Third-party booking working documents [via OpenActive Community Group]

The community group is currently working on developing a set of specifications and best practices to allow people who have discovered opportunities to be active to book places to attend an event, or hire a facility.

This post provides a list of the working documents that are currently being developed by the community group.
Discussion documents and reports

  Supporting OpenActive in your platform – provides guidance for existing platforms about adding support for the initiative to their products. It includes support for publishing open data and some general requirements around third-party booking.
  Exploring requirements for a booking API (google doc) – provides a summary of a face-to-face workshop whose aim was to collect use cases and requirements from both platforms and innovators looking to benefit from using a third-party booking API.
  Booking use cases and requirements (google doc) – documents all of the use cases and requirements that have been raised by the community, with an indication of whether they are in scope for our initial work.

Draft documents

  Booking API best practices (google doc) – outlines our recommended best practices for the design of a booking API
  Open Booking Standard Version 0.3 (google doc) – is an early version of our booking standard which has been produced by prototyping a number of client and server-side implementations with developers.
  Open Booking Standards Version 0.4 (google doc) – is our current working document and defines our future direction
  Version 0.4 Swagger documentation – provides a Swagger based view of the proposed API

The current issue list for the booking specification can be found on github. Please file feedback or comments in this repository.



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