This summer, OpenHotel is preparing one of its most significant platform updates to date.
The OpenHotel Summer 2026 Release brings together dozens of enhancements designed to improve the guest booking journey, expand revenue opportunities, accelerate rate and inventory searches, and make daily hotel operations easier to manage.
The release includes:
The new version is currently in its second beta phase, with a global transition planned for the first week of August 2026.
No technical action is required from OpenHotel clients today.
A major update to the OpenHotel rate core improves the speed of pricing and availability searches throughout the platform.
Rate and inventory searches can now complete up to four times faster, creating a better experience for both guests and hotel employees.
Properties can expect:
This improvement works behind the scenes, but its impact should be visible throughout the booking and reservation process.
The new Booking Engine has been redesigned from search through checkout.
Guests will immediately notice a cleaner, more modern, and easier-to-use experience. The updated journey is designed to help travelers understand their options, compare available rooms, build their stay, and complete their reservation with greater confidence.
The new booking flow includes four main stages:
Together, these changes create a more flexible guest journey while giving properties more opportunities to present relevant offers.
The Booking Engine results page now provides a clearer way to review rooms, occupancy limits, descriptions, images, rates, and offers.
Guests can more easily:
Search-bar and results colors remain customizable, allowing properties to maintain a booking experience that fits their branding.
The new cart is more than a reservation summary.
Guests can build and manage a more complete stay without losing sight of the available room results behind the cart.
The full-height shopping cart allows travelers to:
This makes the booking process especially useful for families, small groups, event guests, and travelers who need more than one room.
Guests can now reserve multiple rooms within the same booking journey—even when they need different room types or occupancy arrangements.
For example, a family could reserve:
Rather than completing multiple independent reservations, the guest can review and manage the entire stay from one cart.
The Summer 2026 Release gives properties more opportunities to improve the guest’s stay while generating additional revenue.
Options and Extras can be displayed directly in the shopping cart when they are relevant to the selected room.
Examples may include:
Properties may also choose to use an optional dedicated upsell page after the guest selects Book.
This optional step can highlight one more relevant offer before checkout without preventing the guest from continuing directly to reservation completion.
The final booking step has also been redesigned.
Guests can review their rooms, Options, Extras, taxes, fees, and total reservation details in one organized summary before confirming.
The checkout experience focuses on:
The goal is to reduce friction between the guest’s decision and the final reservation.
The updated search experience introduces:
These improvements also appear within updated PMS reservation workflows, helping hotel staff search rooms and rates more efficiently.
The rebuilt Booking Engine includes a dedicated Packages page.
This gives guests who are specifically looking for a complete stay a more focused way to discover and compare available offers.
Packages may combine elements such as:
Properties can also use expanded controls to determine when and for whom packages are available.
The new Booking Engine has been recoded with an updated content and technical structure.
This is designed to help search engines and emerging AI-powered travel tools better understand property information, including:
As travelers increasingly use conversational and AI-powered tools to research hotels, clear and structured property content will become even more important.
The updated foundation helps OpenHotel properties prepare for that changing discovery environment.
The Summer 2026 Release also strengthens connectivity with Google Hotel free listings.
For eligible properties, this can help connect hotel discovery on Google with a direct booking opportunity.
Participation and visibility remain subject to:
OpenHotel will continue to guide Google-related availability and activation processes.
The release introduces a more flexible merchandising toolkit across:
These tools share expanded controls for timing, targeting, pricing, and presentation.
The goal is to help properties put the most relevant offer in front of the right guest.
Options and Extras can now support more detailed presentation and targeting.
Properties can:
These improvements give properties more control over what guests see and the order in which offers appear.
Discount tools now include additional controls for presenting and applying offers.
Properties can:
Packages now support more flexible rules and pricing scenarios.
Properties can configure:
These settings help properties create complete offers that better reflect how they operate and how their guests shop.
| Capability | Options | Discounts | Packages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mobile-only offers | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Geographic targeting | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Adult and child occupancy targeting | Yes | — | Yes |
| Priority and display ordering | Yes | Yes | — |
| All-Inclusive support | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Occupancy-based pricing | — | — | Yes |
The Summer 2026 Release expands the tools available to properties selling All-Inclusive accommodations and offers.
Properties can define eligibility using:
Eligible All-Inclusive Options can be applied based on occupancy rules, while discounts can apply to qualifying offers along with the room rate.
This gives All-Inclusive properties more control over how complete stays are priced, presented, and sold.
The new version is currently in its second beta phase.
A global transition is planned for Monday, August 3rd, 9:30 AM PT | 11:30 AM CT | 12:30 PM ET, with all OpenHotel properties scheduled to move to the updated experience.
OpenHotel is preparing the transition and will continue sharing guidance as rollout approaches.
Although no technical action is required, this is a good time to review the information guests will see within the new Booking Engine.
Properties should review:
Clear, accurate content will help properties take full advantage of the modernized presentation and new merchandising tools.
The OpenHotel Summer 2026 Release represents a significant step forward for the platform.
It brings together:
And it does so while maintaining the responsive, knowledgeable support OpenHotel clients already know.
Contact OpenHotel Support by phone and select option 1, or email help@openhotel.com.