Viator API Documentation & Specification – Merchant Partners (1.0.0)

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Updates

Latest update:

Date Description
23 Feb 2023 Modified 'Building in the sandbox environment' section of the Selling on-request products section
16 Nov 2022 Mentioned need to verify whether a particular tour grade offers pickup prior to booking
15 July 2022 Modified description of /booking/availability endpoint and added advice to country-code and full-detail phone number field descriptions to communicate that a plus (+) symbol must be included at the beginning of the string
26 May 2022 Added advice about review authenticity: Key concepts - Review authenticity
5 Jan 2022 Corrected travelDate format in example request in /booking/calculateprice
30 Sep 2021 Corrected data.ageBands specification in /booking/availability/tourgrades
27 Sep 2021 Added note about time-out recommendation to /booking/book
6 Sep 2021 Modified available options for sortOrder request parameter in /taxonomy/attractions endpoint
3 Feb 2021 Added Special offers and on-sale pricing section
28 Oct 2020 Updated FAQ section re booking questions, traveler names, and pricing
16 Sep 2020 Modified FAQ section re booking currencies, supplier name display and requesting additional reviews
20 July 2020 Added Booking references section

Previous updates: See Update log

Overview

The Viator Partner API comprises a set of endpoints that can support the operation of a fully-featured tours and experiences booking website or application; or, it can be integrated with your existing travel-booking software.

The API exposes a variety of services that allow the retrieval of all product details, such as descriptions, pricing, terms and conditions, photos and reviews. This data can either be ingested periodically and managed on your local system, or calls can be made in real time to retrieve content in response to your users' activity on your systems.

The API allows product availability schedules to be retrieved in bulk or queried in real-time, and it can perform pricing calculations according to the number and type of traveler for the wide variety of product option combinations typically available in the tours and activities sales workflow.

The API provides booking and post-booking functionality, allowing booking requests, ticket purchase, and booking status updates.

Various utility services are available to map between yours and Viator's data taxonomy.

Please note: The API does not provide services for storing data, such as user accounts. We assume that merchant partners have their own systems for storing this data.

Who is the API for?

The Viator Partner API is designed for use by organizations and individuals partnered with Viator in one of the following capacities:

Merchant partners

A merchant partner is one who operates as the merchant of record; i.e., takes full responsibility for all monetary transactions carried out by their users, as well as providing customer support with regard to providing help, processing cancellations and refunds, and liaising between suppliers and customers when the need to communicate information arises.

Merchant partners are invoiced periodically by Viator for all product sales. You will need to demonstrate that you have access to the appropriate infrastructure to effectively support the requisite business operations in order to become a merchant partner.

Viator Branded Affiliates (VBAs)

VBAs have full access to the areas of the API relating to content, but sales of Viator products must be carried out on the Viator site itself; therefore, access to the booking or transactional endpoints necessary to operate as the merchant of record (i.e., merchant partners) is restricted.

When a customer wishes to book a product from a VBA partner's site, they are instead redirected to viator.com in order to complete the purchase; whereas, merchant partners are able to process and manage bookings through the Viator API itself, allowing their customers to book products without leaving the partner's site.

Viator affiliates instead generate unique URLs that redirect their users to the Viator site, resulting in a cookie being set such that all transactions will accrue a commission for that partner until the cookie expires.

Purchases of products originating from the VBAs site are recorded and a commission on these sales is paid periodically.

VBAs with booking capability

VBAs also have the option of allowing their customers to process bookings directly from their site and via the API – similar to a merchant partner – without being redirected to viator.com to complete their transaction. This partner type sends customer details, product details and credit card payment information via the API, but Viator retains control of and responsibility for processing payments and customer support.

White label partners

White label partners do not operate their own site infrastructure. Instead, Viator provides a white label site with full functionality that can be branded according to the partner’s wishes.

Uses of the Viator Partner API

The Viator Partner API is used to carry out the following tasks:

Product search and ingestion

Partners can use the product search endpoints to retrieve lists of products from Viator’s inventory relevant to their business. The available search criteria include:

  • The location (destination) in which the product operates
  • Whether the product is associated with a well-known tourist attraction; e.g., Empire State Building
  • The type of product (known as its category and/or subcategory)
  • The time period during which the product operates
  • Words or phrases that occur in a product's description via a free-text search

Partners who prefer to download product details periodically (instead of performing all operations in real time in response to user behavior) do so by using the product search endpoints to compile a list of products that they wish to sell on their site. They then download comprehensive product details for each via the /product endpoint.

Product search endpoints:

Endpoint Use
/search/products Allows searching for products according to: destination / location, relationship to a known tourist attraction; category and/or subcategory; date of operation
/search/products/codes Retrieves product details for products that match a list of product codes (unique identifiers for the product)
/search/freetext Retrieves product details for products that include the search terms in the product's description and details.
/available/products Retrieves products that are identified by specific product codes, operate during a specified day range and accept a certain number of adult travelers

Product information endpoints:

All information about a product that must be communicated to customers prior to purchase is available via /product and its auxiliary endpoints. This content is generally used to construct product display pages and for performing local searches.

Important information about a product includes:

  • Product and supplier names
  • Geographic location
  • Product description
  • Category and subcategory
  • Photos (from both users and the supplier)
  • User reviews and ratings
  • Product options (variants of the tour/activity, such as starting times, passenger mix options, and inclusions/add-ons, including basic pricing information for each)
  • Which age ranges can participate
  • Booking details
  • Cancellation policies
  • Basic pricing
  • Logistics
    • Inclusions (e.g., provided meals)
    • Exclusions (e.g., entrance fees to visited attractions)
    • Health restrictions and accessibility
    • Departure times
    • Passenger pick-up
    • Duration
    • Tour routes

Availability

The availability of a tour is communicated via the API's availability endpoints. The availability aspects of a product include:

  • On which days and at which times the product is available to be booked
  • Whether the product option (variant) supports a certain combination of passengers according to age and number
  • Pricing information

Some partners choose to bulk-ingest availability information for their products in order to expedite this part of the customer workflow or to facilitate a local search functionality on their website; but, because this information changes very regularly, a final real-time call is generally recommended to ensure that when the booking request is submitted by the customer it is unlikely to fail on account of a change in availability.

Availability endpoints

Endpoint Use
/booking/availability Returns the product option with the lowest price that is available on each day
/booking/availability/dates Returns all available dates for a product (but without regard to product option)
/booking/availability/tourgrades Returns all product options for a product that are available on the specified day for the specified passenger mix
/booking/availability/tourgrades/pricingmatrix Returns a detailed matrix of product options, passenger mixes and the pricing applicable to each combination
/booking/calculateprice Provides a reconfirmation of a product's availability with respect to the product option and passenger mix provided and calculates a final price; used as a final availability check immediately prior to making a booking

Booking and cancellations

Merchant partners and VBAs with booking capabilities can use the Viator Partner API to purchase the product through the /booking/book endpoint.

The API also provides services to:

  • Enquire about the status of an existing booking
  • Retrieve tickets/vouchers for the product
  • Cancel a booking

Booking endpoints

Endpoint Use
/booking/book Make a booking / purchase a product
/booking/status Retrieve multiple detailed booking statuses based on a range of specified criteria
/booking/status/items Similar to /booking/status, but provides slightly less detail and can be called more frequently

Cancellation endpoints

Endpoint Use
/bookings/{booking-reference}/cancel-quote Returns the expected outcome of a booking cancellation request (taking into consideration the product's cancellation policy) were the cancellation request performed immediately
/bookings/{booking-reference}/cancel Cancels the booking and assigns a refund depending on the product’s cancellation policy

Auxiliary services

Taxonomical data sets are required to interact meaningfully with the Viator Partner API; for example, mappings from destination (location of operation) to their respective identification codes. This information may occasionally change or be added to. Consequently, the API includes endpoints that return the most up-to-date versions of this information.

Taxonomy endpoints

Endpoint Use
/taxonomy/destinations Retrieves a list of destination names, types and unique identifiers to be used when interacting with the Viator Partner API
/taxonomy/categories Retrieves a list of product categories for a destination that can be used as a means of filtering when searching for products using the /search/products endpoint
/taxonomy/attractions Retrieves a list of tourist attractions (e.g., the Eiffel Tower or Empire State Building) and their associated identification codes to be used as a means of searching for available products; for example, in the /search/products service
/booking/hotels Retrieves a list of hotels, including names and geographic locations, to be used when making booking requests

Authentication

Note:

  • The authentication mechanism for this API has been updated recently. Now, partners can also authenticate using a new style of API key that is included in each call as a header parameter. Previously, authentication was accomplished by including an API key as a query parameter.

  • Partners who are currently authenticating via the API key query parameter can continue to authenticate in this way; however, access to the new booking cancellation endpoints (/bookings/cancel-reasons, /bookings/cancel-quote and /bookings/cancel) does require the new-style of API key. All other endpoints remain compatible with both authentication methods.

  • If you would like to switch to the new style of key, please speak to your business development account manager.

API key

Access to the API is managed using an API key that is included as a header parameter to every call made to all API endpoints described in this document.

Header parameter name Example value
exp-api-key bcac8986-4c33-4fa0-ad3f-75409487026c

If you do not know the API key for your organization, please contact your business development account manager for these details.

Please note that language localization is now controlled on a per-call basis. Previously, language localization was controlled via API-key configuration, with one language available per API key. Under the present scheme, you can access any language enabled for your organization's point of sale via a single API key.

Language selection is accomplished by specifying the desired language as a header parameter (Accept-Language). See Accept-Language header for available language codes. If you would like access to additional languages, please contact your business development account manager.

Legacy API key

Previously, authenticating to this API was accomplished by passing an API-key as a query parameter appended to the URI for each call; e.g.:

GET https://viatorapi.sandbox.viator.com/service/taxonomy/destinations?apiKey=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

This method of authentication remains available for backwards-compatibility with existing implementations. If you would like to upgrade to the new style of API key, please contact your business development account manager.

Key concepts

Content ingestion and caching strategy

Much of the information you will need to retrieve from the Viator API – such as the taxonomy, product lists and product details – do not change frequently.

Therefore, we recommend implementing a caching strategy in order to eliminate unnecessary traffic to Viator’s servers and improve the operation of your site.

This section discusses the different strategies for retrieving and caching Viator’s product catalogue.

You will need to decide on how you will retrieve and manage content from Viator’s product catalogue. The two main options are as follows:

1. API response caching

Partners retrieve content as-needed and cache responses on a service-by-service basis

If you do not need to store product details locally, we recommend performing caching of on a service-by-service basis; i.e., storing the entire response and applying a time-to-live (TTL) of less than 24 hours.

Benefits of API response caching

  • All the benefits of caching with minimal overhead
  • Minimal risk of serving stale or invalid data cached on the partner's side
  • No need to download data about products that are not selling
  • A smaller volume of local data improves cache hit performance
  • Fewer requests made of Viator's systems
  • Avoids rate limitations
  • Closer adherence to best practices
  • Removes need to manage a complex data structure locally

Service endpoints to cache

Caching should only be applied to services that yield infrequently changing data; i.e.:

Note: these services should be considered cacheable even though some are POST and none include a Cache-Control HTTP header in their response.

2. Periodic content ingestion

Partners download either the full product catalogue or a subset of the catalogue at regular intervals based on destination, linked attraction, or product category filters.

Who should use periodic ingestion

This approach may be preferable for partners whose requirements include:

  • System agnosticism/data centralization – i.e., partners who are simultaneously selling products from vendors other than Viator, have existing product databases or are likely to want to maintain a central product catalogue with a unified taxonomy / data structure
  • Enhanced search capability – i.e., the ability to apply different categorization rules, filters, exclusions or search optimizations to the product catalogue; e.g., grouping or filtering products according to criteria other than those supported directly by the Viator API (destination, attraction-link or category)

Frequency of content ingestion

We recommend that you perform an ingestion of the product catalogue once every 24 hours.

How to retrieve product codes

Make a call to one of the product search services:

  • /search/products – to search by destId (destination), catId (category), subCatId (subcategory) or seoId (attraction)
  • /search/freetext – free-text search across all identifying fields

How to retrieve all products in the catalogue

To retrieve all products from the Viator catalogue:

  • Retrieve all available destination identifiers (destId) from the /taxonomy/destinations service
  • Iterate through the complete list of destIds you retrieved in the previous step, and call /search/products for each destId

Note: As some products operate in multiple destinations, the same product code may be returned for a range of different destinations. Therefore, make sure your list of product codes only contains one copy of each code.

You may then iterate through this list of product codes to retrieve any other product details necessary in order to properly populate your local database with the information you require.

Retrieving a subsection of the product catalogue

You may wish to retrieve only some of the products available in the Viator catalogue; for example, if your organization is only interested in selling products that operate locally.

Your top level search using /search/products is restricted to one of the three main categorization methods for products; i.e., destination, category/subcategory, or attraction-link; however, you may employ your own methods to filter the selection of products based on any attribute in the product data structure.

Dealing with pagination using totalCount and topX

Due to the large number of results that can be returned by the /search/products service, the request might exceed the 30-second time-out limitation on both sandbox and live servers. Therefore, you will need to make multiple requests to this service including pagination information in order to retrieve all products that match your search criteria.

This is accomplished by sequentially requesting successive segments of the results using the topX request parameter together with the totalCount response field; i.e.:

  • For your first request, specify a topX of "1-100"
    • Note: this range is inclusive; i.e., "topX": 1-100" will yield the first 100 records
  • The first response will indicate the total number of records available through the value of the totalCount field in the response object; e.g.: "totalCount": 13843
  • For each subsequent request, specify the next logical 'chunk' of data via the topX parameter of the request; e.g.:
    • "topX": "1-100"
    • "topX": "101-200"
    • ...
    • "topX": "13801-13843"

Rate limiting

Due to the heavy load that pre-caching can place on Viator's servers and the downstream servers we connect to, we apply a rate limit of 150 requests per 10 second time window.

Request rates exceeding this limit will result in a HTTP 429 (Too Many Requests) status code being returned.

Note: The rate is calculated over a rolling 10-second time window

  • In order to avoid running-up against rate limits:
    • insert a delay of 2s if you receive a HTTP 429 status code
    • do not run this as a multi-threaded process

Review authenticity

Viator performs checks on reviews

You can only submit a review or rating of an experience to Viator if you were the person who made the booking through Viator. Before publication, each review goes through an automated tracking system, which collects information for each of the following criteria: who, what, how, and when.

If the system detects something that contradicts our publication criteria, the review is not published. When the system detects a problem with a review, it may be automatically rejected, sent to the reviewer for validation, or manually reviewed by our team of content specialists who work 24/7 to maintain the quality of the reviews on our site. In some cases, we will also send Viator customers an email asking them to validate their review before it is published.

All Viator customers need to do is to click on the link provided in the email.

After publication, our team checks each review reported to it as not meeting our publication criteria. Tripadvisor reviews that appear on the Viator site are subject to the same checks and moderation processes as set out above. It is not necessary to have booked an experience through Viator (or Tripadvisor) to submit a review of an experience to the Tripadvisor site.

Booking concepts

Booking types - on-request and freesale

Bookings made with Viator can be either freesale (immediate confirmation) or on-request, which require us to confirm with our product supplier that the product has not sold out and is still available. This difference must be clearly communicated to the customer during the price check and on the order summary post-purchase page.

For freesale bookings, the voucher becomes available immediately, and the customer's credit card will be charged at the time of booking. For on-request bookings, confirmation will be sent to the customer within a timeframe supplied in the /booking/calculateprice and /booking service responses.

The customer's credit card will be charged once their on-request booking is confirmed.

bookingEngineId

bookingEngineId is a field returned in the responses from several endpoints documented in this manual. It is a booking type specifier indicating whether, when the product in question is booked, the booking will be CONFIRMED immediately or if it will remain PENDING even after the booking has been made, indicating that it is an on-request product.

bookingEngineId takes one of the following values:

  • "FreesaleBE" – the product will be confirmed immediately and the supplier will be sent a notification.

  • "UnconditionalBE" - the product will be confirmed immediately and the supplier will not be notified.

  • "DeferredCRMBE" - the product is an on-request product and the booking will not be confirmed immediately. The booking will remain with a PENDING status after it is made, to be confirmed by the supplier within the time specified in the hoursConfirmed field available in the booking response and post-booking services.

  • "FreesaleOnRequestBE" - The product is freesale up until a certain number of days before the travel date, after which it becomes on-request. It is then referred to as being within the on-request period. If a booking is made within the on-request period, the product can be considered to be an on-request product. Once the booking has been made, the bookingEngineId will change to either "FreesaleOnRequestBE:OnRequest" or "FreesaleOnRequestBE:Freesold" depending on the travel date and the on-request period.

Tour grades

Products can have one or more tour grades. Each tour grade might represent a departure time or different tour option, such as additional meals, transport and so forth. If the tour grade code is "DEFAULT", do not display this to the customer, simply hide the product's tour grade information.

Language options

Many tours deliver a commentary in multiple languages using multilingual tour guides or with written or prerecorded information. Where available, the customer can preselect their preferred language option.

Traveler mix (pax)

Some tour grades have defined traveler mixes used to price family passes; or, they might have special mixes for limited passenger tours, such as small buggies or weddings.

These traveler mixes are provided by the /booking/availability/tourgrades service. You may need to display these to your customers so that they are able to understand why they can or cannot select a particular tour grade if there is a traveler mix mismatch.

Pick-up location and hotel lists

Some products have pick-up and return shuttle bus services. For these tours, you will need the customer to supply a pick-up hotel, or they must select live locally or hotel not yet booked options.

Viator maintains pick-up hotel lists for many popular destinations. These lists are available for customers to select their pick-up location for various tours. For destinations without hotel lists, customers can enter the name of their hotel. If a customer's hotel is not listed, they should be able to enter a hotel name; however, pick-up may not be possible for that hotel.

Lead traveler

Each tour booking requires a lead traveler to be identified. To identify the lead traveler in your request, set the leadTraveller flag to true in the traveler class.

Booking questions

Some products have a list of one or more booking questions that need to be asked. Some are mandatory. The question, a description, etc are provided in the product details object. The answers need to be included with the booking request.

SSL/HTTPS

Calls to the /booking/book service must use a secure channel (https) as they contain credit card information.

Promo codes

Viator can create promotional (promo) codes for discounts and other purposes. As it's unlikely for you to wish to support this feature, we recommend supplying null in the promoCode field and not including any customer-entered fields during the checkout process.

Partner data

Partners can also supply additional information for their own internal purposes. These are attached to booking reports and other materials for use in allocating commissions to agents and so forth.

Availability services

Product availability information can be retrieved with the following services:

Example: multiple departures in a single day

Multiple departures in a single day (each represented by a tour grade) and the language options (langServices).

This request is for 3 adults on a helicopter tour:

  • Note: No prices are returned if the tour grade is unavailable.

Request object (/booking/availability/tourgrades):

{
  "productCode": "2280AAHT",
  "bookingDate": "2013-05-11",
  "currencyCode": "EUR",
  "ageBands": [{
    "bandId": 1,
    "count": 3
  }]
}

Response object (/booking/availability/tourgrades) :

{
  "data": [{
    "available": false,
    "ageBands": null,
    "langServices": null,
    "gradeCode": "EARLYM",
    "unavailableReason": "BOOKING_CUTOFF_EXPIRED",
    "gradeTitle": "Early Morning Departure",
    "gradeDepartureTime": "",
    "gradeDescription": "Flight departs Las Vegas between 7am & 8am",
    "defaultLanguageCode": "en",
    "ageBandsRequired": null,
    "currencyCode": "ERROR",
    "retailPrice": 0,
    "bookingDate": "2013-05-11",
    "retailPriceFormatted": "",
    "merchantNetPrice": 0,
    "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "",
    "sortOrder": 1
  },
  {
    "available": false,
    "ageBands": null,
    "langServices": null,
    "gradeCode": "LATEM",
    "unavailableReason": "BOOKING_CUTOFF_EXPIRED",
    "gradeTitle": "Late Morning Departure",
    "gradeDepartureTime": "",
    "gradeDescription": "Flight departs Las Vegas between 9:45am & 10:45am",
    "defaultLanguageCode": "en",
    "ageBandsRequired": null,
    "currencyCode": "ERROR",
    "retailPrice": 0,
    "bookingDate": "2013-05-11",
    "retailPriceFormatted": "",
    "merchantNetPrice": 0,
    "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "",
    "sortOrder": 2
  },
  {
    "available": false,
    "ageBands": null,
    "langServices": null,
    "gradeCode": "EARLYA",
    "unavailableReason": "BOOKING_CUTOFF_EXPIRED",
    "gradeTitle": "Early Afternoon Departure",
    "gradeDepartureTime": "2:50 PM",
    "gradeDescription": "Flight departs Las Vegas between 12:30pm & 1:30pm",
    "defaultLanguageCode": "en",
    "ageBandsRequired": null,
    "currencyCode": "ERROR",
    "retailPrice": 0,
    "bookingDate": "2013-05-11",
    "retailPriceFormatted": "",
    "merchantNetPrice": 0,
    "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "",
    "sortOrder": 3
  },
  {
    "available": false,
    "ageBands": null,
    "langServices": null,
    "gradeCode": "LATEA",
    "unavailableReason": "BOOKING_CUTOFF_EXPIRED",
    "gradeTitle": "Late Afternoon Departure",
    "gradeDepartureTime": "",
    "gradeDescription": "Flight departs Las Vegas between 3:15pm & 4:15pm; available Ap",
    "defaultLanguageCode": "en",
    "ageBandsRequired": null,
    "currencyCode": "ERROR",
    "retailPrice": 0,
    "bookingDate": "2013-05-11",
    "retailPriceFormatted": "",
    "merchantNetPrice": 0,
    "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "",
    "sortOrder": 4
  }],
  "vmid": "221001",
  "errorMessage": null,
  "errorType": null,
  "dateStamp": "2013-06-04T17:01:34+0000",
  "totalCount": 1,
  "errorReference": null,
  "errorMessageText": null,
  "success": true,
  "errorName": null
}

Example: traveler mix mismatch

The request is for five adults, but this product only support up to four adults.

Example request object (/booking/availability/tourgrades):

{
  "productCode": "2280ULTWED",
  "bookingDate": "2013-12-11",
  "currencyCode": "EUR",
  "ageBands": [{
    "bandId": 1,
    "count": 5
  }]
}

Example response object The response contains "TRAVELLER_MISMATCH" and you can see the ageBandsRequired values for the adult (1) age band in the available tour grade.

{
  "data": [{
    "available": false,
    "ageBands": null,
    "langServices": null,
    "gradeCode": "DEFAULT",
    "unavailableReason": "TRAVELLER_MISMATCH",
    "gradeTitle": "DEFAULT",
    "gradeDepartureTime": "12:00 AM",
    "gradeDescription": "DEFAULT",
    "defaultLanguageCode": "en",
    "ageBandsRequired": [
    [{
      "bandId": 1,
      "minimumCountRequired": 2,
      "maximumCountRequired": 2
    }],
    [{
      "bandId": 1,
      "minimumCountRequired": 3,
      "maximumCountRequired": 3
    }],
    [{
      "bandId": 1,
      "minimumCountRequired": 4,
      "maximumCountRequired": 4
    }]],
    "currencyCode": "ERROR",
    "retailPrice": 0,
    "bookingDate": "2013-12-11",
    "retailPriceFormatted": "",
    "merchantNetPrice": 0,
    "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "",
    "sortOrder": 1
  }],
  "vmid": "221001",
  "errorMessage": null,
  "errorType": null,
  "dateStamp": "2013-06-04T17:02:35+0000",
  "totalCount": 1,
  "errorReference": null,
  "errorMessageText": null,
  "success": true,
  "errorName": null
}

Understanding the pricingUnit field

This section explains the meaning and function of the pricingUnit field in the response object received from the /booking/availability/tourgrades/pricingmatrix service.

Request body

The /booking/availability/tourgrades/pricingmatrix service takes the following parameters as input in its request body:

Parameter Type Meaning
productCode string unique alphanumeric identifier of the product to enquire about; e.g., 10040WORLD
month string month of the year by which to filter results
year string year by which to filter results
currencyCode string currency code for the currency in which to display pricing information

Example request body

Sending the following request body to the /booking/availability/tourgrades/pricingmatrix service will retrieve pricing information for "Skip the Line: World of Discoveries Entrance Ticket in Porto" (product code: 10040WORLD).

{
  "productCode": "10040WORLD",
  "currencyCode": "USD",
  "month": "06",
  "year": "2019"
}

Response object

Within each object item of the tourGrades array – each of which gives the pricing details for a specific tour grade – is a pricingMatrix array. Each object in this array details the per-age-band pricing for a specific pricing unit (pricingUnit) associated with that product.

Using this information, you should be able to calculate the total cost of the booking – considering any booking options – with regard to the number of participants.

How to identify the fundamental unit prices for a booking, which are then summed in order to calculate a total price, is detailed below.

Note that in the response object received from the service, pricing schedules are organized hierarchically as follows:

bookingDate
--tourGrade
----ageBand
------price

Types of pricing unit

There are two fundamental types of pricing unit – per-person and per-group.

Per-person pricing schedule

If the pricing is per-person, then the total price of the booking will be directly proportional to the number of participants (passengers) of each type that are booking the product; i.e., a direct multiple of the per-person price.

The only pricing unit specifier for per-person pricing is “per person”, given in the pricingUnit field; i.e.:

  • "pricingUnit": "per person"
Pricing unit Example product Meaning
"per person" 10040WORLD Per-person pricing – the unit price refers to the price for an individual participant.
Some products have tiered pricing arrangements; i.e., a different per-person price can apply if certain numbers and combinations of participants in a particular age band are booking the product; e.g.:
  • 1-2 adults: $50 per person
  • 3-4 adults: $45 per person

Whether a range is available to be booked depends on whether the customer’s desired passenger mix satisfies the minimumCountRequired and maximumCountRequired fields in each item of the ageBandPrices array.

Per-group pricing

If the pricing is per-group, then the total price of the booking will depend on the number of groups and types of group that ideally accommodate the participant mix.

The following pricing schedules follow “per-group” logic:

  • "pricingUnit": "per vehicle"
  • "pricingUnit": "per car"
  • "pricingUnit": "per group"
  • "pricingUnit": "per boat"
  • "pricingUnit": "per package"
  • "pricingUnit": "per jetski"
  • "pricingUnit": "per vessel"
  • "pricingUnit": "per helicopter"
  • "pricingUnit": "per room"
  • "pricingUnit": "per bike"
  • "pricingUnit": "per flight"
  • "pricingUnit": "per plane"
  • "pricingUnit": "per couple"

Eligibility for a certain individual pricing schedule; or, for inclusion in a particular group type, depends on the tour grade for the product, the type of participant (e.g., the age-band they fall into) and the date of the booking.

Group pricing schedules

Pricing unit Example product Meaning
"per group" 10847P42 Per-group pricing – the unit price is calculated according to the number of groups the specified passenger will fit into rather than the exact number of participants. minimumCountRequired and maximumCountRequired must be considered as these fields relate to the available group sizes.
"per room" 6279P26 Per-room pricing relates the room price, which depends on the number of participants making the booking.
"per package" 25941P70 Per-package pricing refers to products that are sold as part of a package; for example a family package stipulating a passenger mix of two adults and two children
"per vehicle" 6154SHOP Per-vehicle pricing is calculated according to the number of vehicles required for the specified passenger mix rather than the exact number of participants. minimumCountRequired and maximumCountRequired must be considered as these fields relate to the occupancy limitations for each vehicle. The minimum price will depend on the rate for a single vehicle.
"per car" 10175P10 Per-car pricing – identical to "per vehicle", but refers specifically to vehicles that are cars.
"per boat" 11121P40 Per-boat pricing – identical to "per vehicle", but refers specifically to vehicles that are boats.
"per jetski" 28965P127 Per-jetski pricing – identical to "per vehicle", but refers specifically to vehicles that are jet-skis.
"per vessel" 17295P24 Per-vessel pricing – identical to "per vehicle", but refers specifically to maritime vessels that are not strictly boats.
"per helicopter" 12189P23 Per-helicopter pricing – identical to "per vehicle", but refers specifically to vehicles that are helicopters.
"per bike" 17448P8 Per-bike pricing – identical to "per vehicle", but refers specifically to vehicles that are bikes.
"per flight" 28965P134 Per-flight pricing – identical to "per vehicle", but refers specifically to the act of being aboard a flying vehicle.
"per plane" 14876P5 Per-plane pricing – identical to "per vehicle", but refers specifically to vehicles that are aeroplanes.

Interpreting response objects by example

In this section, we’ll have a look at snippets from the response objects received from the /booking/availability/tourgrades/pricingmatrix service and interpret the results.

Per-person pricing

Request object
{
  "productCode": "10040WORLD",
  "currencyCode": "USD",
  "month": "06",
  "year": "2019"
}

Response snippet

Note: pricingMatrix is an array of objects that detail the available pricing schedules for the product:

"pricingMatrix": [
  {
    "sortOrder": 1,
    "pricingUnit": "per person",
    "bookingDate": "2019-06-01",
    "ageBandPrices": [
      {
        "bandId": 1,
        "prices": [
          {
            "sortOrder": 1,
            "currencyCode": "USD",
            "price": 13.85,
            "priceFormatted": "$13.85",
            "merchantNetPrice": 11.05,
            "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$11.05",
            "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1
          }
        ],
        "sortOrder": 1,
        "minimumCountRequired": 0,
        "maximumCountRequired": 15
      },
      {
        "bandId": 2,
        "prices": [
          {
            "sortOrder": 1,
            "currencyCode": "USD",
            "price": 6.92,
            "priceFormatted": "$6.92",
            "merchantNetPrice": 5.53,
            "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$5.53",
            "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1
          }
        ],
        "sortOrder": 2,
        "minimumCountRequired": 0,
        "maximumCountRequired": 15
      },
      {
        "bandId": 3,
        "prices": [
          {
            "sortOrder": 1,
            "currencyCode": "USD",
            "price": 0,
            "priceFormatted": "$0.00",
            "merchantNetPrice": 0,
            "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$0.00",
            "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1
          }
        ],
        "sortOrder": 3,
        "minimumCountRequired": 0,
        "maximumCountRequired": 15
      },
      {
        "bandId": 5,
        "prices": [
          {
            "sortOrder": 1,
            "currencyCode": "USD",
            "price": 10.39,
            "priceFormatted": "$10.39",
            "merchantNetPrice": 8.3,
            "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$8.30",
            "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1
          }
        ],
        "sortOrder": 4,
        "minimumCountRequired": 0,
        "maximumCountRequired": 15
      }
    ]
  }
]

In this example, four age bands (1, 2, 3 and 5) have pricing information available. These numerically-identified age bands are the age bands allowed to book the product. Details of the age ranges that the product operator has defined are available from the /product service.

A call to /product regarding 10040WORLD yields the following information:

"ageBands": [
  {
    "sortOrder": 1,
    "ageFrom": 13,
    "ageTo": 64,
    "adult": true,
    "bandId": 1,
    "pluralDescription": "Adults",
    "treatAsAdult": true,
    "count": 0,
    "description": "Adult"
  },
  {
    "sortOrder": 2,
    "ageFrom": 65,
    "ageTo": 99,
    "adult": false,
    "bandId": 5,
    "pluralDescription": "Seniors",
    "treatAsAdult": true,
    "count": 0,
    "description": "Senior"
  },
  {
    "sortOrder": 3,
    "ageFrom": 4,
    "ageTo": 12,
    "adult": false,
    "bandId": 2,
    "pluralDescription": "Children",
    "treatAsAdult": false,
    "count": 0,
    "description": "Child"
  },
  {
    "sortOrder": 4,
    "ageFrom": 0,
    "ageTo": 3,
    "adult": false,
    "bandId": 3,
    "pluralDescription": "Infants",
    "treatAsAdult": false,
    "count": 0,
    "description": "Infant"
  }

Product operators choose the age bands available for their product from the following five categories and define the age ranges that pertain to each band; i.e.:

bandId description
1 Adult
2 Child
3 Infant
4 Youth
5 Senior

For this product, the age bands have been defined as follows:

bandId description ageFrom ageTo
1 Adult 13 64
5 Senior 65 99
2 Child 4 12
3 Infant 0 3

Therefore, for this product, the following pricing applies:

Passenger type Number Price
Adult 1-15 $13.85 per person
Senior 1-15 $10.39 per person
Child 1-15 $6.92 per person
Infant 1-15 free ($0)

Per-person pricing might depend on the mix of passengers booking the tour. In the following example (5010SYDNEY), a "48 Hour Family Pass Ticket" has a different price for children depending on how many are participating, which we'll see in the following snippet.

Response snippet
"tourGrades": [
  {
    "sortOrder": 1,
    "gradeCode": "14HFAM",
    "gradeTitle": "48 Hour Family Pass Ticket",
    "pricingMatrix": [
      {
        "sortOrder": 1,
        "pricingUnit": "per person",
        "bookingDate": "2019-08-01",
        "ageBandPrices": [
          {
            "bandId": 1,
            "prices": [
              {
                "sortOrder": 1,
                "currencyCode": "USD",
                "price": 133.47,
                "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1,
                "priceFormatted": "$133.47",
                "merchantNetPrice": 106.62,
                "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$106.62"
              }
            ],
            "sortOrder": 1,
            "minimumCountRequired": 1,
            "maximumCountRequired": 1
          },
          {
            "bandId": 2,
            "prices": [
              {
                "sortOrder": 1,
                "currencyCode": "USD",
                "price": 0,
                "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1,
                "priceFormatted": "$0.00",
                "merchantNetPrice": 0,
                "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$0.00"
              }
            ],
            "sortOrder": 2,
            "minimumCountRequired": 2,
            "maximumCountRequired": 2
          },
          {
            "bandId": 3,
            "prices": [
              {
                "sortOrder": 1,
                "currencyCode": "USD",
                "price": 0,
                "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1,
                "priceFormatted": "$0.00",
                "merchantNetPrice": 0,
                "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$0.00"
              }
            ],
            "sortOrder": 3,
            "minimumCountRequired": 0,
            "maximumCountRequired": null
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "sortOrder": 2,
        "pricingUnit": "per person",
        "bookingDate": "2019-08-01",
        "ageBandPrices": [
          {
            "bandId": 1,
            "prices": [
              {
                "sortOrder": 1,
                "currencyCode": "USD",
                "price": 133.47,
                "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1,
                "priceFormatted": "$133.47",
                "merchantNetPrice": 106.62,
                "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$106.62"
              }
            ],
            "sortOrder": 1,
            "minimumCountRequired": 1,
            "maximumCountRequired": 1
          },
          {
            "bandId": 2,
            "prices": [
              {
                "sortOrder": 1,
                "currencyCode": "USD",
                "price": 3.71,
                "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1,
                "priceFormatted": "$3.71",
                "merchantNetPrice": 2.96,
                "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$2.96"
              }
            ],
            "sortOrder": 2,
            "minimumCountRequired": 3,
            "maximumCountRequired": 4
          },
          {
            "bandId": 3,
            "prices": [
              {
                "sortOrder": 1,
                "currencyCode": "USD",
                "price": 0,
                "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1,
                "priceFormatted": "$0.00",
                "merchantNetPrice": 0,
                "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$0.00"
              }
            ],
            "sortOrder": 3,
            "minimumCountRequired": 0,
            "maximumCountRequired": null
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },]
Interpretation

To be eligible for a family pass ticket, the group must consist of an adult and at least two children.

Passenger mix Adult price Child price Infant price
1 Adult +
1 Child
N/A N/A N/A
1 Adult +
2 Children +
Any infants
$133.47 FREE FREE
1 Adult +
3-4 Children +
Any infants
$133.47 $3.71 FREE

Tiered per-person pricing

In this example, we see a per-person pricing schedule with a tiered arrangement, where the per-person price decreases depending on how many people are booking the tour, but the total price is still calculated as the sum of the individual per-person prices rather than an overall 'group' price.

Request object
{
  "productCode": "17972P102",
  "currencyCode": "USD",
  "month": "08",
  "year": "2019"
}
Response snippet
"tourGrades": [
  {
    "sortOrder": 1,
    "gradeCode": "TG1",
    "gradeTitle": "Arrival transfer",
    "pricingMatrix": [
      {
        "sortOrder": 1,
        "pricingUnit": "per person",
        "bookingDate": "2019-08-01",
        "ageBandPrices": [
          {
            "bandId": 1,
            "prices": [
              {
                "sortOrder": 1,
                "currencyCode": "USD",
                "price": 52.45,
                "priceFormatted": "$52.45",
                "merchantNetPrice": 40.87,
                "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$40.87",
                "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1
              }
            ],
            "sortOrder": 1,
            "maximumCountRequired": 1,
            "minimumCountRequired": 1
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "sortOrder": 2,
        "pricingUnit": "per person",
        "bookingDate": "2019-08-01",
        "ageBandPrices": [
          {
            "bandId": 1,
            "prices": [
              {
                "sortOrder": 1,
                "currencyCode": "USD",
                "price": 26.22,
                "priceFormatted": "$26.22",
                "merchantNetPrice": 20.44,
                "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$20.44",
                "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1
              }
            ],
            "sortOrder": 1,
            "maximumCountRequired": 2,
            "minimumCountRequired": 2
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "sortOrder": 3,
        "pricingUnit": "per person",
        "bookingDate": "2019-08-01",
        "ageBandPrices": [
          {
            "bandId": 1,
            "prices": [
              {
                "sortOrder": 1,
                "currencyCode": "USD",
                "price": 17.91,
                "priceFormatted": "$17.91",
                "merchantNetPrice": 13.62,
                "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$13.62",
                "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1
              }
            ],
            "sortOrder": 1,
            "maximumCountRequired": 3,
            "minimumCountRequired": 3
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "sortOrder": 4,
        "pricingUnit": "per person",
        "bookingDate": "2019-08-01",
        "ageBandPrices": [
          {
            "bandId": 1,
            "prices": [
              {
                "sortOrder": 1,
                "currencyCode": "USD",
                "price": 19.19,
                "priceFormatted": "$19.19",
                "merchantNetPrice": 14.99,
                "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$14.99",
                "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1
              }
            ],
            "sortOrder": 1,
            "maximumCountRequired": 4,
            "minimumCountRequired": 4
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "sortOrder": 5,
        "pricingUnit": "per person",
        "bookingDate": "2019-08-01",
        "ageBandPrices": [
          {
            "bandId": 1,
            "prices": [
              {
                "sortOrder": 1,
                "currencyCode": "USD",
                "price": 15.35,
                "priceFormatted": "$15.35",
                "merchantNetPrice": 12.25,
                "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$12.25",
                "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1
              }
            ],
            "sortOrder": 1,
            "maximumCountRequired": 5,
            "minimumCountRequired": 5
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "sortOrder": 6,
        "pricingUnit": "per person",
        "bookingDate": "2019-08-01",
        "ageBandPrices": [
          {
            "bandId": 1,
            "prices": [
              {
                "sortOrder": 1,
                "currencyCode": "USD",
                "price": 12.66,
                "priceFormatted": "$12.66",
                "merchantNetPrice": 10.08,
                "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$10.08",
                "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1
              }
            ],
            "sortOrder": 1,
            "maximumCountRequired": 6,
            "minimumCountRequired": 6
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "sortOrder": 7,
        "pricingUnit": "per person",
        "bookingDate": "2019-08-01",
        "ageBandPrices": [
          {
            "bandId": 1,
            "prices": [
              {
                "sortOrder": 1,
                "currencyCode": "USD",
                "price": 10.94,
                "priceFormatted": "$10.94",
                "merchantNetPrice": 8.72,
                "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$8.72",
                "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1
              }
            ],
            "sortOrder": 1,
            "maximumCountRequired": 7,
            "minimumCountRequired": 7
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
Interpretation
Travelers Per-person price Total price
1 $52.45 $52.45
2 $26.22 $52.44
3 $17.91 $53.73
4 $19.19 $76.76
5 $15.35 $76.75
6 $12.66 $75.96
7 $10.94 $76.58

Per-group pricing

Request object
{
  "productCode": "10847P42",
  "currencyCode": "USD",
  "month": "06",
  "year": "2019"
}
Response snippet
"pricingMatrix": [
  {
    "sortOrder": 1,
    "pricingUnit": "per group",
    "bookingDate": "2019-06-01",
    "ageBandPrices": [
      {
        "bandId": 1,
        "prices": [
          {
            "sortOrder": 1,
            "currencyCode": "USD",
            "price": 390,
            "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1,
            "priceFormatted": "$390.00",
            "merchantNetPrice": 339.74,
            "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$339.74"
          },
          {
            "sortOrder": 2,
            "currencyCode": "USD",
            "price": 390,
            "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 2,
            "priceFormatted": "$390.00",
            "merchantNetPrice": 0,
            "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$0.00"
          }
        ],
        "sortOrder": 1,
        "minimumCountRequired": 1,
        "maximumCountRequired": 10
      }
    ]
  }
]
Interpretation
  • "$390 per group of up to 10 adults"

Per-room pricing

Request object
{
  "productCode": "100245P40",
  "currencyCode": "USD",
  "month": "08",
  "year": "2019"
}
Response snippet
"pricingMatrix": [
{
    "sortOrder": 1,
    "pricingUnit": "per room",
    "bookingDate": "2019-08-01",
    "ageBandPrices": [
      {
        "bandId": 1,
        "prices": [
          {
            "sortOrder": 1,
            "currencyCode": "USD",
            "price": 110,
            "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1,
            "priceFormatted": "$110.00",
            "merchantNetPrice": 95.85,
            "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$95.85"
          },
          {
            "sortOrder": 2,
            "currencyCode": "USD",
            "price": 110,
            "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 2,
            "priceFormatted": "$110.00",
            "merchantNetPrice": 0,
            "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$0.00"
          }
        ],
        "sortOrder": 1,
        "minimumCountRequired": 1,
        "maximumCountRequired": 10
      }
    ]
  }
]
Interpretation
  • "$110 per group of up to 10 adults"

Per-package pricing

Request object
{
  "productCode": "25941P70",
  "currencyCode": "USD",
  "month": "02",
  "year": "2019"
}
Response snippet
"pricingMatrix": [
  {
    "sortOrder": 1,
    "pricingUnit": "per package",
    "bookingDate": "2019-02-01",
    "ageBandPrices": [
      {
        "bandId": 1,
        "prices": [
          {
            "sortOrder": 1,
            "currencyCode": "USD",
            "price": 87.7,
            "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1,
            "priceFormatted": "$87.70",
            "merchantNetPrice": 67.23,
            "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$67.23"
          },
          {
            "sortOrder": 2,
            "currencyCode": "USD",
            "price": 87.7,
            "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 2,
            "priceFormatted": "$87.70",
            "merchantNetPrice": 0,
            "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$0.00"
          }
        ],
        "sortOrder": 1,
        "minimumCountRequired": 1,
        "maximumCountRequired": 10
      }
    ]
  }
]
Interpretation
  • "$87.70 per group of up to 10 adults"

Per-vehicle pricing

Request object
{
  "productCode": "20190P4",
  "currencyCode": "USD",
  "month": "06",
  "year": "2019"
}
Response snippet
"pricingMatrix": [
  {
    "sortOrder": 1,
    "pricingUnit": "per vehicle",
    "bookingDate": "2019-06-01",
    "ageBandPrices": [
      {
        "bandId": 1,
        "prices": [
          {
            "sortOrder": 1,
            "currencyCode": "USD",
            "price": 250,
            "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1,
            "priceFormatted": "$250.00",
            "merchantNetPrice": 186.38,
            "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$186.38"
          },
          {
            "sortOrder": 2,
            "currencyCode": "USD",
            "price": 250,
            "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 2,
            "priceFormatted": "$250.00",
            "merchantNetPrice": 0,
            "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$0.00"
          }
        ],
        "sortOrder": 1,
        "minimumCountRequired": 1,
        "maximumCountRequired": 7
      }
    ]
  }
]
Interpretation
  • "$250 per group of up to 7 adults"

Per-car pricing

Request object
{
  "productCode": "10175P10",
  "currencyCode": "USD",
  "month": "06",
  "year": "2019"
}

Response snippet

"pricingMatrix": [
  {
    "sortOrder": 1,
    "pricingUnit": "per car",
    "bookingDate": "2019-06-01",
    "ageBandPrices": [
      {
        "bandId": 1,
        "prices": [
          {
            "sortOrder": 1,
            "currencyCode": "USD",
            "price": 98.08,
            "priceFormatted": "$98.08",
            "merchantNetPrice": 78.34,
            "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$78.34",
            "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1
          },
          {
            "sortOrder": 2,
            "currencyCode": "USD",
            "price": 98.08,
            "priceFormatted": "$98.08",
            "merchantNetPrice": 0,
            "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$0.00",
            "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 2
          }
        ],
        "sortOrder": 1,
        "minimumCountRequired": 1,
        "maximumCountRequired": 3
      }
    ]
  }
]
Interpretation
  • "$98.08 per group of up to 3 adults"

Per-boat pricing

Request object
{
  "productCode": "11121P40",
  "currencyCode": "USD",
  "month": "08",
  "year": "2018"
}
Response snippet
"pricingMatrix": [
  {
    "sortOrder": 1,
    "pricingUnit": "per boat",
    "bookingDate": "2018-06-01",
    "ageBandPrices": [
      {
        "bandId": 1,
        "prices": [
          {
            "sortOrder": 1,
            "currencyCode": "USD",
            "price": 266.21,
            "merchantNetPrice": 226.81,
            "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$226.81",
            "priceFormatted": "$266.21",
            "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1
          },
          {
            "sortOrder": 2,
            "currencyCode": "USD",
            "price": 266.21,
            "merchantNetPrice": 0,
            "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$0.00",
            "priceFormatted": "$266.21",
            "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 2
          }
        ],
        "sortOrder": 1,
        "minimumCountRequired": 1,
        "maximumCountRequired": 2
      }
    ]
  }
]
Interpretation
  • "$266.21 per group of up to 2 adults"

Per-jetski pricing

Request object
{
  "productCode": "28965P127",
  "currencyCode": "USD",
  "month": "08",
  "year": "2018"
}
Response snippet
"tourGrades": [
  {
    "sortOrder": 1,
    "gradeCode": "TG1",
    "gradeTitle": "20 minutes for 1 person",
    "pricingMatrix": [
      {
        "sortOrder": 1,
        "pricingUnit": "per jetski",
        "bookingDate": "2018-06-01",
        "ageBandPrices": [
          {
            "bandId": 1,
            "prices": [
              {
                "sortOrder": 1,
                "currencyCode": "USD",
                "price": 55.46,
                "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1,
                "priceFormatted": "$55.46",
                "merchantNetPrice": 47.25,
                "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$47.25"
              }
            ],
            "sortOrder": 1,
            "minimumCountRequired": 1,
            "maximumCountRequired": 1
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "sortOrder": 2,
    "gradeCode": "TG3",
    "gradeTitle": "20 minutes for 2 persons",
    "pricingMatrix": [
      {
        "sortOrder": 1,
        "pricingUnit": "per jetski",
        "bookingDate": "2018-06-01",
        "ageBandPrices": [
          {
            "bandId": 1,
            "prices": [
              {
                "sortOrder": 1,
                "currencyCode": "USD",
                "price": 66.55,
                "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1,
                "priceFormatted": "$66.55",
                "merchantNetPrice": 56.7,
                "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$56.70"
              },
              {
                "sortOrder": 2,
                "currencyCode": "USD",
                "price": 66.55,
                "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 2,
                "priceFormatted": "$66.55",
                "merchantNetPrice": 0,
                "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$0.00"
              }
            ],
            "sortOrder": 1,
            "minimumCountRequired": 1,
            "maximumCountRequired": 2
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
]
Interpretation

This example shows how group prices can differ according to the size of the group in question. In this case, two adults can ride together on a two-person jet ski, whereas a single adult requires his or her own jet ski, and therefore the unit price is slightly higher for the single adult.

Travelers Vehicle type Price per jet ski Price per person
1 Single-person jet ski $55.46 $55.46
2 Two-person jet ski $66.55 $33.275

Per-vessel pricing

Request object
{
  "productCode": "17295P24",
  "currencyCode": "USD",
  "month": "06",
  "year": "2019"
}
Response snippet
"pricingMatrix": [
  {
    "sortOrder": 1,
    "pricingUnit": "per vessel",
    "bookingDate": "2019-06-01",
    "ageBandPrices": [
      {
        "bandId": 1,
        "prices": [
          {
            "sortOrder": 1,
            "currencyCode": "USD",
            "price": 799,
            "priceFormatted": "$799.00",
            "merchantNetPrice": 680.75,
            "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$680.75",
            "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1
          },
          {
            "sortOrder": 2,
            "currencyCode": "USD",
            "price": 799,
            "priceFormatted": "$799.00",
            "merchantNetPrice": 0,
            "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$0.00",
            "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 2
          }
        ],
        "sortOrder": 1,
        "minimumCountRequired": 1,
        "maximumCountRequired": 12
      }
    ]
  }
]
Interpretation
  • "$799.00 per group of up to 12 adults"

Per-helicopter pricing

Request object
{
  "productCode": "12189P23",
  "currencyCode": "USD",
  "month": "08",
  "year": "2018"
}
Response snippet
"tourGrades": [
  {
    "sortOrder": 1,
    "gradeCode": "TG1",
    "gradeTitle": "Private Helicopter 1 to 2 Pax",
    "pricingMatrix": [
      {
        "sortOrder": 1,
        "pricingUnit": "per helicopter",
        "bookingDate": "2018-06-01",
        "ageBandPrices": [
          {
            "bandId": 1,
            "prices": [
              {
                "sortOrder": 1,
                "currencyCode": "USD",
                "price": 1714.83,
                "priceFormatted": "$1,714.83",
                "merchantNetPrice": 1461.03,
                "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$1,461.03",
                "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1
              },
              {
                "sortOrder": 2,
                "currencyCode": "USD",
                "price": 1714.83,
                "priceFormatted": "$1,714.83",
                "merchantNetPrice": 0,
                "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$0.00",
                "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 2
              }
            ],
            "sortOrder": 1,
            "minimumCountRequired": 1,
            "maximumCountRequired": 2
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "sortOrder": 2,
    "gradeCode": "TG2",
    "gradeTitle": "Private Helicopter 1 to 3 Pax",
    "pricingMatrix": [
      {
        "sortOrder": 1,
        "pricingUnit": "per helicopter",
        "bookingDate": "2018-06-01",
        "ageBandPrices": [
          {
            "bandId": 1,
            "prices": [
              {
                "sortOrder": 1,
                "currencyCode": "USD",
                "price": 2047.41,
                "priceFormatted": "$2,047.41",
                "merchantNetPrice": 1744.4,
                "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$1,744.40",
                "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1
              },
              {
                "sortOrder": 2,
                "currencyCode": "USD",
                "price": 2047.41,
                "priceFormatted": "$2,047.41",
                "merchantNetPrice": 0,
                "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$0.00",
                "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 2
              }
            ],
            "sortOrder": 1,
            "minimumCountRequired": 1,
            "maximumCountRequired": 3
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
]
Interpretation
Travelers Vehicle type Price per helicopter Price per person
1 1-2-person helicopter $1,714.83 $1,714.83
2 1-2-person helicopter $1,714.83 $857.415
3 1-3-person helicopter $2,047.41 $682.47

Per-bike pricing

Request object
{
  "productCode": "17448P8",
  "currencyCode": "USD",
  "month": "08",
  "year": "2018"
}

Response snippet

"pricingMatrix": [
  {
    "sortOrder": 1,
    "pricingUnit": "per bike",
    "bookingDate": "2018-06-01",
    "ageBandPrices": [
      {
        "bandId": 1,
        "prices": [
          {
            "sortOrder": 1,
            "currencyCode": "USD",
            "price": 208.53,
            "priceFormatted": "$208.53",
            "merchantNetPrice": 177.67,
            "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$177.67",
            "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1
          },
          {
            "sortOrder": 2,
            "currencyCode": "USD",
            "price": 208.53,
            "priceFormatted": "$208.53",
            "merchantNetPrice": 0,
            "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$0.00",
            "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 2
          }
        ],
        "sortOrder": 1,
        "minimumCountRequired": 1,
        "maximumCountRequired": 2
      }
    ]
  }
]
Interpretation
  • "$208.53 per bike, with up to two adults per bike"

Per-flight pricing

Request object
{
  "productCode": "28965P134",
  "currencyCode": "USD",
  "month": "08",
  "year": "2018"
}
Response snippet
"tourGrades": [
  {
    "sortOrder": 1,
    "gradeCode": "TG1",
    "gradeTitle": "Individual flight",
    "pricingMatrix": [
      {
        "sortOrder": 1,
        "pricingUnit": "per flight",
        "bookingDate": "2018-06-01",
        "ageBandPrices": [
          {
            "bandId": 1,
            "prices": [
              {
                "sortOrder": 1,
                "currencyCode": "USD",
                "price": 61.01,
                "merchantNetPrice": 51.98,
                "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$51.98",
                "priceFormatted": "$61.01",
                "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1
              }
            ],
            "sortOrder": 1,
            "minimumCountRequired": 1,
            "maximumCountRequired": 1
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "sortOrder": 2,
    "gradeCode": "TG2",
    "gradeTitle": "Double",
    "pricingMatrix": [
      {
        "sortOrder": 1,
        "pricingUnit": "per flight",
        "bookingDate": "2018-06-01",
        "ageBandPrices": [
          {
            "bandId": 1,
            "prices": [
              {
                "sortOrder": 1,
                "currencyCode": "USD",
                "price": 94.28,
                "merchantNetPrice": 80.33,
                "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$80.33",
                "priceFormatted": "$94.28",
                "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1
              },
              {
                "sortOrder": 2,
                "currencyCode": "USD",
                "price": 94.28,
                "merchantNetPrice": 0,
                "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$0.00",
                "priceFormatted": "$94.28",
                "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 2
              }
            ],
            "sortOrder": 1,
            "minimumCountRequired": 1,
            "maximumCountRequired": 2
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
]
Interpretation
Travelers gradeTitle Price per flight Price per person
1 Individual flight $61.01 $61.01
2 Double $94.28 $47.14

Per-plane pricing

Request object
{
  "productCode": "14876P5",
  "currencyCode": "USD",
  "month": "06",
  "year": "2019"
}
Response snippet
"pricingMatrix": [
  {
    "sortOrder": 1,
    "pricingUnit": "per plane",
    "bookingDate": "2019-01-02",
    "ageBandPrices": [
      {
        "bandId": 1,
        "prices": [
          {
            "sortOrder": 1,
            "currencyCode": "USD",
            "price": 433.03,
            "priceFormatted": "$433.03",
            "merchantNetPrice": 391.99,
            "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$391.99",
            "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1
          },
          {
            "sortOrder": 2,
            "currencyCode": "USD",
            "price": 433.03,
            "priceFormatted": "$433.03",
            "merchantNetPrice": 0,
            "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$0.00",
            "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 2
          }
        ],
        "sortOrder": 1,
        "minimumCountRequired": 1,
        "maximumCountRequired": 3
      }
    ]
  }
]
Interpretation
  • "$433.03 per group of up to three people"

Working with age bands

Age bands

The available age bands for a product, such as adult, child, infant, etc., are returned by the /product service. The customer can select a different number of people from each age band during the price check and checkout process.

Why have age bands?

Tour and experience product suppliers can set different prices for (and impose different rules on) those wishing to make a booking for their product according to how old they are.

For example, suppliers might choose to charge people 18 years and older ('adults') the full ticket price, while 'children' can book at a lower price.

Or, the tour operator may only allow children to make a group booking for the tour so long as the group contains 'at least one adult'.

Viator provides five categories (age bands) that product suppliers can use to segregate travelers into age groups (the limits of which they also define) in order to set pricing and traveler-count participation rules for their product according to the age band categories.

Supported age band categories

The age bands supported by the Viator API are as follows:

bandId Description
1 Adult
2 Child
3 Infant
4 Youth
5 Senior

The names and corresponding numeric identifiers of these categories are fixed as in the table above (i.e., 1 is always Adult); however, the exact age range to which each category pertains must be defined manually by the supplier.

The maximum and minimum ages that each age band describes for each product can be retrieved from the /product service.

Example of age band definitions

For example, a call to /product regarding 10040WORLD yields the following ageBands array within its response object:

"ageBands": [
  {
    "sortOrder": 1,
    "ageFrom": 13,
    "ageTo": 64,
    "adult": true,
    "bandId": 1,
    "pluralDescription": "Adults",
    "treatAsAdult": true,
    "count": 0,
    "description": "Adult"
  },
  {
    "sortOrder": 2,
    "ageFrom": 65,
    "ageTo": 99,
    "adult": false,
    "bandId": 5,
    "pluralDescription": "Seniors",
    "treatAsAdult": true,
    "count": 0,
    "description": "Senior"
  },
  {
    "sortOrder": 3,
    "ageFrom": 4,
    "ageTo": 12,
    "adult": false,
    "bandId": 2,
    "pluralDescription": "Children",
    "treatAsAdult": false,
    "count": 0,
    "description": "Child"
  },
  {
    "sortOrder": 4,
    "ageFrom": 0,
    "ageTo": 3,
    "adult": false,
    "bandId": 3,
    "pluralDescription": "Infants",
    "treatAsAdult": false,
    "count": 0,
    "description": "Infant"
  }

For this product, the age bands have been defined as follows:

bandId description ageFrom ageTo
1 Adult 13 64
5 Senior 65 99
2 Child 4 12
3 Infant 0 3

Product operators must define at least one age band for their tour, and there are no 'default' age ranges. Therefore, if the product operator has only specified a single 'adult' age band covering ages 18-99, it must be assumed that only people aged 18-99 are eligible to book the tour, essentially excluding children and centenarians in this case.

Field Type Definition
sortOrder integer the sort order for this age band
adult boolean true if this age band is the 'adult' age band
treatAsAdult boolean true if this age band can book the tour without the need for adult accompaniment

Note: bandId must be supplied in the request body of the following services:

Age bands are referenced by their bandId in the responses from the following services:

How to report a product issue

Occasionally, a product schema in the Viator database will contain incorrect or invalid information. Usually, this occurs due to a mistake made by the supplier of the product when creating the product or updating its details.

Nonetheless, it's in all our best interests for product information to be accurate and up-to-date; therefore, if you discover a problem with a product, we would greatly appreciate it if you could report the error through our product issue reporting form.

How to use the product issue reporting form

  1. Navigate to the product issue reporting page
  2. Fill in the Reporter, Supplier ID, Product Code and Booking ID fields:
Field How to fill it in Example
Reporter Enter your email address for tracking or correspondence you@emailserver.com
Supplier ID Enter the value returned in the supplierCode field by the /product service for the product in question. 3072
Product Code Enter the value returned in the code field by the /product service for the product in question. 3072LASALL
Booking ID Leave this field blank
  1. In the Reason box below, choose Content by clicking on its radio selector. A list of categories will appear, with meanings as follows:
Category Included issues
Additional Info clauses in the additionalInfo array in the response from /product; e.g., departure time or hotel pick-up information
Availability & Blockouts N/A
Booking Details N/A
Highlights highlights array items in the response from /product
Inclusions / Exclusions inclusions or exclusions array items in the response from /product
Images productPhotos and userPhotos returned by /product or /product/photos
Product Title title in the response from /product, /search/products, /search/products/codes and /search/products/freetext
Product Descriptions description and shortDescription in the response from /product
SAPI N/A
Tour Options & Pricing pricing issues; e.g. when the value of merchantNetPrice is 0; or, if merchantNetPrice > price
Taxonomy
Translation Incorrect mistakes in any natural-language field in the response from any service where translationLevel is non-zero
TVRM N/A
VUC incorrect N/A
  1. After selecting the category of issue from the options shown, fill-in the Description / Action Required box with a good, clear description of the problem and any specific additional actions you would like us to take
  2. Click Submit to send the report
Tripadvisor experiences report a product form
Example Report a Product Issue form

Once your report has been submitted, a member of our Supplier Support Team will contact the supplier of the product in question to resolve any problems with their listing.

Selling on-request products

This section explains what merchant API partners need to do in order to be granted access to (and, ultimately, sell) the many on-request products available in Viator's product catalogue.

'Freesale' vs 'on-request' products

Among the products in our inventory, a major differentiating feature is whether they are 'freesale' or 'on-request':

  • Freesale products are always available to be booked on their days of operation; therefore, when a freesale product is purchased, the booking is confirmed and the customer is charged immediately.
  • On-request products only operate at the discretion of the supplier, who must confirm (or reject) each booking request, which will remain 'pending' in the interim. The customer is only charged once confirmation is received.

Access to on-request products

By default, you will only have access to the freesale product range; access to the on-request product range is restricted on account of the extra complexities involved with handling this kind of booking.

Should I elect to sell on-request products?

Business case for including on-request products in your inventory

While the majority of products in our inventory are 'freesale', a significant proportion remain 'on-request'. Upgrading your booking platform to support on-request products can lead to an increase in revenue of between 5% and 13%, depending on the locale(s) in which you operate.

Locale Revenue increase %
en 8%
es 8%
fr 11%
de 10%
pt 5%
nl 12%
it 10%
ja 10%
sv 8%
no 8%
da 13%
tw 13%
zh 6%

Having a wider range of products on offer can be a key differentiator with respect to your competitors.

Customers often purchase multiple products in the same session – if the product they're looking for isn't available on your platform, they are likely to seek a competitor with a more complete range of products for sale.

Logistical considerations to enable on-request products

In order to sell on-request products, you will need to:

  • Modify your back-end systems to support extra logic and API requests
  • Establish and support an extra, email-based communications channel with your customers
  • Create some email templates
  • Modify your platform's front end to accommodate the extra steps required in the booking process
  • Write copy that ensures customers clearly understand that they are booking a product that will not be confirmed or charged immediately

However, as the on-request booking confirmation process is fully automated, you will not need to:

  • Undertake any additional manual steps compared with booking a freesale product
  • Personally contact the product supplier or our partner support team

Instead, checking the status of bookings (whether confirmed or not) can be accomplished using the /booking/status and /booking/status/items services. These services can be polled periodically to determine the confirmation status of your bookings.

Note: We recommend using the /booking/status/items service to poll for booking statuses, as it is both faster and can be polled more frequently than /booking/status, which can only be polled once every thirty minutes.

How to support on-request products

Product detail page

Managing customer expectations is a key factor in supporting on-request products on your booking platform.

Make clear mention that this is a product for which confirmation will not be received immediately, but rather within 72 hours of making the booking and at least 24 hours prior to the activity start time.

This fact, as well as other pertinent tidbits, can be found in the additionalInfo array in the response from /product. It is mandatory that all clauses in the additionalInfo array are clearly displayed on your product detail page.

Additional info displayed on a product page on the Viator site
Additional info displayed on a product page on the Viator site

Check-out

As you will only charge the customer's credit card once the on-request booking is confirmed (i.e., after we have received confirmation of the booking from the product supplier) it's best to display a message to this effect at a prominent point of the check-out flow for all on-request products.

Example checkout-flow instruction on the Viator site
Example checkout-flow instruction on the Viator site

In this way, customers can be reassured that they are not being charged for a booking that may never be confirmed, thereby minimizing needless calls to your customer service team.

Combination purchases

If a single booking includes both freesale (instantly confirmed) and on-request products, only the amount for the freesale product should be charged immediately; the portion corresponding to the on-request booking should only be charged once confirmation is received.

Until that time, a pre-authorization should be held against the customer’s credit card until confirmation is received.

It is important that you clearly differentiate between products that are confirmed and those that are pending confirmation, and communicate the status of each and that the pre-authorization will only finalize once the on-request products are confirmed.

Confirmation page

Changes will need to be made to your confirmation page because it will not be possible for your customer to download a voucher after completing an on-request booking.

Vouchers for freesale products, however, must be made available immediately following the completion of the booking process.

Email communications

You will need to create email templates for all the following scenarios:

  • Confirmation emails for bookings with on-request products should indicate that the item is pending confirmation from the supplier; and, that confirmation for this activity will take up to 72 hours, depending on availability.
  • If the on-request booking is confirmed by the supplier (this time including the voucher details)
  • If the on-request booking is rejected
  • If multiple on-request products have been booked:
    • If all items have been accepted/confirmed
    • If all items were rejected
    • If there is a mixture of acceptance and rejection; i.e., 'pending' + 'rejected' + 'cancelled' + 'amended' and so forth.
  • If a mixture of freesale and on-request products are booked at the same time; i.e., in the same cart or booking

Note: When a booking is declined, it is useful to mention that the customer's card was not charged.

Example email for an on-request booking pending confirmation:
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Confirmation time-outs resulting in rejection

As mentioned above, once a booking for an on-request product is made, it remains in a 'pending' state, awaiting confirmation by the supplier. The supplier has the option of 'confirming' or 'rejecting' the booking.

Such bookings will not remain 'pending' indefinitely, however. If the supplier has not confirmed the booking within 72 hours – or if they have not confirmed the booking by the time it reaches 24 hours from departure – our systems will automatically reject the booking, and this will be reflected in the response from the /booking/status/items and /booking/status services.

There will be no indication that the rejection occurred on account of the supplier being unable to perform their duties. Therefore, you should simply inform the customer that, for reasons out of your control, this on-request tour was unavailable.

Building in the sandbox environment

As it is a testing environment, the sandbox server is not connected to any external suppliers. No booking requests are made to real external suppliers, so you will not be able to conduct a fully-realistic test for the above-mentioned situation (where the booking's status remains 'pending' until actioned (confirmed or rejected) by the supplier.

Instead, you can model the scenarios using the sandbox server as follows:

  • Make an on-request booking on the sandbox server with the exp-demo header parameter set to false to have the booking behave like a on-request product; i.e., the bookingStatus.type will only proceeded to the "PENDING" status. However, as no actual booking requests are made with the supplier when using a sandbox-only API-key, you will need to contact our API tech support team at apitechsupport@viator.com and request that the booking's status be updated to either "CONFIRMED" or "REJECTED", as you require, for testing purposes. Please note that because this is a manual process, we'd genuinely appreciate your effort in keeping the number of these requests to a minimum.

  • Make an on-request booking on the sandbox server with the exp-demo header parameter set to true to have the booking behave as if your were booking a freesale product; i.e., the bookingStatus.type will have proceeded to the "CONFIRMED" status immediately.

Certification and going live

Once you have completed all tasks mentioned here and sent your Viator account manager the email copy for the different scenarios described above, we will change the status of your product API-key to include on-request products.

Localization and translation

Foreign language products

The products available through the Viator API have been created in a variety of languages, often by the suppliers of those products themselves.

Although the majority of these have been created in English, many have been created in other languages. For example, a tour that operates in Paris might have been created in French.

Viator provides translation services to localize product descriptions to the language of the locale in which they are being presented. In this way, products with descriptions – for example, in French – can be displayed in English on English-language websites. Conversely, products with English-language-descriptions can be displayed in French on French-language websites.

  • Note: product descriptions are translated into the language specified in the Accept-Language header parameter in the request to each endpoint.

Human and machine translation

Some products have been translated by actual humans – 'human translated' – while others have been automatically translated using Google Translate – 'machine translated'.

The type of translation that has been applied to a product (if any) is indicated by its translationLevel, a numeric specifer with meanings as follows:

translationLevel Meaning
0 The product was created by the supplier in the language you specifed using the Accept-Language header parameter in the request; i.e., the natural-language text in this response has not been translated
80 All product information has been machine translated
90 or 100 All product information has been human translated

Therefore, any product with a non-zero translationLevel has been translated either by a human or via an automatic process.

The translationLevel field is returned in the response objects from the following services:

When performing a product search using any of these services, you will receive - by default - products with a translationLevel of:

  • 0 (products that are in the language you specified in Accept-Language and are configured for your API-keys), and
  • 90 or 100 (products that have been fully human translated)

Accessing machine-translated products

If your implementation can support the large number of products available that are machine translated, you can.

However, access to the considerable volume of machine-translated products (level 80), is not granted by default.

To access machine-translated products, you will need to:

  1. Request access to machine-translated products in sandbox from your Business Development account manager.
  2. Test your site with sandbox to ensure that you can download and display all the available content.
  3. Have your Business Development account manager review your implementation and grant access in the production environment.

Merchant pricing

Many of the endpoints in the Viator API return pricing information. Due to the necessity of supporting legacy implementations, some pricing fields may not be named in an intuitive way.

This section seeks to clarify what each of the pricing fields returned by each endpoint actually refer to and how you need to use this information in your implementation.

Categories of pricing

Category Meaning
Suggested retail price The recommended retail price for the product and the price that the product is sold at on the Viator site
Merchant net rate The amount that Viator will invoice the merchant for this sale, excluding the transaction fee
Merchant total price The total amount that Viator will invoice the merchant for this sale, including the transaction fee
Service Suggested retail price Merchant net rate
/search/products price, priceFormatted merchantNetPriceFrom, merchantNetPriceFromFormatted
/product price, priceFormatted, priceFrom, priceFromFormatted merchantNetPriceFrom, merchantNetPriceFromFormatted
/booking/availability retailPrice, retailPriceFormatted merchantNetPrice, merchantNetPriceFormatted
/booking/availability/tourgrades retailPrice, retailPriceFormatted merchantNetPrice, merchantNetPriceFormatted, pricePerTraveler, pricePerTravelerFormatted
/booking/availability/tourgrades/pricingmatrix price, priceFormatted merchantNetPrice, merchantNetPriceFormatted
/booking/book N/A merchantNetPrice, merchantNetPriceFormatted, lastRetailPrice, lastRetailPriceFormatted
/booking/pricingmatrix price, priceFormatted merchantNetPrice, merchantNetPriceFormatted
/booking/calculateprice N/A merchantNetPrice, merchantNetPriceFormatted, lastRetailPrice, lastRetailPriceFormatted, itineraryFromPrice, itineraryFromPriceFormatted, itineraryNewPrice, itineraryNewPriceFormatted
/booking/pastbooking N/A merchantNetPrice, merchantNetPriceFormatted, lastRetailPrice, lastRetailPriceFormatted,
/booking/mybookings N/A merchantNetPrice, merchantNetPriceFormatted, lastRetailPrice, lastRetailPriceFormatted

The following services return the merchant total price (i.e., the merchant net rate + transaction fee) in the fields shown:

Service Merchant total price fields
/booking/book price, priceFormatted, totalPrice, totalPriceFormatted, priceUSD, totalPriceUSD
/booking/calculateprice price, priceFormatted, priceUSD, totalPrice, totalPriceFormatted, totalPriceUSD
/booking/pastbooking price, priceFormatted, totalPrice, totalPriceFormatted, priceUSD, totalPriceUSD,
/booking/mybookings price, priceFormatted, priceUSD, totalPrice, totalPriceFormatted, totalPriceUSD

Using the pricing fields

Let's have a look at the various pricing fields for a specific product - the Grand Canyon All-American Helicopter Tour (product code: 2280AAHT).

A search for this product (at the time of writing) on the Viator.com site gives the 'from' price of the tour as $601.11:

'from' price on viator.com product detail page
Retail price shown on viator.com

This value comes from the price or priceFormatted fields in the response from /product for this tour; i.e.,:

{
  ...,
  "price": 601.11,
  "priceFormatted": "$601.11",
  ...
}

Essentially, this value is the price that the product is sold at on the viator site, and is therefore the suggested retail price; i.e., the price at which we recommend you advertise and sell the product for.

It is also the price of the tour grade with the lowest price; in this case, the "Earlybird A-Star" tour grade detailed here:

{
    "sortOrder": 5,
    "currencyCode": "AUD",
    "langServices": {
        "en/SERVICE_AUDIO": "English - Audio"
    },
    "gradeCode": "EB_ASTAR_SP",
    "merchantNetPriceFrom": 555.37,
    "priceFrom": 601.11,
    "priceFromFormatted": "$601.11",
    "merchantNetPriceFromFormatted": "$555.37",
    "gradeTitle": "Special: Earlybird A-Star",
    "gradeDepartureTime": "",
    "gradeDescription": "Special Offer: Receive a discounted seat for the Grand Canyon All American Helicopter Tour departing between 6:45am and 7am on an A-Star helicopter",
    "defaultLanguageCode": "en"
},

As you can see, the "suggested retail price" is given in the priceFrom field.

Low and zero-margin products

When setting the retail price at which you sell products on your site, it’s important to remember that the “suggested sell price” is the price at which the product is currently advertised on the Viator site and reflects the current standard industry price for the product. It does not take into consideration the merchant net price (i.e., the price at which you as a merchant partner will be invoiced for the sale) and, in the case of discounting scenarios, may in fact be less than the merchant net price.

Therefore, to ensure that you sell the product at a price which guarantees that you receive at least as much as you will be invoiced for, as well as any extra profit margin that you desire to generate, we recommend you include a check in your implementation that these requirements are satisfied by comparing the suggested retail and merchant net prices and adjusting the retail price at which you advertise the product accordingly.

For example, if the merchant net price for a product is $100, the suggested sell price is $101, and your requirement for a minimum margin is 5%, you should adjust the price at which you advertise the product to $105.

While we recommend that you charge your customers this amount, it is ultimately up to you as to the price you set for the product, bearing in mind that Viator will then invoice you for the merchant net rate (merchantNetPriceFrom) of $555.37 plus a transaction fee calculated as a percentage of the net rate; i.e., the merchant total price.

The exact value of this transaction fee is detailed in your contract with Viator.

Special offers and on-sale pricing

Suppliers have the option of setting special pricing deals for their products. When a product is 'on sale'; i.e., has a temporarily lowered price, it will be reflected in the product content response, as follows:

Field name Standard pricing Special offer / on-sale pricing
specialOfferAvailable false true
specialOffer "" (empty string) e.g.: "Book by February 28 to save 10%"
rrp 0.0 pre-discount price
rrpFormatted "" (empty string) currency-formatted pre-discount price
price standard price special offer price
priceFormatted currency-formatted standard price currency-formatted special-offer price
merchantNetPriceFrom standard merchant net rate special offer merchant net rate
merchantNetPriceFromFormatted currency formatted standard merchant net rate currency formatted special offer merchant net rate
priceFormatted currency-formatted standard price currency-formatted special-offer price
priceFrom (in tourgrades) standard price special offer price
priceFromFormatted (in tourgrades) currency-formatted standard price currency-formatted special-offer price

You can use this information to highlight which products are on special and provide details to the user about the special offer.

Supplier communications

How can suppliers communicate with end customers?

Suppliers occasionally need to reach out to customers for a variety of reasons, such as:

  • Requesting pick-up locations, flight details or passenger weight information
  • Providing weather alerts, sold-out notifications or general messaging

To allow suppliers to contact customers directly, Viator provides a Closed Loop Communication (CLC) system.

How to enable CLC

CLC is enabled per-booking and at the time of booking by supplying the customer’s email and either homePhone or [cellphone + cellPhoneCountryCode] – or both – in the booker object in the request body sent to the /booking/book service when making a booking.

This will allow suppliers to send CLC messages directly to the end customer.

Note:

  • You will receive a CC of each supplier message to your customer support email address in case further assistance is required, but no action from your support team will be necessary for suppliers to communicate with customers.

  • Merchants choosing this option should mention to their customers that they are purchasing a product from a third-party supplier, and that they may therefore receive communications regarding the purchase directly from that supplier.

Example request body snippet to enable direct CLC

{
    ...
    "booker": {
        "homePhone": "+61 2 66987564",
        "firstname": "Homer Test",
        "surname": "Simpson Test",
        "title": "Mr",
        "cellPhoneCountryCode": "+61",
        "cellPhone": "431532778",
        "email": "hsimpson@customeremail.com"
    }
    ...
}

Supplier communications without CLC

To have CLCs from the supplier sent only to your (the merchant's) customer support team:

  • Leave the cellPhone, cellPhoneCountryCode and homePhone fields blank in the request to the /booking/book service when making a booking.

Note: Utilizing this option requires merchants to manage the final loop of communication with the end customer to ensure that their tour/activity can be fulfilled successfully.

Cancellation policy

As well as making bookings, merchant partners are also able to cancel bookings through the Viator API using the /bookings/cancel-reasons, /bookings/{booking-ref}/cancel-quote and /bookings/{booking-ref}/cancel endpoints. Items cancelled via the /bookings/{booking-ref}/cancel endpoint will be cancelled in full, and only one booking can be cancelled at a time.

For more information about the content of the new merchantTermsAndConditions object, see Cancellation policy.

Cancellation policies

All products can be cancelled by the merchant; however, the refund granted by the supplier to the customer differs depending on the cancellation policy for the product in question.

There are three cancellation policy categories, standard, custom and all sales final, represented by an integer in the merchantTermsAndConditionsType field in the merchantTermsAndConditions object returned by /product: 1, 2 or 3, respectively.

Note: These policies are those provided by Viator to our merchant partners. Merchants can choose whether to extend these terms to their customers unchanged or set their own cancellation terms. For example, the merchant partner can choose to make all products non-refundable; or, they might change the full-refund cancellation window to 72 hours instead of 24 hours, and so forth.

1 – Standard cancellation policy

Products in this category are cancellable up to 24 hours before the travel date (local supplier time) for a full refund. However, a 100% cancellation penalty applies for cancellations submitted less than 24 hours before the start time. Most products (about 85%) fall into this category.

Example response snippet

  • Source endpoint: /product
  • Product: 5010SYDNEY
{
  "data": {
    "merchantTermsAndConditions": {
      "termsAndConditions": "For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience.",
      "merchantTermsAndConditionsType": 1,
      "amountRefundable": null,
      "cancellationFromTourDate": [
        {
          "dayRangeMin": 0,
          "dayRangeMax": 1,
          "percentageRefundable": 0,
          "policyStartTimestamp": null,
          "policyEndTimestamp": null
        },
        {
          "dayRangeMin": 1,
          "dayRangeMax": null,
          "percentageRefundable": 100,
          "policyStartTimestamp": null,
          "policyEndTimestamp": null
        }
      ]
    },
    "...": "..."
  }
}

This product has the standard cancellation policy; i.e., when a booking is cancelled:

Policy dayRangeMin dayRangeMax Logic percentageRefundable
less than one day (24 hours) before the start time 0 1 (product_start_time - cancellation_time) >= 0 days && (product_start_time - cancellation_time) < 1 days 0
more than one day (24 hours) before the start time 1 null (product_start_time - cancellation_time) >= 1 day 100

2 – Custom cancellation policy

The refund amount for products in this category varies depending on how long before its start time the product is cancelled. Many products on a custom policy are multi-day tours, which require more sophisticated planning on the supplier’s end. Only a small number of products (around 5%) fall into this category.

Example response snippet

  • Source endpoint: /product
  • Product: 2264RJ410
"data": {
  "merchantTermsAndConditions": {
    "termsAndConditions": "If you cancel at least 30 day(s) in advance of the scheduled departure, there is no cancellation fee.<br>If you cancel between 10 and 29 day(s) in advance of the scheduled departure, there is a 50 percent cancellation fee.<br>If you cancel within 9 day(s) of the scheduled departure, there is a 100 percent cancellation fee.<br>",
    "merchantTermsAndConditionsType": 2,
    "amountRefundable": null,
    "cancellationFromTourDate": [
      {
        "dayRangeMin": 10,
        "dayRangeMax": 30,
        "percentageRefundable": 50,
        "policyStartTimestamp": null,
        "policyEndTimestamp": null
      },
      {
        "dayRangeMin": 30,
        "dayRangeMax": null,
        "percentageRefundable": 100,
        "policyStartTimestamp": null,
        "policyEndTimestamp": null
      },
      {
        "dayRangeMin": 0,
        "dayRangeMax": 10,
        "percentageRefundable": 0,
        "policyStartTimestamp": null,
        "policyEndTimestamp": null
      }
    ]
  },
  "...": "..."
}

This product has a complex cancellation policy; where cancellations processed:

Policy dayRangeMin dayRangeMax Logic percentageRefundable
30 days or more before the start time 30 null (product_start_time - cancellation_time) >= 30 days 100
10 days and less than 30 days (10 to 30 days) before the start time or more 10 30 (product_start_time - cancellation_time) >= 10 days && (product_start_time - cancellation_time) < 30 days 50
less than 10 days before the start time 0 10 (product_start_time - cancellation_time) < 10 days 0

Note: null in the dateRangeMax field means negative infinity; i.e., infinitely far in the past with respect to dateRangeMin.

Additional clauses will be included in the termsAndConditions field in natural language. This field is for human consumption and is not classically machine-interpretable.

3 – All sales final (100% cancellation penalty / no refund offered)

Products in this category cannot be cancelled or amended without incurring a 100% penalty; i.e., the refund amount will be zero. Around 10% of products fall into this category.

Example response snippet

  • Source endpoint: /product
  • Product: 5985P7
{
  "data": {
    "merchantTermsAndConditions": {
      "termsAndConditions": "All sales are final and incur 100% cancellation penalties.<br>",
      "merchantTermsAndConditionsType": 3,
      "amountRefundable": null,
      "cancellationFromTourDate": [
        {
          "dayRangeMin": 0,
          "dayRangeMax": null,
          "percentageRefundable": 0,
          "policyStartTimestamp": null,
          "policyEndTimestamp": null
        }
      ]
    },
    "...": "..."
  }
}

Products in this category can be cancelled, but no refund will be granted (in most cases...)

Canceling items with a 'pending' booking status

As alluded, there is an exception to this rule. Products with an 'on-request' booking type can still be cancelled when their booking status is "pending" – i.e., before the supplier has confirmed the booking – and a full refund will be granted.

It is impossible to predict how long an 'on-request' booking will remain 'pending'. However, it is possible to check by enquiring about the booking using one of the post-booking services; i.e.:

An 'all sales final' product in a 'pending' state that can be cancelled and a refund granted will have the following characteristics:

  1. The bookingStatus object returned from one of the services above will have a type of "PENDING", and pending will be true.
  2. The amountRefundable field of the merchantTermsAndConditions object will be non-zero and non-null. Rather, it will contain a currency-formatted string showing the amount that would be refunded if the cancellation were performed immediately; e.g., "USD 55.33".

Policy start and end times

Within the merchantTermsAndConditions object returned in the response from /booking/book, /booking/pastbooking and /booking/mybookings, the amountRefundable field shows the amount of money in the selected currency that will be refunded if the cancellation is processed now, while the policyStartTimestamp and policyEndTimestamp fields indicate the exact times between which the different cancellation refund rates apply.

Example response snippet (merchantTermsAndConditions) from /booking/book

  • Product: 5010SYDNEY
  • Note: observe that amountRefundable, policyStartTimestamp and policyEndTimestamp are populated here.
"data": {
  "merchantTermsAndConditions": {
    "termsAndConditions": "For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience.",
    "amountRefundable": "USD 55.33",
    "cancellationFromTourDate": [
      {
        "dayRangeMin": 1,
        "dayRangeMax": null,
        "percentageRefundable": 100,
        "policyStartTimestamp": null,
        "policyEndTimestamp": 1551513600000
      },
      {
        "dayRangeMin": 0,
        "dayRangeMax": 1,
        "percentageRefundable": 0,
        "policyStartTimestamp": 1551340800000,
        "policyEndTimestamp": 1551427200000
      }
    ]
  },
  "...": "..."
}

Post-travel cancellations

Occasionally, customers seek a refund for a product after completing their travels.

The reason for this might be because they were unable to attend the tour due to the supplier having cancelled the tour due to bad weather or some other reason out of the customer's control; or, the customer might have been extremely dissatisfied with the tour itself, felt that it was misrepresented in its advertising, or some other serious complaint.

When this occurs, you will need to send a refund request by email to dpsupport and include both "CANCEL" and the booking reference number in the subject line.

For all post-travel cancellation requests, you will need to include a detailed description of the issue.

Except in cases of known service interruptions (e.g., due to extreme weather events), we will first verify the issue and seek authorization from the product supplier.

Once a decision regarding the refund has been made, we will notify your Customer Services Department with this information. You will then need to advise your customer directly and process the refund if granted.

Interpreting policyStartTimestamp and policyEndTimestamp

The integers that populate the policyStartTimestamp and policyEndTimestamp fields represent points in time that mark the boundaries of the policy time period in the Unix time format; i.e., the number of seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 Thursday, 1 January 1970, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), minus leap seconds.

Unix timestamps can be easily read and interpreted using the 'time' (or similar) library of your favorite programming language. For human purposes, an online conversion tool can be used.

As per the example above, canceling this booking between the following times yields zero refund (because it is within the 24 hour window):

Field name policyStartTimestamp policyEndTimestamp
Unix time 1551340800000 1551427200000
Human readable time GMT: Thursday, February 28, 2019 8:00:00 AM GMT: Friday, March 1, 2019 8:00:00 AM
  • Note: Please use policyStartTimestamp and policyEndTimestamp, rather than dayRangeMin and dayRangeMax, to determine which cancellation policy is in effect.

Partial refunds

While we recommend that you, as a merchant partner, support the processing of partial refunds for your customers, it is up to your whether you implement this functionality.

If you would prefer to only grant the full (100%) refund that is offered on most products so long as the cancellation is processed more than 24 hours prior to the product's start time, we recommend that you implement logic that checks whether a 100% refund is available for the product at the time the customer wishes to cancel their booking.

Type 1: Standard policy (merchantTermsAndConditionsType is 1)
The 100% refund is available so long as the cancellation is performed more than 24 hours prior to the product start time
Type 2: Custom policy (merchantTermsAndConditionsType is 2)
You will need to check whether any of the object-items in the cancellationFromTourDate array have:
  • a percentageRefundable value of 100, and
  • dayRangeMin and dayRangeMax or policyStartTimestamp and policyEndTimestamp values that include the present time
Type 3: All sales final (merchantTermsAndConditionsType is 3)
No refunds are available; therefore, granting a refund to your customer for this kind of product will be solely at your expense (i.e., you will still be invoiced for the cost of the tour by Viator). Therefore, we recommend that you do not allow refunds for products with this policy.

Booking references

When a booking is made successfully via the /booking/book endpoint, Viator assigns it a numeric identifier, now known as the booking reference.

This booking reference is returned in the service's response in the itemId field; however, this itemId is found in different locations depending on the endpoint used:

Endpoint itemId element location
/booking/book data.itemSummaries[].itemId
/booking/status data.itemSummaries[].itemId
/booking/status/items data[].itemId
/booking/pastbooking data.itemSummaries[].itemId
/booking/mybookings data[].itemSummaries[].itemId

The booking reference can used in the request in the following endpoints as the value in the itemId field or in the itemIds array:

New booking references

The new booking cancellation endpoints; i.e.:

...use this booking reference value as an in-URL request parameter, but its format is slightly different.

Essentially, it is the booking's numeric identifier (itemId), but prepended with BR-. For example, if the itemId is 580254558, the bookingId value in the cancellation request should be BR-580254558.

The booking cancellation endpoints confirm the booking reference in the response in the bookingId field; e.g.:

{
  "bookingId": "BR-580669678",
  "refundDetails": {
    "itemPrice": 412.04,
    "refundAmount": 412.04,
    "refundPercentage": 100,
    "currencyCode": "USD"
  },
  "status": "CANCELLABLE"
}

Common workflows and data validation

Users of the API usually implement a booking process workflow. The common workflows are:

Add to cart

Summary

Because the Viator API is both stateless and does not include services for managing a customer's shopping cart, this functionality must be fully managed on the merchant's side.

Viator's servers can generate a price quote for one or several items, but this collection will not be saved by the server.

We recommend the following process:

  1. View product - allow the customer to browse products and product details
  2. Select date and passengers - allow the customer to check available dates and select the type and number of passengers
  3. Select tourgrade - display the available tour grades
  4. View cart -> price quote - display a total price (including multiple items)

View product

From your view product details section, a button should be presented to check availability or book now or something similar. Use the /product service to retrieve product details and schedules.

Select date and passengers

Here, the customer is presented with the dates that remain available for the product. Available dates can be obtained via a request to /booking/availability/dates. The list of age bands (i.e.: 'adult', 'child'; and, each band's maximum and minimum age) is available from the /product service.

Validation – ensure that:

  1. The total number of travelers being booked does not exceed the limit returned in the maxTravellerCount field of the /product service
  2. At least one adult (or adult equivalent) passenger has been selected
  3. The selected dates are available (use /booking/availability/dates)

Select tour grade

Once the date and traveler mix have been selected, the customer may need to select a tour grade. Products that do not have this information recorded in the Viator database are assigned a tour grade of "DEFAULT". For these products, it is unnecessary to select a tour grade.

Tour grade options must be displayed to the customer when the product has multiple tour grades, due to:

  • different departure times
  • traveler mix price deals, like family passes
  • different inclusions and prices - e.g., limo pickup, different language delivery options), or...
  • non-default tour grades – these tour grades must be presented to the customer.

The tour grades for a product are retrieved with the /booking/availability/tourgrades service. If a tour grade is available (check the available flag), an 'add to cart' button can be displayed. For unavailable tour grades (available is false), a reason (unavailableReason) is provided, which will be one of:

  • "TRAVELLER_MISMATCH"
  • "BLOCKED_OUT", or
  • "UNAVAILABLE"

You may choose to hide the blocked-out tour grades (if all tour grades are unavailable on a particular day, a day's tour grades are all "BLOCKED_OUT", or the product is not operating that day, the /booking/availability/dates service will not return that date).

You may also find that a product has no bookable tour grades on a day if the traveler mix does not meet that tour grade's traveler mix restrictions. For example, a honeymoon might require two adults as the only possible traveler mix.

You can choose to hide the "BLOCKED_OUT" tour grades, but you will probably want to display the "TRAVELLER_MISMATCH" grades with the traveler mix requirements listed so that the customer can elect to alter their traveler mix to suit (e.g., for family passes, etc.) You cannot allow the passenger to book with an incompatible traveler mix.

The return object includes information about tour grade restrictions:

ageBandsRequired:

  • minimumCountRequired: minimum number of travelers for an age band
  • maximumCountRequired: maximum number of travelers for an age band. If this field is null, any number of travelers may be booked.

You will need to present the ageBandsRequired information as in the following examples:

In 'Adult' age band Meaning
minimumCountRequired = 1
maximumCountRequired = 3
From 1 to 3 adults
minimumCountRequired = 0
maximumCountRequired = 3
up to three adults
minimumCountRequired = 3
MaximumCountRequired =
3 or more adults
minimumCountRequired = 2
MaximumCountRequired = 2
2 adults

Note: There is a singular and plural version for each age band definition. We recommend automatically generating language that ensures the samples above are grammatically correct using this information.

The user can click back and change their traveler mix; or, they can try selecting another day.

View cart / price quote

Once the item has been added to the cart, you will need to preserve this information as part of the session data in your back-end, or as a browser cookie. In particular, you will need to store the product code and age band to quantity traveler mix.

Sample PHP shopping cart item class

Note: this is only an example and is implementation dependent. Alternatively, you could use the item class (as used in the API calls), but much of the information it contains does not need to be stored:

class shoppingCartItem {
  var $productCode;
  var $tourGrade;
  var $date;
  var $ageBandIdToQty; // assoc array
}

To obtain a price quote, you must call the /booking/calculateprice service. This service requires a currency code and an array of items to be specified. Each item contains the date, product code, tour grade code and an associative array of ageBandIds -> quantity.

Validation – the data must contain valid age bands, tour codes, dates, etc. acquired in previous requests to the API.

Note: A product's availability can change in the time between API calls as tour grades or products may be blocked out, or the booking window may close for upcoming dates.

Checkout

Summary

The checkout process can be accomplished using the /booking/book service, but you may need to make requests to other services to calculate prices, display product information (age-band names, etc.) and list available pick-up hotels for user selection.

The Viator mobile website breaks the workflow down into three steps. For multiple items, some steps will need to be repeated, such as capturing the traveler names for each tour. In your implementation, you can reorganize/reorder the data collection to better suit your needs.

Example workflow:

  1. Collect traveler details - collect the names of the lead traveler and all other travelers
  2. Collect travel details - ask any additional questions, including those about any special requirements, and select pick-up options.
  • Note: the aforementioned steps will need to be repeated for each item)
  1. Collect booking details
  • Note: billing and payment details should not be sent to Viator.

The classes for the booking request are defined here in Booking Data Classes. You will need implement these in your chosen programming language and verify that the correct JSON objects are generated during serialization.

Traveler details

The traveler details are used to populate the booking->items[]->travellers[] objects.

One passenger must be identified as the "lead traveler". A boolean field in the traveler object represents this flag. The lead traveler must be an adult or have the age band treatAsAdult flag set to true.

All other travelers must be included.

Validation

Ensure that:

  • bandId is a valid age band ID for the product
  • firstname is less than 16 chars
  • surname is less than 36 chars
  • title is not included unnecessarily (it is optional)
  • leadTraveller is set to true for one of the travelers who is in an age band that has the treatAsAdult flag set to true

Other details

Booking questions

The travel details include the booking questions that are supplied in the /product service.

Sample question

Note: There may be more than one.

bookingQuestions: [{
  "message": "For safety reasons you must enter the weight of <b>all</b> passengers",
  "required": true,
  "questionId": 23,
  "title": "Passenger Weights",
  "subTitle": "(e.g. 127 pounds, 145 kilos, etc)",
  "sortOrder": 1
}]

The questions should be displayed with the title, message, subtitle and whether it is mandatory (required) or not.

Validation – if the question is mandatory, the user must enter at least one character.

Special requirements

'Special requirements' should be presented as a text input field so that customers can record whether they require wheelchair assistance, for example. It is not mandatory for the customer to enter any text.

Pick-up information

The last thing that must be collected for each item being booked is the pick-up information. If the product includes pick-up, the hotelPickup flag will be set to true (in the product object). Some tour grades of the product, however, may not offer pick-up services. To determine which tour grades offer what, it is necessary to inspect the relevant tour grade's details in the tourGrades[] array in the response from /product.

If pick-up is included for the tour grade, the phrase "Pickup included" will be present in the tourGrades[].gradeDescription field (as well as any other comments provided by the supplier).

If pick-up is included, you will need to make a request to /booking/hotels to determine if a hotel list exists. If it does, the list must be displayed so that the customer can make their selection. If not, a text input field should be displayed for hotel name collection.

Please note that the first three results in the list are not hotels; rather, these three are alternative selections, comprising:

  • 'Hotel not listed'
  • 'Live locally or staying with family/friends'
  • 'Hotel not yet booked'

If the customer selects 'hotel not listed', you must provide a hotel selection text input field. For the other two options, no hotel name is required. In all cases, the hotel ID must be updated with either a hotel ID or the IDs of the three items listed.

If no hotel list is available, you must provide a text input field for collecting the customer's hotel name. Please include instructions to enter 'live locally' or 'hotel not yet booked' if they cannot provide a hotel name.

Validation – if hotel list is available, the hotelId must be supplied. If the hotelId is notListed the, pickupPoint field must have at least one character.

If a hotel list is not available, then pickupPoint must contain a value.

Language services

If the response from the /product service contains information in the languageServices field, e.g.:

"langServices": {
  "en/SERVICE_AUDIO": "English - Audio"
}

...you must specify which language option you wish to book for this tour in the languageOptionCode field (see request body schema of the /booking/book service).

View voucher or confirmation status

The object returned by the /booking/book service contains booking details that can be used to display an order summary to the customer.

Confirmed bookings of freesale products will return a voucherKey and voucherURL. The voucherURL is accessible by the customer to view their voucher.

Pending bookings of on-request products will return null in the voucherKey/voucherURL fields. These fields will only contain values once the booking is confirmed.

A bookingStatus object is included in the response that contains the status of the booking.

"bookingStatus": {
  "status": 1,
  "text": "Paid &amp; Confirmed",
  "type": "CONFIRMED",
  "level": "ITEM",
  "failed": false,
  "confirmed": true,
  "amended": false,
  "pending": false,
  "cancelled": false
}

The status field corresponds to a number described in bookingStatus field values and meanings.

Boolean flags that you can inspect to determine the booking status of the item:

  • failed
  • cancelled
  • confirmed
  • amended
  • pending

Pending bookings

A booking is considered pending if the booking process is 'in progress'. For example, an on-request booking would be pending until it is confirmed/rejected by the supplier.

If a customer has made an amendment to an on-request booking that is yet to be accepted by the supplier, the booking would then have a status of amended when the supplier or customer service accepts the amendment.

Example response object:

{
  "errorReference": null,
  "data": {
    "sortOrder": 0,
    "rulesApplied": [],
    "bookingStatus": {
      "status": 3,
      "text": "Confirmed",
      "type": "CONFIRMED",
      "level": "ITINERARY",
      "confirmed": true,
      "pending": false,
      "amended": false,
      "cancelled": false,
      "failed": false
    },
    "itemSummaries": [{
      "sortOrder": 0,
      "rulesApplied": [],
      "bookingStatus": {
        "status": 1,
        "text": "Paid &amp; Confirmed",
        "type": "CONFIRMED",
        "level": "ITEM",
        "pending": false,
        "failed": false,
        "confirmed": true,
        "amended": false,
        "cancelled": false
      },
      "travellerAgeBands": [{
        "sortOrder": 0,
        "count": 1,
        "pluralDescription": "Adults",
        "description": "Adult",
        "ageBandId": 1
      }],
      "voucherKey": "1005851866:4af44c13ecf3f1a7d3f9ef2fc00c2257e08fa42ae20f877f3039ff9b52aba24e:580669678",
      "voucherURL": "https://viatorapi.live.rc.viator.com/service/merchant/voucher.jspa?code=1005851866:4af44c13ecf3f1a7d3f9ef2fc00c2257e08fa42ae20f877f3039ff9b52aba24e:580669678&embedResources=false",
      "voucherRequirements": "You must present a paper voucher for this to",
      "productPulledDown": false,
      "merchantCancellable": true,
      "productWidgetList": null,
      "savingAmount": 0,
      "passbooks": null,
      "termsAndConditions": null,
      "itineraryId": 1000024753,
      "tourGradeCode": "1DAYBOAT",
      "productCode": "2065CPT",
      "leadTravellerSurname": "Test",
      "distributorItemRef": "distroItemRefJDP1803151135",
      "languageServicesLanguageCode": "en",
      "travelDate": "2016-02-01",
      "price": 3.72,
      "bookingEngineId": "UF",
      "merchantNetPrice": 3.51,
      "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$3.51",
      "leadTravellerTitle": "Mr",
      "leadTravellerFirstname": "Homer",
      "lastRetailPrice": 3.51,
      "destId": 318,
      "voucherOption": "VOUCHER_PAPER_ONLY",
      "productTitle": "Cape Town City Hop-on Hop-off Tour",
      "itemId": 700025496,
      "barcodeOption": "perperson",
      "barcodeType": "code128",
      "obfsId": 3696,
      "priceFormatted": "$3.72",
      "savingAmountFormated": "",
      "priceUSD": 3.72,
      "lastRetailPriceFormatted": "$3.51",
      "departsFrom": "Cape Town, South Africa",
      "hoursConfirmed": 0,
      "currencyCode": "USD"
    }],
    "voucherKey": "1005851866:4af44c13ecf3f1a7d3f9ef2fc00c2257e08fa42ae20f877f3039ff9b52aba24e:580669678",
    "voucherURL": "https://viatorapi.live.rc.viator.com/service/merchant/voucher.jspa?code=1005851866:4af44c13ecf3f1a7d3f9ef2fc00c2257e08fa42ae20f877f3039ff9b52aba24e:580669678&embedResources=false",
    "bookerEmail": "apitest@viator.com",
    "userId": null,
    "itineraryId": 1000024753,
    "exchangeRate": 1,
    "totalPriceFormatted": "$3.51",
    "totalPriceUSD": 3.51,
    "bookingDate": "2015-03-17",
    "distributorRef": "distroRefJDP1803151135",
    "totalPrice": 3.51,
    "hasVoucher": true,
    "currencyCode": "USD"
  },
  "dateStamp": "2015-03-17T17:36:32+0000",
  "errorType": null,
  "errorMessage": null,
  "errorName": null,
  "success": true,
  "totalCount": 1,
  "vmid": "321003",
  "errorMessageText": null
}

Checking the status of bookings

Checking the status of a single booking:

  • /booking/mybookings can be used to check the status of a booking after it has been purchased. This is useful for checking the status of a pending booking, particularly if there are multiple items within the booking.

    It is recommended that you poll the service no more than once per hour.

Checking the status of multiple bookings:

  • /booking/status will return the status of all bookings, based on the following:
    • booking date range
    • travel date range
    • specific distributor/distributor item references
    • lead traveler date/first name

This is useful for checking the status of recently-made, but still pending bookings, or those that will commence soon.

Note: You can only poll this service (successful calls) once every 30 minutes.

Confirming the booking via email

Upon receiving a successful response from /booking/book, merchant partners should confirm the booking with the customer via email. This email must be sent by the merchant partner (not Viator).

Sample confirmation email

Dear Traveller,

Thank you for booking with [PARTNER NAME] on [www.domain.com]. Your booking is confirmed. This is your booking notification and receipt. Please retain this email for your records.

Please note:

We offer three types of vouchers. Be sure to check below for what type of voucher your tour / activity requires. Voucher requirements vary by tour, so if you've booked more than one tour, be sure to check each one. See below for instructions.

HOTEL/FLIGHT ITINERARY
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
[Your standard reply here]

TOURS
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

1. Name: Whale Watching Cruise
  e-Voucher or Paper Voucher Accepted
  You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.
  Voucher: [VOUCHERURL]
  Please click on the above link, follow the directions, and print your voucher to present as per instructions on the voucher under 'Important Information'.
2. Name: Boston City Pass
  Paper Voucher Required
  You must present a paper voucher for this tour. Voucher: [VOUCHERURL]
  Please click on the above link, follow the directions, and print your voucher to present as per instructions on the voucher under 'Important Information'.
3. Name: SuperShuttle Airport Transfer
  Voucher Not Required
  You must present a paper voucher for this tour. Voucher: [VOUCHERURL]
  You can present a paper or electronic voucher for this activity, or you can simply present the Lead Traveller’s Photo ID. Our supplier has your reservation on file and only requires proof of identity on the day of travel.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
[Your standard reply here]

TERMS AND CONDITIONS
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
[Your standard reply here]

Booking process flow

In this section, we show a sample booking process flow using Viator API services.

Search for a product

  1. Determine the destinationId for the desired destination using the /taxonomy/destinations service.
  2. Search for products in the destination with the /search/products service using the destinationId, along with optional parameters like the date range (startDate and endDate), attraction link (seoId), category (catId) and subcategory (subCatId).

Example /search/products POST request body:

{
  "startDate": "2018-12-25",
  "endDate": "2018-12-28",
  "topX": "1-15", 
  "destId": 684, 
  "currencyCode": "USD",
  "sortOrder": "TOP_SELLERS"
}

Note: the startDate and endDate must be in the future.

  1. Get the product details with the /product service.

Example parameters for a /product GET request:

code=5010SYDNEY&currencyCode=USD

Determine the product's available dates

Use the /booking/availability/dates service to retrieve a list of dates on which the product is operating. This list can be used to populate a calendar display of available dates.

Example parameters for an availability check using the /booking/availability/dates service:

productCode=5010SYDNEY

Determine the available age bands for the product

Because the product option (tour grade) availability check requires the desired passenger mix, the user will first need to select the number of travelers and the age band into which each can be classified.

Note: The exact ages to which each age band refers to differs between products. See Working with age bands for more information.

  1. Determine the number of passengers/travelers (and their respective agebands) by having the user input the passenger mix for which they wish to make a booking.
  2. Check for available tour grades for the date chosen using the /booking/availability/tourgrades service; or, check for available tour grades by month using the /booking/availability/tourgrades/pricingmatrix service

/booking/availability/tourgrades POST request:

{
  "productCode": "5010SYDNEY",
  "bookingDate": "2018-12-05",
  "currencyCode": "USD",
  "ageBands": [
    {      
      "bandId": 1,
      "count": 2    
    }  
  ]
}

/booking/availability/tourgrades/pricingmatrix POST request:

{
  "productCode": "5010SYDNEY",
  "month": "12",
  "year": "2018",
  "currencyCode": "USD"
}
  1. Finalize pricing using the /booking/availability/tourgrades/pricingmatrix service.
  • Note: we strongly recommend using the /booking/calculateprice service prior to making the booking, as it reconfirms the product availability for the specified dates and passenger mix.
  1. Make the booking
  • Note that the /booking/book service supports multi-item bookings. The response from the /product service indicates mandatory information that must be sent when making the booking, such as required booking questions and hotel pick-up options.
  • For hotel pick-up:
    • Send a hotel ID to the /booking/book service if hotelPickup is true for the product and the gradeDescription for the tour grade includes the phrase "Pickup included".
    • /booking/hotels can be used to return a list of hotels available for the product.
    • The hotelId is the id field in the response from the /booking/hotels service. This can be:
      • a number (represented as a string) – e.g., '4119'
      • 'local' – if the customer resides near the location in which the product operates
      • 'notBooked' – if the customer's hotel is not yet booked
      • 'notListed' – if the customer's hotel is not listed in the response from /booking/hotels. If this is the case, capture the customer’s hotel details in a text box and pass this information in the pickupPoint field in the request body of the /booking/book service.

/booking/book POST request example:

{
  "demo": true,
  "currencyCode": "USD",
  "partnerDetail": {
      "distributorRef": "distributorRef1550616101308"
  },
  "booker": {
      "firstname": "Homer Test",
      "surname": "Simpson Test",
      "title": "Mr",
      "email": "apitest@viator.com",
      "homePhone": "(02)66987564"
  },
  "items": [
    {
      "partnerItemDetail": {
        "distributorItemRef": "distributorItemRef1550616101308"
      },
      "hotelId": null,
      "pickupPoint": null,
      "travelDate": "2019-03-19",
      "productCode": "5010SYDNEY",
      "tourGradeCode": "24HOUR",
      "languageOptionCode": "en/SERVICE_GUIDE",
      "bookingQuestionAnswers": [
        {
          "questionId": 100,
          "answer": "120 kgs"
        }
      ],
      "specialRequirements": "",
      "travellers": [
        {
          "bandId":1,
          "firstname": "Homer",
          "surname": "Simpson Test",
          "title": "Mr",
          "leadTraveller": true
        }, {
          "bandId": 1,
          "firstname": "Marge",
          "surname": "Merchant Viator Test",
          "title": "Mrs"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

/booking/hotels GET example parameters:

productCode=5010SYDNEY

or

destId=684
  1. You will receive different booking statuses depending on the product's booking engine.
  • For products that are free-sale ('FreesaleBE'), unconditional free-sale ('UnconditionalBE') and free-sale / on-request ('FreesaleOnRequestBE') - i.e., during the free-sale period, confirmation should occur instantly.
  • The 'FreesaleOnRequestBE' status means that the product will only remain free-sale up until a certain number of days before the travel date, after which it becomes on-request.
  • Normally, if the product is on-request, its booking status will be 'Pending'.

Post-booking

Displaying vouchers

To display the voucher to your customer, direct them to the URL returned in the voucherURL field in the response from the /booking/book service.

Note: the voucher will not be available until the booking is confirmed – the value of the hoursConfirmed field in the response from the /booking/book service can be shown to the customer to indicate the time frame within which they are likely to be notified as to their booking confirmation.

Viewing bookings

Viewing booking statuses

To view the booking statuses for multiple items based on various criteria, use the /booking/status service.

Note that this service can only be polled once every five minutes. Ideally, this service should be used by your software implementation to perform bulk updates of pending itineraries. The maximum number of itinerary results returned is 1,000.

merchantNetPrice and price in the /search/products service

The difference between these fields is as follows:

  • merchantNetPrice is the amount you, as the merchant partner will be invoiced for, excluding any fees.
  • price is the price at which Viator sells the product

Note: these prices are also returned (per age band) by the following services:

Currency considerations for bookings

If the booking shows prices converted to and formatted according to a different currency to that in which it was made, it is because each API partner has a particular 'base currency', and all bookings will be made in that currency.

Booking and transaction fees

The total price may be different to the merchantNetPrice due to the fact that a booking fee – i.e., a transaction fee or commission – is added to all bookings.

This fee is a fixed percentage with a capped maximum. The exact percentage depends on your merchant partner agreement with Viator and can be found in your contract with Viator.

Making demo bookings

To make a demo booking, simply set the demo field to true in the /booking/book service.

While demo bookings are allowed on the live production environment, we recommend not doing so as it is possible that a notification could be sent to the supplier. Performing a cancellation of the demo booking is therefore recommended.

To cancel the booking, partners should use the /bookings/{id}/cancel service. For details on canceling a booking, see: Cancellation API workflow

Cancellation UX

On the Viator.com website, once the customer has made a booking, they are able to access the details of all their upcoming, past and cancelled bookings by navigating to the bookings section of the website.

You must communicate to the user the terms and conditions that pertain to canceling their booking; i.e., what to expect in terms of the refund they will receive if they were to cancel their booking now.

On the Viator website, this information is communicated in the cancellation button text. In the following example, the user has booked the "San Francisco City Tour with Alcatraz", and is viewing their bookings page.

In this way, the user is told that they can "cancel for free by Oct 22" – i.e., they will be issued a full refund if they cancel the product prior to October 22:

user bookings

This text is programmatically generated by inspecting the product's cancellation policy, which is contained within the merchantTermsAndConditions object, which is included in the response object from the following endpoints:

For details on how to interpret the merchantTermsAndConditions object, see: Cancellation policy

Once the user clicks the button labelled: Cancel for free by Oct 22, they are brought to the cancellation confirmation page, where they are provided a more formal cancellation quote prior to confirming their intention to cancel the product.

Cancellation refund display

As the merchant of record, the amount your customer was charged for the product was your decision; therefore, the amount that you elect to grant the customer as a refund is also up to you, so you will need to retrieve the amount the customer has paid for the product from your own records/databases.

The amount that Viator would have invoiced you for the booking – equivalent to the merchant net price at the time of booking plus the transaction fee – can be retrieved using the /bookings/{booking-ref}/cancel-quote endpoint. For more information see: Get a cancellation quote

Here, the customer is shown that they will receive a full refund if they cancel the product now:

cancellation quote

Displaying and choosing cancellation reasons

At this point in the workflow, the user must select a reason for their cancellation. Viator's systems require that a reason for the cancellation be given in order to carry out the cancellation process.

As the set of acceptable reasons for canceling a booking are formally specified by the Viator Partner API and are not necessarily immutable (new reasons may be added at any time) you should retrieve the presently available cancellation reasons from the /bookings/cancel-reasons endpoint. We require you to present these to the customer for them to select.

Use the cancellationReasonText fields in the response to populate the list from which the customer can select the most-appropriate match for why they are canceling, as on the Viator website:

user bookings

For more information about getting cancellation reasons, see: Getting cancellation reasons

Note: As it is necessary for the user to provide a cancellation reason, it is required that the Cancel Booking button remain disabled until a reason has been selected by the customer.

Completing the cancellation

Once the user has selected a reason, the Cancel Booking button can be activated:

cancel booking

Clicking the Cancel Booking button is the final action required of the customer to complete the cancellation.

At this point, you will want to cancel the booking using the /bookings/{booking-ref}/cancel API endpoint. For more information on using this service, see: Cancel the booking

Obtaining confirmation for the cancellation

On the Viator.com site, the following confirmation message is displayed on the page that loads after the Cancel Booking button is clicked:

cancellation confirmation

Cancellation confirmation email

Once the cancellation is accepted, a short, succinct email informing the customer that their booking has been successfully canceled is sent immediately:

cancellation confirmation email

Viewing canceled bookings

Clicking on the View reservation details button in the cancellation confirmation email returns the customer to their bookings page, where the fact of the booking being canceled is communicated clearly:

canceled booking

Cancellation API workflow

Note:

Getting cancellation reasons

When canceling a booking, you are required to submit a valid 'reason for the cancellation' to assist with Viator's internal processes. This is accomplished via the inclusion of a valid reason code in the body of the request. The reason codes can be retrieved from the /bookings/cancel-reasons endpoint.

As the acceptable reasons for cancellation may be extended at any point (existing reasons will not change or be removed), we recommend retrieving an up-to-date list from this endpoint at least weekly.

The output from the /bookings/cancel-reasons endpoint at the time of writing is as follows:

{
    "reasons": [
        {
            "cancellationReasonCode": "Customer_Service.I_canceled_my_entire_trip",
            "cancellationReasonText": "I canceled my entire trip"
        },
        {
            "cancellationReasonCode": "Customer_Service.Booked_wrong_tour_date",
            "cancellationReasonText": "Booked wrong tour/date"
        },
        {
            "cancellationReasonCode": "Customer_Service.Duplicate_Booking",
            "cancellationReasonText": "Duplicate Booking"
        },
        {
            "cancellationReasonCode": "Customer_Service.Chose_a_different_cheaper_tour",
            "cancellationReasonText": "Chose a different/cheaper tour"
        },
        {
            "cancellationReasonCode": "Customer_Service.Weather",
            "cancellationReasonText": "Weather"
        },
        {
            "cancellationReasonCode": "Customer_Service.Unexpected_medical_circumstances",
            "cancellationReasonText": "Unexpected/medical circumstances"
        },
        {
            "cancellationReasonCode": "Customer_Service.Tour operator asked me to cancel",
            "cancellationReasonText": "Tour operator asked me to cancel"
        }
    ]
}

Canceling a booking

Getting a cancellation quote

Before canceling the booking, call the /bookings/{booking-reference}/cancel-quote endpoint to get information about whether the booking can be canceled using this endpoint and what the refund will be, for example:

GET https://api.viator.com/partner/bookings/BR-580254558/cancel-quote

Note: For information about the {booking-reference} in URL parameter, see Key concepts: Booking references

You will receive a cancellation quote object, e.g.:

{
    "bookingId": "BR-580254558",
    "status": "CANCELLABLE",
    "refundDetails": {
        "itemPrice": 109.77,
        "refundAmount": 109.77,
        "currencyCode": "USD",
        "refundPercentage": 100.00
    }
}

Note: Bookings that have not been confirmed by the supplier and have a status of "PENDING" will report an itemPrice, refundAmount and refundPercentage of 0, as no fees are charged until the booking's status is "CONFIRMED".

The data elements in this object have meanings as follows:

Element Meaning Example
bookingId the booking reference number prepended with BR- BR-580254556
status One of the following:
  • CANCELLABLE: the booking is eligible to be cancelled
  • CANCELLED: the booking has already been cancelled
  • NOT_CANCELLABLE: the booking is for a product that operated in the past, and therefore cannot be cancelled using this endpoint (you will need to send an email to dpsupport including both "CANCEL" and the booking reference number in the subject line in order to request a refund for such a booking)
CANCELLABLE
refundDetails object containing information about the refund
itemPrice the merchant net price + transaction fee for this product at the time of booking in the currency specified by currencyCode 109.77
refundAmount the amount that will be deducted from your invoice if the booking is cancelled now 109.77
currencyCode the currency code for the currency in which pricing information is displayed USD
refundPercentage the refund amount expressed as a percentage of the itemPrice 100.00

Canceling the booking

If the status field has a value of CANCELLABLE and you are happy with the refundAmount, call the /bookings/{booking-ref}/cancel endpoint to cancel the booking, e.g.:

POST https://api.viator.com/partner/bookings/BR-580254558/cancel

A reason code corresponding to the reason for cancellation must be included in the request body; e.g.:

{
  "reasonCode":"Customer_Service.Chose_a_different_cheaper_tour"
}

You should receive a response indicating that the cancellation was successful, e.g.:

{
    "bookingId": "BR-580254558",
    "status": "ACCEPTED"
}

A status of ACCEPTED indicates that the booking was successfully canceled.

Calculating prices

The /booking/calculateprice service is used to calculate a total price for one or more products, with the ability to specify the date and passenger mix for each product individually.

It also reconfirms the availability and pricing of the products for the requested dates and passenger mixes. We strongly recommended that you call this service prior to making a booking to establish that the booking will succeed once submitted.

This endpoint is useful when implementing a shopping cart, as multiple product bookings can be enquired about in a single call to this service.

Example request body (JSON)

{
  "currencyCode": "USD",
  "items": [{
    "travelDate": "2015-03-01",
    "productCode": "2916ROME",
    "tourGradeCode":"24HR",
    "travellers": [
      {
        "bandId": 1
      },
      {
        "bandId": 1
      }
    ]
  }]
}

The quirky travellers array is used to specify the number of travellers in each age band. Each member object of this array corresponds to a single traveller. The example above signifies "two adults from bandId: 1".

Another example might be "three travelers from bandId:1 and two travelers from bandId:2". That would be as follows:

"travellers": [
  {
    "bandId": 1
  },
  {
    "bandId": 1
  },
  {
    "bandId": 1
  },
  {
    "bandId": 2
  },
  {
    "bandId": 2
  }
]

Price information

The total price (i.e., including the transaction fee) that you will be invoiced for the products to be booked is given in the following fields in the response from this service:

  • data.itemSummaries[].price (numeric total price of item)
  • data.itemSummaries[].priceFormatted (currency formatted total price of item)
  • data.itinerary.totalPrice (numeric total price of item)
  • data.itinerary.totalPriceFormatted (currency-formatted total price of item)

For more information about pricing fields and their meaning throughout this API, see: Merchant pricing.

Determining whether the product is 'freesale' or 'on request'

You can determine whether the booking is freesale or on-request by examining the response from this endpoint. 'Freesale' bookings are those that are confirmed immediately (with a status of "CONFIRMED") when booked, while on-request bookings are instead confirmed by the supplier at a later time.

The approximate time window for confirmation is provided in the hoursConfirmed (integer) field. This can be presented to the customer.

  • An hoursConfirmed of 0 means that the booking is freesale.
  • An hoursConfirmed greater than 0 indicates that the booking is on-request.

Finding hotel pick-up points

Hotel pickup example:

Example response body (/booking/hotels)

{
  "vmid":"221002",
  "errorMessage": null,
  "errorType": null,
  "dateStamp": "2012-04-12T13:48:27+0000",
  "success": true,
  "errorReference": null,
  "errorMessageText": null,
  "totalCount": 1,
  "errorName": null
  "data": [
    {
      "address": null,
      "name": "I live locally / I'm staying with friends, relatives",
      "id": "local",
      "phone": null,
      "productCodes": null,
      "destinationId": 0,
      "city": null,
      "notes": null,
      "latitude": null,
      "longitude": null,
      "postcode": null,
      "brand": null,
      "hotelString": "I live locally / I'm staying with friends, relatives",
      "sortOrder": 1
    },
    {
      "address": null,
      "name": "My hotel is not yet booked",
      "id": "notBooked",
      "phone": null,
      "productCodes": null,
      "destinationId": 0,
      "city": null,
      "notes": null,
      "latitude": null,
      "longitude": null,
      "postcode": null,
      "brand": null,
      "hotelString": "My hotel is not yet booked",
      "sortOrder": 2
    },
    {
      "address": null,
      "name": "My hotel is not listed",
      "id": "notListed",
      "phone": null,
      "productCodes": null,
      "destinationId": 0,
      "city": null,
      "notes": null,
      "latitude": null,
      "longitude": null,
      "postcode": null,
      "brand": null,
      "hotelString": "My hotel is not listed",
      "sortOrder": 3
    },
    {
      "address": "375 East Harmon Avenue",
      "name": "Alexis Park Resort Hotel",
      "id": "684_2",
      "phone": "",
      "productCodes": null,
      "destinationId": 684,
      "city": "Las Vegas",
      "notes": null,
      "latitude": 36.106258,
      "longitude": -115.156146,
      "postcode": "89169",
      "brand": "",
      "hotelString": null,
      "sortOrder": 4
    },
    {
      "address": "167 East Tropicana Avenue",
      "name": "Americas Best Value Inn",
      "id": "684_3",
      "phone": "",
      "productCodes": null,
      "destinationId": 684,
      "city": "Las Vegas",
      "notes": null,
      "latitude": 36.100778,
      "longitude": -115.165522,
      "postcode": "89109",
      "brand": "",
      "hotelString": null,
      "sortOrder": 5
    },
    {
      "address": "3131 Las Vegas Boulevard South",
      "name": "Wynn Resort",
      "id": "684_126",
      "phone": "",
      "productCodes": null,
      "destinationId": 684,
      "city": "Las Vegas",
      "notes": null,
      "latitude": 36.127563,
      "longitude": -115.167704,
      "postcode": "89109",
      "brand": "",
      "hotelString": null,
      "sortOrder": 119
    }
  ]
}

Making a booking

To make a booking, use the /booking/book service.

To make a real booking, ensure demo is set to false in the booking request.

Demo bookings will enter our system as a test booking and will not charge the merchant. To enable demo bookings, set demo to true in the booking request and pass "test" as the traveler's first or last name.

Note: Avoid testing on Live, as the booking may be sent to the supplier (depending on the product). Any test bookings on live must be cancelled via the /bookings/{id}/cancel service; or, contact dpsupport@viator.com if you experience any other issues.

distrbutorRef and distributorItemRef

The distributorRef and distrbutorItemRef fields are the merchant partner's own reference for the booking. All merchant partners must pass a distributorRef and a distributorItemRef in all bookings.

It can be any alphanumeric string, and in for the distrbutorRef, it must be unique to bookings made by the merchant.

If an existing distributorRef is passed, the booking with the matching distributorRef will be returned in the response, and a new booking will not be made.

Please see the description for these fields in the table below for more information.

Example request

{
  "demo": true,
  "currencyCode": "USD",
  "partnerDetail": {
    "distributorRef": "distroRef0412141435"
  },
  "booker": {
    "email": "apitest@viator.com",
    "firstname": "Homer Test",
    "surname": "Simpson Test",
    "title": "Mr"
  },
  "items": [{
    "partnerItemDetail": {
      "distributorItemRef": "distroItemRef0412141435_1"
    },
    "hotelId": null,
    "pickupPoint": null,
    "travelDate": "2015-03-31",
    "productCode": "2916ROME",
    "tourGradeCode": "24HR",
    "languageOptionCode": "en/SERVICE_GUIDE",
    "bookingQuestionAnswers": [{
      "questionId": 100,
      "answer": "120 kgs"
    }],
    "specialRequirements": "",
    "travellers": [{
      "bandId": 1,
      "firstname": "Homer",
      "surname": "Simpson Test",
      "title": "Mr",
      "leadTraveller": true
    }]
  }]
}

Description of JSON request parameters

Object name Element name Type Comments Mandatory
demo boolean If this is set to True, then it is a demo booking only. Full demos do not send any notifications, are automatically confirmed and OnRequest products become freesale products. Default value is true. Production must have demo set to false.
currencyCode string The currency the booking will be submitted in. You will be billed in this currency.
partnerDetail object Applicable only for extra partner detail for either partner or merchant partner for sending partner specific information
distributorRef string Merchant API partners must pass a distributorRef at itinerary level in the partnerDetails object. The distributorRef passed must be alphanumeric and unique to bookings made by the merchant. Passing an existing distributorRef: If an existing distributorRef is passed, the booking with the matching distributorRef will be returned in the response and a new booking will not be made. The fields in the response are identical to the response for a new booking.
partnerItemDetail object For extra partner detail at an item level, for either partner or merchant partner.
distributorItemRef string Merchant API partners must pass a distributorItemRef into the partnerItemDetails object for each item in the items object. The distributorItemRef passed must be alphanumeric and unique to the itinerary.
booker object The information of the primary contact. This contact does not have to be a traveler.
email string Email address of the primary contact
homePhone string Home phone number of the primary contact
firstname string First name of the primary contact
surname string Surname of the primary contact
title string Title of the primary contact
items Array of items in itinerary to be booked
productCode string product code of the itinerary to be booked
tourGradeCode string tourGradeCode of the item to be booked. If tour grades are supplied in /product, you must allow the customer to select a tour grade code. If no tour grades are available for the product, pass "DEFAULT".
languageOptionCode string The language service provided for this product that has been chosen for this booking. Usually in the format langcode/Service eg "en/SERVICE_GUIDE". If the product details service /product for the product returns a langService, this must be provided.
(if languageServices are provided in /product)
travelDate date date of travel for the item (format is YYYY-MM-DD; e.g. 2013-12-25)
hotelId string If /product returns hotelPickup: true, the tour grade being booked contains "Pickup included" in its gradeDescription and a list of hotels is available for this product in /booking/hotels, a hotelId must be captured. The hotel id as per the hotel service (id field) should be used, or use one of these alternative hotel ids:
local: customer lives locally
notBooked: Customer has not booked their hotel yet
notListed: Hotel not listed

(if /product returns hotelPickup: true for productCode, tour grade has "Pickup included" in gradeDescription and hotels are available)
pickupPoint string Pickup point information related to hotel pickup. Details of the hotel or pickup point must be provided if the hotelId selected by the user is "notListed" or if no hotels are returned for the product in /booking/hotels where hotelPickup: true
(if hotelId = "notListed" or no hotels returned)
specialRequirements string Capture any additional requirements for the booking, such as dietary requirements or if a wheelchair is required. Suggested workflow is if there are no bookingQuestionAnswers for the product, to collect specialRequirements.
travellers Array of traveller names with a required lead traveller selected per item.
bandId integer Age band id. Available age band details for the product is listed in /product.
firstname string First name of the traveller
surname string Surname of the traveller
title string Title of the traveller. Suggested options: Mr, Mrs, Ms, Miss, Mstr, Dr
leadTraveller boolean Each item must have one traveller assigned as the lead traveller for the tour. The lead traveller will have a value of true, all other travellers will have a value of false. The lead traveller can have a mobile phone number added to the booking.
cellPhoneCountryCode string Ideally only collect the phone number country code for the lead traveller. Alternatively, collect the phone number of the booker instead.
cellPhone string Ideally only collect the phone number country code for the lead traveller. Alternatively, collect the phone number of the booker instead.
bookingQuestionAnswers object Answers to booking questions for the particular item. If a booking question is available in the bookingQuestions array in /product for the product, the matching bookingQuestionAnswers must be passed. If a product does not have any bookingQuestion items, you can omit the bookingQuestionAnswers field completely. Any invalid or unnecessary bookingQuestionAnswers that are passed to /booking/book will be ignored (no exceptions will be raised)
(if /product returns bookingQuestions)
questionId integer questionId (provided in /product)
answer string Answer to the question at the questionId listed. Recommended length for the answer is 500 characters.

JSON Response

The prices returned in the booking response represent the net rate, which is the amount merchant API partners will be invoiced for. See merchant pricing for more information.

Booking errors

A number of errors may be returned in the response to the /booking/book service. If any errors are reported, NO items will be booked, NO items/data will be returned in the response, and NO billing will occur.

There are two error types:

  • "VALIDATION" - occurs if a required field is missing or a field is not formatted properly
  • "EXCEPTION" - occurs when there are issues with the booking date, product / tour grade code or the payment.

Example of an error message:

{
  "data": null,
  "vmid": "221001",
  "errorMessage": [ "Missing distributor reference" ],
  "errorType": "EXCEPTION",
  "dateStamp": "2013-04-24T15:50:05+0000",
  "errorReference": "~3713624959841553334512668",
  "errorMessageText": ["Missing distributor reference" ],
  "success": false,
  "totalCount": 1,
  "errorName": "Exception"
}

Please see "Standard JSON fields" in the Appendix for an explanation of the fields.

Scenario errorType Example error message text
Lead traveller is not specified VALIDATION A traveler needs to be selected as lead traveler. Lead Traveler's name must match credit card name.
Traveller names are not provided VALIDATION First name of traveler 1 is required, Last name of traveler 1 is required
No travellers provided VALIDATION A traveler needs to be selected as lead traveler. Lead Traveler's name must match credit card name.
Product code does not exist EXCEPTION We're sorry, we cannot find the tour, activity or attraction you are looking for
Product code exists, but tour grade code does not exist EXCEPTION SICInvalidTourGrade
Booking date is in the past EXCEPTION We're sorry, the following tour you are trying to book is sold out and no longer available: Grand Canyon All American Helicopter Tour (2280AAHT)
languageOptionCode is in the wrong format EXCEPTION languageOptionCode should be LangCode/LangServices
Missing required answers for item EXCEPTION Additional questions missing
Unsupported currency EXCEPTION Could not lookup SGD:java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not lookup SGDf:au.com.fim.v3.etravel.PiusRecordNotFoundException: No currency found: select * from CurrencyFormat where currencyID = 'SGD'
distributorRef not provided in partnerDetail object EXCEPTION Missing distributor reference
distributorItemRef not provided in partnerItemDetail object EXCEPTION Missing distributor item reference
partnerItemDetail object not provided for the item EXCEPTION Missing partner item details!

Get the booking status for multiple items

The /booking/status service retrieves the booking status for multiple items based on different criteria.

This service can only be polled every 30 minutes. This would ideally be used in software for bulk updates of pending itineraries.

The maximum number of results returned is 1,000 itineraries. Narrow your search if you expect results greater than this.

NOTE: This will return both live and test bookings.

Example request body

{
  "bookingDateFrom": "2013-03-22",
  "bookingDateTo": "2013-03-25",
  "itineraryIds": null,
  "itemIds": null,
  "distributorRefs": ["Ref20132603_1","Ref20132603_5"],
  "distributorItemRefs": null,
  "leadFirstName": null,
  "leadSurname": null,
  "test": true
}

All fields are optional and can be omitted, however at least one needs to be provided.

Field Meaning
bookingDateFrom The booking date is greater than or equal this date
bookingDateTo The booking date is less than or equal this date
itemIds Array of item ids (AKA Viator Item Reference) to check for; e.g., [1234657,2345267,3245154]
distributorRefs Array of partner-defined distributor references; e.g., ["ref1","ref2","ref3"]
distributorItemRefs Array of partner-defined distributor item references; e.g., ["refItem1","refItem2","refItem3"]
leadFirstName The lead traveller's first name
leadSurname The lead traveller's surname
test Setting test to true will bypass the poll limit on the sandbox environment only. The default value for test is false.

Example response object (/booking/status)

{
  "data": [
  {
    "itineraryId": 3332064,
    "bookingStatus": {
      "type": "CONFIRMED",
      "level": "ITINERARY",
      "failed": false,
      "text": "Confirmed",
      "cancelled": false,
      "status": 3,
      "confirmed": true,
      "amended": false,
      "pending": false
    },
    "bookingDate": "2013-03-25",
    "distributorRef": "Ref20132603_1",
    "itemSummaries": [{
      "itineraryId": 3332064,
      "itemId": 600088886,
      "bookingStatus": {
        "type": "CONFIRMED",
        "level": "ITEM",
        "failed": false,
        "text": "Paid &amp; Confirmed",
        "cancelled": false,
        "status": 1,
        "confirmed": true,
        "amended": false,
        "pending": false
      },
      "travelDate": "2013-12-03",
      "distributorItemRef": "ItemRefA",
      "sortOrder": 0
    }],
    "sortOrder": 1
  },
  {
    "itineraryId": 3332076,
    "bookingStatus": {
      "type": "CONFIRMED",
      "level": "ITINERARY",
      "failed": false,
      "text": "Confirmed",
      "cancelled": false,
      "status": 3,
      "confirmed": true,
      "amended": false,
      "pending": false
    },
    "bookingDate": "2013-03-26",
    "distributorRef": "Ref20132603_5",
    "itemSummaries": [{
      "itineraryId": 3332076,
      "itemId": 600088907,
      "bookingStatus": {
        "type": "CONFIRMED",
        "level": "ITEM",
        "failed": false,
        "text": "Paid &amp; Confirmed",
        "cancelled": false,
        "status": 1,
        "confirmed": true,
        "amended": false,
        "pending": false
      },
      "travelDate": "2013-12-03",
      "distributorItemRef": "ItemRefA",
      "sortOrder": 0
    }],
    "sortOrder": 2
  }],
  "vmid": "221002",
  "errorMessage": null,
  "errorType": null,
  "dateStamp": "2013-03-26T10:25:57+0000",
  "errorReference": null,
  "errorMessageText": null,
  "success": true,
  "totalCount": 2,
  "errorName": null
}

Exceeding the poll limit

You will receive the following error if you exceed the number of calls allowed to the service within the timeframe:

{
  "data": null,
  "vmid": "221002",
  "errorMessage": [
    "Access allowed every 30 minutes"
  ],
  "errorType": "EXCEPTION",
  "dateStamp": "2013-03-26T10:28:51+0000",
  "errorReference": "~55315512721712161381352771",
  "errorMessageText": [
    "Access allowed every 30 minutes"
  ],
  "success": false,
  "totalCount": 1,
  "errorName": "PollingDeniedException"
}

Get the tour grade pricing matrix

The /booking/pricingmatrix service retrieves the pricing matrix for tour grades, product age bands and pax (passenger) mixes.

Example request object (/booking/pricingmatrix)

  "productCode": "5261HTLAP",
  "tourGradeCode": "Zone 1",
  "bookingDate": "2013-12-01",
  "currencyCode": "USD",
  "specialReservation": false

bookingDate: The date to check for pricing data. This is an optional parameter for a normal product.

If the date is not provided then the nearest available date is determined (i.e. not blocked out or unavailable for any reason)

Example response object (/booking/pricingmatrix)

{
  "data": [{
    "pricingUnit": "per person",
    "bookingDate": "2013-12-01",
    "sortOrder": 1,
    "ageBandPrices": [{
      "bandId": 1,
      "prices": [{
        "sortOrder": 1,
        "currencyCode": "USD",
        "price": 81.94,
        "priceFormatted": "$81.94",
        "merchantNetPrice": 65.44,
        "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$65.44",
        "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1
      }],
      "sortOrder": 1,
      "minimumCountRequired": 1,
      "maximumCountRequired": 1
    }]
  },
  {
    "pricingUnit": "per person",
    "bookingDate": "2013-12-01",
    "sortOrder": 2,
    "ageBandPrices": [{
      "bandId": 1,
      "prices": [{
        "sortOrder": 1,
        "currencyCode": "USD",
        "price": 40.97,
        "priceFormatted": "$40.97",
        "merchantNetPrice": 32.73,
        "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$32.73",
        "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1
      }],
      "sortOrder": 1,
      "minimumCountRequired": 2,
      "maximumCountRequired": 2
    }]
  },
  {
    "pricingUnit": "per person",
    "bookingDate": "2013-12-01",
    "sortOrder": 3,
    "ageBandPrices": [{
      "bandId": 1,
      "prices": [{
        "sortOrder": 1,
        "currencyCode": "USD",
        "price": 27.32,
        "priceFormatted": "$27.32",
        "merchantNetPrice": 21.81,
        "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$65.44",
        "minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice": 1
      }],
      "sortOrder": 1,
      "minimumCountRequired": 3,
      "maximumCountRequired": 3
    }]
  }],
  "errorReference": null,
  "dateStamp": "2017-11-24T21:30:47+0000",
  "errorType": null,
  "errorCodes": null,
  "errorMessage": null,
  "errorName": null,
  "success": true,
  "totalCount": 3,
  "errorMessageText": null,
  "vmid": "321050"
}

Description of elements in JSON response object

Object Element Type Comments To be viewed by customer Required field
data object main response object
sortOrder integer order in which to show the pricing
bookingDate date booking date criteria
pricingUnit string unit for pricing: currently, only "per person" is supported
ageBandPrices object available age bands and their pricing
sortOrder integer sort order for age band display
bandId integer Note: the numeric bandId is associated with an age band description (e.g., "Adult", "Infant" etc.) and a corresponding age range (e.g., from 12 to 99) - these details are available from the /product service. See Working with age bands
minimumCountRequired integer minimum number of pricing units that apply to these prices
maximumCountRequired integer maximum number of pricing units that apply to these prices
prices object pricing available for the age band (based on the min and max count requirements)
currencyCode string currency of the pricing
sortOrder integer order the pricing is to be shown within the bandId
price number price in decimal format (for merchant API partners, this is the 'suggested sell price')
priceFormatted string suggested sell price formatted according to the currency selected (with two decimal places where applicable)
merchantNetPrice number merchant net price in decimal format
merchantNetPriceFormatted string merchant net price formatted according to the selected currency
minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice integer number of units that the pricing applies to (e.g., a minNoOfTravellersRequiredForPrice of 3 means that the price is for three people)

Dealing with vouchers

The /booking/voucher service retrieves details for a complete itinerary or a single itinerary item. The data is returned as HTML that can be wrapped in a header/footer.

Sample URL parameters

leadLastName=DP&itemId=600033670

or

voucherKey=3299307:93c7f36a56b18ba1068787ba7fb7988da5c8ad08db77604110141ff21498603e:600033670

Key concepts

voucherKey

  • Use either the voucherKey or the three separate parameters.
  • If voucherKey is provided as well as other parameters, then the voucherKey overrides the other parameters.
  • The voucherKey is obtained from /booking/mybookings or in the /booking/book response object when a booking is made.

fullHTML

This is an optional parameter:

  • If true, the full HTML (including <!DOCTYPE>, <html> and <head> tags) will be returned.
  • If false, an HTML <div> element will be returned.
  • The default for this parameter is false

mobileVoucher

  • Optional parameter. Defaults to true. If true, the mobile (cut down) voucher HTML is returned; otherwise, the full voucher HTML is returned and fullHTML is ignored
  • This field should only be enabled for products that have a voucherOption of "VOUCHER_E" (electronic voucher). Do not enable mobileVouchers for paper vouchers (voucherOption of "VOUCHER_PAPER_ONLY") as no barcode is returned.
  • The voucher information is available in the responses for:
  • Voucher information is also displayed under the Redemption Info heading in the response from this service.

Example response object (/booking/voucher)

{
  "data": "<div style=\'line-height: 1.5;font-family:\'Arial\',\'Helvetica\',\'Verdana\',sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding: 0 10px; border-bottom: 1pxsolid #CAE2EA;\'><h2 style=\'font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;margin:0.5em 0;padding:0;\'>San FranciscoBay Sunset Catamaran Cruise &reg;</h2><h2 style=\'font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;margin:0.5em0;padding:0;\'>SAMPLE ONLY</h2><ul style=\'margin:0 0 1em 1em; padding:0;\'> <li><strong>Date:</strong>Friday April 13, 2012 </li><li><strong>Time:</strong><strong>2011:</strong><br><ul><li><strong>Nov. 6 to Nov. 27</strong>: 4:00pm (Fri., Sat. &amp; Sun)</li></ul><p><strong>2012:</strong></p><ul><li><strong>March 2 to March 10:</strong>&nbsp; 5:00 pm (Fri., Sat. &amp; Sun)</li><li><strong>March 11 to April 15:</strong> 6:00pm Daily</li><li><strong>April 16 to May 20:</strong> 6:30 pm Daily</li><li><strong>May 21 to July 22:</strong> 7:00 pm Daily</li><li><strong>July 23 to Aug 26: </strong>6:30 pm Daily</li><li><strong>Aug 27 to Sept 23:</strong>6:00 pm Daily</li><li><strong>Sept. 24 to Nov. 3:</strong> 5:30 pm Daily</li><li><strong>Nov 4 to Dec 2:</strong> 4:00pm (Friday, Sat., &amp; Sun.)</li></ul><p>Please arrive 30 minutes prior to cruise departure.</li></ul> <ul style=\'margin:0 0 1em 1em; padding:0;\'> <li><strong>Lead Traveler: </strong> jos dp</li><li><strong>Number of Travelers: </strong> 1 Adult</li> <li><strong>Booking Reference: </strong>VIATOR600033672</li><li><strong>Product Code: </strong>2316SUN</li><li><strong>Confirmation Details:</strong>SUN </li> <li><strong>Location </strong><div><p>Pier 39</p></div><div></div><div>When you get to Pier 39, stand on the sidewalk &amp; look towards the water, do NOT go down the center wherethe shops are, but take the left OUTSIDE walkway. Go towards the sea lions &amp; look for a gate with the letter J on it</div></li></ul><h3 style=\'font-size:14px;font-weight:bold;margin:0.5em 0;padding:0;\'> Redemption Info</h3><ul style=\'margin:0 0 1em 1em; padding:0;\'> <li>You can present either a paper or an electronic voucherfor this activity. </li> </ul> <h3 style=\'font-size:14px;font-weight:bold;margin:0.5em 0;padding:0;\'>Important</h3> <ul><li>Your local contact is Adventure Cat Sailing Charters on +1 800 498 4228.</li><li>Please note: You mustreconfirm directly with Adventure Cat Sailing Charters at <ul> <li>Locally on 415 777 1630</li></ul> at least 24 Hour(s)prior to your tour/activity date. If you are not arriving within the specified timeframe, please contact Adventure CatSailing Charters prior to your travels, or immediately upon arrival at your destination.</li></ul><ul><li>Duringthe months of March, April and November, the weather in San Francisco can be unpredictable and sailings are subject tocancellation or rescheduling. Please ensure that you call the operator 1 day prior to sailing to confirm your tour</li></ul><h3 style=\'font-size:14px;font-weight:bold;margin:0.5em 0;padding:0;\'>Inclusions</h3><ul><li>1.5-hour Sunset Cruise</li><li>Light hors d\'oeuvres</li><li>Two complimentary drinks</li></ul><h3 style=\'font-size:14px;font-weight:bold;margin:0.5em 0;padding:0;\'>Terms and Conditions </h3> Read our completeTerms & Conditions for information on cancellations, date changes and other modifications to this confirmed reservation. </div><!-- end of voucher_item --></div>",
  "vmid": "221001",
  "errorMessage": null,
  "errorType": null,
  "dateStamp": "2012-04-13T10:40:47+0000",
  "success": true,
  "errorReference": null,
  "errorMessageText": null,
  "totalCount": 1,
  "errorName": null
}

Reviewing bookings

The /booking/pastbooking service gets the details of a single specific past booking based on the voucherKey or itemId passed into it.

Sample query Parameters

"email=john.doe@viator.com&itemId=600033670"

or

"voucherKey=3299307:93c7f36a56b18ba1068787ba7fb7988da5c8ad08db77604110141ff21498603e:600033670"

Key concepts

Email

The email address passed must match the email address associated to the itinerary

Departure Details

Departure details, such as the departurePoint, departurePointAddress and departurePointDirections, will be included in the response. These fields may contain HTML escape characters, such as &amp; and special characters that are escaped by a backslash. Ensure that these fields are parsed after receiving the response, or it may cause your JSON to be invalid.

Example response object (/booking/pastbooking):

{
  "errorReference": null,
  "data": {
    "sortOrder": 0,
    "rulesApplied": null,
    "bookingStatus": {
      "status": 3,
      "text": "Confirmed",
      "type": "CONFIRMED",
      "level": "ITINERARY",
      "confirmed": true,
      "pending": false,
      "amended": false,
      "cancelled": false,
      "failed": false
    },
    "itemSummaries": [{
      "sortOrder": 0,
      "rulesApplied": null,
      "bookingStatus": {
        "status": 1,
        "text": "Paid &amp; Confirmed", "type": "CONFIRMED",
        "level": "ITEM",
        "failed": false,
        "confirmed": true,
        "amended": false,
        "pending": false,
        "cancelled": false
      },
      "travellerAgeBands": [{
        "sortOrder": 0,
        "count": 2,
        "pluralDescription": "Adults",
        "description": "Adult",
        "ageBandId": 1
      }],
      "voucherKey": "1000308214:899757cf8b419ed11f39045636b0b30af986d19126d04547097f4b9c05fb4b69:700179574",
      "voucherURL": "https://viatorapi.sandbox.viator.com/service/merchant/voucher.jspa?code=1000308214:899757cf8b419ed11f39045636b0b30af986d19126d04547097f4b9c05fb4b69:700179574&embedResources=false",
      "voucherRequirements": "You must present a paper voucher for this tour. We will email a link to access and print your voucher at the Lead Travelers email address.",
      "productPulledDown": false,
      "merchantCancellable": true,
      "productWidgetList": null,
      "savingAmount": 0,
      "vouchers": null,
      "passbooks": null,
      "termsAndConditions": null,
      "itineraryId": 1000308214,
      "productCode": "2065CPT",
      "tourGradeCode": "1DAY",
      "distributorItemRef": "distroItemRefJDP1006151732",
      "languageServicesLanguageCode": "en",
      "travelDate": "2015-09-03",
      "price": 26.28,
      "leadTravellerSurname": "Test",
      "barcodeOption": "tour",
      "barcodeType": "code128",
      "destId": 318,
      "voucherOption": "VOUCHER_PAPER_ONLY",
      "productTitle": "City Sightseeing Cape Town Hop-On Hop-Off Tour",
      "itemId": 700179574,
      "obfsId": 27643,
      "departurePoint": "Tour starts at V&amp;A Waterfront, outside the Two Oceans Aquarium, however you may board the bus at any one of the stops throughout the city (see the Itinerary section below for a list of stops)",
      "departurePointAddress": "",
      "departurePointDirections": "",
      "leadTravellerTitle": "Mr",
      "leadTravellerFirstname": "Homer",
      "lastRetailPrice": 26.28,
      "bookingEngineId": "UF",
      "priceFormatted": "$26.28",
      "savingAmountFormated": "",
      "merchantNetPrice": 26.28,
      "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$26.28",
      "currencyCode": "USD",
      "lastRetailPriceFormatted": "$26.28",
      "departsFrom": "Cape Town, South Africa",
      "tourGradeDescription": "1-Day Bus Tour (1DAY)",
      "hoursConfirmed": 0,
      "priceUSD": 26.28
    }],
    "voucherURL": "https://viatorapi.sandbox.viator.com/service/merchant/voucher.jspa?code=1000308214:899757cf8b419ed11f39045636b0b30af986d19126d04547097f4b9c05fb4b69&embedResources=false",
    "voucherKey": "1000308214:899757cf8b419ed11f39045636b0b30af986d19126d04547097f4b9c05fb4b69",
    "bookerEmail": "jocelyn@viator.com",
    "itineraryId": 1000308214,
    "exchangeRate": 1,
    "distributorRef": "distroRefJDP1006151732",
    "totalPrice": 26.28,
    "bookingDate": "2015-06-10",
    "totalPriceFormatted": "$26.28",
    "totalPriceUSD": 26.28,
    "hasVoucher": true,
    "userId": null,
    "currencyCode": "USD"
  }
}

Checking bookings

The /booking/mybookings service gets a user's future bookings; i.e., those with travel dates in the future. This service can also be used to check the status of a booking.

Key concepts

Sample URL parameters

  • "sessionId=xxx", or
  • "voucherKey=xxx", or
  • "email=terry.smith@viator.com&lastCCFourDigits=4242", or
  • "email=terry.smith@viator.com&itineraryOrItemId=3299307"

Provide one of:

  • a sessionId for all bookings related to a user account, or
  • a voucherKey, or
  • an email address (email) and the last four digits of the credit card number (lastCCFourDigits) used to make the booking to get all associated bookings, or
  • an email address (email) and itemId

...in that order

For "Failed" items, display a message that communicates the following information to your customers:

"The booking has failed either because this tour or activity was not available or there was a technical issue. Please contact Customer Service if you need more information."

See also: Booking and item status list

Departure details

Departure details, such as the departurePoint, departurePointAddress and departurePointDirections will be included in the response. These fields may contain HTML escape characters, such as &amp; and special characters that are escaped using a backslash. Ensure that these fields are parsed after receiving the response or it may cause your JSON to be invalid.

Example response object (/booking/mybookings):

{
  "errorReference": null,
  "data": {
    "sortOrder": 0,
    "rulesApplied": null,
    "bookingStatus": {
      "status": 3,
      "text": "Confirmed",
      "type": "CONFIRMED",
      "level": "ITINERARY",
      "confirmed": true,
      "pending": false,
      "amended": false,
      "cancelled": false,
      "failed": false
    },
    "itemSummaries": [{
      "sortOrder": 0,
      "rulesApplied": null,
      "bookingStatus": {
        "status": 1,
        "text": "Paid &amp; Confirmed",
        "type": "CONFIRMED",
        "level": "ITEM",
        "failed": false,
        "confirmed": true,
        "amended": false,
        "pending": false,
        "cancelled": false
      },
      "travellerAgeBands": [{
        "sortOrder": 0,
        "count": 2,
        "pluralDescription": "Adults",
        "description": "Adult",
        "ageBandId": 1
      }],
      "voucherKey": "1000308214:899757cf8b419ed11f39045636b0b30af986d19126d04547097f4b9c05fb4b69:700179574",
      "voucherURL": "https://viatorapi.sandbox.viator.com/service/merchant/voucher.jspa?code=1000308214:899757cf8b419ed11f39045636b0b30af986d19126d04547097f4b9c05fb4b69:700179574&embedResources=false",
      "voucherRequirements": "You must present a paper voucher for this tour. We will email a link to access and print your voucher at the Lead Travelers email address.",
      "productPulledDown": false,
      "merchantCancellable": true,
      "productWidgetList": null,
      "savingAmount": 0,
      "vouchers": null,
      "passbooks": null,
      "termsAndConditions": null,
      "itineraryId": 1000308214,
      "productCode": "2065CPT",
      "tourGradeCode": "1DAY",
      "distributorItemRef": "distroItemRefJDP1006151732",
      "languageServicesLanguageCode": "en",
      "travelDate": "2015-09-03",
      "price": 26.28,
      "leadTravellerSurname": "Test",
      "barcodeOption": "tour",
      "barcodeType": "code128",
      "destId": 318,
      "voucherOption": "VOUCHER_PAPER_ONLY",
      "productTitle": "City Sightseeing Cape Town Hop-On Hop-Off Tour",
      "itemId": 700179574,
      "obfsId": 27643,
      "departurePoint": "Tour starts at V&amp;A Waterfront, outside the Two Oceans Aquarium, however you may board the bus at any one of the stops throughout the city (see the Itinerary section below for a list of stops)",
      "departurePointAddress": "",
      "departurePointDirections": "",
      "leadTravellerTitle": "Mr",
      "leadTravellerFirstname": "Homer",
      "lastRetailPrice": 26.28,
      "bookingEngineId": "UF",
      "priceFormatted": "$26.28",
      "savingAmountFormatted": "",
      "merchantNetPrice": 26.28,
      "merchantNetPriceFormatted": "$26.28",
      "currencyCode": "USD",
      "lastRetailPriceFormatted": "$26.28",
      "departsFrom": "Cape Town, South Africa",
      "tourGradeDescription": "1-Day Bus Tour (1DAY)",
      "hoursConfirmed": 0,
      "priceUSD": 26.28
    }],
    "voucherURL": "https://viatorapi.sandbox.viator.com/service/merchant/voucher.jspa?code=1000308214:899757cf8b419ed11f39045636b0b30af986d19126d04547097f4b9c05fb4b69&embedResources=false",
    "voucherKey": "1000308214:899757cf8b419ed11f39045636b0b30af986d19126d04547097f4b9c05fb4b69",
    "bookerEmail": "jocelyn@viator.com",
    "itineraryId": 1000308214,
    "exchangeRate": 1,
    "distributorRef": "distroRefJDP1006151732",
    "totalPrice": 26.28,
    "bookingDate": "2015-06-10",
    "totalPriceFormatted": "$26.28",
    "totalPriceUSD": 26.28,
    "hasVoucher": true,
    "userId": null,
    "currencyCode": "USD"
  },
  "dateStamp": "2015-06-10T00:33:24+0000", "errorType": null,
  "errorMessage": null,
  "errorName": null,
  "success": true,
  "totalCount": 1,
  "vmid": "321004",
  "errorMessageText": null
}

Testing

Postman collection for testing

To facilitate your testing of the APIs functionality in the sandbox environment, please use the following file, which can be loaded into the Postman API development environment via its import function:

Setting up API-key authentication in Postman

Before you start using the linked Postman collection for testing, you will need to set up the authorization method you wish to use. This can be either the new method (the exp-api-key header parameter) or, the legacy method (the apiKey query parameter).

While both methods remain available, we strongly recommend that you use the new method, as it:

  1. Provides access to all languages available for your organization with a single API-key as opposed to one API-key per language
  2. Allows access to the new booking cancellation endpoints, as well as all newly-created endpoints in future

Please speak to your account manager if you are still using the legacy apiKey and would like to switch to our new authentication mechanism.

How to set up the new exp-api-key header parameter

  1. Select Edit from the collection menu:

postman-testing-1

  1. Set the following values:
  • Key: exp-api-key
  • Value: Your organization's single exp-api-key, which will have an identical format to that shown in the image below
  • Add to: Header

postman-testing-2

  1. Click Update

How to set up the legacy apiKey query parameter

  1. Select Edit from the collection menu:

postman-testing-1

  1. Set the following values:
  • Key: apiKey
  • Value: One of your organization's legacy apiKeys, which will have an identical format to that shown in the image below
  • Add to: Query Params

postman-testing-3

  1. Click Update

FAQs

Is a confirmation email sent to the customer or supplier when a booking is made in the sandbox environment?

  • No.

How do I make a demo booking?

  • To make a demo booking, make sure you set demo to true in your request to the /booking/book service.

What should I do if I successfully create a test booking in the Live environment?

  • Firstly, please don't make test bookings in the Live environment, as doing so may cause a confirmation email to be sent to the product supplier. Nonetheless, if you have made a test booking, cancel it using the /bookings/{id}/cancel service; or, send an email to dpsupport@viator.com and include both "CANCEL" and the booking reference number in the subject line.

Which currencies can I use when making a booking?

  • You can make a booking using the /booking/book endpoint using any of the supported currencies.
  • If you attempt to use a non-supported currency, you will receive an error message similar to the following:
{
  "errorReference": "3D45567E:2D4A_0A5D033A:01BB_5F616D10_1FBBC9:7035",
  "data": null,
  "dateStamp": "2020-09-15T18:41:00+0000",
  "errorType": "EXCEPTION",
  "errorCodes": [
    "UNKNOWN_ERROR"
  ],
  "errorMessage": [
    "Merchant API does not allow the specified currency"
  ],
  "errorName": "RuntimeException",
  "extraInfo": {},
  "extraObject": null,
  "success": false,
  "totalCount": 1,
  "errorMessageText": [
    "Merchant API does not allow the specified currency"
  ],
  "vmid": "331001"
}

Why am I having an SSL handshake issue?

What is the difference between merchantNetPrice and price in the response from the /search/products service?

  • merchantNetPrice is the amount you, as the merchant partner, will be invoiced for, excluding any fees.
  • price is the price at which Viator sells the product

Why is a different price displayed in /booking/availability/tourgrades and /product

  • /product displays the lowest possible price per traveller; whereas, /booking/availability/tourgrades shows the per-traveller price based on the age-band and number of travellers within that age-band.

A destination is missing its latitude, longitude or time zone

  • Some destinations in the sandbox environment may be missing geolocation or time zone data. However, if you encounter a destination in the Live environment with missing information, this can be regarded as an unintended omission – please contact us so that we can update our destination information.

How do I make a test booking?

To make a test booking, make sure you:

  • set firstname and/or surname in the booker object to 'test'.
  • set demo to true

Example:

{
  "demo": true,
  "currencyCode": "USD",
  "partnerDetail": {
    "distributorRef": "distroRef0412141435"
  },
  "booker": {
    "email": "apitest@viator.com",
    "firstname": "Test",
    "surname": "Test",
    "title": "Mr"
  },
  "items": [{
    "partnerItemDetail": {
      "distributorItemRef": "distroItemRef0412141435_1"
    },
    "hotelId": null,
    "pickupPoint": null,
    "travelDate": "2015-03-31",
    "productCode": "2916ROME",
    "tourGradeCode": "24HR",
    "languageOptionCode": "en/SERVICE_GUIDE",
    "bookingQuestionAnswers": [{
      "questionId": 100,
      "answer": "120 kgs"
    }],
    "specialRequirements": "",
    "travellers": [{
      "bandId": 1,
      "firstname": "Homer",
      "surname": "Simpson Test",
      "title": "Mr",
      "leadTraveller": true
    }]
  }]
}

Is it possible to use a custom value for distributorRef and distributorItemRef

  • Yes! In fact, this is what you're supposed to do. You can pass anything you like in these fields; however, if you use a distributorRef that has already been used, the API will return the previous booking made with that distributorRef rather than creating a new booking.
  • Note: distributorRef must be fewer than 40 characters

What are some common reasons for bookings to fail in the Viator API?

  • homePhone or any phone field in the booking request contains spaces. The only acceptable non-numeric characters are: “-“, “+” , “(“, and “)”

  • distributorRef has been re-used. When making a booking request, a distributorRef and distributorItemRef must be provided. This is the partner’s ID for the booking, and it must be unique. If a distributorRef has been re-used, a booking will not be made and instead, the existing booking will be returned in the response.

  • distributorRef exceeds 40 characters

  • No traveller or an incorrect traveller has been set as the lead traveller in the booking request;

    • leadTraveller:true must be set for one traveller
    • the leadTraveller must be from an ageBand that has treatAsAdult set to true. The data is available in the ageBands object in the product details service.
  • languageOptionCode is invalid

    • To find the valid language option codes for a particular product, have a look at the langServices object in the response from the /product service; e.g.,
"langServices": {
  "en/SERVICE_AUDIO": "English - Audio"
}
  • You must then ensure that the languageOptionCode in the request to the /booking/book service is populated in the same way; i.e.,
"languageOptionCode": "en/SERVICE_AUDIO"

What does it mean if I receive a "Section level access denied" error message?

  • This means that your API-key does not have the correct permissions to access the particular service you were attempting to access when you received this error message. If you feel you would like to use this service nonetheless in your implementation, please contact your account manager to discuss having access granted.

What does it mean if I receive a "503 Service Unavailable" response?

  • This means that there was a temporary service outage on our end at that time. We recommend that you re-try the operation until you no longer receive this error.

Does API rate limiting apply to all services?

  • Yes, it does. Regardless of the service you are making requests to, the fundamental rate limits apply equally.

Can I cancel multiple bookings or items at the same time using the Viator API?

  • No, you may only cancel one booking at a time.

How many concurrent requests can be made of the API from the same IP address?

  • Three.

Will my API-key expire?

  • If any API-key is not used for a period of six months, that key is automatically deactivated as a security measure. If this has happened to you, contact your account manager to have the key reactivated or a new key issued to you.

Why am I getting an empty response when checking booking details?

  • If you are attempting to check a booking using the /booking/status or /booking/status/items endpoints and receive an empty response, it may be that the booking was made with the demo parameter set to true, as the booking status endpoints will ignore demo bookings. Please try making the booking again, ensuring the demo parameter is set to false. If this also fails, please email affiliateapi@tripadvisor.com and include a copy of the request and response JSON objects.

Must I always provide details for all travelers when booking a product where allTravellerNamesRequired=true?

  • Approximately 45% of the products in our catalog require all traveller details to be supplied at the time of booking, and this requirement is enforced by the API. While it is technically possible to bypass this requirement – for example, by setting the lead traveler's name, but using dummy values for the the remaining travelers' details ('traveler 2', etc.) – we strongly advise against this, as it can cause problems for suppliers for whom this is a strict requirement. Examples include: Alcatraz tickets, theme park tickets that require a QR code, bookings for flights needing to meet TSA requirements; or, vehicle, Segway or jet-ski rentals. If you are unable to implement the collection of all traveler details on your site, we recommend filtering-out products where this is a strict requirement. You may also request that we filter-out these products for you so that they do not appear in product search results.

Must I always provide answers to the required booking questions when making a booking?

  • Yes. You must provide answers to all necessary booking questions when making a booking. Approximately 40% of the products in our catalog have booking questions, some of which may be necessary to fulfil the suplier's legal requirements. In the case that the customer cannot provide specific details at the time of booking – e.g., a departure flight number – they may enter 'unknown' and the supplier will manually send a follow-up message to ask for this information.

Why is there such a big difference in price between that given in the product endpoints and the actual price at the time of booking?

  • The price returned in the product endpoints is the 'From Price', which is the lowest possible price for an adult passenger when taking into account all available tour grades, group bookings and so forth. The exact price can only be determined when you check the availability for a specific date and passenger/traveler mix. We recommend using the /booking/availability/tourgrades endpoint for this purpose.

Why doesn't the /taxonomy/destinations endpoint return continent-level information?

  • Products are categorized according to their 'destination', which includes cities, regions and countries. The next logical grouping would be 'by continent'; however, this would be too broad a grouping, resulting in too many search results and lengthy response times if the product catalogue were to be searched by continent. For more information, see: Categorization of content

Will there ever be a discrepancy between the amount charged for a tour and the amount refunded due to currency exchange-rate fluctuations?

  • In short: no. Firstly, the cost of the booking and the refund amount are always calculated in the product supplier's native currency – no exchange rate calculations are applied. I.e., if the cost of the booking was USD 100 and the refund percentage is 100% (full refund, as per the response from /bookings/{booking-reference}/cancel-quote), Viator will simply not invoice you for that USD 100 that we would have if the booking was not canceled. Furthermore, we do not invoice you for the cost of a booking prior to its departure date.

Appendices

Update log

Date Description
20 July 2020 Added Booking references section
14 July 2020 Updated Calculating prices section
2 June 2020 Updated Postman collections and Testing section
18 May 2020 Added note regarding cancel codes to Legacy merchant cancellation section
7 May 2020 Upgraded search feature; enabled 'Try it Out' console
10 Mar 2020 Created new Overview section; removed 'Availability services' section, moving section contents into Key Concepts section

Accept-Language header

The Accept-Language header parameter controls which language the natural language fields in the response from each endpoint will be translated into.

Note that you can only specify languages that have been configured for your API-key. Therefore, if you wish to access additional languages, you will need to contact your business development account manager.

Language Accept-Language parameter value
English en, en-US
Danish da, da-DK
Dutch nl, nl-NL
Norwegian no, no-NO
Spanish es, es-ES
Swedish sv, sv-SE
French fr, fr-FR
Italian it, it-IT
German de, de-DE
Portuguese pt, pt-PT
Japanese ja, ja-JP
Chinese (simplified) zh-CN
Chinese (traditional) zh-TW
Korean ko, ko-KR

Standard JSON fields

Every service returns a standard set of JSON fields at the end of the JSON response, which indicates if it was processed successfully by the API.

In addition to the success flag, you will also need to check the errorMessage values for the status of the response.

An error-free response will have:

  • "success":true
  • "errorType":null
  • "errorMessage":null

Example JSON - successful:

{
  "data": [],
  "vmid": "321001",
  "errorMessage": null,
  "errorType": null,
  "dateStamp": "2013-03-06T19:45:10+0000",
  "errorReference": null,
  "errorMessageText": null,
  "success": true,
  "totalCount": 114,
  "errorName": null
}

Example JSON - unsuccessful:

{
  "errorReference": "~5793740141815885188840666",
  "data": null,
  "dateStamp": "2013-09-09T11:29:48+0000",
  "errorType": "EXCEPTION",
  "errorMessage": ["* Additional questions missing\n"],
  "errorName": "ValidationException",
  "success": false,
  "totalCount": 1,
  "vmid": "221001",
  "errorMessageText": ["* Additional questions missing" ]
}
Element Type Comments To be viewed by customer Required
vmid string The server id that processed the service
errorMessage string The error message in HTML
errorType string Type of error: EXCEPTION
dateStamp string timestamp of the response
errorReference string The error reference is logged for future reference
errorMessageText string The textual version of the error message
(if an error has occurred)
success boolean
  • true if the API request was successful with no errors
  • false if an error was encountered
totalCount integer The number of results returned (minimum = 1)
(if displaying the number of results found in a search etc.)
errorName string The name of the error type

Country codes

Country code Country
AF Afghanistan
AL Albania
DZ Algeria
AS American Samoa
AD Andorra
AO Angola
AI Anguilla
AQ Antarctica
AG Antigua and Barbuda
AR Argentina
AM Armenia
AW Aruba
AU Australia
AT Austria
AZ Azerbaijan
BS Bahamas
BH Bahrain
BD Bangladesh
BB Barbados
BY Belarus
BE Belgium
BZ Belize
BJ Benin
BM Bermuda
BT Bhutan
BO Bolivia
BA Bosnia Herzegovina
BW Botswana
BR Brazil
BN Brunei
BG Bulgaria
BF Burkina Faso
BI Burundi
KH Cambodia
CM Cameroon
CA Canada
CV Cape Verde
KY Cayman Islands
CF Central Africa
TD Chad
CL Chile
CN China
CX Christmas Island
CC Cocos (Keeling) Islands
CO Colombia
KM Comoros
CK Cook Islands
CR Costa Rica
CI Cote D'Ivoire
HR Croatia
CY Cyprus
CZ Czech Republic
DK Denmark
DJ Djibouti
DM Dominica
DO Dominican Republic
EC Ecuador
EG Egypt
SV El Salvador
GQ Equatorial Guinea
ER Eritrea
EE Estonia
ET Ethiopia
FK Falkland Island
FO Faroe Islands
FJ Fiji
FI Finland
FR France
GF French Guiana
PF French Polynesia
GA Gabon
GM Gambia
GE Georgia
DE Germany
GH Ghana
GI Gibraltar
GR Greece
GL Greenland
GD Grenada
GP Guadeloupe
GU Guam
GT Guatemala
GN Guinea
GW Guinea Bissau
GY Guyana
HT Haiti
HN Honduras
HK Hong Kong
HU Hungary
IS Iceland
IN India
ID Indonesia
IQ Iraq
IE Ireland
IL Israel
IT Italy
JM Jamaica
JP Japan
JO Jordan
KZ Kazakhstan
KE Kenya
KI Kiribati
KW Kuwait
KG Kyrgyzstan
LA Lao People's Democratic Republic
LV Latvia
LB Lebanon
LS Lesotho
LR Liberia
LY Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
LI Liechtenstein
LT Lithuania
LU Luxembourg
MO Macau
MK Macedonia
MG Madagascar
MW Malawi
MY Malaysia
MV Maldives
ML Mali
MT Malta
MQ Martinique
MR Mauritania
MU Mauritius
YT Mayotte
MX Mexico
FM Micronesia
MD Moldova
MC Monaco
MN Mongolia
MS Monserrat
MA Morocco
MZ Mozambique
NA Namibia
NR Nauru
NP Nepal
NL Netherlands
AN Netherlands Antilles
KN Nevis- St Kitts
NC New Caledonia
NZ New Zealand
NI Nicaragua
NE Niger
NG Nigeria
NU Niue
NF Norfolk Island
KP North Korea
MP Northern Mariana Islands
NO Norway
OM Oman
PK Pakistan
PW Palau
PS Palestinian Territory, Occupied
PA Panama
PG Papua New Guinea
PY Paraguay
PE Peru
PH Philippines
PN Pitcairn
PL Poland
PT Portugal
PR Puerto Rico
QA Qatar
RE Reunion
RO Romania
RU Russian Federation
RW Rwanda
SH Saint Helena
LC Saint Lucia
SM San Marino
ST Sao Tome and Principe
SA Saudi Arabia
SN Senegal
YU Serbia and Montenegro
SC Seychelles
SL Sierra Leone
SG Singapore
SK Slovakia
SI Slovenia
SB Solomon Islands
SO Somalia
ZA South Africa
KR South Korea
ES Spain
LK Sri Lanka
PM St Pierre Miquelon
VC St Vincent and Grenadines
SR Suriname
SZ Swaziland
SE Sweden
CH Switzerland
SY Syria
TW Taiwan
TJ Tajikistan
TZ Tanzania
TH Thailand
TL Timor-Leste
TG Togo
TK Tokelau
TO Tonga
TT Trinidad and Tobago
TN Tunisia
TR Turkey
TM Turkmenistan
TC Turks and Caicos Islands
TV Tuvalu
UG Uganda
UA Ukraine
AE United Arab Emirates
GB United Kingdom
UY Uruguay
UM US Minor Outlying Islands
US United States of America
UZ Uzbekistan
VU Vanuatu
VE Venezuela
VN Vietnam
VG Virgin Islands-British
VI Virgin Islands-US
WF Wallis and Futuna Islands
WS Western Samoa
YE Yemen Republic
ZM Zambia
ZW Zimbabwe

US state codes

State code State
AL Alabama
AK Alaska
AZ Arizona
AR Arkansas
CA California
CO Colorado
CT Connecticut
DE Delaware
DC District of Columbia
FL Florida
GA Georgia
HI Hawaii
ID Idaho
IL Illinois
IN Indiana
IA Iowa
KS Kansas
KY Kentucky
LA Louisiana
ME Maine
MD Maryland
MA Massachusetts
MI Michigan
MN Minnesota
MS Mississippi
MO Missouri
MT Montana
NE Nebraska
NV Nevada
NH New Hampshire
NJ New Jersey
NM New Mexico
NY New York
NC North Carolina
ND North Dakota
OH Ohio
OK Oklahoma
OR Oregon
PA Pennsylvania
RI Rhode Island
SC South Carolina
SD South Dakota
TN Tennessee
TX Texas
UT Utah
VT Vermont
VA Virginia
WA Washington
WV West Virginia
WI Wisconsin
WY Wyoming

Canadian provinces

Code Province
Alberta Alberta
British Columbia British Columbia
Manitoba Manitoba
New Brunswick New Brunswick
Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoundland
Northwest Territories Northwest Territories
Nova Scotia Nova Scotia
Nunavut Nunavut
Ontario Ontario
Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island
Quebec Quebec
Saskatchewan Saskatchewan
Yukon Yukon Territory

Australian states

Code State
ACT Australian Capital Territory
NSW New South Wales
NT Northern Territory
QLD Queensland
SA South Australia
TAS Tasmania
VIC Victoria
WA Western Australia

bookingStatus field values and meanings

Field: type Field: status Meaning
"WAITING" 0 This item has not been booked. Part of an unfinished itinerary.
"CONFIRMED" 1 This item has been successfully booked
"UNAVAILABLE" 2 This item has been had an availability check, that came back false.
"PENDING" 3 This item has begun booking, but has paused in a deferred booking engine
"FAILED" 4 A merchant partner with a freesale-only API-key has attempted to book an on-request product
"CANCELLED" 5 This item has successfully been cancelled.
"EXPIRED" 6 This item is now expired.
"AMENDED" 7 This item has been amended after booking.
"PENDING_AMEND" 8 This item has a pending amendment which can be cancelled.
"REJECTED" 12 Viator only
"ON_HOLD" 13 Viator only

Supported currency codes

Supported currency codes for merchant partners:

Currency code Currency
USD US dollar
GBP British pound
EUR Euro
AUD Australian dollar

Note: Partners will be billed in the currency of the booking.

Viator API error codes

Error code Services Error message Description
ADDRESS_REQUIRED /booking/book "You have not entered an address. Please enter your address information." ccAddress1 was empty
ADDRESS_SIZE_EXCEEDED /booking/book "Billing address is restricted to 50 characters long." address field was longer than 51 characters
ATTRIBUTE_NOT_FOUND /product
AGE_BAND_INVALID /booking/book a bandId has been submitted that does not correspond to any bandId available for the tour grade in question
BOOKING_QUESTIONS_MISSING /booking/book "Additional questions missing" one or more required booking questions are missing in the booking request
CARD_EXPIRED /booking/book submitted credit card details corresponding to an expired card
CITY_REQUIRED /booking/book "You have not entered a city in the address section. Please enter your city." address is required in the credit card section
CITY_SIZE_EXCEEDED /booking/book "City is restricted to 40 characters long." city name submitted was more than 40 characters long
COUNTRY_REQUIRED /booking/book "You have not entered a country. Please enter your country." no country was submitted in the booking request
CREDIT_CARD_DECLINED /booking/book credit card used for booking was declined by the payment processor
CREDIT_CARD_EXPIRY_DATE_INVALID /booking/book "The expiration date for your credit card is not formatted properly. Please verify and re-enter the expiration date." incorrectly-formatted credit card expiration date was submitted
CREDIT_CARD_HOLDER_NAME_INVALID /booking/book credit card holder's name was invalid, perhaps due to the inclusion of invalid characters
CREDIT_CARD_NUMBER_INVALID /booking/book "Please verify and re-enter the credit card details, or use a different credit card" invalid characters in credit card number
CREDIT_CARD_NUMBER_REQUIRED /booking/book "Credit card number is required" credit card number was omitted
CREDIT_CARD_SECURITY_NUMBER_INVALID /booking/book "The card security number you entered for your credit card is invalid. It must contain 3 digits (or 4 with American Express cards). Please re-enter the card security number." incorrect CCV code submitted
CREDIT_CARD_SECURITY_NUMBER_REQUIRED /booking/book "Credit card security number is required" CCV was not provided
DEMO_BOOKING_WITH_REAL_CARD /booking/pricingmatrix demo is true, but credit card details are real
DISTRIBUTOR_REFERENCE_MISMATCH /booking/pastbooking; /booking/mybookings "The distributor reference associated with this itinerary does not match the one provided." attempt to retrieve a booking with an itineraryId or itemId and distributorRef, but the reference doesn't match the one saved in the itinerary
EMAIL_ADDRESS_INVALID /booking/book "Your email address format is invalid" email address is formatted incorrectly
EMAIL_REQUIRED /booking/book "Email is required" email address is missing in the booking request
FIRST_NAME_INVALID /booking/book "You have entered a name for the credit-card holder that is not valid. Please verify and re-enter the name of the credit card holder." first name is formatted incorrectly or contains invalid characters in the booking request - string length must be > 1 and must not contain the following characters: <>%;"(),
FIRST_NAME_REQUIRED /booking/book "First name of credit card details is required" no first name specified
FIRST_NAME_SIZE_EXCEEDED /booking/book "First name of credit card details is restricted to 30 characters long" first name exceeds 30 characters
INTERNAL_ERROR any any the API itself has experienced an unexpected error
LAST_NAME_INVALID /booking/book "You have entered a name for the credit-card holder that is not valid. Please verify and re-enter the name of the credit card holder." last name is formatted incorrectly in the booking request - string length must be > 1 and must not contain the following characters: <>%;"(),
LAST_NAME_REQUIRED /booking/book "Last name of credit card details is required" no last name supplied in the ccname field of the ccPayDetail object
LAST_NAME_SIZE_EXCEEDED /booking/book "Last name of credit card details is restricted to 35 characters long" the surname in the ccname field of the ccPayDetail object must not exceed 35 characters in length
LEAD_TRAVELLER_REQUIRED /booking/book "A traveler needs to be selected as lead traveler." one traveller object within the travellers array in the booking request needs to have leadTraveller set to true
PAYMENT_AMOUNTS_CHANGED /booking/book e.g. "PAYMENT_AMOUNTS_CHANGED: HKD 2213.20 (was HKD 2210.26)" This error indicates that the exchange rate was updated while the booking was being made. Refresh the product's pricing information and retry the booking.
PAYMENT_CURRENCY_MISMATCH /booking/book
PAYMENT_ENCRYPTION_ERROR /booking/book Viator-only internal error - retry booking request
PAYMENT_INTERNAL_ERROR /booking/book Viator-only internal error - retry booking request
PAYMENT_LIMIT_REACHED /booking/book Viator-only internal error - retry booking request
PAYMENT_REJECTED /booking/book triggered when expiry: "01/2018" and card number: "4539791001730106" were submitted
POSTCODE_REQUIRED /booking/book "You have not entered a zip code / post code. Please enter your zip code / post code.", ccaddressZip was empty
POSTCODE_SIZE_EXCEEDED /booking/book "Zip code / post code is restricted to 10 characters long." ccaddressZip was more than 10 characters in length
PRICING_DATA_MISSING Viator-only internal error - retry booking request
PRODUCT_TOUR_GRADE_UNKNOWN /booking/pricingmatrix Unknown tour grade: for product an invalid tour grade code was submitted
PRODUCT_UNAVAILABLE /booking/book Viator-only internal error - retry booking request
REFUND_REJECTED Viator-only internal error - retry booking request
STATE_REQUIRED /booking/book ccaddressState is required for this billing request
STATE_SIZE_EXCEEDED /booking/book ccaddressState must be fewer than 35 characters long
TOUR_NOT_AVAILABLE /booking/book "We're sorry, the following tour you are trying to book is sold out and no longer available" the tour is not available on the requested date
TOUR_GONE /product "We're sorry, we cannot find the tour, activity or attraction you are looking for" no product corresponding to the supplied details was found
TOUR_NOT_AVAILABLE_BETWEEN_DATES
TOUR_NOT_FOUND /product "We're sorry, we cannot find the tour, activity or attraction you are looking for" no product corresponding to the supplied details was found
TRAVELLER_COUNT_EXCEEDED_MAX_LIMIT number of travellers in the booking request was greater than the limit for the product being booked
TRAVELLER_FIRST_NAME_INVALID /booking/book "First name of traveler 1 must only contain alphabetical characters" non-alphabetical characters were used in the traveller's first name
TRAVELLER_FIRST_NAME_REQUIRED /booking/book "First name of traveler 1 is required" firstname in the booker object was omitted
TRAVELLER_LAST_NAME_INVALID /booking/book "Last name of traveler 1 should contain alphabet only" surname in the booker object contained non-alphabetical characters
TRAVELLER_LAST_NAME_REQUIRED /booking/book "Last name of traveler 1 is required" surname in the booker object was omitted
TRAVELLER_MISMATCH /booking/availability/tourgrades the bandId is not available for the selected tour grade; or, the product does not support the number of travelers requested
UNKNOWN_ERROR any any the API reports this error when the exception from the underlying system (e.g. booking server) is not recognized
UNKNOWN_PAYMENT_METHOD
UNSUPPORTED_CARD cctype is not one of "Visa", "Mastercard" or "Amex"

Booking questions

Example product codes were valid at the time of writing. If you find that any of these product codes are invalid or do not include the relevant booking question, please inform us about it via email.

Id stringQuestionId title subtitle message example product
1 dateOfBirth_dob Date of Birth (e.g. 20 October 1970) Enter your date of birth. 100009P2
2 heights_passengerHeights Passenger Heights (eg. 5'2, 158cm etc) For safety reasons you must enter the height of all passengers. Please indicate inches or centimetres. 100009P1
3 passport_expiry Passport Expiry Date (e.g. 15 September 2015. If multiple passengers, separate each entry e.g. 01 July 2012, 31 May 2014) Enter passport expiry date for all passengers 100014P10
4 passport_nationality Passport Nationality (e.g. United States of America. If multiple passengers, separate each entry e.g. Australia, China) Enter country of issue of passport for all passengers 100014P10
5 passport_passportNo Passport Number (e.g. 0123456789. If multiple passengers, separate each entry e.g. 0123456789, 9876543210) Enter passport number for all passengers 100014P10
6 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
7 transfer_air_arrival_airline Arrival Airline (e.g. United, British Airways, Qantas, etc) Enter the name of your airline. 100006P15
8 transfer_air_arrival_flightNo Arrival Flight No (e.g. UA 864, BA 923, QA 233, etc) Enter your flight number. 100006P15
9 transfer_air_departure_airline Departure Airline (e.g. United, British Airways, Qantas, etc) Enter the name of your airline. 100006P17
10 transfer_air_departure_flightNo Departure Flight No (e.g. UA 864, BA 923, QA 233, etc) Enter your flight number. 100006P17
11 transfer_arrival_dropOff Drop Off Location (e.g. 1234 Cedar Way, Brooklyn, NY 00123) Enter the address for drop off. 100006P15
12 transfer_arrival_time Arrival Time (eg. 8pm, 20:30 etc) Enter your arrival time. Please indicate AM/PM or use the 24-hour clock. 100006P15
13 transfer_departure_date Departure date (e.g. 15 September 2015) Enter your departure date. 100006P15
14 transfer_departure_pickUp Pick up Location (e.g. 1234 Cedar Way, Brooklyn, NY 00123) Enter the address for pick up. 100006P17
15 transfer_departure_time Departure Time (eg. 8pm, 20:30 etc) Enter your departure time. Please indicate AM/PM or use the 24-hour clock. 100006P17
16 transfer_port_arrival_time Disembarkation Time (eg. 8pm, 20:30 etc) Enter your disembarkation time. Please indicate AM/PM or use the 24-hour clock. 100014P14
17 transfer_port_cruiseShip Cruise Ship (e.g. Brilliance of the Seas, etc) Enter your cruise ship. 100014P14
18 transfer_port_departure_time Boarding Time (eg. 8pm, 20:30 etc) Enter your boarding time. Please indicate AM/PM or use the 24-hour clock. 100014P4
19 transfer_rail_arrival_line Arrival Rail Line (e.g. Amtrak, etc) Enter the name of the rail provider. 100006P15
20 transfer_rail_arrival_station Arrival Rail Station (e.g. Central Station, etc) Enter name of arrival and/or departure station. 100006P15
21 transfer_rail_departure_line Departure Rail Line (e.g. Amtrak, etc) Enter the name of the rail provider. 100014P10
22 transfer_rail_departure_station Departure Rail Station (e.g. Central Station, etc) Enter name of arrival and/or departure station. 100014P10
23 weights_passengerWeights Passenger Weights (e.g. 127 pounds, 145 kilos, etc) For safety reasons you must enter the weight of all passengers. Please indicate pounds or kilos. 100111P12

Legacy merchant cancellation

Note: This functionality has been replaced by the cancellationReasons, bookingQuote and cancelBooking endpoints.

Requirements for cancellations

  • To successfully cancel a booking via the /merchant/cancellation service, you must include the itinerary item to cancel (itemId).

  • itineraryItemId and itineraryId need to match the distributorRef and distributorItemRef, so these four values must also be included in the request body.

  • You must also include a cancelCode - a number corresponding to the reason for cancellation. You can use the suggested cancel codes shown in the table below.

Note: Post-travel cancellations will not be processed unless a cancel code of 62 or 66 is passed in the cancelCode parameter.

The /merchant/cancellation service:

Description of JSON request parameters for the /merchant/cancellation service:

Parameter Type Comments Required
itineraryId integer Viator itinerary reference number
distributorRef string Merchant partner's itinerary reference for booking
cancelItems array Array of item to cancel in itinerary
itemId integer Viator itemId of item to cancel in itinerary
distributorItemRef string Merchant partner's itinerary item (booking) reference
cancelCode string A number indicating the reason for cancelling the booking. A list of suggested cancel codes is shown in the table below.
cancelDescription string Natural-language reason for cancellation. A reason must be provided if a cancelCode of '62' or '66' is passed. ✅ for cancelCode '62' or '66'; otherwise ❌

Example /merchant/cancellation request:

In this request, we wish to cancel the booking identified by the following:

Parameter Value
itneraryId 12345655
distributorRef "Jdp122"
itemId 330056
distributorItemRef "JdpItin001"
cancelCode "82" (Honest mistake - incorrect purchase)

This is accomplished as follows:

API Service

POST /merchant/cancellation

Request body

{
  "itineraryId": 1234655,
  "distributorRef": "Jdp122",
  "cancelItems": [
  {
    "itemId": 330056,
    "distributorItemRef": "JdpItin001",
    "cancelCode": "82"
  }]
}

Example response

{
  "data": {
    "itineraryId": 1234655,
    "cancelItems": [
      {
        "cancellationResponseStatusCode": "Confirmed",
        "cancellationResponseDescription": "No further action required",
        "itemId": 330056,
        "distributorItemRef": "JdpItin001"
      }],
    "distributorRef": "Jdp122"
  },
  "vmid": "221002",
  "errorMessage": null,
  "errorType": null,
  "dateStamp": "2013-03-21T14:28:08+0000",
  "errorReference": null,
  "errorMessageText": null,
  "success": true,
  "totalCount": 1,
  "errorName": null
}

Suggested cancellation codes:

cancelcode meaning
'00' Testing (use for test cancellations)
'51' Flight cancellation affecting customer
'52' Flight schedule change unacceptable to customer
'53' Death of the customer or a member of their immediate family
'54' Jury duty/court summons affecting customer
'56' Medical emergency/hospitalization involving the customer or their immediate family
'57' Customer is required for military service
'58' National disaster (insurrection, terrorism, war) affecting the customer
'59' Natural disaster (earthquake, fire, flood) affecting the customer
'62' Post-travel cancellation: the product was cancelled by the supplier and the traveller was not given sufficient notice
'63' Transport strike/labor dispute affecting customer
'66' Post-travel cancellation: the product was not cancelled, but the customer was dissatisfied with the product
'71' Credit card fraud
'72' Car segment cancellation affecting customer
'73' Package segment cancellation affecting customer
'74' Hotel segment cancellation affecting customer
'77' Re-book
'78' Duplicate purchase
'82' Honest mistake (incorrect purchase)
'87' Non-refundable cancellation more than 24 hours prior to travel
'88' Non-refundable cancellation less than 24 hours prior to travel
'98' Customer service/technical support response outside time limit
'99' Duplicate processing

Cancellation errors

If the cancellation was not successful, you will receive an error response.

Example error response

{
  "data": {
    "itineraryId": "3331605", 
    "cancelItems": [{
      "cancellationResponseStatusCode": "Error.ItineraryUnknown", 
      "cancellationResponseDescription": "Please double check the details or contact..."
      "itemId": "600088255",
      "distributorItemRef": "ItinItemRef012"
    }],
    "distributorRef": null 
  },
  "vmid": "221002",
  "errorMessage": null,
  "errorType": null,
  "dateStamp": "2013-03-21T14:43:38+0000", 
  "errorReference": null, 
  "errorMessageText": null,
  "success": true, 
  "totalCount": 1, 
  "errorName": null
}

Cancellation response status codes and their meanings

cancellationResponseStatusCode Meaning Action
"Confirmed" The request to cancel and refund the item has been accepted and processed No further action is required.
"Pending" Confirmation of the request to cancel and refund the item is pending. This only applies when a cancelCode is '62' or '66' was sent and the booking was in a 'pending' state. No action required. Partner will be contacted when a decision to confirm/reject has been made by the supplier.
"Rejected" The cancellation request was denied No action required. The item cannot be cancelled.
"Error.ItemUnknown" Item not found Double-check itemId. Contact Viator Customer Service for more information if required.
"Error.ItineraryUnknown" Itinerary not found Double-check itineraryId. Contact Viator Customer Service for more information if required.
"Error.MultipleRequests" Cancellation request contains multiple requests Submit only one item per cancellation request.
"Error.NoCancellationCodeOrDescription" Invalid cancelCode cancelCode is invalid – ensure it is two digits long
"Error.Unknown" An undefined error has occurred Double-check the distributorRef and distributorItemRef. If the error is still occurring, contact the Viator partner support team.

Resubmitting a cancellation request

If the same cancellation request is sent more than once, Viator will respond with the last known response.

General services

General services

/health/check

Health check Use this service to determine whether the Viator API is presently online and that your API key is valid. You should receive a response identical to the example shown. If you have not yet received an API key, please request one from your business development partner. If you have not yet signed up as a Viator merchant partner and would like to, please visit our distribution partner website."

Authorizations:
API-keyLegacy-API-key
header Parameters
Accept-Language
required
string
Example: en-US

Specifies the language into which the natural-language fields in the response from this service will be translated (see Accept-Language header for available langage codes)

Responses

Response Schema: application/json
allGood
boolean or null

indicator: true signifies health

dbOk
boolean or null

indicator: true signifies health

memcachedOk
boolean or null

indicator: true signifies health

capiOk
boolean or null

indicator: true signifies health

message
string or null

natural-language description of any issues regarding the health of the API

Response samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "allGood": true,
  • "dbOk": true,
  • "memcachedOk": true,
  • "capiOk": true,
  • "message": null
}

Taxonomy services

Taxonomy services

/taxonomy/destinations

Get details of all destinations supported by this API

  • Retrieves all the country taxonomy/city nodes as a flat list
  • Returns a complete list of Viator destinations, including destination names and parent identifiers
  • Used to provide navigation through drill down lists or combo boxes
Authorizations:
API-keyLegacy-API-key
header Parameters
Accept-Language
required
string
Example: en-US

Specifies the language into which the natural-language fields in the response from this service will be translated (see Accept-Language header for available langage codes)

Responses

Response Schema: application/json
errorReference
string or null

reference number of this error

dateStamp
string or null

timestamp of this response

errorType
string or null

code specifying the type of error

errorCodes
Array of strings or null

array of error codes pertaining to this error

errorMessage
Array of arrays or null or null

array of error message strings

errorName
string or null

name of this type of error

extraInfo
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

extraObject
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

success
boolean or null

boolean indicator of this request's outcome

  • true: the request was successful with no errors
  • false: an error was encountered
totalCount
integer or null

number of results available for this service

errorMessageText
string or null

array of error message strings in plain text

vmid
string or null

unique numeric id of the server that processed this request

Array of objects

array of destination objects

Response samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "errorReference": null,
  • "data": [
    ],
  • "dateStamp": "2020-02-06T19:43:09+0000",
  • "errorType": null,
  • "errorCodes": [ ],
  • "errorMessage": null,
  • "errorName": null,
  • "extraInfo": { },
  • "extraObject": null,
  • "success": true,
  • "totalCount": 1,
  • "errorMessageText": null,
  • "vmid": "331001"
}

/taxonomy/categories

Get all product categories

  • Retrieves a list of product categories for a destination that can be used as a means of filtering when searching for products using the /search/products service
  • This service can be used to get a list of all categories and subcategories for a destination by including its destId, or you can omit the destId to get a list of all categories and subcategories
  • Note: If no destId is passed, productCount and thumbnailURL will be null as they are destination-specific fields
Authorizations:
API-keyLegacy-API-key
query Parameters
destId
integer
Example: destId=684

unique numeric identifier of the destination to enquire about (optional)

header Parameters
Accept-Language
required
string
Example: en-US

Specifies the language into which the natural-language fields in the response from this service will be translated (see Accept-Language header for available langage codes)

Responses

Response Schema: application/json
errorReference
string or null

reference number of this error

dateStamp
string or null

timestamp of this response

errorType
string or null

code specifying the type of error

errorCodes
Array of strings or null

array of error codes pertaining to this error

errorMessage
Array of arrays or null or null

array of error message strings

errorName
string or null

name of this type of error

extraInfo
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

extraObject
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

success
boolean or null

boolean indicator of this request's outcome

  • true: the request was successful with no errors
  • false: an error was encountered
totalCount
integer or null

number of results available for this service

errorMessageText
string or null

array of error message strings in plain text

vmid
string or null

unique numeric id of the server that processed this request

Array of objects

array of category data objects

Response samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "errorReference": null,
  • "data": [
    ],
  • "dateStamp": "2020-02-06T19:47:58+0000",
  • "errorType": null,
  • "errorCodes": [ ],
  • "errorMessage": null,
  • "errorName": null,
  • "extraInfo": { },
  • "extraObject": null,
  • "success": true,
  • "totalCount": 1,
  • "errorMessageText": null,
  • "vmid": "331001"
}

/taxonomy/attractions

Get attractions

  • Retrieves a list of attractions (things like the Eiffel Tower or Empire State Building) and their associated unique numeric identifiers
  • The attraction's identifier (seoId) can be used as a means of searching for available products; for example, in the /search/products service.
Authorizations:
API-keyLegacy-API-key
header Parameters
Accept-Language
required
string
Example: en-US

Specifies the language into which the natural-language fields in the response from this service will be translated (see Accept-Language header for available langage codes)

Request Body schema: application/json
destId
integer

unique numeric identifier of the destination in which to search for attractions

topX
string (topX)

start and end rows to return in the format {start}-{end}

  • e.g. '1-10', '11-20'

Note:

  • the maximum number of rows per request is 100; therefore, '100-400' will return the same as '100-200'
  • if topX is not specified, the default is '1-100'
sortOrder
string

Sort order for the results; one of:

  • 'RECOMMENDED' – sorted in order of recommendation (Note: What Viator gets paid impacts this sort order)
  • 'SEO_ALPHABETICAL' – Alphabetical (A->Z)

Responses

Response Schema: application/json
errorReference
string or null

reference number of this error

dateStamp
string or null

timestamp of this response

errorType
string or null

code specifying the type of error

errorCodes
Array of strings or null

array of error codes pertaining to this error

errorMessage
Array of arrays or null or null

array of error message strings

errorName
string or null

name of this type of error

extraInfo
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

extraObject
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

success
boolean or null

boolean indicator of this request's outcome

  • true: the request was successful with no errors
  • false: an error was encountered
totalCount
integer or null

number of results available for this service

errorMessageText
string or null

array of error message strings in plain text

vmid
string or null

unique numeric id of the server that processed this request

Array of objects

array of attraction objects

Request samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "destId": 684,
  • "topX": "1-3",
  • "sortOrder": "RECOMMENDED"
}

Response samples

Content type
application/json
{}

Product services

Product services

/search/products

Search for products

This service is used to search for products based on various criteria; such as:

  • the destination (locale) in which it operates

  • its association with a tourist attraction

  • its category and/or subcategory

  • the time period during which it operates

The fields you include in the request body for this service determine the kind of search that will be performed.

Note:

  • You can search EITHER by destination (destId) OR by attraction-link (seoId), but not both.

  • The destination identifier (destId) can be retrieved from the /taxonomy/destinations service.

  • The category (catId) and subcategory (subCatId) identifiers can be retrieved from the /taxonomy/categories service.

  • The attraction identifier (seoId) can be retrieved from the /taxonomy/attractions service.

Examples:

Search by destination:

  • E.g., "Top ten highest-rated yoga classes operating in Las Vegas:

{
    "destId": 684,
    "subCatId": 26052,
    "sortOrder": "REVIEW_AVG_RATING_D",
    "topX": "1-3"
}

Search by attraction-link:

  • E.g., "Products related to Everglades National Park operating 21-26 May 2019 in order of descending price":

{
    "seoId": 1115,
    "sortOrder": "PRICE_FROM_D",
    "topX": "1-3"
}

'Freesale-only' merchants:

  • Merchants with a "freesale only" key must pass startDate and endDate to this service to retrieve a list of all available 'freesale' products (and 'freesale/on-request' products that are currently 'freesale') in the destination.

  • E.g., the following request body will result in 'freesale/on-request' products within their on-request period not appearing in the results from this service.


{
    "destId": 684,
    "startDate": "2020-02-21",
    "endDate": "2020-03-21",
    "sortOrder": "PRICE_FROM_D",
    "topX": "1-3"
}
  • If startDate and endDate are omitted, 'freesale/on-request' products that are presently within their on-request period may appear to be available to customers, but won't be available at the time of booking.
Authorizations:
API-keyLegacy-API-key
header Parameters
Accept-Language
required
string
Example: en-US

Specifies the language into which the natural-language fields in the response from this service will be translated (see Accept-Language header for available langage codes)

Request Body schema: application/json
destId
integer

unique numeric identifier of the destination in which to search for products

seoId
string

search restriction specifier for products associated with an attraction uniquely identified by seoId

  • use EITHER destId OR seoId, but not both
catId
integer

unique numeric identifier of this product category to search within

  • categoryId can be retrieved from the /taxonomy/categories service
  • at present, it is not possible to use catId in conjunction with seoId
subCatId
integer

unique numeric identifier of this product subcategory to search within

  • subcategoryId can be retrieved from the /taxonomy/categories service
  • at present, it is not possible to use subCatId in conjunction with seoId
startDate
string

start date delimiter for the search (must be in the future)

  • e.g., '2018-10-21'

Note: If the time period delimited by startDate and endDate is more than 28 days, products that have no availability due to being sold-out or blocked-out will still appear in the search results. In order to filter by availability, your search duration must be <= 28 days.

endDate
string

end date delimiter for the search (must be in the future)

  • e.g., '2019-10-21'

Note:

  • If the time period delimited by startDate and endDate is more than 28 days, products that have no availability due to being sold-out or blocked-out will still appear in the search results. In order to filter by availability, your search duration must be <= 28 days.

  • Format: ISO-8601 (YYYY-MM-DD) in time-zone of supplier

  • Note:

    • endDate cannot be in the past and is limited to one year from the date on which the request is made.
    • Multi-day tours that conclude after this date will still appear in the results, so long as the tour commences prior to this date, even if they conclude on a date that is further into the future than endDate.
currencyCode
string

currency in which to display product prices

topX
string (topX)

start and end rows to return in the format {start}-{end}

  • e.g. '1-10', '11-20'

Note:

  • the maximum number of rows per request is 100; therefore, '100-400' will return the same as '100-200'
  • if topX is not specified, the default is '1-100'
sortOrder
string
Enum: "TOP_SELLERS" "REVIEW_AVG_RATING_A" "REVIEW_AVG_RATING_D" "PRICE_FROM_A" "PRICE_FROM_D"

sort order in which to return the results that is one of:

  • "TOP_SELLERS": the top sellers (Note: What Viator gets paid impacts this sort order)
  • "REVIEW_AVG_RATING_A": ascending by average traveler rating (low -> high)
  • "REVIEW_AVG_RATING_D": descending by average traveler rating (high -> low)
  • "PRICE_FROM_A": ascending by price (low -> high)
  • "PRICE_FROM_D": descending by price (high -> low)

Responses

Response Schema: application/json
errorReference
string or null

reference number of this error

dateStamp
string or null

timestamp of this response

errorType
string or null

code specifying the type of error

errorCodes
Array of strings or null

array of error codes pertaining to this error

errorMessage
Array of arrays or null or null

array of error message strings

errorName
string or null

name of this type of error

extraInfo
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

extraObject
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

success
boolean or null

boolean indicator of this request's outcome

  • true: the request was successful with no errors
  • false: an error was encountered
totalCount
integer or null

number of results available for this service

errorMessageText
string or null

array of error message strings in plain text

vmid
string or null

unique numeric id of the server that processed this request

Array of objects

array of product objects

Request samples

Content type
application/json
Example
{
  • "destId": 684,
  • "subCatId": 26052,
  • "sortOrder": "REVIEW_AVG_RATING_D",
  • "topX": "1-3"
}

Response samples

Content type
application/json
Example
{
  • "errorReference": null,
  • "data": [
    ],
  • "dateStamp": "2020-02-09T14:34:51+0000",
  • "errorType": null,
  • "errorCodes": [ ],
  • "errorMessage": null,
  • "errorName": null,
  • "extraInfo": { },
  • "extraObject": null,
  • "success": true,
  • "totalCount": 3,
  • "errorMessageText": null,
  • "vmid": "331005"
}

/search/products/codes

Search by product code

  • This service returns an array of products given an array of product identifiers that is useful for wishlist / shopping cart / user account display
  • Note: requesting an inactive or non-existent product code will return 0, null and blank values (as per the 'invalid_product' example).
Authorizations:
API-keyLegacy-API-key
header Parameters
Accept-Language
required
string
Example: en-US

Specifies the language into which the natural-language fields in the response from this service will be translated (see Accept-Language header for available langage codes)

Request Body schema: application/json
currencyCode
string

currency code for the currency in which to display product pricing

productCodes
Array of strings

array of product codes to search for

Responses

Response Schema: application/json
errorReference
string or null

reference number of this error

dateStamp
string or null

timestamp of this response

errorType
string or null

code specifying the type of error

errorCodes
Array of strings or null

array of error codes pertaining to this error

errorMessage
Array of arrays or null or null

array of error message strings

errorName
string or null

name of this type of error

extraInfo
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

extraObject
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

success
boolean or null

boolean indicator of this request's outcome

  • true: the request was successful with no errors
  • false: an error was encountered
totalCount
integer or null

number of results available for this service

errorMessageText
string or null

array of error message strings in plain text

vmid
string or null

unique numeric id of the server that processed this request

Array of objects

array of product objects

Request samples

Content type
application/json
Example
{
  • "currencyCode": "EUR",
  • "productCodes": [
    ]
}

Response samples

Content type
application/json
Example
{
  • "errorReference": null,
  • "data": [
    ],
  • "dateStamp": "2020-02-09T16:07:17+0000",
  • "errorType": null,
  • "errorCodes": [ ],
  • "errorMessage": null,
  • "errorName": null,
  • "extraInfo": { },
  • "extraObject": null,
  • "success": true,
  • "totalCount": 2,
  • "errorMessageText": null,
  • "vmid": "331003"
}

/search/freetext

Free text search

  • This service provides a free text search across all products and destinations
  • The text parameter is required
  • Note: results include a type indicator (type) that you can use to display each result appropriately based on its content
Authorizations:
API-keyLegacy-API-key
header Parameters
Accept-Language
required
string
Example: en-US

Specifies the language into which the natural-language fields in the response from this service will be translated (see Accept-Language header for available langage codes)

Request Body schema: application/json
destId
integer

unique numeric identifier of the destination to search within

topX
string (topX)

start and end rows to return in the format {start}-{end}

  • e.g. '1-10', '11-20'

Note:

  • the maximum number of rows per request is 100; therefore, '100-400' will return the same as '100-200'
  • if topX is not specified, the default is '1-100'
currencyCode
string

currency code for the currency in which to display product pricing information

text
string

text to search for

searchTypes
Array of strings
Items Enum: "PRODUCT" "DESTINATION" "ATTRACTION" "RECOMMENDATION"

array of search domain specifiers where each item is one of:

  • "PRODUCT": a tour / activity
  • "DESTINATION": continent, country, city, region
  • "ATTRACTION": an attraction within a destination (only available to partners with SEO access)
  • "RECOMMENDATION": an attraction within a destination (only available to partners with SEO access)
sortOrder
string (sortOrder)
Enum: "TOP_SELLERS" "REVIEW_AVG_RATING_A" "REVIEW_AVG_RATING_D" "PRICE_FROM_A" "PRICE_FROM_D"

sort order in which to return the results that is one of:

  • 'TOP_SELLERS': the top sellers (Note: What Viator gets paid impacts this sort order)
  • 'REVIEW_AVG_RATING_A': ascending by average traveler rating (low -> high)
  • 'REVIEW_AVG_RATING_D': descending by average traveler rating (high -> low)
  • 'PRICE_FROM_A': ascending by price (low -> high)
  • 'PRICE_FROM_D': descending by price (high -> low)

Responses

Response Schema: application/json
errorReference
string or null

reference number of this error

dateStamp
string or null

timestamp of this response

errorType
string or null

code specifying the type of error

errorCodes
Array of strings or null

array of error codes pertaining to this error

errorMessage
Array of arrays or null or null

array of error message strings

errorName
string or null

name of this type of error

extraInfo
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

extraObject
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

success
boolean or null

boolean indicator of this request's outcome

  • true: the request was successful with no errors
  • false: an error was encountered
totalCount
integer or null

number of results available for this service

errorMessageText
string or null

array of error message strings in plain text

vmid
string or null

unique numeric id of the server that processed this request

Array of objects (SearchFreetextResponse)

array of search results

Request samples

Content type
application/json
Example
{
  • "destId": 684,
  • "topX": "1-3",
  • "currencyCode": "EUR",
  • "text": "grand",
  • "searchTypes": [
    ]
}

Response samples

Content type
application/json
Example
{
  • "errorReference": null,
  • "data": [
    ],
  • "dateStamp": "2021-02-01T18:35:40+0000",
  • "errorType": null,
  • "errorCodes": [ ],
  • "errorMessage": null,
  • "errorName": null,
  • "extraInfo": { },
  • "extraObject": null,
  • "success": true,
  • "totalCount": 54,
  • "errorMessageText": null,
  • "vmid": "331004"
}

/product

Get product information This service provides all product details required for a product display page, as well as information required for price checks and booking, such as:

  • age bands
  • tour grades
  • language options
  • booking questions
  • hotel pickup flags

currencyCode (in query):

  • use this parameter to specify the currency in which product pricing should be displayed
  • the default currency is the currency of your account; or, if you have multi-currency enabled, US dollars
  • "multi-currency" allows pricing and booking in various currencies - please speak to the business development team if you'd like this enabled
  • Note: you will be billed in the currency in which the booking was made

Product photos

Update 13 Feb 2020: All supplier-provided photos for the selected product are now available in the productPhotos array in this endpoint's response. Previously, only two supplier-provided photos were available – one in the productPhotos array and one in thumbnailHiResURL.

Videos

  • Videos are no longer provided via this API
Authorizations:
API-keyLegacy-API-key
query Parameters
currencyCode
string

currency code for the currency in which pricing is displayed

  • default='USD'
sortOrder
string
Enum: "REVIEW_RATING_A" "REVIEW_RATING_D" "REVIEW_RATING_SUBMISSION_DATE_D"

specifier of the order in which to return reviews

Sort order options:

  • "REVIEW_RATING_A": Traveler Rating (low→high) Average
  • "REVIEW_RATING_D": Traveler Rating (high→low) Average
  • "REVIEW_RATING_SUBMISSION_DATE_D": Most recent review
voucherOption
string
Enum: "VOUCHER_PAPER_ONLY" "VOUCHER_E"
  • "VOUCHER_PAPER_ONLY": Paper Vouchers only accepted
  • "VOUCHER_E": EVouchers + Paper Vouchers accepted
code
string
Example: code=5010SYDNEY

unique alphanumeric identifier of the product

showUnavailable
boolean

specifier as to whether or not to show 'unavailable' products:

  • true: return both available and unavailable products
  • false: return only available products (default)
excludeTourGradeAvailability
boolean

specifier:

  • true: return all tour grades, including those that are not available
  • false: only display tour grades that are available
header Parameters
Accept-Language
required
string
Example: en-US

Specifies the language into which the natural-language fields in the response from this service will be translated (see Accept-Language header for available langage codes)

Responses

Response Schema: application/json
errorReference
string or null

reference number of this error

dateStamp
string or null

timestamp of this response

errorType
string or null

code specifying the type of error

errorCodes
Array of strings or null

array of error codes pertaining to this error

errorMessage
Array of arrays or null or null

array of error message strings

errorName
string or null

name of this type of error

extraInfo
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

extraObject
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

success
boolean or null

boolean indicator of this request's outcome

  • true: the request was successful with no errors
  • false: an error was encountered
totalCount
integer or null

number of results available for this service

errorMessageText
string or null

array of error message strings in plain text

vmid
string or null

unique numeric id of the server that processed this request

object

object containing product details

Response samples

Content type
application/json
Example
{
  • "errorReference": null,
  • "data": {
    },
  • "dateStamp": "2020-02-06T18:15:04+0000",
  • "errorType": null,
  • "errorCodes": [ ],
  • "errorMessage": null,
  • "errorName": null,
  • "extraInfo": { },
  • "extraObject": null,
  • "success": true,
  • "totalCount": 1,
  • "errorMessageText": null,
  • "vmid": "331001"
}

/product/reviews

Get user-submitted reviews of a product

Note:

  • The number of reviews that you can obtain via this service will depend on whether your account is limited in terms of the number of reviews you are entitled to receive.

  • The number of reviews available through this service is given in the reviewCount element in the response from /product

  • Please speak to your account manager if you wish to receive more reviews. If your account is not limited, you will be able to receive all available reviews for this product.

  • Only reviews in the language specified in the Accept-Language request header will be returned

Viator performs checks on reviews

Example: "Get the first three reviews for product 5010SYDNEY sorted by rating in ascending order":


https://viatorapi.sandbox.viator.com/service/product/reviews?sortOrder=REVIEW_RATING_A&topX=1-3&code=5010SYDNEY&showUnavailable=false
Authorizations:
API-keyLegacy-API-key
query Parameters
sortOrder
string
Enum: "REVIEW_RATING_A" "REVIEW_RATING_D" "REVIEW_RATING_SUBMISSION_DATE_D"

specifier of the order in which to return reviews

Sort order options:

  • "REVIEW_RATING_A": Traveler Rating (low→high) Average
  • "REVIEW_RATING_D": Traveler Rating (high→low) Average
  • "REVIEW_RATING_SUBMISSION_DATE_D": Most recent review
topX
string
Example: topX=1-3

start and end rows to return in the format {start}-{end}

  • e.g. '1-10', '11-20'

Note:

  • the maximum number of rows per request is 100; therefore, '100-400' will return the same as '100-200'
  • if topX is not specified, the default is '1-100'
code
string
Example: code=5010SYDNEY

unique alphanumeric identifier of the product

showUnavailable
boolean

specifier as to whether or not to show 'unavailable' products:

  • true: return both available and unavailable products
  • false: return only available products (default)
header Parameters
Accept-Language
required
string
Example: en-US

Specifies the language into which the natural-language fields in the response from this service will be translated (see Accept-Language header for available langage codes)

Responses

Response Schema: application/json
errorReference
string or null

reference number of this error

dateStamp
string or null

timestamp of this response

errorType
string or null

code specifying the type of error

errorCodes
Array of strings or null

array of error codes pertaining to this error

errorMessage
Array of arrays or null or null

array of error message strings

errorName
string or null

name of this type of error

extraInfo
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

extraObject
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

success
boolean or null

boolean indicator of this request's outcome

  • true: the request was successful with no errors
  • false: an error was encountered
totalCount
integer or null

number of results available for this service

errorMessageText
string or null

array of error message strings in plain text

vmid
string or null

unique numeric id of the server that processed this request

Array of objects (reviewObject)

array of review objects

Response samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "errorReference": null,
  • "data": [
    ],
  • "dateStamp": "2020-02-09T19:05:03+0000",
  • "errorType": null,
  • "errorCodes": [ ],
  • "errorMessage": null,
  • "errorName": null,
  • "extraInfo": { },
  • "extraObject": null,
  • "success": true,
  • "totalCount": 1561,
  • "errorMessageText": null,
  • "vmid": "331004"
}

/product/photos

Get photos of a product submitted by users

Authorizations:
API-keyLegacy-API-key
query Parameters
topX
string
Example: topX=1-3

start and end rows to return in the format {start}-{end}

  • e.g. '1-10', '11-20'

Note:

  • the maximum number of rows per request is 100; therefore, '100-400' will return the same as '100-200'
  • if topX is not specified, the default is '1-100'
code
string
Example: code=5010SYDNEY

unique alphanumeric identifier of the product

showUnavailable
boolean

specifier as to whether or not to show 'unavailable' products:

  • true: return both available and unavailable products
  • false: return only available products (default)
header Parameters
Accept-Language
required
string
Example: en-US

Specifies the language into which the natural-language fields in the response from this service will be translated (see Accept-Language header for available langage codes)

Responses

Response Schema: application/json
errorReference
string or null

reference number of this error

dateStamp
string or null

timestamp of this response

errorType
string or null

code specifying the type of error

errorCodes
Array of strings or null

array of error codes pertaining to this error

errorMessage
Array of arrays or null or null

array of error message strings

errorName
string or null

name of this type of error

extraInfo
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

extraObject
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

success
boolean or null

boolean indicator of this request's outcome

  • true: the request was successful with no errors
  • false: an error was encountered
totalCount
integer or null

number of results available for this service

errorMessageText
string or null

array of error message strings in plain text

vmid
string or null

unique numeric id of the server that processed this request

Array of objects (photoObject)

array of photo objects

Response samples

Content type
application/json
{}

/available/products

Find products that are available

This endpoint returns available products filtered by product code, date range or number of adult travelers

  • Note: Availability data is limited to a period of 12 months into the future from the present time on the production server and 6 months on the sandbox server.
Authorizations:
API-keyLegacy-API-key
header Parameters
Accept-Language
required
string
Example: en-US

Specifies the language into which the natural-language fields in the response from this service will be translated (see Accept-Language header for available langage codes)

Request Body schema: application/json
currencyCode
string

currency in which to display product pricing

  • default: 'USD'
startDate
string

start date of the date range to search within (must be in the future)

endDate
string

end date of the date range to search within (must be in the future)

numAdults
integer

number of adult travelers who wish to participate

  • default: 1
productCodes
Array of strings

array of unique alphanumeric product identifiers specifying which products to find the availability of

  • maximum: 50

Responses

Response Schema: application/json
errorReference
string or null

reference number of this error

dateStamp
string or null

timestamp of this response

errorType
string or null

code specifying the type of error

errorCodes
Array of strings or null

array of error codes pertaining to this error

errorMessage
Array of arrays or null or null

array of error message strings

errorName
string or null

name of this type of error

extraInfo
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

extraObject
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

success
boolean or null

boolean indicator of this request's outcome

  • true: the request was successful with no errors
  • false: an error was encountered
totalCount
integer or null

number of results available for this service

errorMessageText
string or null

array of error message strings in plain text

vmid
string or null

unique numeric id of the server that processed this request

Array of objects

array of product objects

Request samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "currencyCode": "USD",
  • "startDate": "2020-12-21",
  • "endDate": "2020-12-31",
  • "numAdults": 1,
  • "productCodes": [
    ]
}

Response samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "errorReference": null,
  • "data": [
    ],
  • "dateStamp": "2020-02-10T15:41:53+0000",
  • "errorType": null,
  • "errorCodes": [ ],
  • "errorMessage": null,
  • "errorName": null,
  • "extraInfo": { },
  • "extraObject": null,
  • "success": true,
  • "totalCount": 1,
  • "errorMessageText": null,
  • "vmid": "331005"
}

Booking services

Booking services

/booking/availability

Get the tour-grade with the lowest price that is available for a product on each day of the specified month

This service:

  • returns the tour grade with the lowest price that is available for each day
  • is useful when displaying a calendar of available tours

For more information, see: Availability services

Notes:

  • /booking/availability/dates provides all availability in one call and is more suitable for calendars, etc.
  • Availability data is limited to a period of 12 months into the future from the present time on the production server and 6 months on the sandbox server.
Authorizations:
API-keyLegacy-API-key
header Parameters
Accept-Language
required
string
Example: en-US

Specifies the language into which the natural-language fields in the response from this service will be translated (see Accept-Language header for available langage codes)

Request Body schema: application/json
productCode
string

unique alphanumeric identifier of the product for which you wish to retrieve tour grade availability information

currencyCode
string

currency code for the currency in which to display tour grade pricing information

month
string

month component (text format) of the start of the date range for which to retrieve tour grade availability information (must be in the future)

year
string

year component (text format) of the start of the date range for which to retrieve tour grade availability information (must be in the future)

Array of objects

array of objects specifying the age bands by which to to filter search results

Responses

Response Schema: application/json
errorReference
string or null

reference number of this error

dateStamp
string or null

timestamp of this response

errorType
string or null

code specifying the type of error

errorCodes
Array of strings or null

array of error codes pertaining to this error

errorMessage
Array of arrays or null or null

array of error message strings

errorName
string or null

name of this type of error

extraInfo
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

extraObject
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

success
boolean or null

boolean indicator of this request's outcome

  • true: the request was successful with no errors
  • false: an error was encountered
totalCount
integer or null

number of results available for this service

errorMessageText
string or null

array of error message strings in plain text

vmid
string or null

unique numeric id of the server that processed this request

object

object detailing available tourgrades for the specified age bands and date range for this product

Request samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "productCode": "5010SYDNEY",
  • "currencyCode": "AUD",
  • "month": "12",
  • "year": "2020",
  • "ageBands": [
    ]
}

Response samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "errorReference": null,
  • "data": {
    },
  • "dateStamp": "2020-02-10T16:43:02+0000",
  • "errorType": null,
  • "errorCodes": [ ],
  • "errorMessage": null,
  • "errorName": null,
  • "extraInfo": { },
  • "extraObject": null,
  • "success": true,
  • "totalCount": 1,
  • "errorMessageText": null,
  • "vmid": "331004"
}

/booking/availability/dates

Get dates on which a product is available

This service:

  • retrieves all available dates for a product, excluding days it does not operate and blocked-out dates

  • returns a multi-dimensional array of year-month -> days that have any availabile tour grade or traveler mix

  • useful to present the user with a list of dates for selection on which this product is available for booking

  • Notes:

    • The user's desired traveler mix may not be eligible for booking; these details can be displayed when you retrieve its list of tour grades
    • Availability data is limited to a period of 12 months into the future from the present time on the production server and 6 months on the sandbox server.
Authorizations:
API-keyLegacy-API-key
query Parameters
productCode
string
Example: productCode=2280AAHT

unique alphanumeric identifier of the product

header Parameters
Accept-Language
required
string
Example: en-US

Specifies the language into which the natural-language fields in the response from this service will be translated (see Accept-Language header for available langage codes)

Responses

Response Schema: application/json
errorReference
string or null

reference number of this error

dateStamp
string or null

timestamp of this response

errorType
string or null

code specifying the type of error

errorCodes
Array of strings or null

array of error codes pertaining to this error

errorMessage
Array of arrays or null or null

array of error message strings

errorName
string or null

name of this type of error

extraInfo
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

extraObject
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

success
boolean or null

boolean indicator of this request's outcome

  • true: the request was successful with no errors
  • false: an error was encountered
totalCount
integer or null

number of results available for this service

errorMessageText
string or null

array of error message strings in plain text

vmid
string or null

unique numeric id of the server that processed this request

object

dictionary of month identifiers (e.g., '2018-12') to an array of days-of-the-month (text) specifying which days of the specified month this product is available to be booked"

  • Note: see response sample for object structure

Response samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "errorReference": null,
  • "data": {
    },
  • "dateStamp": "2020-02-10T16:51:10+0000",
  • "errorType": null,
  • "errorCodes": [ ],
  • "errorMessage": null,
  • "errorName": null,
  • "extraInfo": { },
  • "extraObject": null,
  • "success": true,
  • "totalCount": 1,
  • "errorMessageText": null,
  • "vmid": "331004"
}

/booking/availability/tourgrades

Get the tour grades of a product that are currently available

This service reports:

  • all tour grades for the specified product, on the specified day, that are available for the specified age bands
  • the pricing breakdown and the total depending on the travel date and traveler mix

Note: Availability data is limited to a period of 12 months into the future from the present time on the production server and 6 months on the sandbox server.

Authorizations:
API-keyLegacy-API-key
header Parameters
Accept-Language
required
string
Example: en-US

Specifies the language into which the natural-language fields in the response from this service will be translated (see Accept-Language header for available langage codes)

Request Body schema: application/json
productCode
string
currencyCode
string

currency code for the currency in which to display pricing information

bookingDate
string

date to enquire about available tour grades for this product (must be in the future)

Array of objects

array of ageBand objects

Responses

Response Schema: application/json
errorReference
string or null

reference number of this error

dateStamp
string or null

timestamp of this response

errorType
string or null

code specifying the type of error

errorCodes
Array of strings or null

array of error codes pertaining to this error

errorMessage
Array of arrays or null or null

array of error message strings

errorName
string or null

name of this type of error

extraInfo
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

extraObject
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

success
boolean or null

boolean indicator of this request's outcome

  • true: the request was successful with no errors
  • false: an error was encountered
totalCount
integer or null

number of results available for this service

errorMessageText
string or null

array of error message strings in plain text

vmid
string or null

unique numeric id of the server that processed this request

Array of objects

Request samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "productCode": "5010SYDNEY",
  • "currencyCode": "AUD",
  • "bookingDate": "2020-12-28",
  • "ageBands": [
    ]
}

Response samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "errorReference": null,
  • "data": [
    ],
  • "dateStamp": "2020-02-10T16:57:56+0000",
  • "errorType": null,
  • "errorCodes": [ ],
  • "errorMessage": null,
  • "errorName": null,
  • "extraInfo": { },
  • "extraObject": {
    },
  • "success": true,
  • "totalCount": 1,
  • "errorMessageText": null,
  • "vmid": "331003"
}

/booking/availability/tourgrades/pricingmatrix

Get a pricing matrix that includes availability and tour-grades for a product

Given a month, this service returns days with available tour grades only (i.e., days which have at least one tourgrade available), and the pricing matrix for that tour grade for that day.

  • Note: Availability data is limited to a period of 12 months into the future from the present time on the production server and 6 months on the sandbox server.
Authorizations:
API-keyLegacy-API-key
header Parameters
Accept-Language
required
string
Example: en-US

Specifies the language into which the natural-language fields in the response from this service will be translated (see Accept-Language header for available langage codes)

Request Body schema: application/json
productCode
string

alphanumeric identifier of product about which to retrieve tour grade and pricing information

currencyCode
string

currency code for the currency in which to display pricing details

month
string

month of year (as text) by which to filter results (must be in the future)

year
string

year (as text) by which to filter results (must be in the future)

Responses

Response Schema: application/json
errorReference
string or null

reference number of this error

dateStamp
string or null

timestamp of this response

errorType
string or null

code specifying the type of error

errorCodes
Array of strings or null

array of error codes pertaining to this error

errorMessage
Array of arrays or null or null

array of error message strings

errorName
string or null

name of this type of error

extraInfo
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

extraObject
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

success
boolean or null

boolean indicator of this request's outcome

  • true: the request was successful with no errors
  • false: an error was encountered
totalCount
integer or null

number of results available for this service

errorMessageText
string or null

array of error message strings in plain text

vmid
string or null

unique numeric id of the server that processed this request

object

Request samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "productCode": "2280AAHT",
  • "currenctCode": "USD",
  • "month": "12",
  • "year": "2020"
}

Response samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "errorReference": null,
  • "data": {
    },
  • "dateStamp": "2020-02-10T18:17:58+0000",
  • "errorType": null,
  • "errorCodes": [ ],
  • "errorMessage": null,
  • "errorName": null,
  • "extraInfo": { },
  • "extraObject": null,
  • "success": true,
  • "totalCount": 1,
  • "errorMessageText": null,
  • "vmid": "331003"
}

/booking/calculateprice

Confirm the price of a tour / activity prior to booking

For more information, see: Calculating prices

  • Note: Availability and pricing data is limited to a period of six months into the future from the present time
Authorizations:
API-keyLegacy-API-key
header Parameters
Accept-Language
required
string
Example: en-US

Specifies the language into which the natural-language fields in the response from this service will be translated (see Accept-Language header for available langage codes)

Request Body schema: application/json
currencyCode
string

currency code for the currency in which to display pricing details

Array of objects

array of travel detail objects

Responses

Response Schema: application/json
errorReference
string or null

reference number of this error

dateStamp
string or null

timestamp of this response

errorType
string or null

code specifying the type of error

errorCodes
Array of strings or null

array of error codes pertaining to this error

errorMessage
Array of arrays or null or null

array of error message strings

errorName
string or null

name of this type of error

extraInfo
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

extraObject
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

success
boolean or null

boolean indicator of this request's outcome

  • true: the request was successful with no errors
  • false: an error was encountered
totalCount
integer or null

number of results available for this service

errorMessageText
string or null

array of error message strings in plain text

vmid
string or null

unique numeric id of the server that processed this request

object

Request samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "currencyCode": "USD",
  • "items": [
    ]
}

Response samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "errorReference": null,
  • "data": {
    },
  • "dateStamp": "2020-02-10T18:26:49+0000",
  • "errorType": null,
  • "errorCodes": [ ],
  • "errorMessage": null,
  • "errorName": null,
  • "extraInfo": { },
  • "extraObject": null,
  • "success": true,
  • "totalCount": 1,
  • "errorMessageText": null,
  • "vmid": "331003"
}

/booking/hotels

Get hotel pick-ups Lists the hotel pickups available for either a product or a destination

Authorizations:
API-keyLegacy-API-key
query Parameters
productCode
string
Example: productCode=2280AAHT

unique alphanumeric identifier of the product

destId
integer
Example: destId=123

unique numeric identifier of the destination

header Parameters
Accept-Language
required
string
Example: en-US

Specifies the language into which the natural-language fields in the response from this service will be translated (see Accept-Language header for available langage codes)

Responses

Response Schema: application/json
errorReference
string or null

reference number of this error

dateStamp
string or null

timestamp of this response

errorType
string or null

code specifying the type of error

errorCodes
Array of strings or null

array of error codes pertaining to this error

errorMessage
Array of arrays or null or null

array of error message strings

errorName
string or null

name of this type of error

extraInfo
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

extraObject
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

success
boolean or null

boolean indicator of this request's outcome

  • true: the request was successful with no errors
  • false: an error was encountered
totalCount
integer or null

number of results available for this service

errorMessageText
string or null

array of error message strings in plain text

vmid
string or null

unique numeric id of the server that processed this request

Array of objects

array of hotel pick-up objects

Response samples

Content type
application/json
Example
{
  • "errorReference": null,
  • "data": [
    ],
  • "dateStamp": "2020-02-10T18:33:02+0000",
  • "errorType": null,
  • "errorCodes": [ ],
  • "errorMessage": null,
  • "errorName": null,
  • "extraInfo": { },
  • "extraObject": null,
  • "success": true,
  • "totalCount": 1,
  • "errorMessageText": null,
  • "vmid": "331004"
}

/booking/book

Make a booking

Note:

  • This endpoint is only available to merchant partners.
  • The amount that you will be invoiced for the sale of this tour (in the specified currency) is given in the totalPrice element in the response from this endpoint.
  • As some products are booked on external supplier systems, it may take > 90s to receive a response from this endpoint. For this reason, we recommend setting your internal time-out for this service to 120s. In the event that this service does time-out, or you receive a HTTP 500 error, you should check the status of the booking using the /booking/status endpoint to ensure the booking was not created before you attempt to make the booking again.

For more information, see:

Authorizations:
API-keyLegacy-API-key
header Parameters
Accept-Language
required
string
Example: en-US

Specifies the language into which the natural-language fields in the response from this service will be translated (see Accept-Language header for available langage codes)

Request Body schema: application/json
demo
boolean

specifier: true if this is a demo booking only (demos do not send any notifications, are automatically confirmed and OnRequest products become freesale products. Default value is true. Production must have demo set to false.

currencyCode
string

currency code for the currency the booking will be submitted in (you will be billed in this currency)

object

Applicable only for extra partner detail for either partner or merchant partner for sending partner specific information

object

object containing details about the primary contact (note: this contact needn't be a traveller)

Array of objects

array of items to be booked

Responses

Response Schema: application/json
errorReference
string or null

reference number of this error

dateStamp
string or null

timestamp of this response

errorType
string or null

code specifying the type of error

errorCodes
Array of strings or null

array of error codes pertaining to this error

errorMessage
Array of arrays or null or null

array of error message strings

errorName
string or null

name of this type of error

extraInfo
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

extraObject
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

success
boolean or null

boolean indicator of this request's outcome

  • true: the request was successful with no errors
  • false: an error was encountered
totalCount
integer or null

number of results available for this service

errorMessageText
string or null

array of error message strings in plain text

vmid
string or null

unique numeric id of the server that processed this request

object

Request samples

Content type
application/json
Example
{
  • "demo": true,
  • "currencyCode": "USD",
  • "partnerDetail": {
    },
  • "booker": {
    },
  • "items": [
    ]
}

Response samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "errorReference": null,
  • "data": {
    },
  • "dateStamp": "2020-02-11T16:55:47+0000",
  • "errorType": null,
  • "errorCodes": [ ],
  • "errorMessage": null,
  • "errorName": null,
  • "extraInfo": { },
  • "extraObject": null,
  • "success": true,
  • "totalCount": 1,
  • "errorMessageText": null,
  • "vmid": "331003"
}

/booking/status

Get the booking status for multiple items based on different criteria

This service:

  • is ideally be used in software for bulk updates of pending bookings
  • returns a maximum of 1000 bookings (narrow your search if you expect a greater number of results)
  • will return both live and test bookings
  • rate limited to one request every 30 minutes
  • For more information, see: Get the bookiing status for multiple items

Exceeding the rate limit

  • You will receive the following error message if you exceed the rate limit allowed for this service. Set test to true to bypass this limit:
    {
      "data": null
      "vmid": 221002
      "errorMessage": ["Access allowed every 30 minutes"]
      "errorType": "EXCEPTION"
      "dateStamp": "2013-03-26T10:28:51+0000"
      "errorReference": 55315512721712161381352771
      "errorMessageText": ["Access allowed every 30 minutes"]
      "success": false
      "totalCount": 1
      "errorName": "PollingDeniedException"  
    }
    
Authorizations:
API-keyLegacy-API-key
header Parameters
Accept-Language
required
string
Example: en-US

Specifies the language into which the natural-language fields in the response from this service will be translated (see Accept-Language header for available langage codes)

Request Body schema: application/json
bookingDateFrom
string

earliest date for this booking (must be in the future)

bookingDateTo
string

latest date for this booking (must be in the future)

itemIds
Array of integers

array of item identifiers to check

distributorRefs
Array of strings

array of partner-defined distributor reference identifiers

distributorItemRefs
Array of strings

array of partner-defined distributor item reference identifiers e.g. ['refItem1','refItem2','refItem3']

leadFirstName
string

first name of the lead traveler

leadSurname
string

surname of the lead traveler

test
boolean

specifier:

  • true: bypass the poll limit in the prelive environment only (recommended for testing)
  • false: (default)

Responses

Response Schema: application/json
errorReference
string or null

reference number of this error

dateStamp
string or null

timestamp of this response

errorType
string or null

code specifying the type of error

errorCodes
Array of strings or null

array of error codes pertaining to this error

errorMessage
Array of arrays or null or null

array of error message strings

errorName
string or null

name of this type of error

extraInfo
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

extraObject
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

success
boolean or null

boolean indicator of this request's outcome

  • true: the request was successful with no errors
  • false: an error was encountered
totalCount
integer or null

number of results available for this service

errorMessageText
string or null

array of error message strings in plain text

vmid
string or null

unique numeric id of the server that processed this request

object

object containing booking status and details

Request samples

Content type
application/json
Example
{
  • "bookingDateFrom": "2020-12-21",
  • "bookingDateTo": "2020-12-31",
  • "test": true
}

Response samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "errorReference": null,
  • "data": [
    ],
  • "dateStamp": "2020-02-11T18:38:25+0000",
  • "errorType": null,
  • "errorCodes": [ ],
  • "errorMessage": null,
  • "errorName": null,
  • "extraInfo": { },
  • "extraObject": null,
  • "success": true,
  • "totalCount": 1,
  • "errorMessageText": null,
  • "vmid": "331004"
}

/booking/status/items

Get brief booking statuses

This service is similar to /booking/status in that it:

  • retrieves the booking status for multiple items based on different criteria
  • has the same request parameters as /booking/status

However, it differs in that it returns a multi-item array of booking items with less detail than what would be received from /booking/status.

Authorizations:
API-keyLegacy-API-key
header Parameters
Accept-Language
required
string
Example: en-US

Specifies the language into which the natural-language fields in the response from this service will be translated (see Accept-Language header for available langage codes)

Request Body schema: application/json
bookingDateFrom
string

earliest date for when the booking(s) in question were made (must be in the future)

bookingDateTo
string

latest date for when the booking(s) in question were made (must be in the future)

itemIds
Array of integers

array of booking-reference numbers to check

itemId (booking-reference provided by Viator). For more information, see Booking references

distributorRefs
Array of strings

array of partner-defined distributor reference identifiers

distributorItemRefs
Array of strings

array of partner-defined distributor item reference identifiers e.g. ['refItem1','refItem2','refItem3']

leadFirstName
string

first name of the lead traveler

leadSurname
string

surname of the lead traveler

test
boolean

specifier:

  • true: bypass the poll limit in the prelive environment only
  • false: (default) make a real booking, not a test

Responses

Response Schema: application/json
errorReference
string or null

reference number of this error

dateStamp
string or null

timestamp of this response

errorType
string or null

code specifying the type of error

errorCodes
Array of strings or null

array of error codes pertaining to this error

errorMessage
Array of arrays or null or null

array of error message strings

errorName
string or null

name of this type of error

extraInfo
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

extraObject
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

success
boolean or null

boolean indicator of this request's outcome

  • true: the request was successful with no errors
  • false: an error was encountered
totalCount
integer or null

number of results available for this service

errorMessageText
string or null

array of error message strings in plain text

vmid
string or null

unique numeric id of the server that processed this request

Array of objects

array containing item ids and their associated booking status object

Request samples

Content type
application/json
Example
{
  • "bookingDateFrom": "2020-12-21",
  • "bookingDateTo": "2020-12-31",
  • "test": true
}

Response samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "errorReference": null,
  • "data": [
    ],
  • "dateStamp": "2020-02-11T19:03:06+0000",
  • "errorType": null,
  • "errorCodes": [ ],
  • "errorMessage": null,
  • "errorName": null,
  • "extraInfo": { },
  • "extraObject": null,
  • "success": true,
  • "totalCount": 1,
  • "vmid": "331001",
  • "errorMessageText": null
}

/booking/pricingmatrix

Get the pricing matrix for tour-grades, product age bands and pax mixes

For more information, see: Get the tour-grade pricing matrix

Authorizations:
API-keyLegacy-API-key
header Parameters
Accept-Language
required
string
Example: en-US

Specifies the language into which the natural-language fields in the response from this service will be translated (see Accept-Language header for available langage codes)

Request Body schema: application/json
productCode
string

unique alphanumeric identifier of the product for which to retrieve the pricing matrix

tourGradeCode
string

alphanumeric identifier of the product tour grade for which to retrieve the pricing matrix

bookingDate
string

date for which to retrieve pricing data (must be in the future) (note: this is an optional parameter for normal products; if the date is not provided then the nearest available date is determined)

currencyCode
string

currency code of the currency in which to display pricing information

Responses

Response Schema: application/json
errorReference
string or null

reference number of this error

dateStamp
string or null

timestamp of this response

errorType
string or null

code specifying the type of error

errorCodes
Array of strings or null

array of error codes pertaining to this error

errorMessage
Array of arrays or null or null

array of error message strings

errorName
string or null

name of this type of error

extraInfo
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

extraObject
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

success
boolean or null

boolean indicator of this request's outcome

  • true: the request was successful with no errors
  • false: an error was encountered
totalCount
integer or null

number of results available for this service

errorMessageText
string or null

array of error message strings in plain text

vmid
string or null

unique numeric id of the server that processed this request

Array of objects

Request samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "productCode": "5010SYDNEY",
  • "tourGradeCode": "24HOUR",
  • "bookingDate": "2020-12-12",
  • "currencyCode": "EUR"
}

Response samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "errorReference": null,
  • "data": [
    ],
  • "dateStamp": "2020-02-11T16:21:23+0000",
  • "errorType": null,
  • "errorCodes": [ ],
  • "errorMessage": null,
  • "errorName": null,
  • "extraInfo": { },
  • "extraObject": null,
  • "success": true,
  • "totalCount": 1,
  • "errorMessageText": null,
  • "vmid": "331003"
}

/booking/voucher

Get voucher details

  • Use this service to retrieve the voucher details of a booked item.
  • The data returned is HTML-formatted and can be wrapped in a header and/or footer.

Sample query parameters

  • leadLastName=Simpson test&itemId=580669678

or

  • voucherKey=1005851866:4af44c13ecf3f1a7d3f9ef2fc00c2257e08fa42ae20f877f3039ff9b52aba24e:580669678&fullHTML=true&mobileVoucher=true
Authorizations:
API-keyLegacy-API-key
query Parameters
leadLastName
string
Example: leadLastName=Simpson

surname of this lead traveler

itemId
integer
Example: itemId=600033670

Booking-reference number generated by Viator

embeddedResources
boolean
Example: embeddedResources=false

ignore (Viator only)

voucherKey
string
Example: voucherKey=3299307:93c7f36a56b18ba1068787ba7fb7988da5c8ad08db77604110141ff21498603e:600033670

identifier for the voucher

  • note: use either voucherKey or the three separate parameters
  • if voucherKey is provided as well as the other parameters, then voucherKey overrides the other paramaters
  • voucherKey is obtained from /booking/mybookings or in the response from /booking/book when you make a booking
fullHTML
boolean
Example: fullHTML=true

specifier:

  • set to true if you wish to retrieve the full HTML-formatted voucher
  • set to false if you want the div fragment (optional)
mobileVoucher
boolean
Example: mobileVoucher=true

specifier:

  • if set to true, the service returns the mobile (cut down) HTML-formatted voucher
  • if false the full voucher HTML is returned (ignoring fullHTML)
  • default: true
  • this field should only be enabled for products that have a voucherOption of 'VOUCHER_E'
  • do not enable mobileVouchers for paper vouchers (voucherOption of 'VOUCHER_PAPER_ONLY') as no barcode is returned
  • the voucher information is available in the response from /product, /booking/book, /booking/pastbooking, /booking/mybookings (it is also displayed under the 'Redemption Info' heading in this service)
header Parameters
Accept-Language
required
string
Example: en-US

Specifies the language into which the natural-language fields in the response from this service will be translated (see Accept-Language header for available langage codes)

Responses

Response Schema: application/json
errorReference
string or null

reference number of this error

dateStamp
string or null

timestamp of this response

errorType
string or null

code specifying the type of error

errorCodes
Array of strings or null

array of error codes pertaining to this error

errorMessage
Array of arrays or null or null

array of error message strings

errorName
string or null

name of this type of error

extraInfo
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

extraObject
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

success
boolean or null

boolean indicator of this request's outcome

  • true: the request was successful with no errors
  • false: an error was encountered
totalCount
integer or null

number of results available for this service

errorMessageText
string or null

array of error message strings in plain text

vmid
string or null

unique numeric id of the server that processed this request

data
string

HTML-formatted voucher content

Response samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "errorReference": null,
  • "data": "\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN\" \"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd\">\n<html xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\">\n <head>\n <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=UTF-8\" />\n <meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width\" />\n <title>Viator</title>\n </head>\n <body>\n <div id=\"content\" class=\"voucher_box\">\n <div id=\"voucher_1\">\n\n <div class=\"section\">\n <div class=\"voucher_title\">\n Voucher 1\n of 1: Homer test Simpson test\n </div>\n </div>\n\n <div class=\"section bline\">\n <div class=\"btn_box\">\n </div>\n </div>\n\n <div style=\"line-height: 1.5;font-family:'Arial','Helvetica','Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding: 0 10px; border-bottom: 1px solid #CAE2EA;\">\n\n <h2 style=\"font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;margin:0.5em 0;padding:0;\">\n Grand Canyon All-American Helicopter Tour\n <span style=\"display: block;font-size:12px;\">\n Morning Departure; A-Star 08:00\n </span>\n </h2>\n\n <div class=\"barcode\">\n <img src=\"/voucher/resource?type=barcode&itineraryItemId=580669678&voucherToken=4af44c13ecf3f1a7d3f9ef2fc00c2257e08fa42ae20f877f3039ff9b52aba24e\" alt=\"\"/>\n </div>\n\n <h2 style=\"font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;margin:0.5em 0;padding:0;\">SAMPLE ONLY</h2>\n\n <ul style=\"margin:0 0 1em 1em; padding:0;\">\n <li>\n <strong>Date:</strong>\n Tuesday March 31, 2020\n </li>\n </ul>\n\n <ul style=\"margin:0 0 1em 1em; padding:0;\">\n <li>\n <strong>Lead traveler\n :\n </strong>Homer test Simpson test\n </li>\n <li>\n <strong>Number of Travelers\n :\n </strong>1 Adult</li>\n\n <li>\n <strong>Booking Reference:\n </strong>BR-580669678</li>\n\n <li>\n <strong>Product Code:\n </strong>2280AAHT</li>\n\n <li>\n <strong>Option Code:\n </strong>TG1~08:00</li>\n\n <li>\n <strong>Supplier\n : </strong>Sundance Helicopters</li>\n\n\n\n\n\n <li>\n <strong>Location\n :</strong>\n <p>Traveler pickup is offered<br><br></p>\n </li>\n\n <li>\n <strong>Tour Option Description\n :</strong>\n Morning departure between 8am and 11:45am on an A-Star Helicopter for the All American Helicopter Tour\n \n </li>\n </ul>\n\n <h3 style=\"font-size:14px;font-weight:bold;margin:0.5em 0;padding:0;\">\n Voucher Information\n </h3>\n\n <ul style=\"margin:0 0 1em 1em; padding:0;\">\n You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.\n <span style=\"color:#888888;\"> / You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.</span>\n </ul>\n\n <h3 style=\"font-size:14px;font-weight:bold;margin:0.5em 0;padding:0;\">\n Important Information\n </h3>\n <ul>\n<li>Your local contact is Sundance Helicopters on +17027360606.</li></ul>\n• Important: due to comfort, weight and balance of the aircraft, the maximum weight per passenger to ride in an A-Star helicopter is 275lbs (125kg / 19.6st). If passengers weigh in between 275lbs and 300lbs (136kg/21.4st), you will be required to upgrade to the EC-130.<br> • Any passenger over 300lbs will be required to purchase an additional seat. This is payable directly to the tour operator on the day of the tour.<br> • Due to the nature of this tour and the safety of all guests, the tour operator reserves the right to refuse service to passengers who are intoxicated or show signs of intoxication. If, as a result, your tour is canceled, you will not be entitled to a refund.<br> • Infant children must be under the age of two and have proof of age, such as a passport and are considered lap children.<br> • Per FAA regulations, all passenger must present photo ID at check in.<br> • If you would like a vegetarian meal as your lunch option, please contact the local operator as soon as possible.<br> • Please Note: Please look for your Limo driver who will get out and will be looking for the lead traveler’s last name of whom the reservation is under. There is also a sign in the front windshield of the Limo that will say Sundance Helicopters.<br><br>Hotel pickups commence prior to this time, you must contact the local service provider to verify your exact pickup time.<br><br>All flight times are approximate and subject to change due to weather conditions and weight restrictions.<br>\n\n <h3 style=\"font-size:14px;font-weight:bold;margin:0.5em 0;padding:0;\">\n Inclusions\n </h3>\n <ul>\n<li>45-minute (approx.) flight each way (helicopter based on option selected)</li><li>Hotel pickup and drop-off by limousine</li><li>Snacks</li><li>Glass of Champagne</li><li>All taxes and fees</li></ul>\n\n\n <h3 style=\"font-size:14px;font-weight:bold;margin:0.5em 0;padding:0;\">\n Exclusions\n </h3>\n <ul>\n<li>Gratuities</li></ul>\n\n\n\n </div>\n\n </div>\n <br/>\n\n </div>\n\n </body>\n</html>\n",
  • "dateStamp": "2020-02-11T19:50:39+0000",
  • "errorType": null,
  • "errorCodes": [ ],
  • "errorMessage": null,
  • "errorName": null,
  • "extraInfo": { },
  • "extraObject": null,
  • "success": true,
  • "totalCount": 1,
  • "errorMessageText": null,
  • "vmid": "331003"
}

/booking/pastbooking

Get the details of a single specific past booking based on the voucherKey or itemId and email address sent in the request.

Note: this service will only return past bookings that were made with the same API key that was used to make the booking

Sample query parameters:

or

  • voucherKey=1005851866:4af44c13ecf3f1a7d3f9ef2fc00c2257e08fa42ae20f877f3039ff9b52aba24e:580669678

email

  • The email address passed must match the email address associated with the booking

Departure details

  • Departure details such as the departurePoint, departurePointAddress and departurePointDirections is included in the response.
  • These fields may contain HTML escape characters such as & and special characters that are escaped by a backslash. Ensure that these fields are parsed after receiving the response as it will cause your JSON to be invalid.

For more information, see: Reviewing bookings

Authorizations:
API-keyLegacy-API-key
query Parameters
voucherKey
string
Example: voucherKey=1005851866:4af44c13ecf3f1a7d3f9ef2fc00c2257e08fa42ae20f877f3039ff9b52aba24e:580669678

specifier of past booking type (use one of: itemId (booking reference) and 'voucherKey' or 'email')

email
string
Example: email=apitest@viator.com

email address by which to search for past bookings

itemId
string
Example: itemId=580669678

Search for a booking with this unique booking-reference number. See Booking references for more information.

header Parameters
Accept-Language
required
string
Example: en-US

Specifies the language into which the natural-language fields in the response from this service will be translated (see Accept-Language header for available langage codes)

Responses

Response Schema: application/json
errorReference
string or null

reference number of this error

dateStamp
string or null

timestamp of this response

errorType
string or null

code specifying the type of error

errorCodes
Array of strings or null

array of error codes pertaining to this error

errorMessage
Array of arrays or null or null

array of error message strings

errorName
string or null

name of this type of error

extraInfo
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

extraObject
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

success
boolean or null

boolean indicator of this request's outcome

  • true: the request was successful with no errors
  • false: an error was encountered
totalCount
integer or null

number of results available for this service

errorMessageText
string or null

array of error message strings in plain text

vmid
string or null

unique numeric id of the server that processed this request

object

object containing pricing matrix information

Response samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "errorReference": null,
  • "data": {
    },
  • "dateStamp": "2020-02-11T20:06:43+0000",
  • "errorType": null,
  • "errorCodes": [ ],
  • "errorMessage": null,
  • "errorName": null,
  • "extraInfo": { },
  • "extraObject": null,
  • "success": true,
  • "totalCount": 1,
  • "errorMessageText": null,
  • "vmid": "331003"
}

/booking/mybookings

Get a user's bookings with travel dates in the future.

This service can also be used to check the status of a booking.

Provide either:

  • A voucherKey, or...
  • An email address (email) and a booking reference (itineraryOrItemId) (Booking Reference)
Authorizations:
API-keyLegacy-API-key
query Parameters
voucherKey
string
Example: voucherKey=3299307:93c7f36a56b18ba1068787ba7fb7988da5c8ad08db77604110141ff21498603e:600033670

voucher key for the booking

email
string
Example: email=apitest@viator.com

email address of the booker for the booking

itineraryOrItemId
string
Example: itineraryOrItemId=700179574

The booking reference number of the item

header Parameters
Accept-Language
required
string
Example: en-US

Specifies the language into which the natural-language fields in the response from this service will be translated (see Accept-Language header for available langage codes)

Responses

Response Schema: application/json
errorReference
string or null

reference number of this error

dateStamp
string or null

timestamp of this response

errorType
string or null

code specifying the type of error

errorCodes
Array of strings or null

array of error codes pertaining to this error

errorMessage
Array of arrays or null or null

array of error message strings

errorName
string or null

name of this type of error

extraInfo
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

extraObject
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

success
boolean or null

boolean indicator of this request's outcome

  • true: the request was successful with no errors
  • false: an error was encountered
totalCount
integer or null

number of results available for this service

errorMessageText
string or null

array of error message strings in plain text

vmid
string or null

unique numeric id of the server that processed this request

object

Response samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "errorReference": null,
  • "data": [
    ],
  • "dateStamp": "2020-02-11T20:27:20+0000",
  • "errorType": null,
  • "errorCodes": [ ],
  • "errorMessage": null,
  • "errorName": null,
  • "extraInfo": { },
  • "extraObject": null,
  • "success": true,
  • "totalCount": 1,
  • "errorMessageText": null,
  • "vmid": "331004"
}

/bookings/cancel-reasons

Retrieves a dictionary of unique identification codes (cancellationReasonCode) and their associated natural-language descriptions (cancellationReasonText).

For information on how to use this service, see: Cancellation API workflow

Note:

  • This service requires exp-api-key to be included as a header parameter. Please speak to your account manager if you have not yet been issued an exp-api-key.
  • The base URL for the server for this endpoint is different from the older endpoints described in this document. Use https://api.sandbox.viator.com/partner/cancel-reasons
Authorizations:
API-keyLegacy-API-key
header Parameters
Accept-Language
required
string
Example: en-US

Specifies the language into which the natural-language fields in the response from this service will be translated (see Accept-Language header for available langage codes)

Responses

Response Schema: application/json
Array
Array of objects (CancellationReason)

Array of cancellation reason codes and their asssociated texts for display to the user

Response samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "reasons": [
    ]
}

/bookings/{booking-reference}/cancel-quote

Retrieves a quote for the cancellation of a booking

For information on how to use this service, see: Cancellation API workflow

Note:

  • This service requires exp-api-key to be included as a header parameter. Please speak to your account manager if you have not yet been issued an exp-api-key.
  • The base URL for the server for this endpoint is different from the older endpoints described in this document. Use https://api.sandbox.viator.com/partner/bookings/{booking-reference}/cancel-quote
Authorizations:
API-keyLegacy-API-key
path Parameters
booking-reference
required
string

Unique numeric identifier of the booking for which to retrieve a cancellation quote

Responses

Response Schema: application/json
object (RefundDetails)

Details of the refund

Note: Bookings that have not been confirmed by the supplier and have a status of "PENDING" will report an itemPrice, refundAmount and refundPercentage of 0, as no fees are charged until the booking has been accepted by the supplier and its status is "CONFIRMED".

bookingId
string

The booking reference number, prepended with BR-

status
string
Enum: "CANCELLABLE" "CANCELLED" "NOT_CANCELLABLE"

String indicating the cancellation status of this itinerary item:

  • CANCELLABLE - this booking is available to be cancelled
  • CANCELLED - this booking has already been cancelled
  • NOT_CANCELLABLE - this booking cannot be cancelled (because the product's operation date is now in the past)

Response samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "bookingId": "BR-580669678",
  • "refundDetails": {
    },
  • "status": "CANCELLABLE"
}

/bookings/{booking-reference}/cancel

Submits a cancellation request for the specified booking

For information on how to use this service, see: Cancellation API workflow

Note:

  • This service requires exp-api-key to be included as a header parameter. Please speak to your account manager if you have not yet been issued an exp-api-key.
  • The base URL for the server for this endpoint is different from the older endpoints described in this document. Use https://api.sandbox.viator.com/partner/bookings/{booking-reference}/cancel
Authorizations:
API-keyLegacy-API-key
path Parameters
booking-reference
required
string

The ID of the booking

header Parameters
Accept-Language
required
string
Example: en-US

Specifies the language into which the natural-language fields in the response from this service will be translated (see Accept-Language header for available langage codes)

Request Body schema: application/json
reasonCode
string

Machine-interpretable identification code for this cancellation reason, retrieved from cancellationReasons

Responses

Response Schema: application/json
bookingId
string

Booking reference number for this booking, prepended with BR-

status
string
Enum: "ACCEPTED" "DECLINED"

String indicating the outcome of the booking cancellation request.

  • ACCEPTED: The cancellation was successful
  • DECLINED: The cancellation failed
reason
string
Enum: "ALREADY_CANCELLED" "NOT_CANCELLABLE"

Request samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "reasonCode": "Customer_Service.I_canceled_my_entire_trip"
}

Response samples

Content type
application/json
Example
{
  • "bookingId": "BR-580669678",
  • "status": "ACCEPTED"
}

Deprecated services

Deprecated services

/merchant/cancellation Deprecated

Cancel a booking Note: This service has been replaced by the cancellationReasons, bookingQuote and cancelBooking endpoints

Authorizations:
API-keyLegacy-API-key
header Parameters
Accept-Language
required
string
Example: en-US

Specifies the language into which the natural-language fields in the response from this service will be translated (see Accept-Language header for available langage codes)

Request Body schema: application/json
itineraryId
integer

numeric identifier for the itinerary

distributorRef
string

itinerary reference identifier (partner defined) for the booking to cancel

Array of objects

array of objects detailing itinerary items to cancel

Responses

Response Schema: application/json
errorReference
string or null

reference number of this error

dateStamp
string or null

timestamp of this response

errorType
string or null

code specifying the type of error

errorCodes
Array of strings or null

array of error codes pertaining to this error

errorMessage
Array of arrays or null or null

array of error message strings

errorName
string or null

name of this type of error

extraInfo
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

extraObject
object or null

ignore (Viator only)

success
boolean or null

boolean indicator of this request's outcome

  • true: the request was successful with no errors
  • false: an error was encountered
totalCount
integer or null

number of results available for this service

errorMessageText
string or null

array of error message strings in plain text

vmid
string or null

unique numeric id of the server that processed this request

object

Request samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "itineraryId": 1234655,
  • "distributorRef": "Jdp122",
  • "cancelItems": [
    ]
}

Response samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "errorReference": "string",
  • "dateStamp": "string",
  • "errorType": "string",
  • "errorCodes": [ ],
  • "errorMessage": [ ],
  • "errorName": "string",
  • "extraInfo": { },
  • "extraObject": { },
  • "success": true,
  • "totalCount": 0,
  • "errorMessageText": "string",
  • "vmid": "string",
  • "data": {
    }
}