How it all works
EAN Rapid is designed to make building your booking path intuitive and easy.
Building the Request Flow
Get Static Content
The property catalog provides the core information you need to identify properties: the property ID, name and address, contact information, and star ratings.
Property content requires daily refreshes
Get Geography Information
The geography API allows you to obtain defined geography regions, region hierarchy, and properties available within specific regions.
Call the Shopping API with stay dates, occupancy details, and your desired property IDs
Shop for Hotels
The response will return all available rooms at each property, with specific rates, fees, and cancellation policies for each room option. Each room object returned also contains ready-to-use tokenized links for the next step in the booking process.
Use the payment-options link to determine the available payment options for the property.
Obtain Payment Options
The payment-options link can be used at any time during the booking process, depending on when you choose to show the available payment options to the customer.
To prepare to book, use the price_check link from the room object in the Shop response to verify the selected rate.
Check Price & Obtain Booking Link
If the rate matches, you will receive a “MATCHED” confirmation and the Link value required for your booking request. If the rate has changed, you will receive the new rate information and a Link value to book with the new rate.
Send your booking request with the book Link value, guest information, and the appropriate payment information.
Booking Request
Send your booking request with the the Link value, guest information, and the appropriate payment information.
Use the retrieve link provided in your booking response to retrieve the full itinerary record.
Store links
We recommend you store retrieve link against your customer’s details for faster booking retrieval in the future.
Retrieve Itinerary Record
The retrieve response confirms all dates, rates, the room type booked, confirmation numbers, and the current status of the booking.
