ReferenceBooking Retrieval and Booking Confirmation APIs

Revision history

The following updates have been made to the Booking Retrieval documentation or schema, from newest to oldest updates:

November 2024

Added support for affiliate (corporate) credit cards for Hotel Collect bookings. The <SpecialRequests> element (code=5) can now include guest-handling instructions that include corporate reservation information.

September 7, 2020

Added details on Changes to Expedia Collect (see blog from Sept. 7th, 2020 for more info).

June 26, 2020

Added description for booking confirmation warning code 10105. Updated hotel collect example to reflect guest address is NOT actually sent.

December 3, 2019

Updated the Cardholder address for Expedia Virtual Cards to the new Expedia Group headquarters address in all applicable sample messages.

July 30, 2019

Launched Unicode support, which applies to China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Requires partner systems to support UTF-8 encoding. For additional details see Unicode Support.

December 18, 2018

Added sample message for email alias.

December 10, 2018

Updated Sample BR Responses with a No Credit Card booking example.

June 29, 2018
  • Added new supported credit card types: Union Pay and Carte Blanche.
  • Added TLS 1.2 requirement.