TourCMS APIs

We are often asked what APIs TourCMS supports. The top level is that we do not integrate with any 3rd party product distribution systems (GDSes, flight consolidators or bed banks) but we do have the following API interfaces:

Live product data (Live XML)

All product data (descriptions, images, dates, prices, availability) and booking capability is available via a marketplace API in live XML format

• Marketplace API
• Interesting examples

This data (in XML) can be sourced from a single account (if you are the account owner) or over multiple TourCMS accounts (if you are a marketplace partner). The live XML API also has a product search capability enabling geographic (i.e. within certain distance of a geocode) as well as keyword based live data search.

Customers and enquiries

The New Customer API is useful for bulk importing Customer contact details from an existing system, the ability to also add a new Enquiry at the same time means this API can also be used for building web forms like brochure request forms, tailor made tour enquiry forms or contact us forms.

• New Customer / Enquiry API (XML)
• AJAX enquiry form library (A PHP/JavaScript library for producing enquiry forms)

Web templates / CMS (Create static XML files / HTML web pages)

The website CMS (integrated within TourCMS) contains a complex template system (including programming logic) for extracting content (product descriptions, dates, prices) out of TourCMS which can then be transferred via FTP to a location of your choosing.

• Web template / CMS documentation index
• Example data export created using the web CMS (RSS XML)
• Building a tour (or hotel) filter/search using an XML file (Full PHP code included)

Booking documentation

Not an API in the dictionary sense of the term..... but this PDF manual outlines the tokens that you can use in email and document (RTF) templates. You can use these to create develop letters, invoices, emails, accommodation vouchers etc

• Documentation manual (RTF & Email)

If you are having trouble keeping the filesize of your RTF templates below the 1MB maximum then take a look at this article on resizing images.