The Distribution API is MeetingPackage’s public demand-side API. It exposes venue content and provides two complementary booking capabilities:
RFP integration – Submit structured Requests for Proposal (RFPs) that create group requests and tentative bookings, which venues then manage based on real availability.
Direct bookings – Perform real-time availability searches and create or manage single-day meeting room bookings.
These represent two booking modes supported through the same API:
- RFP (lead-driven) – No API-level availability check; venues confirm or decline based on real inventory.
- Direct bookings (availability-driven) – Real-time availability and pricing, with instant confirmation where supported.
Partners authenticate using API keys and can access only the venues made visible to them through configuration.
Before performing either booking flow, partners use the API to retrieve venue content — such as venues, meeting spaces, floorplans, items and packages — scoped to the venues they are permitted to access. This content forms the basis for search, availability, pricing and quoting across both the RFP and Direct Booking workflows.
- Distribution partners and enterprise clients integrating with MeetingPackage
- Developers, solution architects and product managers
(Travel Management Companies, Meetings & Events platforms, Online Travel Agencies, Marketplaces)
- Faster time to market – MP-built RFP mappers reduce engineering effort.
- One API, two booking modes – Support instant booking and RFP within a single integration.
- Improved conversion and response times – Real-time availability and webhooks accelerate booking flows.
- Operational efficiency – Webhooks reduce polling; unified endpoints simplify maintenance.
- Flexible distribution control – Venue-visibility scoping and source-based isolation maintain channel boundaries.
- Future-proofing – Versioned endpoints and a published specification reduce upgrade risk.
- Incremental demand – Access to partner channels without bespoke integrations.
- Centralized configuration – Control booking mode, business hours, pricing and availability in one place.
- Data consistency – A single system of record for content, inventory and booking states.
- Faster confirmations when instant booking is available.
- Clear workflows when an RFP is required.
- Accurate inventory and pricing with time-window specificity.
- A consistent experience across channels.