Katanox Blog

Comparing Payment Methods: Virtual Credit Cards vs. Direct Payments

We’ll walk through the pros and cons of each payment method, the latest payment advances and developments, and offer up the best ways for hotels to execute their B2B payments.

Content

How to satisfy the Accommodation Needs of Today’s Business Traveler

Now with the travel environment changing and new trends taking place, it’s even more difficult to understand and satisfy the needs of business travelers.

Company updates

Lanes & Planes Becomes Latest TMC to Partner with Katanox to Leverage the Platform’s Commission Reconciliation & Net Payouts Functionality

The travel management company will harness Katanox’s capabilities to reduce costs and increase revenue, while building strong strategic relationships with accommodation providers.

Company updates

Guestline Platform Users Can Now Seamlessly Access Katanox

A two-way integration allows accommodation providers to directly tap into additional demand and establish direct relationships.

Content

The Current B2B Hospitality Payments Ecosystem & The Need for Change

When it comes to hospitality payments, things are challenging — even in comparison to other travel industries. Because of these challenges, the process becomes complicated, opaque and costly.

Company updates

Oracle Hospitality and Katanox Offer Direct Distribution Services

The integration of Oracle Hospitality and Katanox enables Oracle OPERA V5 on-prem and hosted users to directly connect to the B2B distribution platform, via a simple onboarding flow.

Company updates

Katanox Now Available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace

Katanox, via the Oracle CloudMarketplace, opens and accelerates hospitality distribution by enabling direct collaborations through a single platform.

Company updates

TrustedStays Partners with Katanox to Open up Accredited Short-term Rental Market to Business Travellers

Thanks to Katanox’s streaming distribution capabilities, TrustedStays is able to channel business-to-business supply and demand.

Company updates

Katanox Strikes Deal with Serviced Apartments Provider YAYS Group to Augment Its Apartment Accommodation Supply for Business Travellers

Thanks to Katanox’s streaming distribution capabilities, YAYS Group are able to offer its accommodation to a host of travel management companies.

arrangeMY Signs Deal with Katanox to Enhance Its Accommodation Offerings to Business Clients

The business travel management company will leverage Katanox’s distribution functionality to improve its product offerings and fortify relationships with top accommodation brands such as Premier Inn. Amsterdam - Worcester, U.K., September 25, 2023 — Katanox, the travel accommodation distribution and fintech platform, announced today its deal with business travel

The Impact of User-Generated Content on Travel Decision-Making

This is part two of a two part series exploring the role of content in hospitality revenue generation. Here, we'll dive into the role of user-generated content (UGC).

How to Leverage Content to Increase Your Hospitality Revenue

We explore how content can help increase revenue for your hospitality business, including some best practices for creating compelling content.

Content

Hospitality KPIs: RevPAR vs. Net RevPAR & Other Metrics

We’ll be diving into the metrics that will keep the finger on the pulse of your business.

The UK’s Largest Hotel Brand Premier Inn Partners with Katanox to Accelerate Corporate Travel Growth

Katanox announces its partnership with Premier Inn to open up its inventory to a new generation of Travel Management Companies Amsterdam-Dunstable, Bedfordshire, UK, July 19, 2023 - Katanox, the travel accommodation distribution and fintech platform, announced today its partnership with leading Budget Hotel Brand Premier Inn. By harnessing Katanox’s

Content

Bridging Martech & Fintech Innovations to Unlock Hospitality's Potential

All Roads Led Us Here We bring to the table a blend of industry expertise and a fresh outside perspective. "We’re uniquely positioned to redefine hospitality because of our distinct backgrounds and collective experience." Our team has traversed the martech, travel and financial industries, giving us a unique perspective

Engineering

Shifting error handling to the type system with Arrow

In this post we will outline how we overcome the challenge of proper error handling in our continuously-growing codebase while keeping our code clean and tidy. One of the reasons that our systems become more complex is the number of parts that are involved to perform a certain operations. We

Katanox Engineering & Product hackathon 2022

TLDR; Last week we held our very first Engineering & Product hackathon in Istanbul, and it was a great one! We couldn't have asked for better circumstances for Katanox hackathon 0.1. We chose to travel to Istanbul as already half our engineering team is based in Turkey and we decided

Engineering

How JOOQ helped us reduce our query response times

In this post, we aim to explain why we chose to try JOOQ [https://www.jooq.org/] as the data access library for one of our services, what were our main benefits and obstacles and how this led us to use it as our main database library in the rest

Company updates

Katanox Raises $5.7 Million and Appoints Former MD of Google Travel and Current Expedia Executive Rob Torres as Non-Executive Director as It Scales Up to Enable Direct B2B Distribution of Travel Accommodations

Katanox, the travel accommodation distribution and fintech platform, has raised $ 5.7 million from a group of financial, hospitality, and tech entrepreneur family offices to overhaul and reconfigure B2B distribution in hospitality. The group of investors includes Rappi and Yuno co-founder Juan Pablo Ortega, co-founder of fintech Dimebox and current

CASAI partners with Katanox to sell living spaces in a more direct, transparent and less costly way

Casai was designed for the nomadic generation; merging the design and comforts of a boutique hotel with the technology of a San Francisco home and the local ambiance of a vacation rental.

Katanox and Oracle Hospitality partner up to democratize B2B distribution in hospitality

Katanox, the transparent B2B marketplace for travel accommodations and travel sellers today announced a new integration with Oracle Hospitality [https://www.oracle.com/industries/hospitality/], the world's largest hospitality management platform. With this integration, the Oracle Opera Cloud [https://cloudmarketplace.oracle.com/marketplace/en_US/listing/112235171] customers can freely

Content

The Power of Content in the Conversion of Travel Accommodations

Have you ever wondered why potential guests choose other properties online, even though your property offers good value for money and location, great facilities, and amazing staff? Content might be the answer you are looking for.

How Limehome built its business through technology with apaleo

A webinar hosted on November 23, 2020 by Imre Vogelezang from Katanox discussing the flexibility and growth of Limehome as a fast growing travel accommodations technology company with Limehome's head of engineering Alex Di Mango and co-founder of apaleo Philip von Ditfurth.

Katanox partners with Cloudbeds to expand B2B distribution opportunities to more than 22,000 independent properties worldwide

Katanox, the transparent B2B marketplace for travel accommodations and travel sellers, today announced a new integration with Cloudbeds, the world’s fastest-growing hospitality management platform. With this integration, Cloudbeds’ 22,000+ customers in 155 countries can easily distribute their inventory with new travel sellers, including independent OTAs, travel publishers, TMC/

Product Updates

Unboxing our first SDK

After the release of the first version of the Katanox API, we collected feedback from our travel sellers and used it to build our first SDK in PHP