Retrieving promotion details

Business booker rates has been sunset

Booking.com has sunset Business booker rates since September 16, 2022 and is therefore no longer usable.

Use this endpoint to retrieve promotions by ID, name, and active status. The response includes statistics like total revenue, number of nights reserved, total bookings, and total cancellations.

For more information on how to create and manage promotions, see Managing promotions.

URL

POST 
https://supply-xml.booking.com/hotels/xml/getpromotions

Sample request

<request>
    <hotel_id>1234</hotel_id>
    <id>VR1234</id>
    <active>1</active>
    <name>Summer Deal</name>
</request>

Request body

Field Description Type Occurrences Notes
request Root element. object 1..1 -
hotel_id The ID of the property for which you want to retrieve promotions. integer 1..1 -
id Specifies an (optional) promotion ID by which to filter the response. string 0..1 -
active Specifies an (optional) promotion status (active/deactivated) by which to filter the response. boolean 0..1 Accepts: 1 (active), 0 (deactivated).
name Specifies an (optional) promotion name by which to filter the response. string 0..1 -

Sample response

This example contains all possible fields that can be included in the response.

<promotions>
  <promotion id="VR12345" name="Summer Deal" type="basic" target_channel="public" min_stay_through="2" non_refundable="-1" min_booked_nights="2" no_cc_promotion="0" active="1">
    <last_minute unit="-1" value="-1"></last_minute>
    <early_booker value="-1"></early_booker>
    <book_date start="-1" end="-1"></book_date>
    <book_time start="-1" end="-1"></book_time>
    <stay_date start="2017-08-20" end="2017-08-30">
      <active_weekdays>
        <active_weekday>Mon</active_weekday>
        <active_weekday>Tue</active_weekday>
        <active_weekday>wed</active_weekday>
        <active_weekday>Thu</active_weekday>
        <active_weekday>Fri</active_weekday>
        <active_weekday>Sat</active_weekday>
        <active_weekday>Sun</active_weekday>
      </active_weekdays>
      <excluded_dates>
        <excluded_date>2017-08-22</excluded_date>
      </excluded_dates>
    </stay_date>
    <additional_dates>
      <additional_date>2016-09-01</additional_date>
      <additional_date>2016-08-31</additional_date>
    </additional_dates>
    <rooms>
      <room id="12223"></room>
      <room id="12345"></room>
    </rooms>
    <parent_rates>
      <parent_rate id="435345"></parent_rate>
    </parent_rates>
    <discount value="5"></discount>
  </promotion>
  <promotion id="VR34234" name="Lastminute hurry" type="last_minute" target_channel="public" min_stay_through="0" non_refundable="-1" min_booked_nights="0" no_cc_promotion="0" active="1">
    <last_minute unit="hour" value="8"></last_minute>
    <early_booker value="-1"></early_booker>
    <book_date start="-1" end="-1"></book_date>
    <book_time start="-1" end="-1"></book_time>
    <stay_date start="2016-06-10" end="2016-06-10">
      <active_weekdays>
        <active_weekday>Fri</active_weekday>
      </active_weekdays>
      <excluded_dates></excluded_dates>
    </stay_date>
    <additional_dates></additional_dates>
    <rooms>
      <room id="1000419"></room>
    </rooms>
    <parent_rates>
      <parent_rate id="12345"></parent_rate>
      <parent_rate id="47568"></parent_rate>
    </parent_rates>
    <discount value="10"></discount>
    <stats>
      <total_revenue value="418.95" currency="EUR"></total_revenue>
      <nr_room_nights>1</nr_room_nights>
      <nr_bookings>1</nr_bookings>
      <nr_cancellations>0</nr_cancellations>
    </stats>
  </promotion>
</promotions>
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Response body

This table gives more details about some of the fields in the response.

Note

Not all fields are relevant for all response types. A value of -1 indicates that the current field is not relevant for the current response type.

Field Description Type Notes
total_revenue The total revenue from all bookings with this promotion, in the property's default currency. integer -
nr_room_nights The total number of room nights booked with this promotion. integer -
nr_bookings The total number of bookings with this promotion. integer -
nr_cancellations The total number of cancellations with this promotion. integer -

Errors

Schema validation errors

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request

<?xml version='1.0' standalone='yes'?>
<getpromotions>
  <fault code="400">
    <string>code= 1824 level= 2 message= Element 'hotel_id': 'test hotel' is not a valid value of the atomic type 'xs:integer'.
</string>
  </fault>
</getpromotions>
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Invalid ID errors

HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden

<?xml version='1.0' standalone='yes'?>
<getpromotions>
  <fault code="1009">
    <string>Access denied for hotel '234324'</string>
  </fault>
</getpromotions>
<!-- RUID: [...] -->

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request

<?xml version='1.0' standalone='yes'?>
<getpromotions>
  <fault code="400">
    <string>Invalid promotion ID= 12575278</string>
  </fault>
</getpromotions>
<!-- RUID: [...] -->