Availability API

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Hello everyone, I’ve been using internal API workflows in bubble for a while, but I have never used an external one yet. So feeling a bit lost on where to start. Any help and guidance will be hugely appreciated!

So I am developing a platform which helps certain workspaces to rent out their workdesks for a couple of hours, or for a full day. The problem is some of these workspaces already use third party systems to manage the availability and bookings for their workdesks. So in order to book their desks, my app needs to know when are their desks available (i.e. not already booked by their booking system) and upon booking on my platform, to let their booking system know so that it can make that desk unavailable for that timing.

What can be a possible solution for me to achieve this? Should I be asking this workspace to ask their booking system provider to give them some API link?

Thanks a lot in advance!

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Yes, but it is highly likely the system they use currently does not have an API. I also wouldn’t bother your potential clients, and I would instead investigate on your own, so simply request your potential client to tell you what system they currently use, then google search and find it and check if there is an API or not. If there is, the website would have instructions on how to use, if there is not, you could potentially contact the booking system provider and ask if you can pay to create the API for them (costly and time consuming and probably not something they will allow for a new startup).

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