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Tech / digitalThis quarter

Job brief

Connect RMS to CRS without double bookings

How and who for the hotel job—verified when attested.

When rates and inventory live in two brains, I want a single owner of the book so we stop overselling Saturday and underselling Tuesday.

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Scoped brief

Draw the write-path. One system owns inventory. The RMS recommends; a human or a tight rule applies; the CRS distributes; the PMS is not a second book. A watch agent should alert on drift — never silently 'fix' a folio. Demo-labeled systems here are archetypes for the path, not vendors we pretend to represent.

Outcome
One inventory owner, a documented write-path, and a watch that catches drift before arrival day.
Catalog budget band
$8–25k plus stack. A worksheet range, not a quote.
Catalog timeline
4–8 weeks to a stable path. Not a promise.

  1. Step 1

    Draw who is allowed to write

    A one-page diagram: RMS → decision → CRS → channels → PMS. If two boxes can write the same date, you will oversell. Fix the paper before you buy another connector.

  2. Step 2

    Pick an inventory owner

    Usually the CRS or the PMS — not both, and not the RMS. The RMS is an advisor. Harbor will score any stack that lets an RMS silently write rooms.

  3. Step 3

    Turn on a drift watch

    Folio Watch (or the equivalent) flags oversell, orphan holds, and rate mismatches. A person opens the CRS. Auto-reconcile of money is a fail.

  4. Step 4

    Rehearse a sold-out Saturday

    If the path cannot survive a concert weekend, it is not connected. Write the exception: who closes a channel, in what minute.

Provider shortlist

  1. Software· demo

    Yieldwell RMS

    Revenue management system

    Catalog score 8.2. A post-job shape, not a verification. Stable id yieldwell-rms.

  2. Software· demo

    HarborStack CRS

    Central reservation system

    Catalog score 7.9. A post-job shape, not a verification. Stable id harborstack-crs.

  3. Agent

    Folio Watch Agent

    Inventory & card-flow watch

    Catalog score 8.4. A post-job shape, not a verification. Stable id folio-watch.

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Harbor by Signalry stays hotels only. A description, a claim, and a reported result each leave a stable id behind. Nothing here is a price, a customer, or a verification.

  • Buyer

    Describe your job

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  • Supplier

    Join as a supplier

    Company, jobs served, regions, and a hotel reference. The packet is queued as unverified pending. The form cannot mark it verified.

    Start a claim

  • Hotel

    Record a result

    A metric, before and after, and the dates. It is shown as reported until a person checks the evidence. Verified Outcome is not insurance.

    Record a result

AdviceRecommend. A human applies. One book owns Saturday.

VerifiedRivermark: 3 inventory owners → 1. Next oversell caught pre-arrival.

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Situation

What is actually on fire

RMS and CRS are writing the same Saturday. Two books. Walks you cannot explain.

Approaches

Two or three paths — with the give

One inventory owner

When. You can name which system is allowed to sell

You give. The other becomes a reader

More mapping

When. You want another interface

You give. A third book

Hold and list last month’s double-sells

When. You cannot prove two books yet

You give. A week of reservation archaeology

Who to involve

  • · Tech lead
  • · Revenue
  • · Reservations
  • · GM

First 7 days

YAML-shaped: day / theme / tasks / owner / risk / exit. Advice until a case is verified.

  1. day: 1

    Write the fail in one sentence

    • · Write the fail in one sentence. Job: Connect RMS to CRS without double bookings.
    owner:
    Hotel tech lead
    risk:
    The exit is not written down
    exit:
    A note the next shift can open

  2. day: 2

    Pull the last 7 days of the live number

    • · Pull the last 7 days of the live number. If it is missing, that absence is the finding.
    owner:
    Hotel tech lead
    risk:
    The exit is not written down
    exit:
    A note the next shift can open

  3. day: 3

    Name who owns the workaround today (desk,

    • · Name who owns the workaround today (desk, HK, night audit, owner).
    owner:
    Hotel tech lead
    risk:
    The exit is not written down
    exit:
    A note the next shift can open

  4. day: 4

    Walk one peak hour

    • · Walk one peak hour. Write what the system claims vs what the floor did.
    owner:
    Hotel tech lead
    risk:
    The exit is not written down
    exit:
    A note the next shift can open

  5. day: 5

    Ask vendors the worksheet questions

    • · Ask vendors the worksheet questions. Discard anyone who cannot answer with a caveat.
    owner:
    Hotel tech lead
    risk:
    The exit is not written down
    exit:
    A note the next shift can open

  6. day: 6

    Pick one approach

    • · Pick one approach. Write when-not-to-buy on the same page.
    owner:
    Hotel tech lead
    risk:
    The exit is not written down
    exit:
    A note the next shift can open

  7. day: 7

    Run the smallest test that would change Mo

    • · Run the smallest test that would change Monday. No annual contract yet.
    owner:
    Hotel tech lead
    risk:
    The exit is not written down
    exit:
    A note the next shift can open

Decision worksheet

Questions, red flags, bands

Take this to a vendor call. Budget bands are Advice — a Harbor shape, not a quote.

Ask the vendor

  1. 1. Who types the status / number — a person, or your product?
  2. 2. What would have happened anyway in 90 days without you?
  3. 3. Show a property of this size and stack. Demo-labeled categories do not count as proof.
  4. 4. What can your agent never do (folio post, mark clean, change a rate)?
  5. 5. What is the kill-switch if guest comments move?

Red flags

  • · Two channel managers 'just for now.'
  • · An agent that auto-fixes inventory.
  • · No sold-out rehearsal.

When not to buy. An RMS that writes rooms. Two inventory owners is already an oversell.

Do it in-house

Time and a named owner. No vendor. Use the 7-day plan first.

$8–25k plus stack

Typical Harbor band for this job — advice, not a quote.

Full program

People + system + 90-day proof. Only if the 7-day plan already failed.

Vendor checklist

Score the call. Keep it on this browser.

Weighted questions — yes/no, scale, or text. Must-pass ids persist on this browser. Pass threshold 70. A no on a must-pass is a walk-away — not a maybe.

Brand
Stack shape — not a partnership

  1. property context · weight 2 · must pass

    Can they name your key count and whether you are independent, soft-brand, or major — without a discovery theater?

  2. property context · weight 2 · must pass

    Do they treat your PMS as a shape (Opera-class / Mews-class / Cloudbeds-class) — not a fake partnership slide?

  3. control · weight 3 · must pass

    Who types the status / number — a person, or your product?

  4. vendor · weight 2

    What would have happened anyway in 90 days without you?

  5. vendor · weight 2

    Show a property of this size and stack. Demo-labeled categories do not count as proof.

  6. vendor · weight 2

    What can your agent never do (folio post, mark clean, change a rate)?

  7. vendor · weight 2

    What is the kill-switch if guest comments move?

Does not clear

0 / 100

must_pass: connect-rms-crs-ctx-rooms, connect-rms-crs-ctx-stack, connect-rms-crs-q1

A must-pass failed. Walk away.

How

The brief

Draw the write-path. One system owns inventory. The RMS recommends; a human or a tight rule applies; the CRS distributes; the PMS is not a second book. A watch agent should alert on drift — never silently 'fix' a folio. Demo-labeled systems here are archetypes for the path, not vendors we pretend to represent.

  1. Step 1

    Draw who is allowed to write

    A one-page diagram: RMS → decision → CRS → channels → PMS. If two boxes can write the same date, you will oversell. Fix the paper before you buy another connector.

  2. Step 2

    Pick an inventory owner

    Usually the CRS or the PMS — not both, and not the RMS. The RMS is an advisor. Harbor will score any stack that lets an RMS silently write rooms.

  3. Step 3

    Turn on a drift watch

    Folio Watch (or the equivalent) flags oversell, orphan holds, and rate mismatches. A person opens the CRS. Auto-reconcile of money is a fail.

  4. Step 4

    Rehearse a sold-out Saturday

    If the path cannot survive a concert weekend, it is not connected. Write the exception: who closes a channel, in what minute.

Tradeoffs

  1. CRS owns inventory

    You get. Cleaner distribution

    You give. A PMS that must stay in line

  2. PMS owns inventory

    You get. A desk-true book

    You give. A slower channel update if the CRS is weak

  3. RMS writes rooms

    You get. A vendor slide

    You give. A Saturday you cannot explain

Pitfalls

  • · Two channel managers 'just for now.'
  • · An agent that auto-fixes inventory.
  • · No sold-out rehearsal.

Success criteria

  • · Single inventory owner on one diagram.
  • · Drift alerts before arrival day.
  • · Zero unexplained double-writes in the first sold-out weekend.

Who

Ranked for this job

Rank is post-job score, then listed order. Not for sale. Software marked demo is an archetype.

Agencies & contractors

None ranked in Agencies & contractors yet. Harbor will not invent a provider.

Systems

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When to pick whom

People do the work beside the desk. Software is a system — demo-labeled when it is a category shape. Agents draft; they do not post money or mark a room clean.

ProviderKindScoreFeePick whenWalk away when
Yieldwell RMSSoftware· demo
8.2
Demo · $6–12 / room / monthGMs who want pricing help they can argue with.Hotels that want a fully automatic rate robot.
HarborStack CRSSoftware· demo
7.9
Demo · $4–9 / room / month + booking fee optionsHotels connecting revenue tools without two sources of truth.Single-property hotels happy with a simple channel manager.
Folio Watch AgentAgent
8.4
$299–699 / monthTech leads mid-cutover or mid-flag-change.Hotels that want an agent to quietly 'handle' money.

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Hotels on this job

Open hotelsBuy / sell desk

Evidence

Peer case studies

Tech / digital
8.7

One book. One Saturday.

Rivermark · 205 keys · Nashville, TN

Claim.
One inventory owner. The next oversell was caught before arrival.
Evidence.
Write-path diagram; drift alert at 14 rooms; three sold-out weekends.
Caveat.
The watch is noisy if you have not picked an owner. Draw first.

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