To sync your listings to Booking Automation and provide live pricing updates, we will need API credentials from your Booking Automation admin account. APIs allow two software solutions to communicate, and keep the data synced between your PMS and Art for live pricing updates. Follow the steps below and then email your token to the Rented Onboarding Team.

Step 1: Latitude & Longitude Set Up 

Log into Booking Automation and make sure that the correct latitude and longitude for each of your properties in Booking Automation. This can be set under Settings > Properties > Description. 

Step 2: Setting Daily Base Rate

Set a daily base rate for each room via the Calendar page for one year from today. To do this go to Calendar > Daily Price and click on any date in the Daily Rate row, enter your price in the pop-up that opens and set the date for one year from today. For your base rates in Booking Automation, we recommend that you set these rates directly in Booking Automation at the high end of the market for each listing as a starting point. Art will provide the dynamic pricing once connected. 

Step 3: Enable API Data 

Enable API Access by going to Settings> Account > Account Settings

Scroll down to the next blank API key section.  

Using a password generator, create a very strong API Key.  Should be 32 characters in length.  We suggest you use a provider like Password Generator, to ensure you create a unique API Key.  Paste the API Key in the available cell.  

Ensure API Key Access is set to "Allow Any IP," Allow Writes is set to "Yes" and the Property Access is set to "Owned or linked to this account." 

When everything is configured, hit Save.

Step 4: Create a user for Rented & Grant Appropriate Access

Create a user profile for the Rented Onboarding team in Booking Automation.  Please use the email schema of YourCompanyName-Rented@Rented.com.  This user profile should have access to the Account Settings, so our team can complete the integration.  For directions on how to create a user profile, please see the "Specify Access Rights" section below. You must also make the properties available for Rented. For directions on how to do this, please see the "Make A Property available in related account" section below. Both of these instructions can also be found in this documentation directly from Booking Automation.  

• Specify Access Rights

        In ACCOUNT LIST > MANAGE ACCOUNT for the specific sub-account you can specify the access rights:

• Control Panel: defines if the property is visible in the controls read-only mode or visible with write access
• Inventory Linking: controls if the prices and availability can be linked. Values are visible in read-only mode or visible with write access.
• Booking Linking: defines if the bookings from the property are hidden, visible in read-only mode or visible with write access.

{{#fas:exclamation-triangle}} If you include bookings from another property you will also need to allow "Booking Linking" from the property which owns the booking to see them.

• Make a Property available in a related account (sub-account)
  • Click on ACCOUNT LIST
  • Click on MANAGE ACCOUNT for the account which owns the property
  • Click on MANAGE PROPERTY for the property
  • Go to "Make Property Available in Multiple Accounts"
  • Select the sub-account from the drop-down list in "Make Property Available In Sub Account".
  • If required adjust the access rights

{{#fas:exclamation-triangle}} Required if you have Auto Actions in the Master Account that you want to trigger across multiple accounts/properties. In Auto Action : Trigger Tab > Property = 'All visible in account.

Step 5: Send Onboarding Team Your API Key & User Profile

Once you have your key saved, send them and the Rented email address and password, to our onboarding team by email here.