Changelog

2024

Net or Gross Reservation / Commission Percentage

When includesCommission is set, all RoomRate and RoomStay level totals will be considered as Net or Gross amounts based on this value. Properties can enable reservation commission percentage to add a commission to the totals sent to the PMS for NET rates. More details in ReservationTotal.

2023

Minimum Stay Through / Maximum Stay Through

Property can decide if LengthOfStay MinMaxMessageType is on arrival (SetMinLOS / SetMaxLOS) or through (SetForwardMinStay / SetForwardMaxStay). More details in Availability and Restrictions.

2022

Occupancy Based Pricing

The booking channel can support now Occupancy Based Pricing (OBP), instead of Per Day Pricing (PDP). More details in Rates.

2020

Virtual Credit Card

Extra information about Virtual Credit Cards can now be included with a Payment Card in a reservation. More details in Guarantee and DepositPayments.

Guest Count Ages

Ages can now be included within reservation guest counts. More details in GuestCounts.

2019

CVV/CVC of a Payment Card

Payment card series codes (CVV or CVC) will now be provided only in the Reservation Notification Email.

Strong Customer Authentication (SCA)

Three Domain Security (3DS) data can now be delivered in reservations alongside payment card data. More details in Guarantee and DepositPayments.

Guest ID Document

Guest profiles can now contain guest ID document details. More details in ResGuests.

Corporate Profile ID

Corporate profiles in reservations can now contain a UniqueID ID.

Maximum Length of Stay

Maximum stay can now be sent with restriction updates.

2018

AmountBeforeTax

The Reservation API now has the ability to accept only AmountBeforeTax, instead of requiring AmountAfterTax to be always set.

2017

Services

We extended the Reservation API with the ability to provide Services information. Please see relevant additions to both Services and RoomStay below.

2016

Company and Travel Agent

We extended the Reservation API with the ability to provide Company and Travel Agent information. See spec for more details on this functionality.

Additional Details

To better support character limitations to certain attributes in the the OTA Specifications, we've modified our 'Retrieve Rooms' API to include shorter character code within AdditionalDetails / AdditionalDetail / @Code (NO_AVAILABILITY, NO_RATES, NO_UPDATES).

2014

RoomRate / Rates / Rate / Total

This total is an important value as most PMS will only receive proper room rate values if this value is provided.

PaymentCard @CardCode

Payment card CardCode is now a mandatory field (if any PaymentCard details are sent) due to an issue found where the reservation will not be accepted by all PMSs if it is not included.

CustLoyalty

Adding loyalty information for the guest.

ArrivalTransport / DepartureTransport

Adding TransportInfo for arrival and departure.

MealsIncluded MealPlanCodes

Adding meal plan information to the RatePlan.

NamePrefix

Adding the title of the guest or customer to the reservation profiles.