Contents

• Enhanced Pre-Book rate from search and hotel page steps
• Direct credit card payments
• Booking multiple rooms in one order
• Canceling non-refundable bookings
• Simplified hotel IDs
• The meal_data field
• The non_free_amenities field
• Number of available rooms
• Now available in 32 languages
• Keys pickup field
• Search by geo coordinates
• Sort hotels
• Receive booking status via webhook
• Retrieve rate info

Streamlined booking and payments

Experience a more efficient and flexible booking process with these key updates.

Enhanced Pre-Book rate from search and hotel page steps

This success rate feature checks whether the requested rate is still available, instantly updates its availability, and helps increase successful bookings while reducing unnecessary back-and-forth calls. The result — a smoother, more reliable booking process for you.

This feature empowers travel agents to provide accurate pricing directly from the Search Engine Results Page (SERP) and eliminates extra steps. With this update, partners can improve efficiency and enhance customer satisfaction. 

Direct credit card payments

The RateHawk API now supports credit card payments, giving you greater flexibility and convenience in managing your bookings. This update simplifies transactions, streamlines payment processing, and improves your overall experience with RateHawk.

Booking multiple rooms in one order

You can now select and book up to six rooms in a single order. This eliminates the need to create multiple orders for larger reservations, saving you time and effort.

This feature simplifies group bookings, enhances efficiency, results in fewer API calls, and enables faster processing for larger reservations.

Canceling non-refundable bookings

You can now cancel non-refundable rates directly via the API — no need to contact support or log into the website. This feature saves time and effort by enabling self-service cancellations, providing greater flexibility, and faster support for your clients.

Enhanced data and transparency

Access detailed booking and property information to gain deeper insights and communicate more clearly.

Simplified hotel IDs

We’ve replaced long alphanumeric hotel identifiers with simple numeric IDs. This makes it easier for partners to search, integrate, and manage hotel data across systems. For example:

• Old format: queens_hotel_13
• New format: 6530623

The updated meal_data field

We’ve updated the existing meal plan field with a new structure that provides more detailed information — such as whether breakfast, half board, or other options are included — so you know exactly what the booking price covers. 

This field offers clarity on booking inclusions, enables easier comparison between rates, and improves client understanding.

The non_free_amenities field

You can now see which extra services incur an additional fee. This is important for precise planning and billing. The field displays additional services that require an extra fee, clearly listing services such as parking or spa access that are not included in the base rate.

The feature supports in accurate planning and billing, improves cost transparency, and helps guests better understand what’s included. 

Number of available rooms

You can now view the exact number of remaining rooms at a particular rate to better plan and manage your bookings. 

This feature supports urgency-based marketing and enables more accurate room availability tracking for smarter decision-making.

Improved user experience and global reach

Deliver a supercharged experience to a wider audience with enhanced search functionality and expanded localization features.

Now in 32 languages

We’ve expanded language support to 32 languages, ensuring our platform effectively serves diverse global markets and client bases. 

Popular examples include Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Kazah, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Serbian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese, among many others.

Simply add a language code to your API request to receive translated content, including hotel names, descriptions, and policies.

Keys pickup field

The API will now provide instructions on how guests can obtain their keys. This facilitates seamless guest arrivals, leading to smoother guest check-in and less confusion at the property.

Search by geo coordinates

The API can now fetch available hotel rates using the SERP mechanism and specific geographical details. This allows you to search for properties near a specific location by including geo coordinates in your API request.

This feature offers more precise, location-based search capabilities, enables map-based search, and supports niche locations.

Sort hotels

This API call ranks hotels within a region using an internal algorithm, helping you display the most relevant results to your users. It considers factors such as popularity, availability, and price relevance to deliver optimally sorted hotel results.

Using this call helps present more relevant hotel options to your clients, highlighting best-fit hotels, and reducing the need for client-side sorting.

Automation and efficiency

Save time and reduce manual work with powerful new automation tools.

Receive booking status webhook

This API call lets you register a webhook to receive real-time booking status updates — offering an alternative to repeatedly checking for updates. Once you provide a URL, the Ratehawk API sends instant notifications about booking status changes (for example, “completed”) via POST requests. These include details such as the booking ID and status. Your system then responds to confirm receipt, and security measures verify the origin of the message.

This provides real-time booking status updates, saving time and keeping you constantly informed.

Retrieve rate info

This call allows you to get information about a selected hotel rate via book_hash without performing a new search. This is especially useful for confirming details right before booking.

Once you pass a unique book_hash from a previous search, and the system responds with comprehensive information about that rate, such as price, taxes, and cancellation policies. Overall, it’s about quickly checking the exact rate details you need without re-running the entire search process.

This call quickly confirms exact rate details, ensuring up-to-date pricing and availability without re-running an entire search, speeding up booking flows, and cutting down on errors.

Ready to empower your travel business?

RateHawk API Version 3 is designed to enhance your efficiency and elevate your booking experience. Upgrade  to v3 today and spread your wings with RateHawk’s user-friendly tech tools!

For any questions about RateHawk’s API v3 or assistance with implementation, our team is ready to support you. Please contact your dedicated Account Manager or reach out to us at [email protected].

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