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Custom API integration for any supplier or partner API

When a supplier, payment processor or partner system is not in the ready integration list, our developers connect its API to your PHPTRAVELS platform, on the same search, booking and cancellation flow as every other source.

  • REST, SOAP, XML and JSON
  • Quoted before work starts
  • Daily progress reports
  • Source code delivered

How it works

A custom API connector, built into your platform

PHPTRAVELS ships ready modules for many flight, hotel, car, tour and payment APIs. Custom API integration covers the rest: a regional bed bank, a local consolidator, a ground handler, a proprietary payment processor or your own back-office system. Our developers read the API documentation, build against its sandbox and plug the connector into the existing booking flow, so its results get your markups, payments, agent rules and logs without a separate project.

  1. Check the integrations list first, in case a ready module already exists
  2. Send the API documentation, sandbox access and the operations you need
  3. Receive the cost and timeline from our project manager
  4. We build and test on the sandbox, with daily progress reports
  5. Switch to production credentials and receive the tested source code
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Supplier
Regional bed bank
API type
REST · JSON · OAuth 2.0
Sandbox access
API key: •••• · Secret: ••••
Operations
Search, price check, book, cancel
Markup
12% on supplier rates
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Project lifecycle

From API documentation to live bookings

The stages every custom integration goes through, with you informed at each one.

  1. Brief

    You share the API documentation, sandbox access and the operations to support.

  2. Review

    Our project manager and developers review the API and send the cost and timeline.

  3. Build

    The connector is written against the sandbox and wired into the booking flow.

  4. Test

    Search, booking, cancellation and error cases are tested end to end.

  5. Certify

    If the supplier requires certification, test bookings and logs are prepared for it.

  6. Go live

    Production credentials are switched on, and bugs in the delivered work are fixed free of charge.

What we connect

Suppliers, payment processors and business systems

Any API with documentation and test access can become a source or a service in your platform.

  • Travel supplier APIs

    Flight, hotel, car, tour, transfer and rail suppliers without a ready module, such as RezLive or AerTicket.

  • Payment processors

    A regional or proprietary gateway in the same checkout, with refunds and reconciliation against each booking.

  • Partner and business systems

    CRM, accounting, ERP or your own in-house services, connected through their APIs.

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Back office

Run the new source from the same admin

A custom connector inherits the admin tools every PHPTRAVELS supplier already has.

  • Markups and commissions

    Per supplier, product or channel, as fixed amounts or percentages.

  • B2B agents

    Agents book the new supplier at their own rates and pay from credit or wallet.

  • Sandbox and live

    Turn the supplier on or off and switch between test and production credentials.

  • Supplier references

    Every booking stores the supplier's reference for support and reconciliation.

  • Alerts

    Notifications for failed bookings, price changes at checkout and supplier errors.

  • Reports

    Bookings, margins and payables per supplier, ready to export.

Compare

A standalone API project vs a PHPTRAVELS connector

Some teams hire a developer to wire an API into a website on its own. This is typically what that involves, next to a connector built into PHPTRAVELS.

AreaStandalone buildPHPTRAVELS
Booking flowStandalone buildSearch, booking and cancellation screens built from scratchPHPTRAVELSPlugs into the existing search, checkout, voucher and cancellation flow
Markups and agentsStandalone buildPricing rules and agent access written for this API onlyPHPTRAVELSExisting markups, B2B agent rates and wallet apply to the new source
PaymentsStandalone buildCheckout and refunds connected separatelyPHPTRAVELSThe same checkout and refund handling as every other product
Errors and logsStandalone buildRetries and logging depend on the developerPHPTRAVELSSafe retries and request logs in the admin
CostStandalone buildVaries by contractor; check the termsPHPTRAVELSHourly, quoted before work starts, billed on actual hours
The next APIStandalone buildEach new supplier is another projectPHPTRAVELSEvery connector follows the same pattern and admin

Use cases

Who orders custom API integrations

  • Agencies with regional suppliers

    Sell the local bed bank, consolidator or activity provider your market depends on.

  • DMCs and tour operators

    Connect ground handlers, transfer and excursion partners to build packages from live inventory.

  • Companies entering new markets

    Add the local payment processor that customers in a new country expect at checkout.

Why PHPTRAVELS

Custom work on a platform you own

  • Source code included

    Self-hosted under a commercial licence, with the connector's code delivered to you.

  • Quoted before work starts

    Billed by business hours in prepaid 8-hour blocks, with the final cost following actual hours.

  • Tested and supported

    Every change is tested, and bugs in the delivered work are fixed free of charge.

  • B2C and B2B

    The new API serves your public website and your agent portal from one installation.

FAQ

Custom API integration questions

What travel companies ask before ordering a new connector.

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It is development work that connects an API without a ready PHPTRAVELS module, such as a regional supplier, a payment processor or an in-house system, so it runs on the same booking flow, admin and reports as your other sources.

Check the integrations page first. If the supplier already has a ready module, you enable it and add your credentials. If it is not listed, its connector is built as custom development.

Most APIs with documentation and test access: REST or SOAP, XML or JSON, with API keys, OAuth or session tokens. The supplier must also give you your own account and credentials.

By business hours. After reviewing your brief we send the cost and timeline; work is paid in prepaid 8-hour blocks and the final cost follows the actual hours. A PHPTRAVELS licence is needed first, starting with Startup one-time.

It depends on the API documentation, the operations you need and whether the supplier requires certification. Your quote includes the timeline, and daily reports show progress.

Yes. You receive the complete source code of the delivered work in your own installation. Modifying the platform source yourself is included in the Enterprise plan; on other plans our team makes further changes.

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