RON provides access to the Respax Operators
through a simple XMLRPC API providing real-time
availability, booking facilities with immediate
confirmations and product content with images.
THE RON API can be integrated with your system
so that your staff can still use your existing
reservation system but be interacting directly
with the various Respax Operators.
The RON XMLRPC API is suitable for Travel Agents,
Online Agents, Inbound Agents, Online Operators
and Online Portals needing to develop a direct
system-to-system interface between their system
and the Respax Operators
Typical advantages include much reduced handling
time for your staff when dealing with a booking
and much less waiting time for your clients as
you are interacting directly with the remote systems.
Interacting directly with the Operators also means
reduced training for your staff. Instead of using
individual booking interfaces for each operator,
your staff can now book them all through your
existing system which they are already trained
to use.
RON also provides extensive caching of any information
from the operator. The cache categories the data
depending on importance of the cache data and
how often its changed. Each category have individual
cache expiry. For example, tour content is only
updated every 2 days, pricing every 4 hours but
availability is updated immediately. Any booking
is placed directly into the remote systems.
Caching is the key to interacting with multiple
remote systems as remote internet connections
and systems has various degrees of reliability.
The caching creates a much higher availability.
Most data is availble directly from the cache
even if the remote system is down.
Developing against the RON system gives you a
bigger bang for the buck as you are developing
against some 40 tour operators. You are going
to have put some IT staff resources against developing
your side of the interface but as you are developing
against a large number of operators, its worth
the time.
Detailed information and syntax to the Respax
Operator Network API can be found on http://docs.respax.com.au
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