Hotel prices keep moving after a booking is confirmed. A refundable room booked today is often available cheaper next week, on the same supplier or a different one. Drop Catch monitors confirmed refundable bookings across every connected supplier and flags when the exact same room can be rebooked for less.
The problem
A hotel rate is a snapshot. The room a travel business confirmed weeks before arrival can reappear at a lower price the next day — on the supplier it was booked with, or on one of the others the business already buys from.
For a refundable booking, that lower price is money the business could simply take: cancel, rebook the same room, keep the difference. In practice almost nobody does, because finding it means re-checking every live booking against every supplier, again and again, until check-in.
Nobody has the hours for that. So the gap between the rate paid and the rate available today is quietly given away, on booking after booking.
Why it is hard to fix
It has to be the same room
A cheaper rate only counts if the hotel, room type, stay dates, occupancy and booking conditions all match the original.
It never stops
A drop can appear at any point between confirmation and check-in, on any connected supplier.
Rebooking needs control
A business wants to decide when a saving is worth acting on, and who may act on it.
What we built
Drop Catch takes over the moment a refundable booking is confirmed. It monitors that booking continuously across every connected hotel supplier and detects when the exact same room becomes available at a lower price.
Matching is deliberately strict — same hotel, room type, stay dates, occupancy and booking terms — so a cheaper but different room is never flagged. Rebooking then runs on the business's own rules: review and approve each opportunity by hand, or automate it within the permissions and workflows the business defines.
How it works
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A refundable rate is booked
Through whichever supplier offered the best rate at the time.
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The booking is monitored
Continuously, across every connected hotel supplier — not only the one originally used.
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A matching lower rate is caught
Same hotel, room type, dates, occupancy and terms, at a lower price; an alert is raised.
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The booking is rebooked
At the lower rate, replacing the original — approved manually or by rule.
What changes for the team
| Before | With this in place |
|---|---|
| Bookings are checked once, when they are made | Refundable bookings are watched until check-in |
| Re-checking prices is manual, so it does not happen | Monitoring runs by itself and surfaces only real opportunities |
| Only the original supplier's price is ever seen again | Every connected supplier is compared |
| A cheaper room might be a different room | Only an exact match counts |
What it does not do
- It works on refundable bookings. A non-refundable booking cannot be cancelled without penalty, so it cannot be replaced this way.
- It compares the hotel suppliers you are connected to, not the whole market.
- Whether a drop appears on a given booking depends on how that hotel's prices move; a saving is never guaranteed.
Questions
What is post-booking hotel price monitoring?
Re-checking a confirmed hotel booking for a lower price on the same room and rebooking when the price drops. It is also called hotel reshopping or hotel price assurance.
Why only refundable bookings?
Rebooking at a lower rate depends on cancelling the original reservation without penalty, which only refundable bookings allow.
Can rebooking be automated?
Yes. Each opportunity can be reviewed and approved manually, or rebooked automatically within the permissions and workflows the business defines.
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