These are APIs (based on standards such as OTA XML web services) that BookingCenter provides to developers who wish to PUSH and/or PULL data from BookingCenter products and Services. Common uses of these APIs include:
Booking Engines | Revenue/Yield Management | Marketing Analysis |
|---|---|---|
Developers wishing to make a single Property or Portal Booking Engine for an OTA-like travel experience. | Revenue Management Companies who wish to PULL rate info from BookingCenter for analysis and/or recommendations. | Marketing companies who desire detailed Guest records for all new, modified, and cancelled bookings. |
PMS and CRS companies using BookingCenter's distribution channels to push their properties into our networks. | PMS, Revenue Management, or Yield Management systems who wish to PUSH rate into BookingCenter for use in a PMS, OTA, GDS, Dhisco travel channel. | Hoteliers and Webmasters who wish to track the 'Return on Investment' of ads via Google and/or FaceBook campaigns. |
Interfaces and Modules
| API Web Services Include: | ||
|---|---|---|
OTA_ HotelResNotifyRS/RQ - (get booking) | OTA_ HotelResModifyNotifyRS/RQ - (get modified booking) | OTA_HotelGetMsgRQ/RS - (notify of booking) |
OTA_ HotelAvailRQ/RS - (Site Availability) | OTA_HotelSearchRQ/RS - (Portal Availability) | OTA_New Booking (Message for delivery of a Booking) |
OTA_HotelDescriptiveContentNotif - Site Details | OTA_HotelDescriptiveContentInfo - Site Information. This message provides detailed Images, Items, Packages, Rooms, Activities, Amenities, Airports, Policies, Sources, Receipt Types, Markets, and Marketing Messages set inside a BookingCenter product.
| OTA_ HotelAvailCalendarRQ/RS - (Site Availability Calendar) |
OTA_HotelRatePlanNotif RQ/RS - (Update Rates in CRS) | OTA_HotelInvSync RQ/RS - (Update Inventory in CRS) | Rate Connect. |
Google Analytics 'Conversion' API | FaceBook API | |
| UHLL (Unified Hospitality Language Layer) by COMTROL for connecting >700 Guest Services devices. |
Should you wish to receive more details on these APIs or web services, you will need to download the NDA (non disclosure) available for download at https://support.bookingcenter.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/585/. Sign the NDA and email or fax it back to us at +1-718-228-5959. We will then send appropriate documentation (most are included in the BookingCenter Central Reservation System API spec) for your use. If you want to read KnowledgeBase articles on interfacing to BookingCenter for developers, see: https://support.bookingcenter.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/List/Index/8/xml-team
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