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Hey team, I'm building our own Booking website using Lodgify APIs. From what I understand after reading the API docs, once the potential guest clicks on "Book" in our website, the flow should be:

• Create a Booking with Open status using this end-point: https://docs.lodgify.com/reference/post_v1-reservation-booking-1
• Create a Quote for this open booking: https://docs.lodgify.com/reference/createquoteforbooking-1
• Use the Quote amount to Create a Payment link via this end-point: https://docs.lodgify.com/reference/createpaymentlinkasync
• Fetch the Payment link URL via Get a Booking's payment link end-point: https://docs.lodgify.com/reference/getpaymentlinkasync
• Redirect the user to this URL.

Questions:

1. Is this the advised flow or is there a more efficient way to create bookings?
2. I'm running into this issue with "Create a Payment Link" step. What should I do to avoid this? And alternatively, Reservation status cannot be "Booked" while the payment is being made. If so, how should we handle the reservation if the drops during the payment step?
   "{
   "message": "Cannot accept payment. Reservation status is {Open}.",
   "code": 666,
   "correlation_id": "0HN9FQKE9560T:00000027",
   "event_id": null
   }"
3. How can we know if the customer was charged or not? Are there any webhooks we can listen to for the same?