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Day Out With The Kids Reseller Connection

How to connect your product listings on DOWTK to Ventrata to sync availability, pricing, bookings & more

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Written by Dominic Martinkevic
Updated over a month ago

Day Out With The Kids (DOWTK) is a popular online platform in the UK that helps families find and plan outings, activities, and attractions suitable for children. It offers a vast directory of kid-friendly places, including parks, zoos, museums, theme parks, and family events across the country. Learn more about partnering with DOWTK at dayoutwiththekids.co.uk/work-with-us

This connection enables you to sell your products on DOWTK in a more automated way, eliminating the need to manually manage availability, pricing and bookings. Capabilities of this connection allow you to:

  • Sync availability, pricing and deals for your DOWTK products with Ventrata.

  • Receive bookings, updates, cancellations from DOWTK to Ventrata.

  • Issue vouchers/tickets from Ventarta to DOWTK customers instantly.



Creating Connection

Before you begin:

  • You must have a commercial agreement with DOWTK to sell their products. To inquire about partnering with them contact them by submitting a form via dayoutwiththekids.co.uk/marketing-package-enquiry.

  • You must have DOWTK created as a Reseller in Ventrata with their pricing (retail, wholesale/commission) defined correctly. Note that this API connection requires that reseller is set to "Bill to my account" settlement method.

  1. In Ventrata Dashboard, go to Connections → Connections, click + New Connection, and select Day Out With The Kids from the list of partners.

  2. Select DOWTK Reseller from the list of your resellers (must be created before creating connection). The connection will inherit reseller's configuration like pricing, whitelisted destinations, products, etc.

  3. (Optional) You can also set the connection Name of your choosing, which may be helpful if you plan to have multiple DOWTK connections and would like to differentiate between them more easily in the future. If needed, you can also whitelist/blacklist 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 DOWTK connections linked to one reseller.



Mapping Products

  1. Email the OCTO API key shown on the connection you've created to your DOWTK contact and ask for them to map your products using Ventrata's OCTO API. Typically it takes no longer than a few business days for the DOWTK team to complete this.

  2. (Optional) While DOWTK team can access the full list of products you've enabled for them on the connection, you can also specify which product you would like them to map by providing the Product and Option IDs displayed on the connection page when you contact them.


Troubleshooting

Issue

Possible Solutions

No products are displayed on the connection page.

Please check double-check which destinations, products and options are whitelisted/blacklisted on reseller and connection. If this does not resolve, check if your products and options are made available for sales on Direct API source. If the issue persists, please contact our support team.


Partner Information

Day Out With The Kids Ltd.
1st Floor 1 The Courtyard,

707 Warwick Road, Solihull, West Midlands,

United Kingdom, B91 3DA

UK CRN 05813603


​Partner ID 0d22ed78-7756-478f-8119-6a863dcd02e0

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