1. [Home](https://www.g2.com/) 2. ... 3. [Other Hospitality Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-hospitality) 4. [Parity+ Discussions](https://www.g2.com/products/rategain-parity/discuss) [ ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/large_detail/large_detail_b7fcbd06ea97e059880caa4b03e67f7f/rategain-parity.png "Product Avatar Image") ](/products/rategain-parity/reviews) [ Parity+ ](/products/rategain-parity/reviews) 0 ratings Parity+ by RateGain Move beyond parity monitoring to identify, prove, and resolve revenue leakage. Overall Product Overview Parity+ is RateGain’s AI-powered end-to-end rate parity monitoring and management platform. It helps hotels identify where parity violations are occurring, understand their commercial impact and likely cause, validate whether the violation is genuinely bookable, identify the actual source, and take structured action toward resolution. Hotels often know that an OTA or reseller is undercutting their brand website. The harder questions are why the violation is happening, who is responsible, whether the rate is genuinely bookable, and how the hotel can prove and resolve the issue. Parity+ addresses these challenges through a connected workflow: Identify → Evaluate → Understand → Validate → Act The platform combines broad parity monitoring, AI-assisted violation categorisation, like-for-like rate comparison, Test Reservations, source identification, evidence capture, alerts, workflows, and distribution integrations. It helps hotels move from simply seeing parity issues to actively controlling revenue leakage. Key Features and Offerings Comprehensive Parity Monitoring Track rate and availability parity across: · OTAs. · Metasearch platforms. · Mobile apps and mobile websites. · Member and closed-user-group rates. · Geo-specific and point-of-sale rates. · Brand.com. · Regional and global distribution channels. Centralised Parity Intelligence · Monitor overall parity score. · Review win, meet, and loss performance. · Identify top violating OTAs, metasearch channels, and properties. · Analyse rate and availability violations. · Assess potential revenue leakage. · Monitor parity trends across properties, regions, and brands. Like-for-Like Rate Comparison Parity+ compares equivalent offers by considering: · Room type. · Rate plan. · Cancellation policy. · Inclusions such as breakfast. · Taxes and fees. · Member, mobile, and promotional conditions. · Length-of-stay restrictions. This helps reduce false positives and allows teams to focus on genuine, commercially relevant violations. AI-Assisted Violation Categorisation Parity+ helps categorise the likely reason behind a violation, including: · Caching issues. · Bait-and-switch behaviour. · Promotions and unauthorised discounts. · Wholesaler redistribution. · Other rate or availability discrepancies. This gives teams greater clarity on why a violation may be happening and where the investigation should begin. Test Reservations Test Reservations validate whether a displayed rate can actually be booked. The workflow includes: 1. Identifying and prioritising important violations. 2. Executing real bookings across relevant channels, devices, and geographies. 3. Capturing the final bookable price and complete booking journey. 4. Auditing and validating the reservation. 5. Providing structured evidence through the platform. 6. Cancelling reservations and managing refund follow-ups where applicable. For each Test Reservation, customers can receive: · Final bookable price compared with the expected rate. · Booking journey screenshots. · Booking voucher or confirmation. · Channel, device, and point-of-sale information. · Violation summary and categorisation. · Evidence uploaded for tracking and action. Actual Source and Wholesaler Identification Test Reservations help identify whether the visible OTA undercut is being caused by a wholesaler, bedbank, affiliate, or downstream redistribution partner. This enables hotels to direct escalation toward the actual source rather than only the channel where the lower rate appears. Test Reservation Intelligence · Track repeat violating OTAs and wholesalers. · Review historical Test Reservation activity. · Identify recurring leakage patterns. · Understand partner and channel behaviour over time. · Move from one-off validation to continuous distribution intelligence. Alerts and Resolution Workflows · Configure alerts based on severity, channel, property, and variance. · Prioritise violations by commercial relevance. · Trigger Test Reservation requests. · Use proof-backed communication for partner escalation. · Track issue history and actions through a structured workflow. Auto-Fix Parity Where Parity+ is integrated with RateGain’s distribution capabilities, Auto-Fix can support faster response to parity violations through predefined rules and actions. Depending on the agreed configuration, actions may include: · Rate or cache refresh. · Partner notification. · Channel or inventory intervention. · Corrective distribution workflows. Auto-Fix should be understood as an integration-led capability configured around the customer’s distribution environment. It does not mean that every parity issue is automatically resolved without predefined rules or controls. Enterprise Portfolio Governance · Monitor parity across hotels, brands, regions, and markets. · Identify structural or repeat offenders across the portfolio. · Give central teams a prioritised view of the highest-impact issues. · Maintain an auditable record of detection, validation, escalation, and resolution. Key Differentiators From Detection to Resolution Most parity workflows stop after showing where a lower rate exists. Parity+ connects detection with analysis, validation, proof, source identification, escalation, and action. Proof-Backed Parity Management Test Reservations replace assumption with real booking evidence. This gives hotel teams stronger documentation for discussions with OTAs, wholesalers, and distribution partners. Identifies Where the Problem Originates Parity+ helps distinguish between the channel where the violation appears and the downstream wholesaler or redistribution partner responsible for the rate. Accurate, Context-Aware Comparison Like-for-like comparison considers room type, conditions, inclusions, taxes, and booking rules before classifying a rate difference as a parity violation. Test Reservation Analytics Parity+ does not treat a Test Reservation as an isolated service request. Test Reservation data becomes an intelligence layer for identifying repeat offenders, recurring patterns, and long-term distribution risks. Closed-Loop Parity Ecosystem Parity+ can connect monitoring, AI-assisted diagnosis, Test Reservations, evidence, communication, and Auto-Fix workflows in one broader parity-management ecosystem. Product Plus Operational Expertise The platform is supported by dedicated teams that manage Test Reservation execution, quality validation, evidence capture, cancellations, and refund follow-up. This helps customers scale validation without placing the entire operational burden on hotel teams. Parity+ is particularly valuable for: · Mid-scale and enterprise hotel groups. · Multi-property hotel chains. · Hotels with complex OTA, wholesaler, and bedbank distribution. · Hotels experiencing recurring undercutting on brand.com. · Distribution teams that struggle to identify the source of violations. · Hotel groups using manual parity reports, screenshots, and email follow-ups. · Commercial teams looking to protect direct bookings and reduce avoidable OTA commissions. Business Value Parity+ helps hotels: · Protect direct booking revenue. · Reduce revenue leakage caused by rate undercutting. · Improve brand.com price competitiveness. · Identify the true source of violations. · Strengthen OTA and wholesaler accountability. · Reduce time spent on manual validation. · Prioritise the issues with the greatest commercial impact. · Resolve parity issues more quickly and consistently. · Build customer trust through more consistent pricing. Implementation and Support: Parity+ is cloud-based and configurable around the customer’s properties, channels, markets, rate conditions, and workflows. RateGain provides onboarding, platform support, and operational support for Test Reservations. Distribution-led automation and Auto-Fix capabilities require the relevant integration and agreed customer rules. Parity+ is not a pricing or revenue-management system. It is a parity management and revenue-protection platform that helps hotels maintain pricing consistency across channels and take control of distribution leakage. Show More When users leave Parity+ reviews, G2 also collects common questions about the day-to-day use of Parity+. These questions are then answered by our community of 850k professionals. 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