Rate Manifest is designed to do more than display hotel rates. It is intended to bring offers together, normalize the differences between them, verify what can be verified, and turn the evidence into a decision.
Rate verification is currently unavailable. This page describes the intended method.
Rate Manifest discovers properties (and, in the intended method, offers) through the sources it currently has access to. This is not universal hotel inventory — it's whatever those sources can actually return, and that set grows as more sources are added.
Offers from different sources aren't directly comparable. Room type, occupancy, meal inclusion, cancellation conditions, payment conditions, rate structure, and the source itself can all differ between two listings for what looks like "the same room." In the intended method, Rate Manifest normalizes offers against the attributes it actually captures, rather than assuming any two prices are describing the same thing.
In the intended method, selected rates can be checked against live source data. Live verification would be a separate, explicit action — Rate Manifest would not call a live source just because a page is being viewed, only when you ask it to, through Check IQ. This is currently unavailable.
In the intended method, for each set of offers, Rate Manifest looks at what's actually being compared, what evidence exists for it, what evidence is missing, and how confident it can be given that evidence. That analysis is what determines why a rate receives the assessment it does — not a fixed rule like "lowest price wins."
In the intended method, the output isn't "this is the cheapest rate." It's which option makes the most sense, based on the evidence Rate Manifest actually has for it.
In the intended method, every live check contributes an observation to Rate Memory. Over time, that builds a real history for a property rather than a single snapshot. Rate Manifest does not claim historical trends, a "normal" price, or an unusually cheap or expensive rate until enough observations actually exist to support that — the historical clock starts from real checks, not from assumption.
Rate Manifest does not invent missing information. If a source doesn't provide something — a meal inclusion, a cancellation term, a payment condition, a historical price — the system says so directly: "Not available from the source checked." It does not infer breakfast, meal plans, cancellation terms, payment conditions, historical pricing, availability, or value claims from incomplete data.