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Priceline hotel API: what it is and how to connect it

Priceline sells hotel, car and flight inventory to other businesses through the Priceline Partner Network, part of Booking Holdings. Here is what the network offers, what approval it needs, and how PHPTRAVELS builds a Priceline connector into your own booking engine as a custom integration.

  • Priceline Partner Network
  • Partner agreement first
  • Custom connector
  • Runs in the stays module

The supplier

Priceline Partner Network in four facts

What it is
Priceline's programme for selling its inventory through other companies
Owned by
Booking Holdings, the group behind Booking.com, Agoda and KAYAK
Main products
Hotels, plus rental cars, flights and packages
In PHPTRAVELS
Not a ready connector: built as a custom integration

Priceline is a US travel brand, and the Priceline Partner Network is how other companies sell its inventory under their own name. Partners range from content sites that send traffic through links to travel businesses that book Priceline rates inside their own checkout through the API.

API access is not self-service. Priceline reviews each partner, and documentation and credentials come with a signed agreement. That is why PHPTRAVELS treats Priceline as a custom integration: we build the connector once you hold API access, around the API products Priceline enables for you. Custom API integration

Three ways in

Links, a white-label site or the API

Priceline offers more than one way to partner. Only the API puts Priceline rates inside your own PHPTRAVELS checkout.

Affiliate links

Suits
Content sites and blogs
Where the customer pays
On Priceline
What you control
Placement and traffic only
Role of PHPTRAVELS
Not needed, a link is enough

White-label site

Suits
Brands that want travel fast
Where the customer pays
On a Priceline-run site in your branding
What you control
Branding and some settings
Role of PHPTRAVELS
Not needed for this route

API

The route PHPTRAVELS builds
Suits
Agencies and OTAs with their own platform
Where the customer pays
In your own checkout
What you control
Search, pricing, markups, customer data and support
Role of PHPTRAVELS
Custom connector in the stays module

What a Priceline rate looks like in your engine

One more hotel supplier in the same results

Once connected, Priceline rates go through the same hotel flow as every other supplier: one result card, one rate breakdown, one checkout.

Hotel resultPriceline

Harbourview Suites Midtown

Midtown, New York

3 nights · 2 adults

Deluxe king room
Room onlyFree cancellation until 3 days before arrival
Room rate × 3 nights
–
Taxes and fees
–
Total
–

Price checked again before payment

Sample data. A fictional hotel with example figures.

  • Taxes shown before payment

    Hotel taxes and fees are listed separately, so the total the customer sees is the total they pay.

  • The supplier's own policy

    Cancellation rules come from Priceline with each rate and are shown on the card and in the voucher.

  • A supplier tag on every booking

    Your team always knows which supplier holds the booking, which matters for changes and refunds.

  • Your markup, your rules

    Set markups per supplier, per channel or per agent group, as with any other connected hotel supplier.

The custom build

What the Priceline connector covers

Each work package is scoped with you before we start, against the API products and documentation Priceline gives you.

  1. 01Hotel contentImports hotel names, photos, facilities and locations and maps them to your hotel list.What it needs:Content access from Priceline
  2. 02Search and ratesReturns rooms, board types, prices and policies for the dates and guests searched.What it needs:API credentials
  3. 03Price checkConfirms the price and availability of the chosen rate before the customer pays.What it needs:API credentials
  4. 04BookingCreates the booking, stores the supplier reference and issues your voucher.What it needs:Payment terms agreed with Priceline
  5. 05CancellationCancels within the rate's policy and records any charge.What it needs:API credentials
  6. 06ReportsLists Priceline bookings next to other suppliers for reconciliation.What it needs:Nothing extra

Scope, price and timeline are confirmed in writing before work starts.

Before we start

Your Priceline readiness checklist

  • A signed partner agreement with Priceline that includes API access
  • Test credentials and the API documentation Priceline gives partners
  • Clear payment terms: who charges the customer and when
  • The markets and currencies you plan to sell in
  • A PHPTRAVELS licence with the stays module

Comparing Priceline with Booking.com and Expedia? Read the deeper guide: Booking.com and Priceline APIs

How custom supplier work is scoped: Custom API integration

FAQ

Questions about the Priceline hotel API

What agencies ask before they connect Priceline.

Talk to sales

No. Priceline is not one of the native connectors today. We build the connector as a custom integration once you have API access from Priceline.

Apply to the Priceline Partner Network. Priceline reviews your business and, if approved, gives you an agreement, documentation and credentials for the API products you will use.

No. The agreement and the rates are always between your company and Priceline. PHPTRAVELS supplies the booking engine and builds the connection.

No. Affiliate links and white-label sites send customers to Priceline. PHPTRAVELS is useful when you want Priceline rates bookable inside your own checkout.

It depends on the API products enabled for you and the work packages you need. We quote a fixed scope after reviewing the documentation Priceline provides.

Yes. That is the usual set-up: Priceline rates appear in the same results as your other suppliers, each with its own markup and supplier tag.

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