Getting Started

Test Environment

Each booking channel connecting to SiteConnect will be given an interactive test account to get a basic connection up and running.

  • The booking channel will provide endpoint, username and password to allow SiteConnect to retrieve rooms and rates.

  • The booking channel will provide endpoint, username and password to receive from SiteConnect availability, restrictions and rates updates.

  • The booking channel will be given an endpoint, username, password and RequestorID (channel code) to connect to the SiteConnect reservation service.

  • The booking channel will provide a HotelCode for the test hotel.

Test Extranet

The connecting booking channel will get access to a test hotel on the SiteMinder extranet to push availability, restrictions and rates updates to their system. The extranet will also show the reservations created and received from the booking channel.

Access to the test extranet: https://tpi-cm-apac.preprod.siteminderlabs.com/web

Test Web Service

WSDL: https://tpi-cm-apac.preprod.siteminderlabs.com/siteconnect/services/siteconnect_v1.1.0.wsdl

WSDL for dotNet: https://tpi-cm-apac.preprod.siteminderlabs.com/siteconnect/services/siteconnect_v1.1.0_inlined.wsdl The above WSDL for dotNet is recommended for .NET clients as several known issues will arise when using proxy generators from the .NET framework (such as wsdl.exe or svcutil.exe) with the OTA spec.

Your First API

The Rooms and Rates is the first step in your SiteConnect integration. You will need to build an endpoint to connect to our Rooms and Rates service before completing the technical information form. This allows SiteConnect to request room types and rate plans from your system for testing. Once this step is completed, we'll create a test account for you to access the SiteMinder platform.

Postman Collections

To assist you in testing the SiteConnect API, we've prepared Postman collections and environment for you. Follow the steps below to begin your testing process with Rooms and Rates:

Step 1 - Access our Postman workspace: https://www.postman.com/siteminder-apis/channels/overview

Step 2 - Fork all available collections to your Postman account. For Rooms and Rates, use the SiteConnect - Rooms and Rates collection.

Step 3 - Fork the SiteConnect environment to your Postman account.

Step 4 - Update the environment with your specific details (HotelCode, RRurl, RRusername, RRpassword).

Step 5 - Test required responses:

  • Success response providing two room types, each with two rate plans.

  • Error response for Invalid Username and/or Password

  • Error response for Hotel not found for HotelCode=XXXXX

For more details on using Postman, see the articles Fork collections, environments, and flows and Run API tests manually.

SiteMinder provides a test account for use during the active development phase. This account is intended solely for development purposes and should not be used for ongoing testing or demonstrations. Access to the test account will be disabled upon completion of the SiteConnect certification.

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