OTA_HotelBookingRuleRQ / OTA_HotelBookingRuleRS

The OTA_BookingRuleRQ messages are used to read booking rules/restrictions in the Hotel-Spider system, for the four levels :

Booking rules at Hotel level
Booking rules at Room level
Booking rules at RatePlan level
Booking rules at SellableProduct level

Endpoints

HTTP RAW POST
- Staging: https://staging-api.hotel-spider.com/ota/2014A/OTA_HotelBookingRuleRQ
- Production: https://api.hotel-spider.com/ota/2014A/OTA_HotelBookingRuleRQ
SOAP
- Staging: https://staging-api.hotel-spider.com/soap/ota
  - SoapAction: http://htng.org/2014A/OTAService#OTA_HotelBookingRuleRQ
- Production: https://api.hotel-spider.com/soap/ota
  - SoapAction: http://htng.org/2014A/OTAService#OTA_Hotel BookingRuleRQ #OTA_Hotel BookingRuleRQ
JSON (We recommend using OTA via XML, if you want to use JSON interface please contact us)

Example request and response

Requesting booking rules at Hotel level :

OTA_HotelAvailNotifRQ request

<OTA_HotelBookingRuleRQ xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.opentravel.org/OTA/2003/05" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.opentravel.org/OTA/2003/05 OTA_HotelBookingRuleRQ.xsd" TimeStamp="2012-10-05T14:20:50" Target="Test" Version="1.005">
  <POS>
    <Source>
      <RequestorID Type="5" ID="USERNAME" MessagePassword="PASSWORD"></RequestorID>
    </Source>
  </POS>
  <RuleMessage HotelCode="HOTELCODE">
	<StatusApplication Start="2017-04-01" End="2017-04-12" />
  </RuleMessage>
</OTA_HotelBookingRuleRQ>

Requesting booking rules at Room level :

OTA_HotelAvailNotifRQ request

<OTA_HotelBookingRuleRQ xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.opentravel.org/OTA/2003/05" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.opentravel.org/OTA/2003/05 OTA_HotelBookingRuleRQ.xsd" TimeStamp="2012-10-05T14:20:50" Target="Test" Version="1.005">
  <POS>
    <Source>
      <RequestorID Type="5" ID="USERNAME" MessagePassword="PASSWORD"></RequestorID>
    </Source>
  </POS>
  <RuleMessage HotelCode="HOTELCODE">
	<StatusApplication Start="2017-04-01" End="2017-04-12" InvCode="ROOMID" />
  </RuleMessage>
</OTA_HotelBookingRuleRQ>

Requesting booking rules at RatePlan level :

OTA_HotelAvailNotifRQ request

<OTA_HotelBookingRuleRQ xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.opentravel.org/OTA/2003/05" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.opentravel.org/OTA/2003/05 OTA_HotelBookingRuleRQ.xsd" TimeStamp="2012-10-05T14:20:50" Target="Test" Version="1.005">
  <POS>
    <Source>
      <RequestorID Type="5" ID="USERNAME" MessagePassword="PASSWORD"></RequestorID>
    </Source>
  </POS>
  <RuleMessage HotelCode="HOTELCODE">
	<StatusApplication Start="2017-04-01" End="2017-04-12" RatePlanCode="RATEPLANID" />
  </RuleMessage>
</OTA_HotelBookingRuleRQ>

Requesting booking rules at SellableProduct level :

OTA_HotelAvailNotifRQ request

<OTA_HotelBookingRuleRQ xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.opentravel.org/OTA/2003/05" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.opentravel.org/OTA/2003/05 OTA_HotelBookingRuleRQ.xsd" TimeStamp="2012-10-05T14:20:50" Target="Test" Version="1.005">
  <POS>
    <Source>
      <RequestorID Type="5" ID="USERNAME" MessagePassword="PASSWORD"></RequestorID>
    </Source>
  </POS>
  <RuleMessage HotelCode="HOTELCODE">
	<StatusApplication Start="2017-04-01" End="2017-04-12" InvCode="ROOMID" RatePlanCode="RATEPLANID" />
  </RuleMessage>
</OTA_HotelBookingRuleRQ>

Request structure

OTA_HotelBookingRuleRQ

Parent: None (Root element)

Mandatory: yes

Attributes:

Name	Mandatory	Description

Name

Mandatory

Description

TimeStamp

Yes

The format should respect the ISO 8601 2015-11-16T22:23:48+00:00

Target

Yes

When sending updates to the staging environment "Test" must be used.

When sending updates to the production environment "Production" must be used.

Version

Yes

The default value should be "1.000"

Child elements: POS (when using POS authentication. See Authentication methods for more information), AvailStatusMessages

RuleMessage

Parent: OTA_BookingRuleNotifRQ

Mandatory: yes

Attributes:

Name	Mandatory	Description

Name	Mandatory	Description
HotelCode	Yes

Children: StatusApplicationControl

StatusApplicationControl

Parent: RuleMessage

Mandatory: yes

Attributes:

Name	Mandatory	Description

Name	Mandatory	Description
Start	Yes	The format should respect the ISO 8601 2015-11-16
End	Yes	The format should respect the ISO 8601 2015-11-17 The End date is inclusive meaning that it will also be retrieved.
InvCode/InvTypeCode/RoomID	No	The Hotel-Spider room ID By default our system will search for the InvCode attribute. Should you have been using InvTypeCode in a previous development (for example: OTA version of the Booking.com interface ), we can configure our interface to ignore InvCode and work with InvTypeCode. The same goes for the RoomID attribute.
RatePlanCode/RatePlanType/RatePlanID	No	The Hotel-Spider rate ID By default our system will search for the RatePlanCode atttribute. Should you have been using RatePlanType in a previous development, we can configure our interface to ignore RatePlanCode and work with RatePlanType. The same goes for the RatePlanID attribute.

Determining which level to update

No InvCode nor RatePlanCode: return the list of booking rules applied at the hotel level
InvCode is given but no RatePlanCode: return the list of booking rules applied at the room level
RatePlanCode is given but no InvCode: return the list of booking rules applied at the rate plan level
InvCode and RatePlanCode are given: return the list of booking rules applied at the product level

Response structure

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<OTA_HotelBookingRuleRS xmlns="http://www.opentravel.org/OTA/2003/05" TimeStamp="2017-03-24T16:39:05+01:00" CorrelationID="00Q58d53d99269fe" Version="1.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.opentravel.org/OTA/2003/05 OTA_HotelBookingRuleRS.xsd">
  <RuleMessage HotelCode="HOTELCODE">
    <StatusApplication Start="2017-04-01" End="2017-04-12" InvTypeCode="ROOMID">
    <BookingRules>
      <BookingRule Start="2017-04-01" End="2017-04-02">
        <RestrictionStatus Restriction="Master" Status="Close">
        <RestrictionStatus Restriction="Arrival" Status="Open">
        <RestrictionStatus Restriction="Departure" Status="Open">
        <LengthsOfStay ArrivalDateBased="0">
          <LengthOfStay MinMaxMessageType="MinLOS" Time="1">
          <LengthOfStay MinMaxMessageType="MaxLOS" Time="0">
        </LengthsOfStay>
        <LengthsOfStay ArrivalDateBased="1">
          <LengthOfStay MinMaxMessageType="MinLOS" Time="1">
          <LengthOfStay MinMaxMessageType="MaxLOS" Time="0">
        </LengthsOfStay>
        <TPA_Extensions>
          <BookingChannels>
            <BookingChannel BookingChannelID="16" BookingChannelName="Reconline">
              <Rules>
                <Rule Name="ReconlineCancel">0</Rule>
              </Rules>
            </BookingChannel>
            <BookingChannel BookingChannelID="3" BookingChannelName="Booking">
              <Rules>
                <Rule Name="BookingMinimumContractedRooms">0</Rule>
              </Rules>
            </BookingChannel>
            <BookingChannel BookingChannelID="6" BookingChannelName="Expedia">
              <Rules>
                <Rule Name="ExpediaBaseAllotment">-1</Rule>
              </Rules>
            </BookingChannel>
          </BookingChannels>
        </TPA_Extensions>
      </BookingRule>
      <BookingRule Start="2017-04-03" End="2017-04-12">
        <RestrictionStatus Restriction="Master" Status="Open">
        <RestrictionStatus Restriction="Arrival" Status="Open">
        <RestrictionStatus Restriction="Departure" Status="Open">
        <LengthsOfStay>
          <LengthOfStay MinMaxMessageType="ForwardMinStay" Time="1">
          <LengthOfStay MinMaxMessageType="ForwardMaxStay" Time="0">
          <LengthOfStay MinMaxMessageType="MinLOS" Time="1">
          <LengthOfStay MinMaxMessageType="MaxLOS" Time="0">
          <LengthOfStay MinMaxMessageType="FixedLOS" Time="0">
        </LengthsOfStay>
        <TPA_Extensions>
          <BookingChannels>
            <BookingChannel BookingChannelID="16" BookingChannelName="Reconline">
              <Rules>
                <Rule Name="ReconlineCancel">0</Rule>
              </Rules>
            </BookingChannel>
            <BookingChannel BookingChannelID="3" BookingChannelName="Booking">
              <Rules>
                <Rule Name="BookingMinimumContractedRooms">0</Rule>
              </Rules>
            </BookingChannel>
            <BookingChannel BookingChannelID="6" BookingChannelName="Expedia">
              <Rules>
                <Rule Name="ExpediaBaseAllotment">-1</Rule>
              </Rules>
            </BookingChannel>
          </BookingChannels>
        </TPA_Extensions>
      </BookingRule>
    </BookingRules>
  </RuleMessage>
  <Success></Success>
</OTA_HotelBookingRuleRS>

OTA_HotelBookingRuleRS

Parent: None (Root element)

Mandatory: yes

Attributes:

Name	Mandatory	Description

Name	Mandatory	Description
TimeStamp	Yes	The format will respect the ISO 8601 2015-11-16T22:23:48+00:00
Target	Yes	The same value, used in the request, will be returned.
Version	Yes	The value wil be "1.000"

Child elements: Success, Warnings and Errors

RuleMessage

Parent: OTA_HotelBookingRuleNotifRS

Mandatory: yes

Multiple : no

Attributes:

Name	Mandatory	Description

Name	Mandatory	Description
HotelCode	Yes

Children: BookingRules, StatusApplicationControl

StatusApplicationControl

Parent: RuleMessage

Mandatory: yes

Multiple : no

Attributes:

Name	Mandatory	Description

Name	Mandatory	Description
Start	Yes	The format should respect the ISO 8601 2015-11-16
End	Yes	The format should respect the ISO 8601 2015-11-17 The End date is inclusive meaning that it will also be updated.
InvCode/InvTypeCode/RoomID	No	The Hotel-Spider room ID
RatePlanCode/RatePlanType/RatePlanID	No	The Hotel-Spider rate ID

BookingRules

Parent: RuleMessage

Mandatory: yes

Multiple : no

Children: BookingRule

BookingRule

Parent: BookingRules

Mandatory: yes

Multiple : yes

Attributes:

Name	Mandatory	Description

Name	Mandatory	Description
Start	Yes	The format should respect the ISO 8601 2015-11-16
End	Yes	The format should respect the ISO 8601 2015-11-17 The End date is inclusive.
InvCode/InvTypeCode/RoomID	No	The Hotel-Spider room ID
RatePlanCode/RatePlanType/RatePlanID	No	The Hotel-Spider rate ID

Children: RestrictionStatus, LenghtsOfStay, TPA_Extensions

LengthsOfStay

Parent: BookingRule

Multiple : Yes

Mandatory: No

Attributes:

Name	Mandatory	Description

Name	Mandatory	Description
ArrivalDateBased	No	Can be set to 0 or 1. If this boolean value is set to 1, the restriction set has an effect only on the arrival day of a booking, whereas the '0' value may affect a search for availability or reservation on all the dates that the query covers. When left out, '0' is assumed.

Child elements: LengthOfStay

LengthOfStay

Parent: LengthsOfStay

Multiple : Yes

Mandatory: yes (If LengthsOfStay is provided)

Attributes:

Name	Mandatory	Description

Name

Mandatory

Description

Time

Yes

The integer value that will determine which Minimum Length Of Stay or which Maximum Length Of Stay will be applied.

"1"is the default value for a MinLOS or a ForwardMinStay. This is equal to transmitting "RemoveMinLOS" or "RemoveForwardMinStay".

"0" is the default value for a MaxLOS or a ForwardMaxStay. This is equal to transmitting "RemoveMaxLOS" or "RemoveForwardMaxStay".

MinMaxMessageType

Yes

Possible values are:

MinLOS
MaxLOS

Children: None

RestrictionStatus

Parent: BookingRule

Mandatory: No

Multiple : Yes

Attributes:

Name	Mandatory	Description

Name

Mandatory

Description

Status

Yes

Possible values are "Open" or "Close".

Restriction

No

Possible values are "Master", "Arrival" or "Departure"

When set to "Master", depending on the value of the Status attribute AND the level identification via the StatusApplicationControl element, this will either open/close on Hotel level, on room level, on rate plan level or on product level.

When set to "Arrival", depending on the value of the Status attribute AND the level identification via the StatusApplicationControl element, this will either prevent (Status="Close") or allow (Status="Open") a guest to book with this date as arrival.

When set to "Departure", depending on the value of the Status attribute AND the level identification via the StatusApplicationControl element, this will either prevent (Status="Close") or allow (Status="Open") a guest to book with this date as departure.

Children: None

TPA_Extensions

Describe the booking rules applied to connected channels

Parent: BookingRule

Mandatory: No

Attributes: None

Children: BookingChannels

BookingChannels

Parent: TPA_Extension

Mandatory: No

Attributes: None

Children: BookingChannel

BookingChannel

Parent: BookingChannels

Multiple : Yes

Mandatory: No

Attributes:

Name	Mandatory	Description

Name	Mandatory	Description
BookingChannelID	Yes	Hotel-Spider channel ID
BookingChannelName	Yes	Channel name

Children: BookingChannel

Rules

Parent: BookingChannel

Mandatory: No

Attributes: None

Children: Rule

Rule

Parent: Rules

Mandatory: No

Attributes:

Name	Mandatory	Description

Name	Mandatory	Description
Name	Yes	Specific booking rule name

Node value:

Mandatory	Description

Mandatory	Description
Yes	the value of the specific booking rules

Children: none