MECCA & MEDINA HOTEL ALLOTMENTS

Never pay for an empty Mecca room by accident again

Umrah agencies buy their hotel inventory through pre-negotiated allotments in Mecca and Medina — no B2B spot shopping API is available. OmraDesk tracks your blocked, sold and remaining rooms in real time — and most importantly, alerts you before every release deadline so you can sell, release, or accept the loss consciously.

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What allotment management actually needs

Real hotel contract tracking, not just a room inventory spreadsheet with formulas.

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Detailed contract entry

Hotel (Mecca or Medina), period, room types (double, triple, quad), rooms blocked, negotiated net rate in SAR or GBP or EUR, release deadline, retention terms. Multiple contracts per hotel supported.

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Live blocked / sold / remaining view

Per contract, a visual dashboard: X rooms blocked, Y sold (assigned to pilgrim files), Z remaining. You know at a glance where you stand.

Release deadline alerts

Every contract has a penalty-free release deadline. OmraDesk warns you at D-15, D-7, D-3: you decide to push sales, release, or accept a partial loss consciously — never by forgetfulness.

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Multi-currency native

Your contracts are in SAR (Mecca / Medina suppliers) or in GBP/EUR (European hotel groups with a pilgrimage desk). OmraDesk handles both, with tenant-level FX rate override if the market rate isn't what you actually paid.

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Per-pilgrim room assignment

A pilgrim booked on a package decrements the linked allotment automatically. Rooming lists generated on demand for hotel handover, with all required fields (name, DOB, nationality, mahram relation).

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Under-sell detection

An allotment at 30% sold with 15 days left before deadline → visible alert in the back-office. Trigger a targeted commercial push (WhatsApp broadcast, B2C landing spotlight, agent priority list) before it's too late.

Why spreadsheets fail at hotel allotments

Spreadsheets corrupt under concurrent editing
Three agents editing the same allotment sheet = diverging versions, double bookings, oversold inventory. Ramadan season becomes a post-hoc reconciliation nightmare.
Spreadsheets don't warn you about deadlines
The release deadline sits in a cell somewhere. Nobody looks for it until it's too late. Result: unsold rooms invoiced anyway, straight loss.
No cross-view pilgrims ↔ rooms
One sheet for rooms, one for pilgrims, a third for rooming lists. Impossible to answer 'which room is this pilgrim in?' in 3 seconds — critical when a pilgrim calls you from Jeddah airport.
No margin calculation
Without linking net rate (allotment contract) to sale price (pilgrim package), margin can't be known. Computed post-hoc, often wrong, often against the agency.

Frequently asked questions

What is an Umrah hotel allotment?

It's a contract negotiated in advance between an Umrah agency and a hotel (typically in Mecca or Medina) that blocks a set number of rooms, over a defined period, at a preferential net rate. The agency commits to selling these rooms to its pilgrims before a release deadline — past that date, unsold rooms are either released (penalty-free if the contract allows) or invoiced to the agency (a loss).

Can I import my existing contracts?

Yes — a per-contract entry form (structure: hotel + period + room type + quantity + net rate + deadline) is standard. For large volumes, a CSV/Excel import is available — get in touch, we'll adapt the parser to your existing spreadsheet format during onboarding.

How does this work with charter flight blocks?

You have hotel allotments on one side, charter flight blocks on the other. OmraDesk lets you create an 'Umrah package' linking one charter rotation, a period, and one or more hotel allotments — pilgrim bookings on that package decrement both resources (seat + room) automatically and surface a coherent alert if either runs out.

Which hotels are supported?

All of them — you maintain your own reference base in OmraDesk. We ship a pre-populated list of historical Mecca hotels (Fairmont Clock Tower, Hilton Suites Makkah, Dar Al Eiman, Anjum Makkah, Swissôtel Makkah…) and Medina hotels (Anwar Al Madinah, Dar Al Taqwa, Pullman Zamzam…) at onboarding, but you can add any independent hotel too.

Does OmraDesk replace my accountant?

No. OmraDesk is NOT accounting software — no line-by-line bank reconciliation, no automatic adjustment entries. We surface discrepancies by totals (contract vs invoicing received), and export clean data to your accountant for closing. Real accounting stays with your certified expert.

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