Integrate & Certify

New Rentals United partners will need to ensure their inventory is in our system, first. Follow this guide in our Developer Portal to:

  • set up a connection allowing you to create new inventory

  • push availability and pricing

  • and retrieve bookings

Respect minimum property content required by Rentals United

While creating inventory in Rentals United, bear in mind that property data must be as detailed as possible. Take your time when building integration with Rentals United and make sure that your properties do not miss any important content. We have created a list of minimum requirements for you to follow. All its elements will be checked during the certification process.

API: Put property

  • Property name is provided

    Push_PutProperty_RQ/Property/Name

  • Property type is set

    Push_PutProperty_RQ/Property/ObjectTypeID

  • Maximum number of guests is provided and is at least 1

    Push_PutProperty_RQ/Property/CanSleepMax

  • Floor number is provided

    Push_PutProperty_RQ/Property/Floor

  • Property size is provided

    Push_PutProperty_RQ/Property/Space

  • Address is provided

    Push_PutProperty_RQ/Property/Street

    Push_PutProperty_RQ/Properties/Property/DetailedLocationID

    Push_PutProperty_RQ/Property/ZipCode

  • Geo-coordinates are provided

    Push_PutProperty_RQ/Property/Coordinates/Latitude

    Push_PutProperty_RQ/Property/Coordinates/Longitude

  • Amenities: At least 10 amenities are provided

    Push_PutProperty_RQ/Property/Amenities

  • Rooms are provided

    Push_PutProperty_RQ/Property/CompositionRoomsAmenities/CompositionRoomAmenities@CompositionRoomID

  • Room-specific amenities are provided and there is at least as many beds as 50% of the maximum number of guests the property sleeps

    Push_PutProperty_RQ/Property/CompositionRoomsAmenities/CompositionRoomAmenities/Amenities

  • Description is provided

    Push_PutProperty_RQ/Property/Descriptions

  • Photos: There are at least 10 images with minimum size of 1024 x 683 px and one photo is selected as the main photo

    Push_PutProperty_RQ/Property/Images

  • Payment methods: at least 1 is set

    Push_PutProperty_RQ/Property/PaymentMethods

  • Cancellation Policy: at least 1 is set

    Push_PutProperty_RQ/Property/CancellationPolicies

API: Upload available units

  • Availability is provided for the next 365 days

    Push_PutAvbUnits_RQ/Calendar/U

API: Put prices

  • Daily price is provided for the next 365 days

    Push_PutPrices_RQ/Prices/Season/Price

Certify your connection

For the purpose of integration, certification and understanding of the integration range, a dedicated White Label Channel Manager Certification Tracker will be created for you. Use this tracker to:

  • Review activities required for the White Label Channel Manager to be ready

  • Report API adoption progress

  • Post your questions and see our answers throughout the integration process

Check quality of content before your clients start connecting to selected sales channels - see Eligibility check in channels.

Eligibility check in channels

Nonetheless, some Sales Channels may have entirely different requirements than Rentals United. Most often, it stems from the fact that channels:

  • aim at giving as detailed information as possible, so that the guests know what to expect (e.g. amenities, description, cancellation policies)

  • may specialise in a certain type of properties and location only and not accept others (e.g. only seaside villas or only apartments in certain cities)

  • require high-quality content (e.g. exact photo resolution or number of photos)

Once you implemented methods described at Respect minimum property content required by Rentals United and your clients signed the contracts with the channels they want to distribute their inventory on, there starts the process of onboarding to the channel. This may be sometimes more difficult, as it may turn out that the properties are missing some information or are not eligible at all to be connected to some channels.

To minimize these risks, we have created a tool that will allow you to check the quality of the properties beforehand. If you receive any feedback about missing data points, they could be all filled in in batches before the onboarding process even starts, which makes it a lot easier for your clients.

As the process of content quality checking is quite time-consuming, we have decided to make it asynchronous. You put a request to check it for a given property and channel via the API method Order Minimum Content Quality check and then receive the response using the LNM mechanism.

  1. Develop a handler that will receive and process PropertyMCQEligibilityCheck LNM notifications. Your system should report them to the property owners, e.g. as prompts in the UI asking to improve particular datapoints or as an aggregated report for key account managers.

  2. For each client, subscribe to PropertyMCQEligibilityCheck LNM notification type; this will allow you to use this new functionality.

  3. Use API method Order Minimum Content Quality check for all clients' properties before the onboarding to the channel starts.