The Backbone of your Booking Platform.
Connect your booking engine or platform to a single, powerful API. OpenGDS provides the technical infrastructure to manage custom rate plans, real-time ARI data, and instant reservation delivery to any property. Welcome to Distribution 3.0, built for unlimited scale without the technical headache.
Powering platforms and booking engines worldwide:
Powerful API Suite
Power your platform with a extensive set of APIs. Use the Core API to drive your complete front-end and manage the full reservation lifecycle. Prefer to build upon your own database? The Push API keeps your system synced with real-time ARI data. Additionally, the Promocode API natively handles voucher validation and dynamic discounts. All built on modern JSON standards with comprehensive documentation, ensuring a rapid and flawless implementation.
Global Connectivity
Get instant connectivity with 250+ Channel Managers, Property Management Systems (PMS), and Central Reservation Systems (CRS) through one single API. No need to build separate connections or negotiate individual contracts with every tech provider. Plus, you never have to guess how or why data changed: our extensive audit trail logs every single availability, price, or restriction update down to the second.
Total Rate Plan Control
Take the lead in your pricing strategy. Create your own exclusive rate plans, available only to your platform, and protect them by actively ignoring specific Channel Manager updates. You decide exactly whether a connected property is allowed to overwrite your availability, rates, or restrictions, ensuring your contractual agreements are always respected.
Complex Pricing, Solved
Don't waste development hours building complex pricing logic. The OpenGDS API handles everything out-of-the-box. Whether it is per-room, per-stay, and per-person rates, or extra beds, specific age-based child pricing, and single-use supplements: everything is covered. Including the automatic handling of seasonally adjusted taxes, time zones, and currency conversions for seamless international bookings.
Built-in Upselling Engine
Maximize the revenue of every booking with pre-built upselling logic. Power true dynamic packaging directly within your flow to seamlessly offer room upgrades, late check-outs, or curated experiences like wellness treatments and culinary extras. Our API instantly handles the most complex pricing structures, supporting per-piece, per-person, per-room, per-reservation, and daily rate types, alongside specific child pricing and custom date selections.
Advanced Promotion Engine
Run high-converting campaigns with ultimate flexibility. Whether it’s unique discount codes for newsletters, loyalty programs, seasonal flash sales, or unlocking hidden exclusive rate plans, our built-in engine handles it all. Seamlessly offer percentage discounts or fixed-value vouchers while automatically enforcing strict rules, like minimum stays and excluded arrival dates, to ensure your margins stay protected.
Rich Content Management
Take full control of your portfolio's presentation. Let properties manage their base profiles, while you independently enrich room types, rate plans, and add-on services with high-resolution images, tailored descriptions, and specific amenities. Retrieve this curated content seamlessly through our API with native multi-language support, ensuring a fully localized, high-converting experience for your global audience.
Agnostic Payment Logic
Maintain full control over your cash flow. Bring your own payment service provider (PSP) and process funds directly. Our API manages the complex state logic, handling deposit requirements, payment statuses, and temporarily holding availability during the checkout process to prevent double bookings, while giving you 100% financial independence with no middlemen.
The Partner Network
Find new properties that complement your portfolio, and receive inbound requests via the Marketplace from properties eager to work with you. Establish direct relationships and negotiate your own exclusive rates and terms to maximize your margins and reduce commission costs. Best of all? Properties use OpenGDS completely free of charge, making it an effortless pitch to expand your offering and scale your inventory instantly.
Advanced Account Hierarchy
Manage your growing organization with precision. Create multiple user groups for different teams, markets, or sub-labels while maintaining centralized oversight. Fine-grained permission settings ensure that every user has the exact level of access they need, from developers to account managers. Assign specific properties, API credentials, rate plans, promotions, and add-ons to the exact group that needs them.
Enterprise-Grade Reliability
Low-Latency APIs
Lightning-fast response times to ensure a seamless booking flow, handling complex queries effortlessly even under peak volumes.
High Availability (HA)
Hosted on top-tier infrastructure with continuous monitoring, automated failovers, and robust redundancy to guarantee maximum uptime.
Secure & Compliant
Fully GDPR and PCI-compliant. All data is securely processed in premium European data centers, meeting the highest global privacy and security standards.
In-House Expertise
Built entirely on open-source software, ensuring independence from third-party vendors. All actively maintained by our internal team of experts.
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