Use cases and best practices

In this section you can find use cases and best practices

Creating a test Accommodation Partner

To create a test Accommodation Partner, keep the following in mind:

The Contracting API uses a one-to-one relationship between the legal contact email address and the legal entity ID. Therefore, for testing purposes you must use a different email address.
TIP You could attach a suffix to your legal contact email address, for example: johndoe+test01@gmail.com, with +test01 being the suffix. Doing so results in any communication still being sent to the same email address, but the system recognising it as different. You should add a unique suffix each time you create a new test partner, but remember to add a + sign before the suffix.
Add the is_test parameter and set it to 1 to correctly create a test Accommodation Partner.

This flow refers to using the API in its full capacity to do contracting for Accommodation Partners with Booking.com.

Send legal details to Booking.com to create a legal entity ID.
Retrieve legal entity ID.
Booking.com sends email with a link to the contracting tool to the Accommodation Partner (AP).
Wait until the contract is signed.
Check the contract status at least once a day until AP signs the contract.
Start building a new property using the HotelDescriptiveContentNotif endpoint or Property API. with the required legal entity ID.
Set property to open and bookable using the HotelSummaryNotif endpoint.