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Impala Hotel Booking API - Sell rooms from any app, and earn up to 15% commission

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Impala’s Hotel Booking API makes booking a hotel as easy as sending a text message with Twilio or taking a payment with Stripe. Plus, you get rewarded. With every booking you make, you earn up to 15% in seller commission.

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Toby Urff
Maker
Hi Product Hunters! 👋 Thanks @harrystebbings for hunting us! My name is Toby, and I'm one of the co-founders here at Impala. As a company, we set out to make every traveller happy and every trip perfect. An important part of this is making hotel bookings as simple as possible. If you’ve ever wanted to integrate hotel room bookings into your app or website though, you’ll know it’s a long and expensive process that involves dealing with countless middlemen and outdated, closed APIs. We've built the Impala Hotel Booking API to change that. You can sign up in seconds, and use the API immediately. With two simple API requests you can search for hotels and rates, and make a booking in a matter of minutes. Have any feedback or questions? Comment below and I'll answer them. 👇 We're excited to hear what you think, and even more excited to see what everyone will build using our APIs.
Aleks Bochkov
@harrystebbings @tobiasurff Looks very interesting! Congrats!
Toby Urff
Maker
@bochkovaleks Thanks, Aleks! If you get a chance to try it out or use it in a project, be sure to share your feedback with us! 🙏
Josue Gio
@harrystebbings @tobiasurff amazing! Super excited of working together! We are going to start using this month!
Thibaut Roussel
Maker
@josuegio Glad to be working with you and the rest of the GuruHotel team 😊
Greg 'X' Willis
@bochkovaleks @tobiasurff I'll be using this in my project and see if it makes sense with the vision.
Jamie Cuffe
Hi Toby - awesome product and so cool to see an API business extend to this industry. I was wondering if you've seen any customers use impala with low code to build support or operations apps?
Toby Urff
Maker
@cuffejamie Thanks for the compliment! This comes up a fair bit in conversations! Some businesses don't want to fully integrate bookings in their websites as humans planning the trip is what makes them unique (wedding planners, surprise trip services, travel concierge providers) and have asked for a simple way to use the API for that. More commonly, our early adopter customers are looking for low-code solutions to help their customer support (e.g. someone calling to cancel or change a booking). Internally, we're big fans of no-code and low-code solutions! When Impalans travel, they use a mini online travel agent built in Retool that sends out confirmation emails and reminders using Zapier, for instance. It works great! We're considering launching integrations and templates for low- and no-code use cases over the coming weeks and months, so watch this space!
Dave Bailey
Congratulations Impalans! This would have saved us months of time compared to using Booking.com API. What are some of the more interesting use cases you imagine for hotel booking?
Toby Urff
Maker
@davesuperman Thanks, Dave! The companies we typically get the most excited about are those optimizing for a perfect experience for a subset of travellers. Those might be dog lovers (e.g. BringFido), remote workers staying for weeks or months (e.g. NomadX) or people looking for halal-friendly hotels (HalalBooking). Another super interesting area for our API are developers and companies who approach travel bookings differently, be that through surprise travel (e.g. BeRightBack sends you on a fully-arranged weekend trip every few months) or travel memberships and clubs (e.g. TripAdvisor Plus or Prior Club offer memberships that bring perks to hotel bookings). There are tons more use cases we're excited about – so many good ideas out there, we're excited to allow people to finally bring them to life without having to worry about connectivity!
Tan Ahmed
that's really cool - so we display the hotels which are already available, and we earn 15% commission? so I can basically just setup my own website which displays hotels and a customer books through it, and i make money right?
Toby Urff
Maker
Hi @tan_ahmed! That's right, we allow you to start a travel business from scratch like that, or integrate selling hotel rooms into an existing project (without your customer ever having to leave your site). And you earn up to 15% on every room you sell.
Matthias Hilpert
Feels like I have been waiting for this forever, thanks @Impala!
Toby Urff
Maker
@matthiashilpeet Thanks, Matthias! Much appreciated!
Joan Sanz
Congrats Guys! hoteltech Power!
Toby Urff
Maker
@joansanx Thanks! Absolutely, we think hotel tech is such a vast market that often operates on a tech stack that was out-of-date 20 years ago. Time to change that!
Ivanna Wendel
Cool product, congrats!
Toby Urff
Maker
@ivanna_wendel Thanks, Ivanna!
Tanvir
great
Toby Urff
Maker
@tanvir28767003 Thank you!
Mona Erb
Smart idea! And perfect time to release such a project! Well done!
Toby Urff
Maker
Thanks, @mona_erb! Cathie Wood (of ARK Invest) always says "innovation gains traction in times of crisis", and I'm convinced travel will come back stronger than ever, and finally with a technology stack that does is justice. 💪
Harry Yu
Hi! We've explored APIs in the past - how comprehensive is your inventory compared to Metasearch providers like HotelsCombined or Kayak? How do the payouts compare?
Ben Stephenson
Maker
@harry_yu1 hey! Big fan of Wanderlog from the sidelines. The Booking API is designed to facilitate direct commercial relationships between you and large numbers of hotels at scale so while you can achieve a “payout” of 10-15% just from using our default agreed rates, you will also be able to negotiate direct rates with hotels that are specifically on brand for your product in < 5 clicks. This means the payout can get > 15%. In terms of inventory, we have a lower volume of hotels today than meta because the relationships are deeper. We have 1500 hotels bookable today which will be closer to 20k+ by the end of the year.
Adriano Wine
Great tool for people that love to travel
Toby Urff
Maker
@adriano_wine Thanks for the compliment, Adriano!
Stiven Martínez
Congrats Impala team, you rock!
Toby Urff
Maker
@stivenmart Thanks, Stiven! Happy to work with you!
Joey
Congrats on the launch @tobiasurff @charlie_cowley and team 🙌 The possibilities with Impala's Hotel Booking API are endless and will enable so many cool projects. We're planning on trying out an integration with our charity's platform to support unpaid carers in the UK. The impact could be huge!
Toby Urff
Maker
Thanks, @joeyceunen! Super happy to work with Carefree on this project!
Jordan Hollander
For those who aren't familiar with the travel industry, GDS (global distribution system) is a super clunky outdated software developed 30+ years ago and still powers global travel supply. GDS is the software that sits between third parties (e.g. travel agents) and suppliers (e.g. hotels). In the age of SaaS and APIs this legacy tech should have been upgraded years ago but it's too challenging for the behemoths to pivot and evolve with so much at stake - this is a prototypical innovator's dilemma. Impala is the top contender to reimagine travel supply by connecting suppliers and distributors directly with a viable solution that's growing like crazy. At HotelTechReport.com we're constantly searching for disruptive tech like this and I can tell you it doesn't come often with most travel innovation being iterative rather than 0 to 1. LFG Impala.
Toby Urff
Maker
@jordankellogg Thanks for the feedback and compliment, it means a lot to us!
Bogdan Ionita
Super cool, best of luck!
Toby Urff
Maker
@bogdan_ionita Thanks a lot, Bogdan!
Rakib
great
Toby Urff
Maker
@rakib13863920 Thanks a lot, Rakib!
Scott Smith
Toby this looks awesome! Congrats on the launch!
Toby Urff
Maker
@scotcha1 Thanks a lot, means a lot to everyone here! Not sure you noticed, but that demo above is actually recorded in CloudApp, because I love your app! 😂
Michael Houck
this looks super interesting!
Toby Urff
Maker
@michael_houck1 Very kind, thanks a lot, Michael! If you get a chance to try it out in one of your projects at some point, send us any feedback you might have!
Glen Creaser
So cool! Great job on this product.
Toby Urff
Maker
@glen_creaser Thanks for the compliment, Glen!
Filip Kokoszyński
Do I understand correctly - you offer an API to be used by hotels, not by developers, who want to make a marketplace? For example - I’m a hotel owner and I can use your tool to install booking system on my website or app, correct?
Ben Stephenson
Maker
@filip_kokoszynski hi! It’s actually the other way around, the Booking API is used by developers that want to build hotel bookings into their apps rather than the hotel themselves. For example you can think of online travel agents and corporate travel platforms as major existing use cases but there’s also a lot of new innovative products being built in the space.
Filip Kokoszyński
@benwestephenson ok, I understand now. Sounds great :) where did you get hotels list? I think I saw that on your presentation
Toby Urff
Maker
@benwestephenson @filip_kokoszynski Hi Filip! Once you sign up, right from within your dashboard there's a link to the full list of hotels (without code), and you can, of course, query, search and filter for hotels using the API itself as well.