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Travel APIs

Travel API integration for flights, hotels, cars and payments

Connect GDS, bedbanks, car, tour and payment APIs to your travel portal through one PHP layer, so every supplier follows the same search, price, book and refund flow with shared logs and retries.

  • XML and JSON suppliers
  • Search, price, book, refund
  • Payments and webhooks
  • One travel API hub

API integration service

Travel API integration in PHP, from sandbox to production

A travel API exposes search, pricing, booking and post-booking operations for hotels, flights, cars, activities and packages, usually as XML or JSON with keys, OAuth or supplier tokens. PHPTRAVELS connects each supplier to the same normalised flow inside your portal, with markups, payments, agent rules and request logs around it, so a new API becomes a configured source rather than a separate project.

  1. Set up the supplier sandbox, credentials, inventory scope and test cards
  2. Build search, price or revalidate, book and issue or confirm on the shared flow
  3. Add markups, commissions, corporate policies and agent credit limits
  4. Add request IDs, booking logs, an error list and alerts
  5. Pass certification and cut over to production credentials
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Supplier
Hotelbeds · JSON
Environment
Sandbox
Endpoint
sandbox.supplier-api.com/v1
API key
••••••••••••7c21
Markup
8% on net rates

Integration flow

How a travel API goes from sandbox to live bookings

Each supplier runs through the same phases, so the flow, logs and payments are ready before customers see its content.

  1. Connect

    Sandbox access, authentication, test data and a working base search.

  2. Build

    Price or revalidate, book and issue or confirm on the shared booking flow.

  3. Pay

    Payment authorisation, capture and refund webhooks mapped to booking IDs.

  4. Harden

    Request IDs, logs, error handling, retries and alerts for supplier failures.

  5. Certify

    Supplier certification against agreed test cases and booking scenarios.

  6. Go live

    Production credentials, monitoring, a runbook and handover to your team.

Travel API hub

One hub for every supplier you contract

Suppliers plug into one layer with shared authentication, logging, retries and monitoring. Availability depends on your contracts and partner approval.

  • GDS and flight APIs

    Amadeus, Sabre and Travelport over XML, plus JSON flight APIs such as Duffel, Kiwi and TBO.

  • Hotels, cars and tours

    Bedbanks such as Hotelbeds, Agoda and Hotelston, CarTrawler for cars, Viator and Tiqets for activities.

  • Payment gateways

    Stripe, PayPal and bank APIs for capture, refunds and reconciliation against bookings.

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Back office

Run every API from one admin

Pricing, access, payments and records for each supplier sit in the same admin, so adding an API does not add a new back office.

  • Supplier credentials

    Sandbox and production keys per supplier, kept on your server and switched per environment.

  • Markups and commissions

    Fixed or percentage rules by supplier, product, destination, channel or agent group.

  • Agent credit and wallets

    B2B agents book on credit limits or wallet balances under your rates and permissions.

  • Payment reconciliation

    Payment IDs mapped to PNRs and booking IDs, with automated refunds and partial captures.

  • Request logs

    Every request and response stored with its request ID for support and supplier disputes.

  • Supplier reports

    Searches, bookings, failures, cancellations and margins per supplier and per channel.

Compare

Separate builds per supplier vs a PHPTRAVELS API hub

Coding each API on its own works for one supplier. With several, the shared flow is what saves time on every new connection.

AreaSeparate build per APIPHPTRAVELS
Booking flowSeparate build per APIWritten again for each supplierPHPTRAVELSOne search, price, book and refund flow for all
Content mappingSeparate build per APIRoom and fare formats differ per supplierPHPTRAVELSNormalised into one model before display
Retries and loggingSeparate build per APIOften added after the first failuresPHPTRAVELSRequest IDs, retries and idempotent booking from day one
PaymentsSeparate build per APIA separate integration per gateway and flowPHPTRAVELSPayments linked to bookings with refund webhooks
Time per supplierSeparate build per APIVaries with in-house experiencePHPTRAVELSTypically 2 to 4 weeks including certification

Use cases

Travel API integration for agencies, OTAs and TMCs

  • Travel agency API

    Retail flows, vouchers, markups, commissions, basic agent credit and simple order management.

  • OTA API

    High-volume search with caching, revalidate before book, async queues and rate-limit handling.

  • TMC API

    Corporate profiles, travel policies, approvals, credit limits, negotiated rates and reporting.

Why PHPTRAVELS

API integrations you own and can extend

  • Source code included

    Self-hosted under a commercial licence, so your developers can read and extend every connector.

  • Built in PHP

    Standard PHP with cURL or Guzzle clients and webhook handlers your team already knows.

  • Reduced PCI scope

    Tokenisation and hosted payment fields keep card data away from your server.

  • B2C, B2B and corporate

    One integration serves your public site, agent portal and corporate bookers.

FAQ

Travel API integration questions

What agencies and OTAs ask before connecting their first or next supplier.

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Connecting your travel website or agent portal to supplier APIs so hotels, flights, cars and activities can be searched, priced, booked and managed inside your own platform. Most travel APIs use XML or JSON over HTTP with supplier authentication.

Typically 2 to 4 weeks per supplier, covering sandbox setup, the core booking flow, payments, certification and the production cutover. Scope and supplier certification timelines can change this.

JSON is faster to build and parse, so we prefer it when a supplier offers the same features. Some GDS and bedbanks still require XML with XSDs, and both are normalised into the same model in your portal.

A single layer that connects several suppliers with shared authentication, logging, retries and monitoring, so each new supplier reuses the same flow instead of starting from scratch.

Cards are tokenised with 3-DS, captured after ticketing or voucher issue, and each payment ID is mapped to its PNR or booking ID, so refunds and reconciliation run from webhooks.

A wide range, including GDS, bedbanks, car, activity and payment APIs. Access depends on your contracts and partner approval, so tell us your suppliers and we will confirm scope and timeline.

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