only audit trail
Not a PMS · Not a channel manager · Not an OTA · Not a bed bank
One governed spine, end to end.
Escapra sits alongside your PMS as a governed layer between supply and authorized B2B demand. The spine below is the contract — every booking traces this path.
Hotel
Owns the policy
PMS
System of record
Escapra
Govern · Authorize · Validate · Settle · Audit
Authorized Partner
Scoped, revocable
Booking
Quote → Hold
Revalidation
Live against PMS
Confirmation
Or 409 PRICE_CHANGED
Settlement
Atomic · Lineage
Audit
Append-only
Five pillars · one governed layer · lineage end-to-end
One operating layer between hotel supply and authorized demand.
Govern, authorize, validate, settle, audit — five always-on signals operating between the hotel's PMS and the partners the hotel chose to serve.
Architecture is the means. Control is the outcome.
The governance layer above isn't the point — it's how the hotel gets these.
Control who sells your inventory.
Every distribution path is explicitly authorized by the hotel — scoped, revocable, and visible.
Prevent unauthorized distribution.
Anything outside your declared policy is refused before it reaches the booking surface — fail-closed by default.
Stop stale-inventory bookings.
Every booking is revalidated live against the PMS at confirmation time. Drift returns 409 PRICE_CHANGED — never a silent reprice.
Define policy, not configuration.
Rules live with the hotel — partners, rate types, terms, currencies — and apply uniformly across every channel governed through Escapra.
Reconcile every booking.
Statements, settlements, and payouts carry the governance decision and distribution chain that produced them. Lineage is queryable end-to-end.
Keep an audit-ready history.
Append-only capture of governance, inventory, cancellation, and settlement events. History is never updated — only added to.
Six outcomes · five pillars · one governed layer
- 1
Hotels define which partners may sell, at what rates, on what terms.
- 2
Rules are scoped, revocable, and enforced before any booking decision.
- 3
Every decision is captured against the booking it affected.
Every booking, revalidated against the source of truth.
See the booking lifecycle →- 1
The partner sees a rate. Before confirmation, Escapra revalidates against the PMS.
- 2
If the rate has changed, the partner is told (409 PRICE_CHANGED) and must re-accept.
- 3
No silent repricing. No mystery cancellations. Stale inventory is blocked, not booked.
- 1
Each booking carries its governance decision, commission rule, and distribution chain.
- 2
Statements, settlements, and payments are atomic, idempotent, and reconciled end-to-end.
- 3
Append-only audit — history is queryable; it is never updated.
Pick your path.
Three audiences. One platform. Distinct promises.
Architecture is the proof.
Every claim maps to an implemented capability — never marketing fiction.
Architecture
Per-service isolation. Governance-first ordering. Fail-closed defaults — when the system degrades, it refuses to book rather than book incorrectly.
Auditability
Append-only capture of governance, inventory, cancellation, and settlement events. History is never updated. Queryable per booking.
Settlement integrity
Atomic settlement boundary. Idempotent batch / invoice / payment. Lineage record from booking to payout. Reconcile by read, not by phone.
Compliance posture
Escapra Oy · Finland · EU region. GDPR-compliant. Documented SLA. PMS partner names are not published without written consent.
Distribution, under control.
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Hotels define the policy. Authorized partners sell within scope. Every booking is revalidated, reconciled, and audit-logged. Free to connect. 2% on confirmed bookings. No channel-manager-style fees.