Shop: Airline offers with localization (offers in local language or currencies) [SHPLOC]

Guidance for Schema Version:

20.2

Definition of Capability

Airline

Ability for the airline to provide offer content in specific languages or specific currencies.

Seller

Ability for Seller to request and display offer content in specific languages or specific currencies.

NOTE: System Providers will use the above definition that pertains to their customers for Capabilities Verification.

Links to EASD Implementation Guidance

Provide a link to the published capability specific guidance or state Not Available

NOTE: Retailing Capabilities Verification Guidance will align to the published EASD Implementation Guidance at all times. From time to time when new guidance is published this will be updated and supersede any Retailing Capabilities Verification Guidance listed below.

Retailing Capabilities Verification Guidance

Based on locale parameters sent in Sellers' requests, the Airline can return content in the quested languages and amounts in requested currencies.

Airline

Demonstrate a change in content language and amount currency driven by a request’s locale preferences between one response and the next.

Look for language preferences in either of the two the following locations:

Passengers are also able to change their language preferences post-Order creation, via the Pax-details servicing functions in OrderChangeRQ. In principle, the Airline should return the OrderViewRS reflecting content in the language matching the passenger’s modified preference settings.

Look for currency preferences in the following location:

/IATA_AirShoppingRQ/Request/ResponseParameters/CurParameter/RequestedCurCode

Minimum Requirements	Optional Messages
AirShoppingRQ/RS	ServiceListRQ/RS
	OfferPriceRQ/RS
	SeatAvailabilityRQ/RS
	OrderReshopRQ/RS

Seller

The Seller is expected to support sending their customer’s language and currency preferences in RQs and displaying to the customer any UTF-8 compatible character sets returned by the Airline.

Minimum Requirements	Optional Messages
User Interface Screenshots	ServiceListRQ/RS
AirShoppingRQ/RS	OfferPriceRQ/RS
	SeatAvailabilityRQ/RS
	OrderReshopRQ/RS

NOTE: For all versions prior to that listed above (generally the most recent), the verification will be based on the guidance available for that version. In the case that no guidance is available, verification will be at IATA’s discretion.