Use these answers to understand likely scope boundaries before discussing your exact booking operation.
What does Reservation Support cover for travel and hospitality businesses?
Reservation Support can be scoped around defined booking tasks such as handling new enquiries, checking authorised availability and booking rules, entering or updating reservations, processing approved amendments or cancellations, sending confirmations, recording notes, and escalating exceptions. Exact activities depend on your systems, policies, channels and access permissions.
Is this service suitable only for hotels?
No. The service can be relevant to hotels and resorts, serviced accommodation, multi-property operators, tour and activity businesses, travel agencies, destination management companies and other travel organisations with repeatable reservation workflows.
Can Rudrriv work with our PMS, CRS or booking engine?
The engagement can be planned around your existing PMS, CRS, booking engine, channel manager or reservation platform when access, documentation and the required workflow are available. Named-platform capability and any integration work are confirmed during scope review rather than assumed.
Can reservation support include OTA bookings?
OTA-related reservation handling can be included when the required partner account access, operating rules and responsibilities are clearly defined. The exact channels, permitted actions and escalation points are confirmed before work begins.
Do you provide 24/7 reservation coverage?
Extended-hour or 24/7 coverage may be custom-scoped when the required schedule, booking volume, language needs, handoff model and staffing approach are confirmed. It is not assumed as standard scope.
How is pricing determined?
Pricing is custom because reservation operations vary by coverage hours, booking volume, number of properties or brands, channel mix, system complexity, language requirements, voice or messaging coverage, reporting needs and escalation responsibilities.
How quickly can support start?
A start date is confirmed after scope, system access, workflow documentation, training needs, approval contacts, coverage hours and any third-party dependencies are reviewed. Urgent or peak-season requirements should be raised early so feasibility can be assessed.
What information do we need to provide before onboarding?
Typical inputs include booking policies, property or product details, authorised rate and inventory rules, system access, cancellation and amendment rules, confirmation templates, escalation contacts, coverage requirements, reporting expectations and any approved guest-communication guidance.
Will Rudrriv decide room rates or revenue strategy?
Not as part of routine Reservation Support unless a separate, explicitly agreed commercial or revenue-management scope is established. Reservation agents should work within approved rates, inventory and rules provided through authorised systems and customer instructions.
Can you handle cancellations, refunds or payment-related requests?
Approved cancellation and amendment workflows can be scoped. Refunds, payment handling or card-data exposure require additional process, access and security review and may remain with the customer or payment provider. The public enquiry form should not be used to send payment-card information or live guest credentials.
How are booking exceptions handled?
The agreed workflow should define which cases can be completed directly and which require escalation, such as rate mismatches, unavailable inventory, special approval requests, payment issues, policy exceptions, group bookings or system errors. Exception notes and ownership should be clear at handoff.
Can you support multiple properties or brands?
Yes, multi-property or multi-brand support can be custom-scoped. The design should account for property-specific policies, access rights, rate plans, room or product types, escalation contacts, time zones and reporting requirements.
What quality checks are relevant for Reservation Support?
Quality review may include checking reservation details against the request, confirming dates and guest details, using the correct authorised rate or product, validating policy application, reviewing notes and confirmation status, and reconciling exceptions or unresolved cases according to the agreed workflow.
What happens when our systems or channels do not agree?
Conflicting availability, rates, reservation status or guest information should follow a documented escalation path. Reservation Support should not guess which system is authoritative when ownership is unclear; the customer and relevant platform owners should define the source of truth and correction process.
Can Reservation Support be combined with guest messaging?
Guest email, chat or messaging can be included where the channels, templates, response boundaries, data access and escalation rules are confirmed. Pre-arrival, amendment and confirmation communication is often closely connected to the reservation workflow.
What is normally outside a standard reservation-support scope?
Typical exclusions include independent pricing or revenue decisions, legal or regulatory advice, unsupported third-party integrations, platform licence fees, unapproved payment-card handling, open-ended guest-service responsibilities and activities that are not documented in the agreed statement of work.