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NOTIFICATION AND CREDENTIALS FOR PARTNER BOOKINGS VIA XML BookingCenter supports notifying when an online booking is received for a Site. An online booking is one that is made via a website, mobile device, GDS, or an OTA such as Expedia or Booking.com. W...
If an XML developer sends the CVV2 in the xml message, BookingCenter will use it to transact the deposit. However, it would be advantageous only if a Site were using MyCard (Payment Gateway product) to actually process a deposit at time of booking. If not...
When implementing an XML interface, there is a setting that a property can choose to 'automatically assign a room' to an online booking or not. This choice can have ramification to an XML developer, so read the article on this choice at: https://support.b...
BookingCenter provides an API_ _(Application Programming Interface) to interact with our Property management Systems and our Central Reservation Service. The XML we provide allows us, or your developer, to create your own unique 'wrapper' (or 'web service...
BookingCenter works with revenue and yield management companies to allow external systems to publish rates inside of BookingCenter. When theese external systems decide to alter rates, based on their business intelligence, they post new rates values per th...
Each of these data sets are found by using the:OTA_HOTELDESCRIPTIVECONTENTINFO - SITE INFORMATION message. But a few issues are worth bearing in mind and planning for: USE A FILE SYSTEM  We suggest caching static copies of non volatile messages (which...
When an XML query for availability is returned to the client, the available rates may/not have a Restriction to prevent them from being booked, or else being booked requires some contingency to be met. The XML array will return what we refer to as a 'Rest...
FAILED AUTHORIZATIONS USING XML WITH PAYMENT PROCESSING If a Site is using MyCard (TSYS, Vital, Visanet, or Authorizenet) as payment gateway, _AND_ the Site is set to take 'Online Deposits' (ie, some money is needed before confirming a booking) _AND_ a ...
If you are developing an XML solution for an Owner(s) of Unit(s) that is part of an OWNER CHANNEL PROGRAM (https://www.bookingcenter.com/nontraditional/ [https://www.bookingcenter.com/nontraditional/]), then you will need to have a few concepts clearly un...
When a developer wishes to CANCEL an existing booking, they should use the "Cancel Booking" message using the OTA standard endpoint "OTA_HotelResCancelPort" specification. This allows the developer to also record the cancellation by offering these fields ...
If a developer wishes to use the XML Web Service to save an Item (or multiple Items) with a booking, then they must use an Item ID that is _ALREADY ENTERED INTO THE PMS_. While the PMS allows a User to write an 'extended description' and save when applyin...
When developing the MyGuest API, please make sure the base url includes the partial url api. Thus, the base url for the dev environment should be https://manage-dev.bookingcenter.com/api/ [https://manage-dev.bookingcenter.com/api/] and for the production ...
When a Booking Engine wishes to work with the BookingCenter APIs to Query Rates & Availability and Save Bookings, they usually use the following APIs: 1) Connect to the 'PMS/CRS' and RETRIEVE HOTEL RATES AND AVAILABILITY, with specifics for finding whic...