Bike Rent NYC is the official bike rental partner of NYC Parks and of Central Park, renting bicycles and e-scooters from eight Manhattan locations. It also sells guided Central Park bike tours, group reservations, and retail merchandise, capturing walk-up and pre-booked demand from visitors heading into the park.
This connection enables you to sell your products on Bike Rent NYC by automatically syncing your availability, pricing, and bookings in real time. The capabilities of this connection allow you to:
Sync availability and pricing for your Bike Rent NYC products with Ventrata.
Receive bookings, updates, and cancellations from Bike Rent NYC to Ventrata.
🔐 Required Role Permissions: See Connections, Modify Connections
Creating Connection
Prerequisites:
Before connecting to the Bike Rent NYC API, ensure you have:
A commercial agreement with Bike Rent NYC for them to sell your products.
Bike Rent NYC created as a Reseller in Ventrata with retail and wholesale/commission pricing correctly configured.
In the Ventrata Dashboard, go to Connections > Connections.
Press the + New Connection button.
Select 'Bike Rent NYC' from the list of partners.
Press the + New Connection button.
Select Bike Rent NYC
Select 'Bike Rent NYC' 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.
Select Bike Rent NYC Reseller
(Optional) You can also set the connection 'Name' of your choosing, which may be helpful if you plan to have multiple Bike Rent NYC connections and would like to differentiate between them more easily in the future.
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If needed, you can also allow/disallow 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 Bike Rent NYC connections linked to one reseller.
Press the Create Octo Connection button.
Create Octo Connection
Mapping Products
Email the OCTO API key shown on the connection you've created to your Bike Rent NYC contact and ask them to map your products using Ventrata's OCTO API. Typically, it takes no longer than a few business days for the Bike Rent NYC team to complete this.
Your Ventrata configuration is complete. You do not need to take any further steps.
OCTO API key
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Bike Rent NYC 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.
Partner Information
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203 West 58th Street,
New York,
NY 10019
USA
Ventrata Partner ID: 3ba793fe-5063-4037-98b6-cdb953b2dcb8