Banner Tours is a New York sightseeing operator trading as Star Liberty Tour, running a 90-minute Hudson River cruise past the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, with frequent daily departures. For operators, it brings leisure visitors to New York who buy a harbor cruise in destination, often on the day.

Connecting Banner Tours to Ventrata will sync your availability and prices and deliver bookings, changes and cancellations with tickets issued automatically.

To learn more about partnering with Banner Tours, visit starlibertytour.com.

Primary website	starlibertytour.com
Tags	OTA · Tours & Activities OTA · Sightseeing & Hop-On Hop-Off
Destination markets	🌎 Global
Source markets	🌎 Global
Specialties	New York harbor cruise bought on the day
Connection features	Availability Sync · Pricing Sync · Bookings Sync
Developed by	Banner Tours (using Ventrata's OCTO API)

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

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

Creating the Banner Tours Connection

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

Before you begin:

You must have a commercial agreement with Banner Tours for them to sell your products. To inquire about partnering with them, contact them via starlibertytour.com.
You must have Banner Tours 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 Banner Tours from the list of partners.
Select Banner Tours 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 Banner Tours 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 Banner Tours

Securely share the OCTO API key shown on the connection you've created with your Banner Tours 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 Banner Tours team to complete this.

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

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Banner Tours 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 Banner Tours Connection

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

Connection Features Detailed

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

In short: Banner Tours 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 Banner Tours, so anything you change in Ventrata reaches Banner Tours the next time it checks.

Product Mapping	❌	You can't map products from Ventrata. Banner Tours maps them on its side, through your account manager or Banner Tours's portal. This works as follows: Get Products (`GET /products`) – when Banner Tours 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}`) – Banner Tours re-reads a single product to pick up changes to its options, units, booking cutoffs and settings. Mapping on Banner Tours's side – Banner Tours links each Ventrata option and unit to its own listing and ticket types. Your Banner Tours account manager does this for you, or you do it in Banner Tours's own portal if Banner Tours offers one. You only share the connection's API key. What this means for you: Banner Tours can only sell what it has mapped. When you add a product, option or unit in Ventrata, Banner Tours may see it on its next refresh, but it won't sell it until it's mapped. So tell your Banner Tours account manager whenever you add one.
Content Sync	❌	Banner Tours doesn't read your product content from Ventrata. Banner Tours uses the descriptions, images and other content set up on its own side, so update your content with Banner Tours directly.
Availability Sync	✅	Banner Tours checks your live availability in Ventrata. Ventrata doesn't push availability changes to Banner Tours. This works as follows: Availability Check (`POST /availability`) – Banner Tours 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 Banner Tours 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 Banner Tours 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, Banner Tours 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 Banner Tours asks for them with the octo/pricing capability. This works as follows: `octo/pricing` capability – Banner Tours 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 Banner Tours, both from the reseller's pricing in Ventrata (retail and wholesale/commission). Group prices – when Banner Tours 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 Banner Tours to map your products, ask them to enable pricing (`octo/pricing`) as well, or switch it on yourself if you map in Banner Tours's portal. Otherwise it may be off, and Banner Tours won't receive your Ventrata prices.
Promotions Sync	❌	Your Ventrata promotions don't apply on Banner Tours. Prices on Banner Tours don't include promotions you create in Ventrata. Set up any promotions with Banner Tours directly.
Bookings Sync	✅	Bookings and cancellations made on Banner Tours 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 Banner Tours, Banner Tours 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, Banner Tours 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. Banner Tours gives these to the customer, who shows them at your entrance like any Ventrata ticket. Expire: if the customer doesn't finish paying, Banner Tours 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 Banner Tours, Banner Tours 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 Banner Tours has to contact you. Change: Booking Update (`PATCH /bookings/{uuid}`) – lets Banner Tours 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 Banner Tours to Ventrata. If you cancel, change or rebook a booking from Banner Tours in Ventrata, for example in the Dashboard, Banner Tours isn't notified. Contact Banner Tours so the booking is cancelled or changed on their side too, or ask the customer to cancel through Banner Tours.
Pickups/Dropoff Sync	❌	Banner Tours doesn't send pickup or drop-off details with its bookings. If your products include pickups, check with Banner Tours how it collects pickup details, or arrange them with the customer.
Custom Questions Sync	❌	Banner Tours doesn't send answers to your booking questions. If you rely on booking questions, for example names or dietary needs, check with Banner Tours how it collects that information.
Extras Sync	❌	Extras and add-ons can't be booked through Banner Tours. Customers can only book your main products and options on Banner Tours. Sell extras separately, for example on arrival.
Redemption Sync	❌	Redemptions aren't reported to Banner Tours. Ventrata doesn't notify Banner Tours when a ticket is scanned or redeemed. Banner Tours only sees a redemption if it reads the booking back from Ventrata.
Pass Walkup Scanning Sync	❌	Banner Tours pass holders can't be scanned at your entrance without a booking. Customers from Banner Tours need a booking made through Banner Tours before they visit.
Gift Card Sync	❌	Ventrata gift cards can't be sold or redeemed through Banner Tours. Gift cards bought in Ventrata can't be used on Banner Tours, and Banner Tours can't sell Ventrata gift cards.

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Good to know: limits and details of the Banner Tours connection

Delays: availability and prices reach Banner Tours only when it checks, so there's always a short delay after you change something in Ventrata.
Cancellation cutoff: Banner Tours can cancel over the API only before your option's cancellation cutoff. Later cancellations have to be agreed with you.
What Banner Tours 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: Banner Tours issues the Ventrata tickets or voucher it gets on confirmation, so your usual scanning and redemption work as normal.
Test bookings: Banner Tours 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 Banner Tours.

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

God Is My Banner Sightseeing Tours LLC

starlibertytour.com

Ventrata Partner ID: a86cab9f-0804-4da4-b216-88b623b6b0fb

Banner Tours: Reseller Connection