Release 23.1 — February 2023

Feature Description

API Documentation

Enhanced API specifications offering the following:
  • Quicker performance on loading the specs.

  • Ability to search within the embedded documentation.

Business Use Cases

Business Use Cases is a new page in the developer portal with frequent business use case articles that enable users to gain a greater understanding of complex use cases when building apps. This includes the following articles with more articles coming soon:
  • Blocks

  • Business Events and Streaming

  • Nor1 Upsell

  • Payments

  • Property Interface - Posting Charges

  • RMS - Revenue Management Systems

Security Guide Banner

A banner with a link to the security guide now appears when users first log in to the applications page. This banner provides clear guidance on how to securely create your app.

Streaming Enabled for OPERA Cloud 22.3.0.1+

Streaming is now automatically enabled on every gateway protecting OPERA Cloud environments on OPERA Cloud version 22.3.0.1+. To get started, customers must engage with Oracle Professional Services.

Early Release Distribution Book API

  • Meal plan information, points of interest, and transportation information around the property, if defined by the property user, are now returned as part of the booking response and retrieval of the booking. 

  • The address, email, and phone number of a company associated with the booking can be included.

  • A sub-channel code can be indicated when making and modifying a booking.

  • Luhn Algorithm is now used for credit card validation if a token is not provided. If the applicable guarantee requires a credit card and the algorithm does not accept the credit card number, the reservation will not be created. 

  • The release time of the guarantee policy is now returned in the booking response. After that time, a booking without a guarantee can be canceled by the property.

Early Release Distribution Reservation Notification API

It is now possible to include the address, email, and phone number of a company associated with the booking.

Early Release Distribution Shop API

A new Property Availability Calendar operation is now available. It allows external channels to retrieve a list of arrival dates, availability statuses, and pricing information for a date range between 1 and 62 days maximum. This API can be used to present an availability calendar on a web booking engine. The pricing returned will be the lowest available public rates for each arrival date.

With this API, you can shop availability by promotion codes. Multiple promotion codes can be used in a single request, and all available rates associated with those promotion codes will be returned.

Nor1 Integrated Upsell API

The Nor1 Integrated Upsell API is the first Nor1 service available via OHIP. The API can be consumed to display upgrade offers to a hotel guest prior to arrival, and it allows instant fulfillment of the upgrade offer.

Upgrade offers are based on the Nor1 Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence and OPERA real-time inventory. 

The following operations are included in this API:
  • getUpsellOffers — Allows a user to retrieve a list of available upsell offers. 

  • postUpsellOffers — Allows a user to update a reservation with an offer selected. 

To consume this API, the hotel must purchase the Nor1 eXpress Room Upgrade.

Property OPERA Cloud Cashiering API

The Cashiering API has been enhanced to enable many useful capabilities, such as creating, updating, and fetching the following:
  • deposit payments

  • billing payments

  • billing charges

  • fixed charges

  • routing instructions

  • folios

  • credit card authorizations

  • checkouts

  • hotel revenue

  • financial postings

  • guest transactions

Property OPERA Cloud Content Service API

The Content Service API has been enhanced with several additional capabilities, such as uploading and getting images and file attachments.

Property OPERA Cloud Rate API

The Rate API has been enhanced with several additional capabilities, such as getRatePlans, postRatePlan, getRatePlan, and the ability to manage rate plan schedules.

Property OPERA Cloud Reservations Asynchronous API

A new query parameter has been added to the existing Reservations Daily Summary operation to allow querying by last modified date.

The Reservations Daily Summary resource now returns net rates as well as gross rates.