Add-on
- An additional purchasable item (e.g. catering, equipment) attached to a booking or order.
Availability
- The set of spaces, venues, and packages that can be offered for a given date range and criteria, including any information about whether they are instant bookable or inquiry-only.
Availability ID
- An identifier returned during availability checks and re-used throughout the direct booking journey, for validation and pricing consistency.
Booking
In the domain, a booking is an individual venue reservation that has been accepted and confirmed. A booking may be created either directly (Direct booking workflow) or as the result of an accepted RFP proposal (RFP workflow).
In the Distribution API, the term booking is used more broadly to refer to the underlying venue-specific object throughout its lifecycle. A booking may represent:
- a confirmed booking, or
- a proposal or inquiry that has not yet been accepted or confirmed.
This broader meaning originates from the legacy term order, which refers to the same underlying object and still appears in identifiers such as
order_id.
Customer
- The end customer or organisation on whose behalf the booking or RFP is created. Usually supplied once and re-used across multiple bookings.
Direct booking
- A workflow where availability is checked directly against a venue and a booking is created via the API.
- A direct booking may be:
- Instant bookable, resulting in immediate confirmation, or
- An inquiry, requiring venue review before confirmation.
DDR
- Day Delegate Rate. A standard, all-inclusive pricing structure offered by venues that charge a fixed price per attendee for a full day's worth of services.
Environment (Sandbox)
- A non-production environment intended for development and early integration work.
- Data and behaviour may differ from production and may require additional configuration to be usable.
Environment (Production)
- The live environment hosting real venues and operational data.
- Used for real bookings and, in some cases, partner validation during assisted onboarding.
Event
- A notification sent by MeetingPackage to a partner system to signal that something has happened in the platform (for example, a booking update or a change in venue visibility).
- Events are delivered asynchronously via HTTPS to a partner-hosted endpoint, commonly referred to as a webhook.
Group booking
- A logical grouping created from an RFP that links multiple venue-specific bookings (one per targeted venue) under a single parent identifier.
Guest room
- A guest bedroom, for overnight lodgings.
Instant bookable
- An availability flag indicating that a meeting space or venue can be confirmed and booked immediately without venue involvement, i.e. bookable through instant booking.
Instant booking
- A workflow that implies immediate direct booking, without need of venue review.
Inquiry (Enquiry)
- A venue-specific request that is not confirmed instantly and requires manual venue review before acceptance or rejection.
- Inquiries may be created:
- as part of an RFP workflow, or
- via a direct booking flow when a venue or space is not instant bookable.
- An inquiry becomes a confirmed booking once accepted by the venue.
- Inquiry and Enquiry are synonymous (American vs British English)
Mapper
- A MeetingPackage-built transformation that normalises a partner’s native RFP JSON schema into MP’s internal JSON schema.
Meeting space
- An individual meeting room, function room, or configurable area within a venue that can be booked, usually with defined capacity, layout options, and facilities.
Order
- A technical term for the platform object that represents a venue-specific request throughout its lifecycle, from proposal to confirmed booking.
- An order may represent either a proposal or a booking, depending on its current state.
- In many API responses and events, orders are referred to as bookings for convenience, even when the underlying state is still a proposal.
Package
- A predefined bundle that combines space hire and services under a single pricing structure.
Partner
- An external system or organisation integrating with the Distribution API (for example, a Travel Management Company, Meetings & Events platform, or Booking Engine).
Proposal
- A venue-specific offer created in response to an RFP.
- A proposal that is accepted by the buyer transitions to a booking.
Request/Response Pair
- The combination of an HTTP request sent to the API and the JSON response returned. Used throughout examples and guides to illustrate behaviour.
RFP
- Request for Proposal – a document detailing event and group booking requirements, inviting venues to submit proposals outlining their solutions, costs, and timelines for a chance to win the event contract.
- RFP Workflow is a workflow in which a single RFP is distributed to one or more venues, creating one order per venue.
Source
- The source of a booking, i.e. sales channel. This is a partner identifier used for data scoping and filtering when reading bookings.
Space
- A generic term for any bookable physical area. This could be a Meeting space or a Guest room.
Venue
- The property or facility hosting events. Venue visibility refers to the set of venues available to a given partner. This is used to scope availability searches and booking operations.
Webhook
- A partner-hosted HTTPS endpoint used to deliver event notifications such as booking confirmations, modifications, or cancellations.