Tixalia is a Spanish B2B leisure and tourism distribution hub that places more than 4,000 products, including theme parks, shows, museums, tours and activities, with travel agencies, tour operators, OTAs, hotels, campsites and tourism offices. For operators, it brings trade and in-destination demand through a network of over 20,000 points of sale, chiefly Spanish holidaymakers and visitors buying at agencies, hotels and campsites.

Connecting Tixalia to Ventrata will sync your availability and prices and deliver bookings, changes and cancellations with tickets issued automatically. Tixalia runs on Experticket, and receives your products through its certified integration with Ventrata's OCTO API.

To learn more about partnering with Tixalia, visit www.tixalia.com.

Primary website	www.tixalia.com
Tags	OTA · Tours & Activities OTA · B2B Marketplace
Destination markets	🌎 Global
Source markets	🌎 Global
Specialties	Theme parks and shows through a Spanish travel trade network
Connection features	Availability Sync · Pricing Sync · Bookings Sync
Developed by	Experticket (using Ventrata's OCTO API)

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

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

Creating the Tixalia Connection

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

Before you begin:

You must have a commercial agreement with Tixalia for them to sell your products. To inquire about partnering with them, contact them via www.tixalia.com.
You must have Tixalia 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 Tixalia (powered by Experticket) from the list of partners.
Select Tixalia 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 Tixalia 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 Tixalia

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

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

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Tixalia 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 Tixalia Connection

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

Connection Features Detailed

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

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

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

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Good to know: limits and details of the Tixalia connection

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

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

Tixalia Worldwide S.L.

Valencia, Spain

tixalia.com

Ventrata Partner ID: 01a16875-18fb-7192-bf9c-9afb05d72c18

Experticket S.L.