APIs and Web Services Available From BookingCenter
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 |
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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. |
..and hundreds uses more we have provided for over the last 24 years.
API Web Services Include: | ||
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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) | UHLL (Unified Hospitality Language Layer) by COMTROL for connecting >700 Guest Services devices. |
Google Analytics 'Conversion' API | FaceBook API | https://mybooking.bookingcenter.com |
Should you wish to receive more detailed on any of 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 fax it back to us at +1-718-228-5959. We will then send the BookingCenter Central Reservation System API spec for your use in implementing the CRS interface. If you want to read some KnowledgeBase articles on the interface, take a read of: https://support.bookingcenter.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/List/Index/8/xml-team