Sandbox / beta status — what's real and what isn't?

Real right now: the destinations, the forecast data, the hotels and their photos and review scores, the room types and board basis, the cancellation policies, the flight schedules and fare families, and the price structure (base / taxes / fees / total, per-passenger breakdown).

Not real right now: the inventory is not sellable. The API key is a LiteAPI sandbox key. A "booking" produces a sandbox record, not a PNR and not a hotel reservation. No payment processor is connected, so no card is charged. Sandbox also returns commission: 0 on every rate, which means our own revenue model is structurally plausible but numerically unvalidated.

To take real money we need, at minimum: a production LiteAPI key with signed supplier terms; a payment path (either Stripe with a live account, or LiteAPI's NUITEE_PAY payment type, which would let the supplier take the card and could remove our PCI scope entirely); verified commission figures on live rates; a merchant of record decision; and the consumer-protection disclosures listed in the terms below. The full list is in CHECKOUT_ORDERS_SPEC.md.