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B2B Travel Technology
B2B Booking Engine for Travel Agencies & Wholesalers
Give agents and sub-agents real-time access to hotel and flight inventory with your markups, commissions, and credit limits. Launch white-label portals and connect suppliers via XML/REST travel APIs.
B2B Booking Engine Quick Summary
A B2B travel booking engine allows agents and sub-agents to search hotel and flight inventory, apply markups, manage commissions, use credit limits, confirm bookings, and generate vouchers from one controlled portal.
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How does it work?
Agents log in, search live inventory, apply your pricing rules, and book. You manage sub-agents, commissions, and credit across branches from one central reservations layer with branch level servicing controls.
Control access for hundreds of partners with dynamic markups, commissions, and credit lines to grow your reseller network at scale.
B2B Travel Booking System for Agencies
A B2B travel booking system is built for agencies, wholesalers, consolidators, and reseller networks that need controlled access for multiple agents. Instead of handling every quote manually, agents can log in, search live inventory, apply approved pricing rules, and confirm bookings under your business controls.
This helps travel businesses manage hotel bookings, flight bookings, supplier inventory, agent credit, commissions, vouchers, invoices, and settlement reports from one platform.
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Agent booking workflow
Agent Source Booking for B2B Travel Sales
Agent source booking means agents can log in to a controlled B2B portal, search live supplier inventory, view net rates, apply approved markups, and confirm bookings without sending every request to the back office manually.
This reduces manual follow ups, speeds up agent bookings, and keeps pricing, payments, vouchers, and reporting connected in one workflow.
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Search inventory
Agents search hotels, flights, tours, transfers, or contracted products from approved supplier sources.
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Apply markups
Pricing rules, commissions, service fees, and agent level markups are applied before the offer is shown.
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Confirm bookings
Agents confirm selected inventory based on availability, booking rules, credit limits, and approval settings.
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Generate vouchers
The system creates booking confirmations, vouchers, invoices, and customer records from the same booking data.
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Manage payments
Payments, credit balance, deposits, supplier cost, and agent settlement status stay linked to the booking record.
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Key Capabilities
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XML/REST integrations with multiple suppliers & GDS, including Travelport integration setup reference
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Inventory management for contracted + online suppliers, including consolidator fare sources
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Price control with markups, commissions, and net rates
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Comprehensive booking management: live bookings, stock, rules
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Mid & back office tools (mini-CRM, corporate, suppliers) within a full travel agency operations stack
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Multiple languages & currencies
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Automated finance module & advanced reporting
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Add miscellaneous & offline bookings
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Unlimited white-label / affiliate modules (B2B2B / B2B2C)
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Multiple branch offices setup
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Tripadvisor reviews support
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Multiple online payment gateways
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Unlimited agents/sub-agents with permission controls
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Agents can set their own markups & commissions
Travel Wholesalers
Push negotiated rates to thousands of agents with tiered markups, commissions, and credit limits.
OTAs & Consolidators
Blend contracted + API/GDS inventory; manage high-volume bookings with audit-ready logs and reports.
Corporate TMCs
Role-based access, policy controls, cost centers, and approval flows for enterprise clients.
B2B Booking Platform with Agent Portal
PHPTRAVELS works as a B2B booking platform where travel agents, sub-agents, and reseller partners can access approved inventory through a branded portal. Admins can control agent roles, pricing visibility, credit limits, payment options, booking permissions, and reporting from the back office.
Booking Engine Modules
B2B Hotel Booking Engine
- Contracted + XML hotel inventory (allotments, stop-sell, policies)
- Dynamic markups, commissions & reseller pricing
- White-label hotel portals (B2B2B / B2B2C)
B2B Flight Booking Engine
- GDS/NDC connectors (Amadeus, Sabre, Travelport)
- Fare rules, ancillaries, queues & ticketing control
- Agent credit limits & settlement options
Bus / Tours / Transfers
- Routes & schedules, seat maps, voucher policies
- Net rates & multi-tier reseller pricing
- Unified itinerary & cancellation management
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Purpose-built for TMCs and enterprise clients with policy control.
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B2C Booking System
Sell directly to customers with rich inventory and payments.
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Mid & Back-Office
Set business rules, automate processes, manage workflows.
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Contracting & Extranet
Upload contracted hotels/tours, manage allotments & rates.
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Business Intelligence
Track performance of clients, branches, channels & products.
Security, Compliance & Reliability
Enterprise grade controls for agencies, consolidators and TMCs. Core Web Vitals friendly front end.
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Data Protection
- RBAC + SSO/SAML (optional)
- IP allowlists & audit logs
- At-rest & in transit encryption
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Compliance
- GDPR ready data handling
- PCI aware payment flows
- Configurable data retention
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Reliability
- 99.9% target uptime
- Monitoring & alerting
- Backups & disaster recovery
Implementation Timeline
Week 1
Discovery, requirements, sandbox access, supplier credentials.
Weeks 2–3
XML/GDS connectors, pricing rules, roles/permissions, branding.
Week 4
UAT, training, go-live, monitoring & success metrics.
Developer API Snapshot
Simple, consistent endpoints for availability, booking and cancellations.
Search Hotels (REST)
POST /api/v1/hotels/search
Authorization: Bearer <API_KEY>
{
"city": "DXB",
"check_in": "2025-11-10",
"check_out": "2025-11-13",
"rooms": [{"adults":2,"children":0}]
}Book
POST /api/v1/bookings
{
"offer_id": "OFF_123",
"traveler": {"first_name":"Ali","last_name":"Khan","email":"ali@example.com"},
"payment": {"method":"credit","agent_id":"AGT_45"}
}Why choose PHPTRAVELS B2B Booking Engine
| Criteria | Manual / Legacy | PHPTRAVELS B2B Engine |
|---|---|---|
| Inventory | Limited, siloed | Contracted + XML/GDS unified |
| Pricing | Fixed | Dynamic markups & commissions |
| Agents | No control | RBAC, sub-agents, credit limits |
| Distribution | Manual | White-label & API out |
| Reports | Basic | Live BI & exports |
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Seamless API Integration
Add supplier APIs with clean, developer-friendly code tailored to your business rules.
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REST/XML support
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Third-party integrations
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Custom development
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Developer docs & examples
B2B Booking Engine FAQs
What is a B2B booking engine? expand_more
A platform where travel agents log in to search, price, and book live hotel/flight inventory with negotiated rates, dynamic markups, commissions, and credit control.
Does it include hotel & flight modules? expand_more
Yes. Hotel and flight engines with contracted + XML/GDS sources, plus bus/tours/transfers modules.
Can I launch a white-label portal? expand_more
Yes. Spin up branded B2B2B/B2B2C portals with your pricing rules, payment gateways, and content.
Do you offer XML/REST APIs? expand_more
Yes. Supplier connectivity and distribution APIs with auth, booking, cancel, and reporting endpoints.
Is there a B2B booking portal for travel agents? expand_more
Yes. Agents get logins, role-based permissions, sub-agent tiers, and credit controls. You can also launch branded white-label portals.
Do you support commissions and markups per agent? expand_more
Set global or per-agent markups, commissions, and net rates with override rules by product, supplier, or market.
Can I integrate external suppliers via API? expand_more
Yes. Connect XML/REST suppliers, GDS, and NDC. Bookings, cancellations, and reporting endpoints are available.
What is the difference between a B2B booking engine and a B2B booking platform? expand_more
A B2B booking engine usually handles live search, pricing, and booking. A B2B booking platform includes the booking engine plus agent management, commissions, credit limits, white label portals, reporting, payments, and supplier integrations.
Can travel agents use this B2B travel booking engine? expand_more
Yes. Travel agents can log in, search inventory, view net or marked-up rates, confirm bookings, download vouchers, manage customers, and track payments depending on their permissions.
Is this suitable for B2B travel wholesalers? expand_more
Yes. Travel wholesalers can distribute contracted and API inventory to agents with tiered pricing, commissions, credit control, settlement reports, and white label access.
Does the system support private label booking engines? expand_more
Yes. You can launch private label or white label booking portals for agents, resellers, affiliates, or regional partners using your branding and pricing rules.
Do you support multiple currencies and languages? expand_more
Yes. Multi-currency and multi-language support is built-in across booking, pricing, and reporting.
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