Getting Started

Provides an overview of the architecture, standards, and protocols for Universal API.

• Understanding Services and Schemas
• Content Providers and Definitions
• Universal Records and PNRs
• Design Considerations
• Using Universal API and Legacy API Products Together
• Known Issues with Web Services Tools

Provides an overview of high-level workflows for:

• Air
• Air Bookability
• Hotel
• Vehicle
• Stand-alone merchandising
• Universal records

Includes step-by-step topics to help you get connected to Universal API:

• Sign-up for credentials. See Getting Credentials.

• Download the schemas and WSDLs. See Downloading WSDLs and Schema to get the a zip file of the latest release.

• Understand how the services and schemas work. See Understanding Universal API Web Services and Schema.

Explains how to send requests and provides:

• Set up a Ping request to test your connectivity. See Testing Application Connectivity.

• A sample request and response
• Emulation information
• A list of current services

A Best Practices guide that provides suggestions for successfully testing your requests, responses, and application using our Pre-Production data.

Provides instructions to sign up for Developer Advisories to ensure you are notified of Universal API enhancements and outages.

Provides samples to help you work with Universal API.

• Sample XML transactions are provided for various Universal API functions.
• The Universal API Demo Site allows you to see and work with an application that is built over Universal API.
• C# proxy classes are provided to show how to consume the Universal API WSDL in C# code. Download the zip file.
• A github repository provides sample application code in several languages, and instructions for step-by-step tutorials that help you connect to Universal API.