Introduction
Spot makes it simple for recreation venues, booking software, marketplaces, and travel platforms to embed financial protection solutions directly into their customer experience. Our system is powered by quoting - a flexible way to request and present quotes and ultimately enroll customers with minimal effort required.
What is Spot?
Founded in 2019 by avid skiers, cyclists and outdoor enthusiasts, Spot helps experience-based businesses run smarter with embedded solutions that increase conversions, streamline operations, and build customer trust.
Spot Products
- Refund Guarantee / Cancel For Any Reason (CFAR): Our core product - Refund Guarantee provides coverage for non-refundable purchases up to 100%, no matter what.
Other products we offer:
- Trip Protection: Cancellation and interruption coverage for non-refundable travel expenses.
- Pass Protection: Cancellation and interruption coverage for non-refundable season passes, pre-paid registrations and event passes.
- Injury Coverage: Covers your customers’ out-of-pocket medical costs like deductibles, copays and coinsurance, both in- and out-of-network.
How Spot Works
Quoting Overview
At the core of Spot is quoting - a lightweight process that powers how our products are offered and tracked. It enables dynamic, real-time pricing and coverage generation for your customers. Through quoting, Spot can facilitate:
- Dynamic calculation of the price of Spot coverage based on customer and product information.
- Remote performance management of the cancellation program.
- Reductions in the ongoing maintenance associated with your Spot integration.
Here’s how it works at a high level:
- Request a quote from us when the page where you present Spot loads.
- Display that quote to your customer.
- If the customer accepts, confirm the quote at checkout.
- Customers receive a confirmation email and can request a refund through Spot if needed.
- When customers request refunds, we send your system a webhook, so you can cancel the booking on your end and re-sell the inventory.
Let's TalkConnect with our Sales team to learn more about the full quoting process and what an integration with Spot would look like for your business.
Getting Started
The first step is to decide how you’d like to integrate Spot - through our API, SDKs, or prebuilt widget - and how you want our products to appear in your checkout flow.
Our team will help you scope the right setup and provide everything you need to get up and running quickly.
Integration Methods
There are three main ways to connect with Spot’s quoting engine:
- API: Direct quoting endpoints for full flexibility and control.
- SDKs: Prebuilt integrations for React and Vue (with others available on request).
- Widget: The fastest way to start. While you’ll still need to handle checkout logic, using our widget takes care of mapping quote data and simplifies your integration.
Front-End Display
Most partners start here, since this is what your customers will actually see at checkout:
- Add-On (Spot's Widget): Our prebuilt UI component displays the offer with minimal development work, styled to fit your brand.
- Add-On (Custom UI): Customers can opt in through your own UI design. This is useful if you want to have full control over the UI and/or enable more granular opt-in options.
- Bundled: Refund protection is built into the purchase price, and customers choose between a refundable and a non-refundable option.
Our team is happy to assist with design work for these options to help get you up and running as quickly as possible.
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