About car rentals
Enable travellers to easily find and choose the car rentals they want to book.
This documentation is part of an early access pilot program and is only available to selected partners.
Please be aware of the following key points:
- Pilot phase: The functionality described is under active development and subject to change. Initial search functionality (Type 2) will be available for testing in Q4 2024/Q1 2025. General availability is targeted for 2025.
- Limited access: This API is currently offered to a limited number of pilot partners.
- If you are not part of the pilot, you will not have access to this version of the API.
- For inquiries regarding participation, please contact our partnerships team.
- Frequent updates: The documentation and API specifications will be regularly updated throughout the pilot. We recommend checking this page periodically for the latest changes.
The /cars collection
Our Demand API has a collection of endpoints that allow access to Booking.com's car rental inventory, when implementing the Search and look flow.
With /cars endpoints you can retrieve information about cars, suppliers, depots and even get the score breakdown assigned to a depot based on customer ratings.
Similar to accommodations, this is the overall flow for car rentals:
These are the main actions and involved endpoints:
Action | Endpoint | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Search for vehicles | /cars/search | Travellers see the price and details about the full list of available vehicles for the route they are interested on. |
| Look at details | /cars/suppliers /cars/depots /cars/details | Travellers look at the vehicles, suppliers and depots details. They can also see specific supplier details. |
| Redirect to booking | URL from /cars/search response | Travellers can book their car rental directly from cars.booking.com |
Use the /cars API in your client application so your travellers can search and look at car rentals provided by Booking.com.
- Get started and try our Cars API.
- Refer to the examples section for more tips and suggestions.
- Ready to migrate your integration? Check out our Migration guide to smoothly transition to the Demand API car endpoints.