Flow Overview

The Distribusion API facilitates a fully native search, booking and after-sales flow, consisting of these steps:

1. Preparing Metadata: Sets the metadata from stations/areas/cities and carries in advance to support the steps in the flow.
2. Searching for Trips: Retrieves the list of available trips for a specific departure/arrival date and time, for selected stations/areas/cities, for a defined number of passengers and other search criteria you define.
3. Checking Price & Vacancy: Confirms if the trip selected has vacancy and if the price is still the same as in the previous step.
4. Creating Reservation: Creates a reservation while the user completes the checkout process.
5. Confirming Reservation: Sends a request to confirm the reservation with the carrier.
6. Checking Reservation Status: Checks the status of the reservation until is is confirmed by the carrier.
7. Booking Confirmation: Displays the booking details after the reservation is confirmed.
8. Cancel Booking: Requests the cancellation conditions and process a cancellation.

Optionally, you can call Quick Search before step 2 to check whether content exists on a route and show an indicative "from" price. It sits in front of the flow above and does not replace any of these steps.