UltraDirect Transaction Samples and Usage

This document is designed to guide the client technical team through the Setup, Development, and QA phases of the implementation process as outlined in the diagram below.

The reader will notice that responses to the same XML request message may vary based on the functionality of each CRS. An example of this is the structure of the Availability response, which, although schematically correct, may differ slightly for some hotel chains.

The document’s primary aim is to provide example transactions, and also demonstrate certain differences in responses between one hotel chain and another. It is by no means an exhaustive list of fields that can be returned by each CRS, as this may vary based on the rate, room, type of rate, booking conditions, etc. The developer is asked to consult and code based on the published RateGain XML UltraDirect Transactions document.

Property Download Site

The Property Download Site (PDS) is accessed via the RateGain Portal and allows access to the list of properties that are available on the RateGain production database:

• The “Agreed Download HCD prop zip” is updated on the PDS site daily. It can be used to identify all properties currently associated to a brand and the last date the data was updated. (UPDATE_DATE).

• Agreed Download Brand zip is for the hotel brand codes and indicates the current list of brands available.

• The HCD prop zip contains a .csv file with values in the first two columns (brand and pid) may contain leading 0’s (zeroes). This leading zero is essential in the transaction and MUST be included. Therefore, these two columns should be imported as TEXT in order to preserve the character string.

Examples:

brand,pid,prop_name,address1,city,state,postal,country,create_date,update_date

AD,1910,Aparthotel Adagio Toulouse Parthénon,86 allées Jean Jaurès,TOULOUSE,,31000,FR,2011-01-19 00:38:17,2018-11-14 00:01:39

brand,pid,prop_name,address1,city,state,postal,country,create_date,update_date

HY,00909,HYATT REGENCY SAN ANTONIO RIVERWALK,123 Losoya St,SAN ANTONIO,TX,78205,US,2011-07-28 18:15:07,2018-09-29 06:10:07

brand,pid,prop_name,address1,city,state,postal,country,create_date,update_date

000055,1545,Maidens Hotel,7 Sham Nath Marg,Delhi,,110054,IN,1997-02-17 00:00:00,2018-12-13 14:10:45

This document does NOT include the retrieval of property static descriptive information such as images, property facilities, area attractions, etc. If the implementation includes content, the details can be found in a separate document titled RateGain HCD XML Content Retrieval Specification.