Roar Sports - Sports Venue Booking, Appointments, and Resource Availability APIs

In the fast-paced sports venue ecosystem, an efficient booking system and real-time resource availability are essential. The challenge was to create APIs that could seamlessly integrate with ten distinct sports aggregators. These APIs needed to expose the availability of sports venue resources, such as pitches, grounds, and equipment, while also enabling real-time bookings. The goal was to streamline the experience for both the venues and the aggregators, ensuring that the resources were treated as first-level citizens within the system.

Chirpn tackled this challenge by introducing a comprehensive Sports Venue Management product, the linchpin of which was a set of robust APIs exposed through an AWS API Gateway. This gateway ensured secure and efficient communication between the Sports Venue Management product and external consumers, including sports venues' point-of-sale systems and the ten sports booking aggregators. The APIs provided real-time visibility of resource availability, facilitated integration with sports aggregators, and introduced near real-time slot blocking/unblocking mechanisms for efficient booking management. Additionally, a framework for API governance was established to manage different API versions, ensuring smooth transitions and robust security.