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Setting up Avito channel connection (Avito)

Description

Avito service provides the opportunity to book rooms of various categories in hotels and hostels, as well as apartments and apartments throughout the country.

Avito service allows you to book rooms in hotels and hostels, as well as apartments and apartments throughout Russia.

Advantages for hoteliers:

  • Quick access to a wide audience by publishing information about rooms, special offers and promotions.

  • Promotion and advertising. Avito offers tools for optimizing advertising campaigns, including banners and targeted advertising. This increases the visibility of the offers and allows you to distinguish the ad from competitors, which leads to an increase in bookings and an increase in revenue.

  • Analytics and strategy improvement. In Avito, you can track the effectiveness of ads using built-in analytical tools, adapt content and prices based on customer preference data.

Avito only works with ads like "apartment" (code 24) and "houses, cottages, cottages" (code 25). Other types of ads (including foreign locations) are not supported.

On the Avito platform

  1. Register in the Avito service. Specify the details of the employee who will be responsible for placing the ads.

  2. Create the necessary ads in your personal account, add photos, description and characteristics of the property to each ad, and set the price.

    Rental ads are placed in the Real Estate section.

  3. Enable auto-renewal in the ad settings. This way, the ad will be automatically republished after the end of the current publication period.

  4. In your personal account, add the contacts of the accommodation facility so that users can contact the staff and ask questions.

If you have any questions or difficulties with placing ads, please contact Avito support.

In the Shelter Cloud Web office

Adding an Avito channel

  1. In the Shelter Cloud web office, go to the Channel Manager section.

  2. In the list of available channels on the right side of the screen, select the Avito channel and click Add.

  3. In the window that opens, enter a description of the channel and confirm its addition.

Channel Setup

  1. To start working with a channel, check the box to the right of its name. After that, the available actions will be displayed in the line. ChooseChannel management.

  2. Open the Authorization Settings page and click Connect.

    To connect, the Avito page where you are logged in and Shelter CLOUD must be open in the same browser. 

  3. In the window that opens, confirm the data transfer. To do this, click Continue.

  4. Next, go to the channel management page in the Shelter Cloud web office and click Download Directories.

  5. After downloading the directories, compare the room categories. Depending on the connection method, the comparison is performed by category or number. The categories uploaded from the Avito channel are displayed on the left side of the screen. On the right side of the screen, select the categories created in Shelter Cloud that correspond to the uploaded categories. To select one of the available categories, in the Category in Shelter Cloud column, click the arrow button on the right and select a category from the list.

  6. Next, you need to compare the tariffs. To do this, open the Tariffs tab and select the tariff created in Shelter CLOUD that corresponds to the uploaded tariff.

  7. The next step is to download the reservations. To do this, click the Download Reservations button.

  8. Upload the data to Avito by clicking the Upload All button.

The settings are completed. The sales channel is ready to work.

For detailed video instructions on how to set up an Avito sales channel, see the link.

Possible problems when connecting the Avito channel and their solution

Problem

When uploading to Avito, an error appears next to the matched categories or numbers if the price in the Shelter Cloud web office is lower than the minimum price indicated in the ad on the platform. Avito. In this case, Avito will not allow you to upload the price for this ad.

Decision

Contact Avito technical support with a detailed description of the problem or change the price to the recommended one.

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