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Kplus: Reseller Connection

Connect Kplus to Ventrata to sync availability and prices and receive bookings instantly. Agencies selling tours alongside flights and hotels.

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Kplus is a Turkish travel technology company founded in 2013, whose Travelrobot platform runs reservations for flights, hotels, transfers, car rental, tours and dynamic packages for B2B consolidator agencies, corporate travel managers, sub-agencies and consumer websites. It reports more than 300 clients and over 100,000 daily transactions. For operators, it brings Turkish trade demand, with agencies, tour operators and corporate travel buyers selling tours and tickets beside flights and hotels, plus consumer ticketing sites such as Parkbileti.

 

Connecting Kplus to Ventrata syncs your availability and prices and delivers bookings, changes and cancellations with tickets issued automatically.

 

To learn more about partnering with Kplus, visit kplus.com.tr.

 

Primary website

Tags

B2B Marketplace

Destination markets

🇹🇷 Türkiye

Source markets

🌎 Global

Specialties

Agencies selling tours alongside flights and hotels

Connection features

Availability Sync · Pricing Sync · Bookings Sync

Developed by

Kplus (using Ventrata's OCTO API)

 

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

  • Availability Sync – Kplus checks your live availability in Ventrata.

  • Pricing Sync – Kplus gets your prices from your reseller pricing in Ventrata.

  • Bookings Sync – bookings, updates and cancellations from Kplus are created in Ventrata instantly, and customers get Ventrata tickets.

 

Creating the Kplus Connection

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

Before you begin:

  • You must have a commercial agreement with Kplus for them to sell your products. To inquire about partnering with them, contact them via kplus.com.tr.

  • You must have Kplus 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.

 

  1. In Ventrata Dashboard, go to Connections → Connections, click + New Connection, and select Kplus from the list of partners.

  2. Select Kplus 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.

  3. (Optional) You can also set the connection Name of your choosing, which may be helpful if you plan to have multiple Kplus connections and would like to differentiate between them more easily in the future.

  4. Press the Create Octo Connection button.

 

📗 TIP

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 Kplus

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

 

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

 

📗 TIP

Kplus 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 Kplus Connection

  • Allow or disallow products: limit which destinations, products and options Kplus can access. See how to allow or disallow products.

  • Rename the connection to tell several Kplus connections apart.

 

Connection Features Detailed

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

 

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

 

Product Mapping

❌

You can't map products from Ventrata. Kplus maps them on its side, through your account manager or Kplus's portal.

This works as follows:

  • Get Products (GET /products) – when Kplus 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}) – Kplus re-reads a single product to pick up changes to its options, units, booking cutoffs and settings.

  • Mapping on Kplus's side – Kplus links each Ventrata option and unit to its own listing and ticket types. Your Kplus account manager does this for you, or you do it in Kplus's own portal if Kplus offers one. You only share the connection's API key.

 

What this means for you: Kplus can only sell what it has mapped. When you add a product, option or unit in Ventrata, Kplus may see it on its next refresh, but it won't sell it until it's mapped. So tell your Kplus account manager whenever you add one.

Content Sync

❌

Kplus doesn't read your product content from Ventrata.

Kplus uses the descriptions, images and other content set up on its own side, so update your content with Kplus directly.

Availability Sync

✅

Kplus checks your live availability in Ventrata. Ventrata doesn't push availability changes to Kplus.

This works as follows:

  • Availability Check (POST /availability) – Kplus 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 Kplus 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 Kplus 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, Kplus 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 Kplus asks for them with the octo/pricing capability.

This works as follows:

  • octo/pricing capability – Kplus 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 Kplus, both from the reseller's pricing in Ventrata (retail and wholesale/commission).

  • Group prices – when Kplus 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 Kplus to map your products, ask them to enable pricing (octo/pricing) as well, or switch it on yourself if you map in Kplus's portal. Otherwise it may be off, and Kplus won't receive your Ventrata prices.

Promotions Sync

❌

Your Ventrata promotions don't apply on Kplus.

Prices on Kplus don't include promotions you create in Ventrata. Set up any promotions with Kplus directly.

Bookings Sync

✅

Bookings and cancellations made on Kplus are created in Ventrata instantly, and customers get Ventrata tickets.

This works as follows:

  1. Hold: Booking Reservation (POST /bookings) – when a customer starts checkout on Kplus, Kplus 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.

  2. Confirm: Booking Confirmation (POST /bookings/{uuid}/confirm) – once payment goes through, Kplus 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. Kplus gives these to the customer, who shows them at your entrance like any Ventrata ticket.

  3. Expire: if the customer doesn't finish paying, Kplus never confirms, and the hold expires on its own and frees the places.

  4. Cancel: Booking Cancellation (POST /bookings/{uuid}/cancel) – when a customer cancels on Kplus, Kplus 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 Kplus has to contact you.

  5. Change: Booking Update (PATCH /bookings/{uuid}) – lets Kplus 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 Kplus to Ventrata. If you cancel, change or rebook a booking from Kplus in Ventrata, for example in the Dashboard, Kplus isn't notified. Contact Kplus so the booking is cancelled or changed on their side too, or ask the customer to cancel through Kplus.

Pickups/Dropoff Sync

❌

Kplus doesn't send pickup or drop-off details with its bookings.

If your products include pickups, check with Kplus how it collects pickup details, or arrange them with the customer.

Custom Questions Sync

❌

Kplus doesn't send answers to your booking questions.

If you rely on booking questions, for example names or dietary needs, check with Kplus how it collects that information.

Extras Sync

❌

Extras and add-ons can't be booked through Kplus.

Customers can only book your main products and options on Kplus. Sell extras separately, for example on arrival.

Redemption Sync

❌

Redemptions aren't reported to Kplus.

Ventrata doesn't notify Kplus when a ticket is scanned or redeemed. Kplus only sees a redemption if it reads the booking back from Ventrata.

Pass Walkup Scanning Sync

❌

Kplus pass holders can't be scanned at your entrance without a booking.

Customers from Kplus need a booking made through Kplus before they visit.

Gift Card Sync

❌

Ventrata gift cards can't be sold or redeemed through Kplus.

Gift cards bought in Ventrata can't be used on Kplus, and Kplus can't sell Ventrata gift cards.

✅ supported · ❌ not supported

 

Good to know: limits and details of the Kplus connection

  • Delays: availability and prices reach Kplus only when it checks, so there's always a short delay after you change something in Ventrata.

  • Cancellation cutoff: Kplus can cancel over the API only before your option's cancellation cutoff. Later cancellations have to be agreed with you.

  • What Kplus 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: Kplus issues the Ventrata tickets or voucher it gets on confirmation, so your usual scanning and redemption work as normal.

  • Test bookings: Kplus 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 Kplus.

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.

 

 

Partner Information

KPlus Bilişim Teknolojileri ve Sağlık Hizmetleri Anonim Şirketi

Muratpaşa Mahallesi, Uluyol Caddesi No:17-19 Kat:4 Daire:18, Bayrampaşa, İstanbul

Türkiye

 

Ventrata Partner ID: f63ce6c4-dc72-4955-954d-72ddda47cded

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