Should the first release use a request form or an existing booking provider?
- Staff-reviewed availability request
- Existing booking-provider handoff
Choose: Use the provider handoff when it already owns trustworthy live inventory and the required account and integration path are available. Use a request form when staff will review every submission and pending language is acceptable.
Tradeoff: A provider can expose live inventory but adds account, API, payment, reconciliation, and failure dependencies. A request is simpler but adds staff response time and cannot promise a room.
