This document provides a basic overview of the functions of the GRATIS integration with Meeting Broker
- Meeting Broker is a Hotel Platform. It's a web-based application that only works in internet explorer. It's old tech but functional.
- Enquiries go out of gratis and land in the specific venue's version of Meeting Broker
- If the venue wants to accept the booking the hotel clicks a button in Meeting Broker to respond which takes them to the venue's version of www.myeventschannel.com (MEC)
- Once a response has been sent via MEC we change the status in meeting broker - proposal date and time is updated
- If the venue wants to decline the RFP they can do this directly through Meeting Broker without having to go into MEC
- If the venue confirms in Meeting Broker the staus in Meeting Broker will show as 'award' if the venue declines it will show as withdraw
- The EnClould symbol will appear as it goes via EnCloud (EnCloud is a system used to copy enquiries from one system to another and from one instance of GRATIS to another)
- Meeting broker RFP tab can have RFP's from other suppliers(not just GRATIS agents)
- If the booking is cancelled it will still show as awarded in MB. Once it’s awarded in meeting broker you can’t change the status.
- When the user responds to the RFP through meeting broker it opens the link to MEC on IE. Gareth says MEC doesn’t support meeting broker but it does currently work.
Overview of the enquiries in Meeting Broker
Screenshot of declining an enquiry through meeting broker
