This article provides a step-by-step guide to becoming a certified Inlet partner. Learn how to ensure your integration meets all technical and compliance standards required by Inlet. We’ll walk you through the certification process—from initial preparations to final approval—so you can confidently offer seamless and reliable services to your customers.
1. Prepare your integration
Before requesting certification, partners should ensure that their API integration is complete and tested in their development environment.
The certification process verifies that the integration follows the requirements described in the Inlet API Integration Guide.
Partners should review the API documentation and confirm that their system correctly sends and processes API requests.
2. Submit certification request
When the integration is ready, submit a certification request to the Inlet team.
Include:
- Company name
- Integration name
- Supported use cases
- Contact details for the technical responsible
The Inlet team will then schedule a certification review meeting.
3. Certification review
During the review meeting, the partner demonstrates the integration and the Inlet team verifies that the API calls work correctly.
The partner should be prepared to demonstrate the following:
- Creation of access for a booking (e.g. access code or access link)
- Update or revocation of an existing access
- Error handling and retry behavior if a request fails
Typical topics reviewed include:
- API request structure
- Handling of API responses
- Error handling and retry behavior
- Logging and monitoring
- Customer data validation
If any issues are identified, the partner must correct them before certification can be granted.
4. Certification approval
Once the integration meets the requirements, it will be certified and approved for production use.
Production credentials can then be issued and the integration may be deployed to live customers.
In some cases, Inlet may request re-certification if the integration changes significantly or if major issues are detected.
Integration checklist
Before requesting certification, ensure the following items are implemented.