Every week I see the same pattern: you connect bedbanks, push campaigns, and at the crucial moment an OTA shows a different price than yours. That’s where visibility, clicks, and bookings slip away. The honest question is: does your public price match what the customer sees on Booking or Expedia in that very second? If you’re not sure, you’re deciding with incomplete information.

The Problem (in plain language)

Bedbank feeds/files are useful, but they’re photos. The market moves in video.

  • Price mismatch: when your price and the OTA’s don’t align, you lose credibility and CTR.
  • Secondary OTAs and rate leakage: when leakage surfaces, public undercutting erodes your margin.
  • Flights are increasingly dynamic: dynamic pricing and dynamic offers accelerate changes; if your data isn’t fresh, you’re late by definition.

What We Do with Veetal Connect API (and why it works)

With Veetal Connect API, we cross your sources (e.g., bedbanks and your own inventory) with what the end user actually sees on Booking, Expedia, and metasearch. The result: decision-ready data, disparity alerts, and clear actions to recover margin and conversion.

Specifically:

  • Automatic ingestion of bedbanks/CSV/APIs and normalization (hotels, room-rates, currencies, taxes/board).
  • Real-time comparison by hotel/date/board/device/geo.
  • Disparity and accuracy alerts with configurable thresholds (e.g., undercut >2%).
  • Flight coverage so you keep pace with dynamic pricing/offer management.

Practical Case (simple and realistic)

A travel agency integrates its wholesaler feeds with Veetal Connect API:

  • For a Madrid hotel, we detect the public price on their site is +8% versus Booking.
  • On MAD–CDG, the agency appears −5% versus Expedia (clear acquisition opportunity).

With that live snapshot, they adjust price/channel rules and win back bookings that were slipping away. The key isn’t the exact number—it’s seeing it in time and acting.

Time & ROI (back-of-the-napkin)

Let’s be direct: this is about saving hours and not losing sales.

  • Fewer manual hours cleaning data and hunting disparities.
  • More metasearch visibility thanks to better price accuracy.
  • Less margin leakage by spotting leakage and undercutting before it impacts your campaigns.

Quick math: if you handle 10,000 searches/week, convert at 2%, and your AOV is €300, increasing to 2.3% via better parity/accuracy yields +€9,000 in weekly gross sales. With steady costs, payback typically comes in weeks, not months.

How We Implement with Low Friction (10–15 days)

  1. Connect & map: we integrate your sources (bedbanks, own inventory) and normalize equivalences.
  2. Compare live: we activate OTA/metasearch datasets and generate disparity/accuracy alerts.
  3. Thresholds & actions: rules like “if undercut >X% → adjust price/channel and open a partner ticket.”
  4. Channel governance: we document leakage cases with evidence to negotiate and stop the bleeding.
  5. Scale to flights: we add dynamic offers logic for consistency across the full journey.

Why Veetal Connect API

  • Fresh, structured data, ready for BI or your own dashboard.
  • Like-for-like comparison (board, taxes, device, geolocation).
  • Built for agencies: disparity, availability, rates, competitors, reputation, and flights in one flow.

Conclusion

Competing today means seeing exactly what your customer sees in that second and reacting. With Veetal Connect API, you get decision-ready comparative data to adjust price and channel with confidence.

👉 Want to see it with your data? Request a demo and get your real gaps on the table in one week.