Caravan Guide data,
in your platform.
The Caravan Guide API gives verified partners and developers secure, programmatic access to our valuation engine, certificate verification, and trust badge status, all through a consistent, versioned REST interface.
What you can build
A single REST API gives you access to the data your integration needs, without scraping, manual exports, or fragile workarounds.
The capabilities below describe what Partner and Enterprise integrations do with live data. Sandbox uses static fixtures so you can exercise the same endpoints, payloads, and error handling without touching production valuations.
Valuation Lookups
On Partner and Enterprise, retrieve retail and trade valuations for caravan models and years, with market pulse adjustment applied automatically.
Certificate Verification
On Partner and Enterprise, verify Caravan Guide certificates by certificate number, ideal for finance, insurance, and dealership intake workflows.
Trust Badge Verification
On Partner and Enterprise, check whether a dealer's domain holds an active, verified Caravan Guide trust badge, for due-diligence or marketplace listings.
Cascade Dropdowns
On Partner and Enterprise, power cascading make, model, and year selectors in your UI using our structured model data, with no scraping or manual updates required.
Price Movement Tracking
On Partner and Enterprise, access current and previous edition pricing side-by-side to highlight value movement in listings, apps, and reports.
Access tiers
All API access is manually provisioned. There is no self-service sign-up - we onboard partners individually to maintain quality and security. Sandbox is a non-production test environment for development and integration work only; live valuations and commercial allowances begin on Partner and Enterprise.
- ✓ Static sample data only (no live valuations)
- ✓ Test endpoint structures, authentication flows, and error handling
- ✓ Generous rate limits for integration testing
- ✓ No charge during evaluation
- ✓ Non-production environment for development use only
- ✓ Live valuations and real certificate data
- ✓ Monthly included request allowance
- ✓ HMAC-secured API keys or OAuth 2.0 tokens
- ✓ Dedicated support contact
- ✓ Built for real commercial integrations
- ✓ Everything in Partner
- ✓ Higher rate limits and request allowances
- ✓ Write access for certificate issuance
- ✓ SLA and commercial terms negotiable
- ✓ Designed for larger scale operational use
Production access with live valuations and commercial allowances is on Partner or Enterprise. Sandbox remains complimentary for structured evaluation and integration testing.
Security & authentication
API Keys
Static keys passed via the X-API-Key header. Keys are hashed at rest with HMAC-SHA256 and never stored in plain text. Suitable for server-to-server integrations.
OAuth 2.0 (Client Creds)
Issue short-lived Bearer tokens from our token endpoint using your client_id and client_secret. Suitable for applications that manage token lifecycle automatically.
Scope-based access
Each credential is granted only the scopes it needs. Endpoints enforce scopes individually - a credentials breach cannot expose data beyond what was provisioned.
IP Allowlisting
Optionally lock credentials to one or more CIDRs. Requests from unlisted IPs are rejected at the auth layer, before any query reaches your data.
Technical overview
Ready to integrate?
API access is available to verified partners and enterprise customers. Tell us about your use case and we will typically provision Sandbox for integration testing within one business day. When you are ready for production workloads, we graduate you to Partner or Enterprise with live data, agreed limits, and commercial terms.
Request API AccessExisting partners: access the technical documentation portal with your account.