What Is API Pricing
Some 3rd-party pricing partners connect directly to your Ventrata account via API to manage dynamic pricing on your behalf — instead of you building fare rules manually, the partner's own algorithm (based on demand, competitor rates, booking pace, etc.) pushes price changes into Ventrata automatically.
This article refers to this as API pricing, to distinguish it from fares you create manually. Once set up, it is generated and kept up to date by the partner's system, not by you.
Connect a Pricing Partner
Use the partner gallery to connect to your preferred pricing partner.
Use the partner gallery to connect to your preferred pricing partner.
In your Ventrata Dashboard, go to Connections → Connections.
Connections
Press + New Connection button.
New Connection
Select the partner from the list.
Press the + New Connection button.
New Connection
(Optional) Allow/disallow specific products or destinations if you want to limit what the partner can access.
Allow/Disallow Destinations, Products and Items
Share the API Key shown on the connection with your partner contact to complete the setup.
API Key
How API Pricing Shows Up in Ventrata
Once connected, the partner pushes price changes into Ventrata automatically. You do not need to build or maintain fare rules yourself for that partner's pricing.
Once connected, the partner pushes price changes into Ventrata automatically. You do not need to build or maintain fare rules yourself for that partner's pricing.
API pricing DOES NOT appear as rows in the Fares tab.
You do not need to do anything else in Ventrata for pricing to keep syncing — it updates automatically as the partner's algorithm recalculates rates.
The applied price is visible on the booking detail. Under Fare it shows as 'API Generated' followed by the amount in the booking's currency.
API-Generated Fare on Booking Detail
Disconnect API Pricing
Remove pricing that was generated by a 3rd-party pricing partner.
Remove pricing that was generated by a 3rd-party pricing partner.
📒 NOTE
Disconnecting API pricing does not affect fares you have created manually.
Contact your pricing partner, for example, when a pricing trial ends, and have them stop pushing API pricing.
(Optional) Request that the partner restore the previous snapshot of your pricing in their environment.
In your Ventrata Dashboard, go to Products > Products.
Products
Select the relevant product.
Go to the Fares tab.
Fares
Press the DELETE ALL EXTERNAL FARES button to remove all API-generated pricing, while leaving manually created fares intact.
Delete All External Fares