"Notify" and "Quote" API - Read this first!

Quick overview

Should you start offering an optional insurance with your trip, you'll be facing two steps/issues:

First: at some point, you will need to propose the insurance, and for this you'll wonder "what's the price?".

Here, you have two options:

you may prefer to remain independant (from us), and reproduce the insurance pricing on your system. This is easy with most product, but can be more challenging with others. Also, should the pricing evolve, you'll need to update your code.
or you might want to implement the "QUOTE API" : a simple call to our system will return the correct insurance price (a.k.a. "premium").

Second : when the booking has been finalized, we need to receive, as soon as possible, the characteristics of the insurance you just sold.

Here again twi options:

you could transmit a file (like a CSV format) periodically (get in touch with us if this is your preference).
or you might want to implement the "NOTIFY API" : a simple call to our system will enable us to register the insurance.

How long does it take?

If you are a developper, this will certainly be pretty straight foward, even if you've never work with HTTP/REST API before. A week is probably a good time scale.

If you are using a commercial software, then you might request the provider to implement this for you ; this will cost you some money probably. No much as the developpement is in fact rather simple.

What do I need before I start?

The API will request some authentication:

some kind of login (a parameter later called "EMETTEUR" or "SENDER" or "AFFILIATE")
some kind of password (a character string later called the KEY).

Also, depending on the insurance product(s) you are implementing (for QUOTE as well as NOTIFY), we will provide you with a set of parameters to provide, like departure date, return date, destination, ...

Help! I need someone...

Should you need help, contact us:

technical@chapka.com

+33 1 74 85 50 50 (ask for IT team)

Let's go!

Now, you may get started.