Expedia Affiliate program

Consumed Transaction

means a Booked Transaction that has been paid in full and consumed, and which shall be considered to have immediately occurred where:

(i) for any standalone property booking, the check-out day of such stay has passed and the stay actually occurred;

(ii) for any standalone flight booking, means a standalone air booking of a flight reservation service in respect of both domestic and international flights offered through the Expedia Site(s) where the last leg of a one-way or return flight has been completed

(iii) for any standalone car rental booking, when the car rental is returned;

(iv) for any activities or services booking, where the relevant activity has occurred or the service has been fulfilled (as applicable);

(v) for any package booking, when all travel components of the package have been completed in accordance with subsections (i) to (vi) of this definition; and

(vi) for any cruise booking, where the cruise booking has completed,

In respect of subsections (i) – (vi) of this definition, the date on which a transaction is considered to a Consumed Transaction shall be the “Consumed Date”;

Consumed Verified Transaction

means a Consumed Transaction that has been verified by a relevant Expedia Related Company, excluding Void Transaction(s);

Consumed Verification Period

means a period of up to 90 days following the relevant Consumed Date;

Gross Booking Value

means the total price paid for a Travel Service to an Expedia Related Company by Users effecting a Qualifying Transaction, including any Taxes and fees paid by such Users at the time of travel;

Net Transaction Value

means the total price paid for a Travel Service by Users effecting a Qualifying Transaction; excluding Taxes and fees paid by the User at the time of booking and Taxes or fees paid by the User at the time of travel;

Net Rental Amount

means the rental amount handled by Vrbo/Stayz/Bookabach/Abritel/Fewo-Direkt payments from an User for a Qualifying Transaction (after any discount applied by the User), excluding:

(i) taxes, tax-recovery charges, and other similar charges;

(ii) damage and security deposits;

(iii) any fees or charges; and

(iv) any payment for ancillary bookings, incidentals, add-ons, or extras paid to the property which are paid by the User;

Net Revenue

means the sum of only those fees and commissions actually paid to Vrbo/Stayz/Bookabach/Abritel/Fewo-direkt by the User and/or the Travel Supplier, respectively less the deductions stated below. These two amounts are the only amounts that will be used as the baseline from which the Commission (if based on Net Revenue) is calculated and all other payments, fees, and transactions regardless of their amount or the parties involved in them are excluded from the computation of Commission (if based on Net Revenue) earned by Partner, including but not limited to: Taxes, tax-recovery charges, and other similar charges; indirect revenues (such as subscription fees and other revenues generated from ancillary services);

Qualifying Transaction(s)

means:

(i) in the case of “Cost-per-Click” placements (“CPC Placements”), a Qualifying Transaction is a Click from a link within the Travel Content to the Expedia Site(s) that is not a Void Transaction, and

(ii) in the case of “Cost-per-Acquisition” placements (“CPA Placements”), a Qualifying Transaction is a Consumed Verified Transaction;

Validity Period

means the period set out in the Administrator Site or the EG Affiliate Hub (as applicable);

Void Click(s)

means a Click that is or is suspected to be, as determined by Expedia acting reasonably and in good faith, the result of fraud, by a third party or otherwise, including but not limited to clicks which are generated by automated processes, web crawlers, robots, or any other mechanism or method other than a bona fide click by an User, or which results from fraudulent or other malicious activity; and

Void Transaction

means:

(i) a Click or transaction that is not correctly tracked or reported because the links from the Partner Site to the Expedia Sites are not properly formatted;

(ii) a Click or transaction that violates these Terms;

(iii) any Void Click; and

in the case of CPA Placements, any transaction:

(i) that is subsequently cancelled, refunded, charged back, disputed by the User, that resulted from fraudulent or other malicious activity, or for which Expedia does not receive payment;

(ii) for which the User clicked a link on an online Channel after the User left the Partner Site but before the User completed the transaction via the Expedia Site; or

(iii) that was booked after termination of your participation in the Program.