There are three key objects in Xola that every API developer should know about. We'll use flight tickets as an analogy here to explain what each term means.
- Experiences - An experience is also known as a listing. These are items that your customers purchase. For example: Delta Airlines offers a flight from NYC to LA. This is Delta's experience/listing.
- Orders - A customer will make a booking for a specific experience, they're essentially purchasing something. For example.: A customer buys a flight ticket for Delta Airlines flight 447 from NYC to LA. The customer has given money and it has created a booking in Delta's flight reservation system. This is an order.
- Transactions - A transaction is something that tracks movement of money in Xola. If the traveler paid $100 via credit card for a booking, that will be logged as a transaction. Then two days later they want to buy an add-on (merchandise) like a T-Shirt for $20, this would be logged as a second transaction. Any exchange of money, through any payment method (credit card, cash, check) is logged as a transaction. This way you can always track who paid what, when and how.