Addison Lee has launched a booking API to allow third parties to integrate access to quotes, reservations and scheduling of its services into their own websites or apps.

The Open API service from Addison Lee will allow any partner or affiliate to integrate a range of different Addison Lee services, without customers having to leave their website or application including:

• access to book Addison Lee car services
• upfront journey time quotes
• upfront price quotes before booking
• payments by credit card or cash
• ready to deploy booking widget

The Open API offers the ability for Addison Lee’s Premier car service to be built into third-party apps and websites simply and quickly. Addison Lee want partners and affiliates to offer a seamless end-to-end booking experience for travellers, or diners or anyone needing to get from A to B.

Addison Lee hopes that major airlines, transport providers, travel aggregators, expense management platforms and event companies amongst others will all benefit from integrating their car service.

Peter Ingram, chief technology officer at Addison Lee said: “We have always been innovative in our use of technology and the launch of Addison Lee’s API is another step we’ve taken to provide the best possible service to our customers, partners and affiliates, many of whom are already planning to integrate our service into their own websites and apps. Our business is continuing to grow globally with new fleets in almost every major city, so we’re excited to be opening up our service and making this available through the applications and websites customers are already using, in addition to our own.”