Pricing and Availability

Last-Minute Availability Check

Use the GET /suppliers/{supplier_id}/products/{product_id}/availability endpoint for a last-minute check, especially for products with low inventory (rate_id should be used in this kind of request). This helps avoid hold or booking failures.

Last-Minute Pricing Check

Use GET /suppliers/{supplier_id}/products/{product_id}/pricing/schedule for a last-minute pricing check. This can be set as a configurable option based on transaction volume. Your Travel Curious Implementation manager can tell you if a particular supplier changes pricing frequently. This will avoid a hold or booking failure later.

Price Schedule vs. Rates

Get Price Schedule needs to be implemented in conjunction with the Get Rates call, one does not replace the other, you must support both to get all the details needed.

Implement Price Schedule with the ability to identify and properly use the pricing types: net, retail, original. net and retail should be considered at a minimum and should be used appropriately and according to your contracts with your operators. If your system does not support the use of both retail and net, please let your integration manager know that Travel Curious can set up pricing rules to provide the type of rates that you need per operator.

Travel Curious added a header to the GET Rates / GET Rate Reseller API request to allow the Resellers to opt into a new treatment of missing dollar amount information on Rate Prices, by adding a request header to their requests

• If you call with the X-Allow-Nil-Static-Prices=true header: those prices that were not provided by the Supplier will have nil values explicitly. If you see product rates with $0.00 amount on any or all of Net, Retail and Original fields, it will be clear that the Supplier submitted the data intentionally that way.

  • In case the Supplier updates the price data and instead of nill they set an amount, it won’t create new rate ids, just price ids, which is the same behavior if the supplier updates their prices. The same could happen the other way around

• If the you call without the header: the new treatment of missing dollar amount information on Rate Prices won’t be applicable and you will continue to see it as $0.00 amount and won’t be able to discern the difference between a missing price vs a true $0.00 price.