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Step 5 – Create product

Now it's time to create a product. A product is a combination of room, rate, and policy details. This combined information is effectively what guests buy when they book a stay through the Booking.com website. This is why you had to create a room type and rate plan earlier.

This seems complicated – why not just put everything in a product?

The reason we treat rooms, rates, and products as separate entities is that it enables reuse. You can combine the same rooms and rates into different products. For example, a lone traveller might pay less than a couple for the same double room. Or, a property could offer discounts to groups greater than 4. Or to guests who stay more than a week. You only need one room type to sell all these different products.

Use this method and URL to create a new product:

POST https://supply-xml.booking.com/hotels/ota/OTA_HotelProductNotif

In the sample request below, make sure you replace these {PlaceHolders}:

Placeholder	Description
`{PropertyID}`	Your property's ID.
`{RoomTypeID}`	Use the value of `InventoryCrossRef[@ResponseInvCode]` from the response to your room type request.
`{RatePlanID}`	Use the value of `RatePlanCrossRef[@ResponseRatePlanCode]` from the response to your rate plan request.

Sample request

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<OTA_HotelProductNotifRQ
  xmlns="http://www.opentravel.org/OTA/2003/05"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  PrimaryLangID="en-US"
  EchoToken="GUID"
  Version="1.0"
  Target="Test">
  <HotelProducts HotelCode="{PropertyID}">
    <HotelProduct ProductNotifType="New">
      <RoomTypes>
        <RoomType RoomTypeCode="{RoomTypeID}"  MaxOccupancy="{MaxOccupancy}"/>
      </RoomTypes>
      <RatePlans>
        <RatePlan RatePlanCode="{RatePlanID}" />
      </RatePlans>
      <PolicyInfo>
        <BookingRules>
          <BookingRule MinAdvancedBookingOffset="P1D" />
        </BookingRules>
        <CancelPolicy>
          <CancelPenalty PolicyCode="12" />
        </CancelPolicy>
      </PolicyInfo>
    </HotelProduct>
  </HotelProducts>
</OTA_HotelProductNotifRQ>

Sample response

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<OTA_HotelProductNotifRS xmlns="http://www.opentravel.org/OTA/2003/05" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.opentravel.org/OTA/2003/05 OTA_HotelProductNotifRS.xsd" TimeStamp="2018-02-12T10:12:41+00:00" Target="Test" Version="3.000">
    <Success />
</OTA_HotelProductNotifRS>
<!-- RUID: [UmFuZG9...] -->

To learn more

To learn more about the last call, see OTA_HotelProductNotif.