What Is a Stop Sale? | TraveleXe Glossary

What is a stop sale?

Also called: free sale · stop-sell

Definition

A stop sale is a supplier’s instruction to stop selling a room type, product or date immediately, even if the seller still has allotment or free-sale rights. Hotels issue stop sales when they are full or want to hold rooms; sellers must apply them across every channel at once to avoid overbooking.

Why stop sales must be instant

If a stop sale reaches the B2B portal but not the outbound API, partners keep booking rooms that no longer exist, and the seller faces walked guests and penalties. Inventory systems apply a stop sale once and push it to every channel automatically.

Example

A hotel emails a stop sale for New Year’s Eve. The DMC enters it once and the date disappears from its portal, its XML API and its sales team’s quotes at the same time.

How TraveleXe handles stop sale

Invento controls allotments, free-sale and stop-sale, and distributes inventory to portals, APIs, white labels and OneBook.

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Last reviewed 25 October 2026 by the TraveleXe product team.

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