Last Minute Deals is an AI-native distribution channel built to move unsold late inventory, exposing supplier availability to autonomous booking agents and high-intent consumers searching close to the travel date. The connection pushes live availability, pricing, and capacity to Last Minute Deals and returns bookings, changes, and cancellations directly into Ventrata.
This connection enables you to sell your products on Last Minute Deals 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 Last Minute Deals products with Ventrata.
Receive bookings, updates, and cancellations from Last Minute Deals to Ventrata.
🔐 Required Role Permissions: See Connections, Modify Connections
Creating Connection
Prerequisites:
Before connecting to the Last Minute Deals API, ensure you have:
A commercial agreement with Last Minute Deals for them to sell your products.
Last Minute Deals 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 'Last Minute Deals' from the list of partners.
Press the + New Connection button.
Select Last Minute Deals
Select 'Last Minute Deals' 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 Last Minute Deals Reseller
(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.
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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 Last Minute Deals 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 Last Minute Deals 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 Last Minute Deals 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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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.
Troubleshooting
My Ventrata products use Booking Size fares, and pricing isn't working correctly on Last Minute Deals.
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.
Partner Information
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Suite 407 Legacy Centre,
Hanworth Trading Estate Hampton Road West,
Feltham,
Middlesex, TW13 6DH,
UK
Ventrata Partner ID: 3e4b4b3c-31ca-4698-96d5-35a741e571c8