Do not choose by feature list or advertised percentages. These are the three tests professionals use to separate systems that survive real load from systems that only look good in a demo video — with steps for each.
On paper, every vendor connects to every OTA. What differs is behaviour under real conditions — peak hours, outages, bulk updates. This is the test set you should demand from every vendor before paying. Including us.
Every brochure looks the same: many channels, real-time sync, pretty reports. What no brochure tells you is how the system behaves when one channel goes down, when you update a whole year of rates at once, or when a reservation silently goes missing. Those three situations decide whether you sleep at night.
This is the deadline that prevents double bookings. Close all room types at once during a busy evening, then time how long it takes to take effect on each OTA's guest-facing page — not in the system's own dashboard. Seconds to a few minutes is the standard to demand. More importantly: the system must tell you when the command reached each channel, instead of leaving you to refresh pages.
Update every room, every rate plan, a full year ahead, in one command. Watch two things: how long it takes and whether the interface freezes — and whether new reservations still flow in normally while the bulk job runs. A well-architected system does both at once without missing a beat.
Ask plainly: when an OTA is down or slow, what does the screen show? A good vendor shows when each channel last synced, whether a queue is pending, and which items are unconfirmed. The dangerous vendor is the one whose dashboard is green no matter what is happening behind it — a system that never reports failure has not avoided failure. It has only kept you from knowing.
We encourage you to run all three tests on every vendor you are talking to — including us. Our demo is public, no appointment, no sign-up. A system that genuinely passes these tests has no reason to fear being tested.