Quick Start

This guide walks you through importing a boat listing using the Charter Boats API.

Prerequisites

• An API key (generate one from your dashboard)
• Boat details ready (title, type, capacity, and the marina's coordinates)

Import Your First Boat

1. Prepare your request

Create a JSON payload with your boat details:

{
  "title": "Luxury Catamaran - BALI 4.6",
  "description": "Beautiful 46ft catamaran perfect for island hopping.",
  "boat_type": "catamaran",
  "capacity": 10,
  "manufacturer_name": "Bali",
  "model": "4.6",
  "price_per_day": 2500,
  "latitude": 43.5026,
  "longitude": 16.4307,
  "location_address": "ACI Marina Split",
  "location_city": "Split",
  "location_state": "Croatia",
  "images": [
    "https://example.com/boat-exterior.jpg",
    "https://example.com/boat-interior.jpg"
  ]
}

How the marina is found

Send the marina's coordinates, or a known location's location_id — they are what places the boat:

1. With location_id, that location is used as sent (an id that names no location is a 400).
2. Otherwise, with latitude/longitude, the boat is linked to the nearest known location within roughly 1 km of that point.
3. If nothing is that close, a new marina is created there, named after location_address (without one it has no name and shows as its type, "Marina"), with location_state stored as its country.

A name never finds a location — location_address, location_city and location_state only fill in a new marina. A boat sent with neither location_id nor coordinates ends up with no location at all, and a boat without a location cannot be published.

2. Send the request

curl -X POST https://charter.boats/api/import/boat \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "title": "Luxury Catamaran - BALI 4.6",
    "boat_type": "catamaran",
    "capacity": 10,
    "manufacturer_name": "Bali",
    "model": "4.6",
    "price_per_day": 2500,
    "latitude": 43.5026,
    "longitude": 16.4307,
    "location_address": "ACI Marina Split",
    "images": ["https://example.com/boat-exterior.jpg"]
  }'

3. Check the response

A successful response returns the created boat:

{
  "success": true,
  "duplicate": false,
  "boat": {
    "id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
    "slug": "luxury-catamaran-bali-4-6",
    "title": "Luxury Catamaran - BALI 4.6",
    "boat_type": "catamaran",
    "capacity": 10,
    "location_id": 12908,
    "is_published": false
  },
  "images_uploaded": 1,
  "images_downloaded": 0,
  "features_added": 0,
  "view_url": "https://charter.boats/boats/luxury-catamaran-bali-4-6"
}

Store the boat's id (UUID) — the slug in view_url can change when the listing is renamed.

Boat Types

The following boat_type values are accepted. Leave boat_type out and a boat whose model we already know takes that model's type; a model we don't know yet (or know no type for) needs it sent, or the request is a 400.

Any other value is rejected with 400.

Set Pricing & Availability

Imported boats need pricing before they can be booked. Seasonal prices and fees are configured from the dashboard — these edits are tied to your logged-in session and aren't exposed as keyed API endpoints. To read the resulting price for specific dates, use Resolve Pricing; for the raw seasonal rules, see Seasonal Pricing.

What's Next