Direct Contracting

Private Inventory Management Platform. Digitize contracts with real-time control and API-ready distribution

Your local expertise and private hotel deals are among your most valuable assets, but spreadsheets don’t scale.

Estea’s Direct Contracting platform digitizes your exclusive inventory, allowing you to manage allotments, seasonal rates, and stop-sales in real time. Sell your own negotiated deals alongside global content, increase margins, and eliminate manual errors, without operational overhead.

Centralized Inventory Control via Partner Extranet

Empower your hotel and tour partners with a dedicated Extranet. They can log in to manage their own room types, facilities, and high-res imagery, while you retain total control over the final distribution and pricing. The Extranet is part of Estea’s Direct Contracting platform, ensuring all contracted inventory remains accurate and centrally governed.

Contract Configuration for Real-World Hotel Agreements

Hotel and supplier contracts are rarely simple. Estea’s Direct Contracting platform is designed to model real commercial agreements, not simplified rate tables.

Inventory & Room Structure

  • • Configure multiple room types, occupancies, and inventory pools per property
  • • Map contract-specific inclusions such as meal plans, supplements, and add-ons
  • • Control inventory visibility across B2C, B2B, and partner channels

Pricing, Discounts & Promotions

  • • Set seasonal rates, blackout periods, and market-specific pricing
  • • Apply early-booking discounts, long-stay offers, and conditional promotions
  • • Support nationality-based pricing and contract-specific markup rules

Sales Rules & Policies

  • • Configure nuanced cancellation policies, release periods, and minimum stay rules
  • • Enforce contract-level stop-sales automatically across all connected channels
  • • Ensure real-time availability and seamless confirmations without manual intervention

Blended Distribution with Full Control

  • • Effortlessly sell your exclusive contracted inventory alongside third-party supplier content
  • • Prioritize direct contracts to increase margin and visibility where applicable
  • • Maintain full control over which inventory is exposed to which sales channels
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Frequently Asked Questions About Direct Contracting

Can I sell these direct deals to other agents?

Absolutely. Once your contracts are in Estea, they become part of your API-Out distribution, allowing you to sell them to sub-agents or third-party networks.

Can my hotels/team manage their own rates?

Yes. You can provide property-level logins (Extranet) so hotels can update their own availability and pricing, reducing your administrative workload.

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