This document provides a step-by-step guide to using the CargoCONNECT API. The API allows you to fetch rate & schedules, perform booking operations and track your shipment
Create a booking via Quote&Book API
- Use our Schedules&Rates endpoint to fetch flight options and associated rate for a specific shipment, route and user
- Review the options provided in the response and save the flightUUID and rate.ID of your selected option
- Use our Booking endpoint with flightUUID and rate.ID to request booking creation in airline system
- Once response received from airline, we will automatically subscribe for you to our Booking callback
- Booking callback will send a first message for booking creation and then will send messages only when an update will be performed on the booking
- Once your shipment's journey has started, Booking Callback will push you tracking milestones update everytime your shipment has passed through a new milestone as well as important booking modifications like price updates etc..
Receive a booking created in airline system
Sometimes users directly create a booking in airline system without involving his TMS. Due to that, afterward they need to manually enter booking details in their favorite TMS. This can end with human errors in the details or delay in the booking creation due to manual process.
In order to prevent that and thanks to our connection with airlines through API, we are able to directly push booking creation from airline system to your TMS' system.
To do so, we will push you a Booking callback containing all the information you need to recreate the booking from scratch in your system.
You can find a more detailled explanation about the information shared in our Booking Callback page.
Direct Booking & Allotments
This specific usage of our Booking endpoint streamlines booking by matching flight numbers and departure dates with corresponding schedules and rates and directly send your booking creation in airline system.
In other words, this is our way to revolutionize the FFRs booking by providing:
- A better coverage in term of airline compared to FFR booking that only cover few airlines
- Instant confirmation where FFR can take several hours before to provide you an answer
- A list of alternative flight is provided when the selected flight is not bookable
- And thanks to our Booking Callback, it also provide you with Rate information and booking updates live via API.
Allotment Bookings
Direct booking allows you to place bookings under allotment without the need to look for flight options and rate one by one for each allotment.
This streamline and ease the placement of allotments by directly matching the flight and sending the booking creation to the concerned airline.