GrandCanyon.com is a destination-specialist seller covering Grand Canyon travel only, combining helicopter, airplane, rafting, mule, hiking, and motorcoach tours with lodging and trip-planning content. Departures run from Las Vegas, Flagstaff, and the South and North Rims. Trading under the name since 1995, it draws high-intent US search traffic planning a single-destination trip.
This connection enables you to sell your products on GrandCanyon.com by automatically syncing your availability, pricing, and bookings in real time. The capabilities of this connection allow you to:
Sync availability and pricing for your GrandCanyon.com products with Ventrata.
Receive bookings, updates, and cancellations from GrandCanyon.com to Ventrata.
🔐 Required Role Permissions: See Connections, Modify Connections
Creating Connection
Prerequisites:
Before connecting to the GrandCanyon.com API, ensure you have:
A commercial agreement with GrandCanyon.com for them to sell your products.
GrandCanyon.com created as a Reseller in Ventrata with retail and wholesale/commission pricing correctly configured.
In the Ventrata Dashboard, go to Connections > Connections.
Press the + New Connection button.
Select 'GrandCanyon.com' from the list of partners.
Press the + New Connection button.
Select GrandCanyon.com
Select 'GrandCanyon.com' from the list of your resellers (must be created before creating a connection).
The connection will inherit the reseller's configuration, like pricing, allowed destinations, products, etc.
Select GrandCanyon.com Reseller
(Optional) You can also set the connection 'Name' of your choosing, which may be helpful if you plan to have multiple GrandCanyon.com connections and would like to differentiate between them more easily in the future.
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If needed, you can also allow/disallow products or destinations on the connection level in addition to what you have configured on the reseller, which can be helpful if you have multiple GrandCanyon.com connections linked to one reseller.
Press the Create Octo Connection button.
Create Octo Connection
Mapping Products
Email the OCTO API key shown on the connection you've created to your GrandCanyon.com contact and ask them to map your products using Ventrata's OCTO API. Typically, it takes no longer than a few business days for the GrandCanyon.com team to complete this.
Your Ventrata configuration is complete. You do not need to take any further steps.
OCTO API key
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GrandCanyon.com can access all products enabled on the connection, but you can also provide the Product and Option IDs from the connection page when contacting them to specify what to map.
Troubleshooting
My Ventrata products use Booking Size fares, and pricing isn't working correctly on GrandCanyon.com.
My Ventrata products use Booking Size fares, and pricing isn't working correctly on GrandCanyon.com.
After every fare change, update the product mapping to ensure the partner tier counts are synced with Ventrata. Ensure the fare is enabled for sale over Direct API.
Partner Information
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1265 Airport Rd.,
Boulder City,
NV 89005,
USA
Ventrata Partner ID: 2b0d2c9d-e540-4b76-a278-3c288435eed2