Impala wants to be as simple as Stripe or Twilio but for hotels. With a few lines of code, any developer should be able to get started with Impala before diving deeper.

Hotels use Property Management Systems to manage rooms, room types, extras, pricing, taxes etc. These systems are old, and providers to hotels need a load of integrations to connect to all the different hotel systems to get the data they need. Impala wants to make this easier by building a standardised API for anyone building services on top of hotel systems.

They're also building a direct booking API. Right now, many hotels manually upload booking data to websites like Booking.com, or use a middle-man to do this. Their API could cut out all of that and the commissions to middle-men along the way.

Impala is building the future rails of the hotel industry - a vast but architecturally archaic market. They’re creating a new API enabled connective tissue that sits across the fragmented hotel Property Management Systems, by doing this Impala can be the single point of integration to this massive industry. By democratising access to hotel’s core booking systems, Impala could unlock the next wave of hotel innovation, just as Plaid has done in financial services.