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Troubleshoot inventory not syncing from your PMS/RMS/CRS

Troubleshoot when inventory is not syncing or showing correctly from your PMS/RMS/CRS to the Inventory grid in your SiteMinder platform.

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Troubleshoot when inventory is not syncing or showing correctly from your PMS/RMS/CRS to the Inventory grid in your SiteMinder platform.

💡 Check the values in your PMS and SiteMinder platform. If they match — the issue is between SiteMinder and connected channels. If they don’t match, see these troubleshooting steps to fix the sync.

If your rates, availability, or restrictions are not syncing correctly from your property management system (PMS), revenue management system (RMS), or central reservation system (CRS) to your SiteMinder platform, check the following:

  • Check that your room rates are mapped to your PMS/CRS/RMS.

  • Make sure your PMS/CRS/RMS supports sending the inventory update.

  • Try to refresh the sync by sending new inventory updates.

Important: To process channel reservations and send inventory updates, you must map your room rates to your channels and your connected PMS, RMS, and CRS. Map room rates to your PMS/RMS/CRS in Distribution > Connectivities > Rooms and rates mapping tab.

Check that the room rates are mapped to your PMS/CRS/RMS with correct room and rate codes

If inventory is not syncing to your SiteMinder platform, or you are seeing an incorrect inventory value in your platform that does not match what is in your PMS/CRS/RMS, check that the room rates are mapped.

  1. Go to Distribution > Connectivities.

  2. Go to the Rooms and rates mapping tab.

  3. Toggle the Mapping status to Unmapped and make sure all room rates are mapped.

  4. Check the room code and rate code for each mapped rate is correct, with no typos. If incorrect, fix mapping codes to match your PMS/CRS/RMS exactly.

Important: If you are seeing an inventory discrepancy, make sure the room rate is mapped to the correct corresponding rate in your PMS/RMS/CRS. Make sure the mapping codes match between your SiteMinder platform and your PMS/CRS/RMS. If you update mapping, ask your PMS/CRS/RMS provider to do a push/flush.

Compare mapping codes with your PMS/RMS provider

To get your mapping codes and share them with your PMS/RMS provider:

  1. Go to Distribution > Connectivities.

  2. Click the Rooms and rates mapping tab.

  3. Click the ellipsis button (three dots button).

  4. Select Download rates configuration.

  5. Share the configuration with your provider to compare mapping codes.

Check that your PMS/CRS/RMS supports the inventory update

Contact your PMS/RMS/CRS support team to confirm:

  • Do they support sending this type of value (rates/availability/restrictions) to SiteMinder? Example they may support rates and availability but not restrictions

  • Is this enabled for your specific room rate?

⚠️ Note: Most RMS can send rates, but cannot send availability and restrictions.

Sync rates from your PMS after making manual updates in SiteMinder

If you made manual inventory changes in SiteMinder but your connectivity inventory settings are set up for data to flow from your PMS, any updates should be overwritten by the value in your PMS. To restore the sync immediately:

  1. Do a push/resync in your PMS to override the manual changes.

  2. Check that the correct rates now flow through to SiteMinder.

Refresh the sync (push/flush)

If mapping is correct but inventory is still not syncing, try a resync:

  • Try sending new inventory updates from your PMS/RMS/CRS to refresh the sync.

Ask your provider to do a full push/resync:

  • If issues persist, ask your PMS/RMS/CRS support team to resend inventory updates to your SiteMinder platform. PMS systems may need to do a push to sync updates

  • Wait up to 30 minutes for changes to reflect

  • If performing the push does not resolve this issue after 30 minutes, ask your PMS provider to share the XML logs of the push update, and send it to us for investigation

⚠️ Important: Manual updates will be overwritten by your PMS/RMS/CRS

Manual inventory updates made in your SiteMinder platform will not sync back to your PMS/RMS/CRS. Any manual updates made in your SiteMinder platform will be overwritten by the inventory values your system supports and is enabled for.

To enable/disable certain inventory types your PMS/RMS/CRS supports, please contact our support team.

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