Expedia Affiliate Network API
Expedia Partner Solutions ships the Rapid API: modular REST surfaces for geography, content, shopping, booking, and notifications. Access is partner-only: application, approval, and certification, with no self-serve signup. Industry estimates put full integrations at 6 to 12 months.
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Expedia Affiliate Network scores A on the API Report Card. Expedia Partner Solutions ships the Rapid API: modular REST surfaces for geography, content, shopping, booking, and notifications. Access is partner-only: application, approval, and certification, with no self-serve signup. Industry estimates put full integrations at 6 to 12 months.
Expedia Affiliate Network has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Open API: self-serve, documented, with SDKs
Expedia Affiliate Network (EAN) is the original brand for Expedia Group's B2B affiliate and API-distribution business, dating back to the early 2000s when Expedia first opened its lodging inventory to third-party resellers via an XML web service.
Vertical: misc, B2B Travel API / Online Travel Reseller Infrastructure / Lodging Distribution (closest Supergood neighbor is Travel & Expense, but EAN/EPS Rapid is squarely a developer-facing distribution API, not a T&E expense tool). Hotel shopping, Live availability and pricing across 800,000+ properties via the Shopping API, filtered by check-in/check-out dates, occupancy, rate plan, room type, sustainability attributes, and amenity filters.
9/10 within B2B travel distribution. Expedia is one of two global lodging-distribution duopolists (with Booking Holdings, Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK) and consistently ranks as the #1 OTA in the United States.
Yes, for every B2B partner running on EAN/Rapid, Expedia is the system of record (or primary remote source of truth) for mission-critical booking data: Hotel/lodging inventory data: 800,000+ properties, 310,000 destinations, 32M+ images, 76M+ reviews, descriptions, amenities, room types, policies, geo-coordinates, sustainability attributes, all in 40 languages.
EAN traces its lineage to the early 2000s as Expedia's first XML web service for third-party resellers, making the affiliate-distribution franchise roughly 20+ years old. The underlying parent company was founded in 1996 inside Microsoft.
Partner-only access, must apply, be approved, certify integration, and pass technical/commercial review before going live; no self-serve developer sign-up like Stripe or Twilio. Long integration cycles, industry estimates of 6-12 months for full Rapid integration; $100K-$200K+ in dev costs and $30K-$50K/year in ongoing maintenance per third-party integrator. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Booking.com Affiliate Partner Program / Booking.com Demand API, Hotelbeds APITUDE (American Express GBT), Sabre Hospitality / SynXis (now TPG-owned), Amadeus Hospitality, Travelport (Galileo, Apollo, Worldspan), RateHawk / Emerging Travel Group (ETG). Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.