Last Minute Deals is a distribution channel for unsold late inventory, built to sell tours, activities and attractions to autonomous AI booking agents and to consumers searching close to the travel date. For operators, it brings last-minute, high-intent demand for departures in the coming days, including bookings placed by AI agents on a traveler's behalf.

Connecting Last Minute Deals to Ventrata will sync your availability and prices and deliver bookings, changes and cancellations with tickets issued automatically.

To learn more about partnering with Last Minute Deals, visit lastminutedealshq.com.

Primary website	lastminutedealshq.com
Tags	OTA · Tours & Activities OTA · Deals & Corporate Benefits
Destination markets	🌎 Global
Source markets	🌎 Global
Specialties	Last-minute inventory and AI booking agents
Connection features	Availability Sync · Pricing Sync · Bookings Sync
Developed by	Last Minute Deals (using Ventrata's OCTO API)

This reseller connection lets you sell your products through Last Minute Deals without managing availability, pricing and bookings by hand. Features of this connection include:

Availability Sync – Last Minute Deals checks your live availability in Ventrata.
Pricing Sync – Last Minute Deals gets your prices from your reseller pricing in Ventrata.
Bookings Sync – bookings, updates and cancellations from Last Minute Deals are created in Ventrata instantly, and customers get Ventrata tickets.

Creating the Last Minute Deals Connection

🔐 Required Role Permissions: See Connections, Modify Connections, See Connection Key

Before you begin:

You must have a commercial agreement with Last Minute Deals for them to sell your products. To inquire about partnering with them, contact them via lastminutedealshq.com.
You must have Last Minute Deals created as a Reseller in Ventrata with their pricing (retail, wholesale/commission) defined correctly. Note that this API connection requires that the reseller is set to the "Bill to my account" settlement method.

In Ventrata Dashboard, go to Connections → Connections, click + New Connection, and select Last Minute Deals from the list of partners.
Select Last Minute Deals Reseller 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.
(Optional) You can also set the connection Name of your choosing, which may be helpful if you plan to have multiple Last Minute Deals connections and would like to differentiate between them more easily in the future.
Press the Create Octo Connection button.

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If needed, you can also allow or disallow products or destinations on the connection level, in addition to what you have configured on the reseller.

Mapping Products to Last Minute Deals

Securely share the OCTO API key shown on the connection you've created with your Last Minute Deals contact and ask them to map your products using Ventrata's OCTO API, with pricing (octo/pricing) enabled. Typically, it takes no longer than a few business days for the Last Minute Deals team to complete this.

Your Ventrata configuration is complete. You do not need to take any further steps.

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Last Minute Deals 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.

Managing the Last Minute Deals Connection

Allow or disallow products: limit which destinations, products and options Last Minute Deals can access. See how to allow or disallow products.
Rename the connection to tell several Last Minute Deals connections apart.

Connection Features Detailed

This section is for anyone who wants to know exactly how the Last Minute Deals connection works: which Ventrata OCTO API calls Last Minute Deals makes, when it makes them, and what that means for you. Each call links to Ventrata's API documentation.

In short: Last Minute Deals pulls everything it needs from Ventrata. It reads your products, checks your availability and prices, and sends bookings and cancellations. Ventrata doesn't push changes to Last Minute Deals, so anything you change in Ventrata reaches Last Minute Deals the next time it checks.

Product Mapping	❌	You can't map products from Ventrata. Last Minute Deals maps them on its side, through your account manager or Last Minute Deals's portal. This works as follows: Get Products (`GET /products`) – when Last Minute Deals sets up your connection, and whenever it refreshes its listings, it reads every product enabled on the connection, with its options and units (ticket types such as Adult or Child). Get Product (`GET /products/{productId}`) – Last Minute Deals re-reads a single product to pick up changes to its options, units, booking cutoffs and settings. Mapping on Last Minute Deals's side – Last Minute Deals links each Ventrata option and unit to its own listing and ticket types. Your Last Minute Deals account manager does this for you, or you do it in Last Minute Deals's own portal if Last Minute Deals offers one. You only share the connection's API key. What this means for you: Last Minute Deals can only sell what it has mapped. When you add a product, option or unit in Ventrata, Last Minute Deals may see it on its next refresh, but it won't sell it until it's mapped. So tell your Last Minute Deals account manager whenever you add one.
Content Sync	❌	Last Minute Deals doesn't read your product content from Ventrata. Last Minute Deals uses the descriptions, images and other content set up on its own side, so update your content with Last Minute Deals directly.
Availability Sync	✅	Last Minute Deals checks your live availability in Ventrata. Ventrata doesn't push availability changes to Last Minute Deals. This works as follows: Availability Check (`POST /availability`) – Last Minute Deals sends a product, an option and a date or date range. Ventrata answers with each bookable day or time slot, its status (`AVAILABLE`, `LIMITED`, `SOLD_OUT`, `CLOSED` or `FREESALE`), the remaining vacancies, the booking cutoff and an `availabilityId`, which Last Minute Deals needs to book that slot. Availability Calendar (`POST /availability/calendar`) – returns one summary per day instead of every time slot, typically to show which dates are open in a date picker. Check at booking – when a customer books, Ventrata checks capacity again before it creates the booking, so Last Minute Deals can't overbook a slot that has just sold out, even if its stored availability is slightly out of date. What this means for you: when you close a date, change capacity or sell out in Ventrata, Last Minute Deals shows it only after its next check, so there can be a short delay. Ventrata's check at booking still prevents overbooking.
Pricing Sync	✅	Your prices come back with every availability check, once Last Minute Deals asks for them with the octo/pricing capability. This works as follows: `octo/pricing` capability – Last Minute Deals asks for prices by adding `octo/pricing` to the `Octo-Capabilities` header of its requests. Without it, Ventrata sends availability with no prices at all. Availability Check (`POST /availability`) – with pricing on, each day or time slot comes back with your price per unit (ticket type): the retail price the customer pays and the net price you invoice Last Minute Deals, both from the reseller's pricing in Ventrata (retail and wholesale/commission). Group prices – when Last Minute Deals also sends how many people of each unit type are booking, Ventrata prices that exact group. This matters for Booking Size fares and other group pricing. Booking Reservation (`POST /bookings`) and Booking Confirmation (`POST /bookings/{uuid}/confirm`) – the booking comes back with its final retail and net price, so the booking in Ventrata always records the price it was sold at. ‼️ IMPORTANT – Ask for pricing to be enabled. When you ask Last Minute Deals to map your products, ask them to enable pricing (`octo/pricing`) as well, or switch it on yourself if you map in Last Minute Deals's portal. Otherwise it may be off, and Last Minute Deals won't receive your Ventrata prices.
Promotions Sync	❌	Your Ventrata promotions don't apply on Last Minute Deals. Prices on Last Minute Deals don't include promotions you create in Ventrata. Set up any promotions with Last Minute Deals directly.
Bookings Sync	✅	Bookings and cancellations made on Last Minute Deals are created in Ventrata instantly, and customers get Ventrata tickets. This works as follows: Hold: Booking Reservation (`POST /bookings`) – when a customer starts checkout on Last Minute Deals, Last Minute Deals sends the product, option, chosen slot (`availabilityId`) and one unit item per person. Ventrata checks capacity again and creates an `ON_HOLD` booking, which holds the places while the customer pays. If there's no longer room, Ventrata rejects the hold. Confirm: Booking Confirmation (`POST /bookings/{uuid}/confirm`) – once payment goes through, Last Minute Deals confirms the hold. The booking becomes `CONFIRMED` in Ventrata, and Ventrata sends back your booking reference and the tickets (one per person) or a voucher (one per booking), depending on how your product is set up, each with a QR code and a PDF link. Last Minute Deals gives these to the customer, who shows them at your entrance like any Ventrata ticket. Expire: if the customer doesn't finish paying, Last Minute Deals never confirms, and the hold expires on its own and frees the places. Cancel: Booking Cancellation (`POST /bookings/{uuid}/cancel`) – when a customer cancels on Last Minute Deals, Last Minute Deals cancels the booking in Ventrata. Ventrata accepts this only if the booking can still be cancelled and the option's cancellation cutoff hasn't passed. Otherwise it rejects the request, and Last Minute Deals has to contact you. Change: Booking Update (`PATCH /bookings/{uuid}`) – lets Last Minute Deals change a booking in place, for example a new date, time or number of people. Some resellers cancel and rebook instead. ‼️ IMPORTANT – Bookings sync one way, from Last Minute Deals to Ventrata. If you cancel, change or rebook a booking from Last Minute Deals in Ventrata, for example in the Dashboard, Last Minute Deals isn't notified. Contact Last Minute Deals so the booking is cancelled or changed on their side too, or ask the customer to cancel through Last Minute Deals.
Pickups/Dropoff Sync	❌	Last Minute Deals doesn't send pickup or drop-off details with its bookings. If your products include pickups, check with Last Minute Deals how it collects pickup details, or arrange them with the customer.
Custom Questions Sync	❌	Last Minute Deals doesn't send answers to your booking questions. If you rely on booking questions, for example names or dietary needs, check with Last Minute Deals how it collects that information.
Extras Sync	❌	Extras and add-ons can't be booked through Last Minute Deals. Customers can only book your main products and options on Last Minute Deals. Sell extras separately, for example on arrival.
Redemption Sync	❌	Redemptions aren't reported to Last Minute Deals. Ventrata doesn't notify Last Minute Deals when a ticket is scanned or redeemed. Last Minute Deals only sees a redemption if it reads the booking back from Ventrata.
Pass Walkup Scanning Sync	❌	Last Minute Deals pass holders can't be scanned at your entrance without a booking. Customers from Last Minute Deals need a booking made through Last Minute Deals before they visit.
Gift Card Sync	❌	Ventrata gift cards can't be sold or redeemed through Last Minute Deals. Gift cards bought in Ventrata can't be used on Last Minute Deals, and Last Minute Deals can't sell Ventrata gift cards.

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Good to know: limits and details of the Last Minute Deals connection

Delays: availability and prices reach Last Minute Deals only when it checks, so there's always a short delay after you change something in Ventrata.
Cancellation cutoff: Last Minute Deals can cancel over the API only before your option's cancellation cutoff. Later cancellations have to be agreed with you.
What Last Minute Deals can see: only the destinations, products and options allowed on the reseller and the connection, and enabled for sale on the Direct API source. See how to allow or disallow products.
Tickets: Last Minute Deals issues the Ventrata tickets or voucher it gets on confirmation, so your usual scanning and redemption work as normal.
Test bookings: Last Minute Deals can send test bookings while it sets up the connection. Test bookings don't use your availability and aren't invoiced.

FAQs

No products are displayed on the connection page.

Verify which destinations, products, and options are allowed on your reseller and connection. Next, confirm that your products and options are enabled for sale on the Direct API source. If the issue persists, contact our Technical Support.

My Ventrata products use Booking Size fares, and pricing isn't working correctly on Last Minute Deals.

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.

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Partner Information

Last Minute Deals

lastminutedealshq.com

Ventrata Partner ID: 3e4b4b3c-31ca-4698-96d5-35a741e571c8

Last Minute Deals: Reseller Connection