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Short answer
Run a full OTA — flights, hotels, tours and cars — on software you host yourself and licence once, instead of paying a platform a share of every booking. You bring your own supplier contracts; the platform turns them into a storefront, an admin and a booking pipeline you control.
What an OTA actually needs from day one
Not a feature list — the four things that decide whether an OTA is profitable at volume.
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Margin that survives volume
A per-booking platform fee scales exactly with your success. A one-time licence does not, which is why the two models diverge sharply once volume arrives.
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Multi-product search in one basket
Flights, hotels, tours and cars from 30+ connected suppliers, searched and sold through one storefront with one checkout and one booking record.
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Pricing rules you can actually change
Markup, currency, tax and cancellation policy are where an OTA differentiates. The source is included, so an unusual rule is work you schedule rather than a request you file.
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Your customer data, on your server
The customer list is the asset. Self-hosting means it sits in your database under your backup policy, not in a vendor tenancy you rent.
Suppliers you can connect today
Flights: Seeru, Amadeus, Mystifly and Sabre, plus 6 more.
Stays: TBO Holidays, RateHawk, Hotelston and Hotelbeds, plus 4 more.
This list is generated from what is connected right now, not maintained by hand — see the full list.
What it means for your team
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For the owner or commercial lead
One licence instead of a percentage of every booking, so a good month is a good month rather than a bigger invoice. Markups, currencies and cancellation policy are yours to set per product line.
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For operations
One admin across flights, hotels, tours and cars: bookings, cancellations, refunds, vouchers and invoices in one place instead of one supplier extranet per product.
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For IT
PHP 8.4+ on your own infrastructure, with the source code included. Read it, audit it, extend it, and deploy on your own schedule rather than the vendor’s.
What you still arrange yourself
The platform connects to suppliers; it does not come with their inventory. You sign with each bed bank, consolidator or GDS directly and they issue the API credentials the software uses. Your licensing or accreditation to sell is yours too. Any vendor implying their platform arrives with rates attached is worth a direct question about whose contract those rates sit under — see what we actually connect.
The rest of the platform
One codebase, one admin, one set of commercial rules across every product line you sell.
Frequently asked questions
What is online travel agency software?
The storefront, booking engine and back office an OTA runs on: customer-facing search and checkout, supplier connectivity, and an admin for bookings, refunds, documents and reporting. It is the layer between your supplier contracts and your customers.
Can I sell flights and hotels from the same platform?
Yes. Flights, hotels, tours, cars, ferries, rail and visa services run as modules on one codebase, sharing one admin, one customer record and one set of pricing rules, so a customer can book more than one product line in a single journey.
Do I pay a commission on each booking?
Not on a PHPTRAVELS licence. The licence does not rise with booking volume, which is the main reason the economics diverge from a managed platform over time. Ask any vendor directly what happens to your bill when volume doubles.
Does the software come with inventory?
No. PHPTRAVELS connects to suppliers; it does not grant access to their inventory. You sign with each bed bank, consolidator or GDS directly and they issue your API credentials, which the platform then uses. Start those conversations early — they usually take longer than the software.
How is PHPTRAVELS licensed?
It is self-hosted and ships with its source code, so you can read it, audit it and change it. That is not the same as a public open-source project with a permissive licence. You buy a commercial licence to use and modify the code, and you run it on your own infrastructure.
How much does it cost?
It is quoted per project rather than sold at a list price, because a platform running two supplier APIs for one brand is a different build from one running twelve across an agent network. The pricing page walks through those choices and returns a quote.
Which suppliers can I connect?
There are 30+ supplier and payment integrations built today, listed on the integrations page. That list is generated from what is actually connected rather than maintained by hand, so it is the one to check before planning a launch.
Do I need developers to run it?
Not for day-to-day selling. You need someone to look after a PHP and MySQL server, or managed hosting to do it for you. You need a developer when you want to change how the platform works — which is what having the source code makes possible.
See it running, then get a number
The demo is the real platform, not a video. Pricing is quoted against the modules and suppliers you actually need.
Also worth reading: how we compare with the alternatives, the suppliers and gateways we connect, and the setup documentation.