Jolly K Travel Group is a Las Vegas tour operator and travel agency for Chinese-speaking travelers, running small-group and coach tours with Chinese-speaking guides to the Grand Canyon, Antelope Canyon, Zion, Bryce and Yellowstone, and reselling helicopter tours and show tickets. For operators, it brings Chinese-speaking leisure travelers booking in Chinese for a Las Vegas or western US trip, buying tours and show tickets around the stay.

Connecting Jolly K Travel Group to Ventrata will sync your availability and prices and deliver bookings, changes and cancellations with tickets issued automatically.

To learn more about partnering with Jolly K Travel Group, visit www.jollyktravelgroup.com.

Primary website	www.jollyktravelgroup.com
Tags	Travel Agent
Destination markets	🇺🇸 US
Source markets	🇨🇳 China
Specialties	Chinese-speaking travelers on Las Vegas and national park tours
Connection features	Availability Sync · Pricing Sync · Bookings Sync
Developed by	Jolly K Travel Group (using Ventrata's OCTO API)

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

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

Creating the Jolly K Travel Group Connection

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

Before you begin:

You must have a commercial agreement with Jolly K Travel Group for them to sell your products. To inquire about partnering with them, contact them via www.jollyktravelgroup.com.
You must have Jolly K Travel Group 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 Jolly K Travel Group from the list of partners.
Select Jolly K Travel Group 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 Jolly K Travel Group 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 Jolly K Travel Group

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

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

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Jolly K Travel Group 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 Jolly K Travel Group Connection

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

Connection Features Detailed

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

In short: Jolly K Travel Group 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 Jolly K Travel Group, so anything you change in Ventrata reaches Jolly K Travel Group the next time it checks.

Timings are typical for Jolly K Travel Group and rounded, and they can change if Jolly K Travel Group changes how it syncs.

Product Mapping	❌	You can't map products from Ventrata. Jolly K Travel Group maps them on its side, through your account manager or Jolly K Travel Group's portal. This works as follows: Get Products (`GET /products`) – when Jolly K Travel Group 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}`) – Jolly K Travel Group re-reads a single product to pick up changes to its options, units, booking cutoffs and settings. Mapping on Jolly K Travel Group's side – Jolly K Travel Group links each Ventrata option and unit to its own listing and ticket types. Your Jolly K Travel Group account manager does this for you, or you do it in Jolly K Travel Group's own portal if Jolly K Travel Group offers one. You only share the connection's API key. Typically with Jolly K Travel Group: Jolly K Travel Group reads your full product list about every 4 hours. What this means for you: Jolly K Travel Group can only sell what it has mapped. When you add a product, option or unit in Ventrata, Jolly K Travel Group may see it on its next refresh, but it won't sell it until it's mapped. So tell your Jolly K Travel Group account manager whenever you add one.
Content Sync	✅ / ❌	Jolly K Travel Group can read your product content, such as descriptions and images, from Ventrata. This works as follows: `octo/content` capability – when Jolly K Travel Group adds it to the `Octo-Capabilities` header, Get Products (`GET /products`) and Get Product (`GET /products/{productId}`) also return your product content, such as descriptions, highlights, inclusions and images. Content changes in Ventrata reach Jolly K Travel Group on its next product refresh. Typically with Jolly K Travel Group: Jolly K Travel Group requests `octo/content`.
Availability Sync	✅	Jolly K Travel Group checks your live availability in Ventrata. Ventrata doesn't push availability changes to Jolly K Travel Group. This works as follows: Availability Check (`POST /availability`) – Jolly K Travel Group 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 Jolly K Travel Group 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 Jolly K Travel Group can't overbook a slot that has just sold out, even if its stored availability is slightly out of date. Typically with Jolly K Travel Group: Availability Check: Jolly K Travel Group checks each product about every 5 hours. Availability Calendar: Jolly K Travel Group checks your products throughout the day, usually starting today and covering 30 days per request, looks up to 28 days ahead and re-checks the same product and dates about every 16 hours. What this means for you: when you close a date, change capacity or sell out in Ventrata, Jolly K Travel Group shows it after its next check. For dates it checks regularly, that's within about 16 hours. Dates further ahead are usually checked less often.
Pricing Sync	✅	Your prices come back with every availability check, once Jolly K Travel Group asks for them with the octo/pricing capability. This works as follows: `octo/pricing` capability – Jolly K Travel Group 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 Jolly K Travel Group, both from the reseller's pricing in Ventrata (retail and wholesale/commission). Group prices – when Jolly K Travel Group 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. Typically with Jolly K Travel Group: Jolly K Travel Group requests `octo/pricing` on all of its availability checks, so it sells at your Ventrata prices. Jolly K Travel Group sends the number of people per unit type, so group prices are calculated for the actual booking. ‼️ IMPORTANT – Ask for pricing to be enabled. When you ask Jolly K Travel Group to map your products, ask them to enable pricing (`octo/pricing`) as well, or switch it on yourself if you map in Jolly K Travel Group's portal. Otherwise it may be off, and Jolly K Travel Group won't receive your Ventrata prices. 📗 TIP – If prices on Jolly K Travel Group look wrong, check the Jolly K Travel Group reseller's pricing in Ventrata first: that's what Jolly K Travel Group reads.
Promotions Sync	❌	Your Ventrata promotions don't apply on Jolly K Travel Group. Prices on Jolly K Travel Group don't include promotions you create in Ventrata. Set up any promotions with Jolly K Travel Group directly.
Bookings Sync	✅	Bookings and cancellations made on Jolly K Travel Group 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 Jolly K Travel Group, Jolly K Travel Group 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, Jolly K Travel Group 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. Jolly K Travel Group gives these to the customer, who shows them at your entrance like any Ventrata ticket. Expire: if the customer doesn't finish paying, Jolly K Travel Group 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 Jolly K Travel Group, Jolly K Travel Group 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 Jolly K Travel Group has to contact you. Change: Booking Update (`PATCH /bookings/{uuid}`) – lets Jolly K Travel Group 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 Jolly K Travel Group to Ventrata. If you cancel, change or rebook a booking from Jolly K Travel Group in Ventrata, for example in the Dashboard, Jolly K Travel Group isn't notified. Contact Jolly K Travel Group so the booking is cancelled or changed on their side too, or ask the customer to cancel through Jolly K Travel Group.
Pickups/Dropoff Sync	❌	Jolly K Travel Group doesn't send pickup or drop-off details with its bookings. If your products include pickups, check with Jolly K Travel Group how it collects pickup details, or arrange them with the customer.
Custom Questions Sync	❌	Jolly K Travel Group doesn't send answers to your booking questions. If you rely on booking questions, for example names or dietary needs, check with Jolly K Travel Group how it collects that information.
Extras Sync	❌	Extras and add-ons can't be booked through Jolly K Travel Group. Customers can only book your main products and options on Jolly K Travel Group. Sell extras separately, for example on arrival.
Redemption Sync	❌	Redemptions aren't reported to Jolly K Travel Group. Ventrata doesn't notify Jolly K Travel Group when a ticket is scanned or redeemed. Jolly K Travel Group only sees a redemption if it reads the booking back from Ventrata.
Pass Walkup Scanning Sync	❌	Jolly K Travel Group pass holders can't be scanned at your entrance without a booking. Customers from Jolly K Travel Group need a booking made through Jolly K Travel Group before they visit.
Gift Card Sync	❌	Ventrata gift cards can't be sold or redeemed through Jolly K Travel Group. Gift cards bought in Ventrata can't be used on Jolly K Travel Group, and Jolly K Travel Group can't sell Ventrata gift cards.

✅ supported · ✅ / ❌ limited · ❌ not supported

Good to know: limits and details of the Jolly K Travel Group connection

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

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

Jolly K Travel Group

jollyktravelgroup.com

Ventrata Partner ID: 01a0ce4d-38f4-7a36-a961-8a158b344936

Jolly K Travel Group: Reseller Connection