Endpoints & Capabilities
Ventrata supports all OCTO Core endpoints as well as 16 additional Ventrata capabilities.
Capabilities are mostly optional, but they will allow you to enhance your integration by adding functionality Ventrata provides (e.g. pricing, content, pickups, etc.) in addition to OCTO Core.
OCTO Core Endpoints
Name | Method | Description |
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| Returns a list of Suppliers and associated details for the API key. | |
| Returns a single Supplier and associated details for a given Supplier ID. |
| Returns a list of Products and associated details. | |
| Returns a single Product and associated details for a given Product ID. |
| Returns availability for a given Product & Option as a single object per day. Optimized to be queried for large date ranges and to populate an availability calendar. | |
| Returns availability for a given Product & Option as a single object per start time (or day). You have to perform this step to retrieve an |
| Creates a booking that reserves the availability (e.g. while you collect payment and contact information from the customer) for a given | |
| Confirms previously placed Booking Reservation, finalizing the booking and making it ready to be used. | |
| Updates/changes your booking before and after it has been confirmed as long as it hasn't yet been redeemed or within the cancellation cutoff window. | |
| Cancels your booking. You can only cancel a booking if | |
| Extends the Booking Reservation availability hold if the booking status is | |
| Returns the status and details of your existing booking. | |
| Returns the list of the bookings you made for the given filters. |
Additional Ventrata Capabilities
The below capabilities are offered by Ventrata, as well as adopted by a few other ticketing/booking platforms, however, they are not yet part of the official OCTO Specification.
Name | ID | Description |
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| Adds pricing to most endpoints giving you advanced static and dynamic pricing capabilities. | |
| Extends the core product, option, and unit schemas to provide rich content and images. | |
| Adds hotel pickup options to the booking allowing the guest to be picked up and set which pickup location they want to be picked up from. | |
| Allows you to programmatically create webhooks in Supplier's Ventrata system in order to listen out for booking updates or availability updates. | |
| Send mapping sheets (your product listings) programmatically to Ventrata for Supplier to fill out with corresponding Ventrata products and submit back to you, dramatically reducing the burden of mapping on your team. | |
| This depends on Pricing capability and gives you the ability to use offer codes to apply discounts to bookings and up-sell / cross-sell other products for a discount. | |
| Allows you to retrieve Supplier-defined custom questions and ask them on booking. | |
| Access and sell extra up-sell items that can be added to unit items. | |
| Allows you to make price adjustments to the booking either positive (to increase the price) or negative (to give a discount). | |
| Allows you to add more than one booking to a "Cart" which can be confirmed together. | |
| Exposes various payment gateways for card tokenization so that the supplier can be the merchant of record and collect the card payment directly. | |
| This capability allows you to work with package products which may allow different sub-products to be selected with different travel dates. | |
| This capability exposes underlying availability resources and allows the guest to pick during the checkout. | |
| Some products require further steps by the guest after booking, e.g. signing a waiver, filling out a questionnaire, or picking dates and times for components of a multi-part package. This capability provides a URL to give to the guest where they can complete these steps and check in before arrival. | |
| This capability allows you to sell and redeem gift vouchers. | |
| This capability is intended for supplier redemption of your tickets, it's not abled by default and isn't intended for resellers. Read the documentation here. |
The support for each capability is defined per-product, which you can find on the Products. Each capability is defined like:
Field | Description |
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| The identifier of this capability. You'll need to include this in the request header or parameter. To use this capability. |
| A auto-incrementing integer indicating the supported revision of this capability. Capability revisions will always be backward compatible. |
| Whether supporting this capability is required in order to sell this product. |
| An array of other capabilities that this capability requires in order to be used. |
| A URL to the online documentation for this capability. |
| Whether this is a default capability that's enabled. |
By default, Ventrata will enable all allowed capabilities all the time. You can control which capabilities you want to enable by using the Octo-Capabilities
header. For example:
It's also possible to use the _capabilities
query parameter if you're unable to use headers:
You can list all the capabilities with a comma to separate each one. If a capability depends on another (for example octo/offers
depends on octo/pricing
) If you just include octo/offers
we will automatically add the other dependent capabilities.
To know which capabilities you are using, the HTTP response will echo the Octo-Capabilities
header including the list that was applied. For example:
Required Capabilities
Some products cannot be sold without the use of a capability. If that is the case then the required: true
will be put on the capability object within that product. If you have not implemented that capability then you cannot sell the product.
Capability Versioning
The capabilities defined on products include a revision
number that will increment each time we update the capability. It's important to note that capabilities will NEVER introduce breaking changes, if they do then a new capability will be written entirely. For example: octo/pricing2
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