Most people meet Convat through a single tap: paste a booking code from one sportsbook, pick another, and a fresh code appears a moment later. Behind that moment is a pipeline we have spent a long time making boring, predictable and fast. Here is what actually happens.
1. Detect the source
A booking code on its own tells you very little. The first job is to work out which sportsbook it came from. Convat looks at the shape of the code, the platform you selected, and a set of signatures we maintain for every supported book. Once we know the source, we know exactly how to read it.
2. Read every selection
We fetch the slip from the source platform and parse it into a neutral, internal format: each event, each market, each pick, and the odds attached. This neutral format is the heart of the system. It means a "Both Teams To Score" on one book and the same market on another are described the same way, even when the two sites label them differently.
3. Match on the target
Now the interesting part. For every selection we search the target sportsbook for the same fixture and the same market. Team names, kick-off times and market wording all vary between books, so matching is fuzzy by design. When a market exists but is worded differently, we map it. When a leg genuinely cannot be matched, we tell you rather than quietly dropping it.
4. Rebuild and return a code
With every leg matched, we ask the target platform to create a new booking code containing exactly those selections, then hand it back to you ready to play. You see how many legs matched, how the combined odds compare, and any leg that was adjusted.
Why speed matters
Odds move. A conversion that takes thirty seconds is a conversion that can go stale before you place it. We cache aggressively, fan out network calls in parallel, and keep the engine warm so a typical conversion finishes in under three seconds. Fast is not a luxury here. It is the product.
