One message starts the trip
A parent writes where, when, who is coming and the budget, the way they would text a friend. No forms, no filters to learn.
Launch your travel product on a booking engine with live supplier prices
Launch on real suppliers without first hiring a travel-tech team: search, a price check before every charge, hosted checkout and an admin, on a core we already run.
From $14,900 · fixed price per phase · first call free
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Price and availability check before payment
62 ms
GDS, NDC, bedbanks, any supplier API
No overbooking, no duplicate bookings
See it working
Add an AI planner that ends in a checkout
See the planner go from one message to payment: the trip brief, a full plan and a price check before the card is charged. The AI assistant add-on runs on the same booking engine we build for you. Shown on the Kinward family trip planner.
A day-by-day plan within budget
The family gets a plan for every day of the trip with the budget beside it: what is paid now, what the extras will likely cost and what is left.
Prices checked again before payment
Right before payment, every price is checked with the suppliers again. If the hotel price has changed, the family sees the new total and approves it before anything is booked.
WHAT SLOWS DOWN A TRAVEL STARTUP BEFORE LAUNCH AND HOW WE FIX IT
Most founders start with a clever idea and a few supplier APIs, then spend months on plumbing: search that is slow, prices that change at checkout, and no tools for the team. If you sell your own tours instead of building a product, see software for tour operators.
Prices change between search and payment
The traveler sees one price, clicks pay, and the supplier answers with another price or no availability. You refund, apologize and lose the customer.
The booking engine checks price and availability with the supplier again right before payment. If anything changed, the traveler sees the new price first. The booking is confirmed only after the supplier confirms.
Every supplier speaks a different language
Each flight or hotel API has its own formats, errors and limits. Without a clean layer in between, adding a second supplier means rewriting the first.
A supplier layer that maps each source to one internal format. Results are merged, duplicates removed and your margin rules applied in one place. New sources plug in without touching the front end.
Your team has no tools behind the product
Bookings sit in a database nobody can read. Support answers questions by asking a developer, and a failed supplier call goes unnoticed until a customer writes in.
An admin and back-office with every booking, payment status, traveler record and supplier error in one place, with roles for the people who work in it.
What we build
Four core modules and optional add-ons. We start with the ones that get you to your first paid booking.
Booking engine
Search by destination, dates and travelers, filters, ranked results and a booking flow that rechecks price and availability with the supplier before payment. The flow is built to WCAG 2.2 AA, with an accessibility report at handover.
Supplier layer
GDS, bedbanks, flight and hotel aggregators and any other supplier API, REST, SOAP or XML, in one layer. You bring the accounts and contracts, we connect them.
Checkout
Payment on your payment provider's hosted checkout, so card data never touches our servers. Confirmation emails, vouchers and receipts are sent automatically after the supplier confirms.
Admin and back-office
Bookings, payment status, traveler details, supplier errors and your margin rules in one admin, with roles for your team and reports by channel and supplier.
Add-ons
- AI assistantFrom $4,400
A chat that finds flights and hotels from a traveler's message, on top of the same booking engine. You can try it live on this page.
- Seasonal SLA$229/mo
Faster response in season, a monthly report and two hours of changes each month.
Travel startup MVP
- From$14,900
A first working version of your booking product: booking engine, first supplier connections, checkout and back-office.
Prices exclude applicable taxes. Clients outside the EU are invoiced in US dollars, EU clients in euros.
What's included
- Booking engine with search and a price check before payment
- Connections to your first suppliers
- Checkout on your payment provider's hosted page
- Admin and back-office with roles for your team
- Code, documentation and an accessibility report at handover
What moves the price
- How many suppliers you connect, and whether they are flight or hotel APIs
- How many languages and currencies the product supports
- How many roles and workflows the back-office needs
How we start
Free 20-minute call
Tell us what you are building. In 20 minutes you know whether we are the right team and what a first version would take.
Project Diagnosis: a fixed-price scope and plan
In two short workshops we agree on modules and suppliers, and within 10 business days you have an architecture and a fixed price for each phase.
Build, launch and handover
You click through a working version after each phase. Before launch we test price changes, failed supplier calls and checkout, then hand over the code, the documentation and the accessibility report.
Working with us from the US
A small studio in Europe. Here is how the day to day works when your team is in the US.
Support in your morning
Support for live systems runs weekdays, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM ET, by email and ticket.
Invoiced in US dollars
Clients outside the EU are invoiced in US dollars, with a fixed price for each phase.
English from the first call
Calls, scope documents and handover documentation are in English.
Your code and your data
Your data and the code we write for you are yours. Our core comes with a perpetual license to use it in your system.
Documented for any team
We document the API, the architecture and the procedures, so a new developer can take over without a long ramp-up.
Seasonal SLA: response times and what's included
Seasonal SLA
Monthly $229/mo
Support after launch that speeds up in season, when bookings can't stop.
- Critical incident in season (May–October)
- response within 4 business hours
- Critical incident off season
- response within 1 business day
- Other incidents
- within 2 business days
- Critical means
- booking or payment is down, or a supplier returns errors
- Support window
- Monday–Friday, 9 AM–1 PM ET (3–7 PM CET)
- Channels
- email and ticket
- Included
- 2 hours of changes per month and a monthly report
- Not included
- outages of third-party systems
Connected to your suppliers and tools
Whatever suppliers and tools your product runs on, we connect them behind one booking engine. You bring the accounts and contracts, we build the connections.
- GDS and flight APIsFlight content and booking through a GDS, NDC or flight aggregators.
- Bedbanks and hotel APIsHotel content from bedbanks, aggregators and direct hotel connections.
- Activities, transfers and railEverything else a trip needs, from the suppliers you choose.
- Payments and hosted checkoutCard payments on your payment provider's hosted page.
- Email, CRM and analyticsConfirmations, traveler records and funnel tracking in your own tools.
- Any supplier APIREST, SOAP or XML: if your supplier has an API, we connect it.
Questions from travel startup founders
Straight answers about price, timing, ownership and what you bring to the project.
How long does a build take?
The timeline depends on which suppliers you connect and which modules you need, so it is agreed per project and written into the fixed-price plan from the Diagnosis.
Do you provide the flight and hotel supplier accounts?
No. You bring the supplier accounts and contracts, and we connect them to your booking engine, whether that is a GDS, a bedbank, a flight or hotel aggregator, an activity supplier or any REST, SOAP or XML API.
Why are your prices lower than a US agency's?
Most of what a travel booking system needs (supplier layer, quotes, margins, admin) is already built in our core. We adapt it to your business instead of starting from zero, and you work directly with the people who build it. You get fixed prices per phase in writing before any build starts.
Tell us what you are building
Bring your idea, your target suppliers and your timeline. In a free 20-minute call we tell you what a first version would take.
Book a free 20-minute call