Travel APIs

For API Owners

Documented REST and XML APIs with sandbox keys, SDKs for PHP, Node, Python, Go and .NET, and per-key observability.

Overview

What For API Owners means for your business

For API Owners sits at the intersection of supplier connectivity, distribution and the operational tools your team actually uses every day. Documented REST and XML APIs with sandbox keys, SDKs for PHP, Node, Python, Go and .NET, and per-key observability.

adivaha® powers more than 2,400 travel brands across 120+ countries, with engineering teams in India and Europe and 200+ pre-integrated supplier connections. We are an Amadeus Global CAP Licence holder and ISO 9001:2015 certified. The platform you read about on this page sits inside the same connected core that powers booking engines, agent portals, mobile apps, gift cards, loyalty programs and AI automations across every product line we ship.

This page is part of adivaha®’s broader travel-tech catalogue covering flights, hotels, holiday packages, transfers, activities, gift cards, loyalty, corporate travel, mobile apps and AI automations. Customers typically start with one product and layer on the rest as they grow - everything sits on the same supplier pool, the same payment rails, the same customer wallet and the same audit log so adding a new module never means a re-platform.

Documented REST and XML APIs with sandbox keys, SDKs for PHP, Node, Python, Go and .NET, and per-key observability. The platform is built for the operational reality of travel - cancellations, refunds, credit shells, supplier reconfirmations, multi-currency settlement, GST on commission vs principal sales, ADM/ACM handling - all of it modelled as first-class concepts rather than afterthoughts. That’s the difference between travel-tech that scales and a generic SaaS product retrofitted for travel.

Most adivaha® customers go from contract to first production booking in 2-3 weeks. The path is short because the hard parts are already done: supplier credentials are pre-provisioned, the booking flow is tested end-to-end, payment gateways are integrated, and the white-label theming sits behind a config flag. Your team focuses on the parts that are actually unique to your business - brand, audience, market positioning, supplier contracts - instead of rebuilding a booking engine from scratch.

Beyond the speed-to-launch advantage, customers stay on adivaha® because the platform compounds. Every supplier we add, every payment rail we wire in, every AI capability we ship lands automatically for everyone on the platform - not as a paid upgrade, not behind an enterprise tier. The roadmap moves the entire customer base forward together. That’s how a small agency in 2023 ends up with the same supplier coverage as a multi-country OTA in 2026 without ever touching the integration code themselves.

How we deliver it

How adivaha implements For API Owners

The architecture, the integration approach and the operational model behind every production deployment.

1. Pre-integrated supplier layer

A 200+ supplier pool sits behind a single, normalised contract. Search results stream back from parallel calls so users see partial results immediately rather than waiting for the slowest provider. When a supplier ships a breaking change - an NDC update, a rate-plan reorganisation, a deprecated endpoint - we absorb it in our adapter layer so your code never has to.

2. White-label storefront & admin

Your domain, logo, colours and store-listing copy are wired in by our delivery team. The white-label storefront ships in 2-3 weeks for most customers. Custom UI work or unusual payment requirements may extend the timeline, but we’ll be upfront about exactly what changes the schedule.

3. Sub-agent & markup engine

Run a customer-facing site and a B2B agent portal from one platform with role-based access, separate fare displays for retail and trade, KYC for sub-agents, commission tiers and credit-shell management. Markups apply per supplier, per product, per agent, per market - with stacking rules and override priority.

4. Payments & settlement

Cards, UPI, wallets, BNPL and FX flow through the same checkout. adivaha Pay reconciles transactions automatically against bookings; one escrow covers every supplier so the customer payment, your markup and the supplier cost are tracked in a single ledger. UPI integration ships out of the box for Indian markets.

5. AI & automation

Conversational booking assistants, support auto-resolution, invoice generation and anomaly alerts run on top of adivaha AI. Every AI action that touches money, contracts or customers waits for human sign-off, and every action is logged with full audit trail. PII is redacted at the edge before reaching any LLM.

6. Mobile & APIs

Native mobile apps on iOS and Android share the same backend. Public REST APIs expose everything the storefront uses, with OpenAPI 3.1 specs, Postman collections, SDKs in five languages and HMAC-signed webhooks for booking and refund events.

In depth

Capabilities that compound over time

The features that look small on a demo but compound into real margin advantage when you’re running production traffic month after month.

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Stable REST + XML

Versioned REST endpoints plus legacy XML where suppliers require it.

Why it matters: Without this you’d be paying engineering or operations cost every month to do the same work manually - a hidden tax that grows with your booking volume. The platform absorbs that cost so your team doesn’t have to.

02

Sandbox first

Full sandbox keys with realistic test data before going live.

Why it matters: This is the kind of feature most platforms charge as an enterprise add-on. It ships standard with adivaha® because it’s how a real travel business actually operates.

03

SDKs in 5 languages

Official SDKs for PHP, Node, Python, Go and .NET.

Why it matters: Customers who lean on this consistently outperform peers on conversion, supplier mix and reconciliation accuracy. The compounding shows up in margin within a quarter or two.

04

Per-key dashboards

Logs, traces, rate-limit usage and error rates per API key.

Why it matters: It’s built around an open contract, so you can extend it without waiting for a vendor release cycle. When your business shifts, the platform shifts with you.

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Webhooks

Booking-event and refund webhooks with HMAC signatures.

Why it matters: The audit trail and rollback story make it safe to use even on money-affecting flows. Compliance teams love it; finance teams stop double-checking exports.

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Stable v1 contract

API contracts stay supported for at least 12 months after the next major version ships. Suppliers churn, regulations change, but your code keeps working.

Why it matters: It scales linearly with traffic - no surprise re-architecture when you 10x volume. The same API call that works at 100 RPS works at 1000 RPS.

Who benefits

Built for travel teams of every size

The same platform powers solo agencies running their first online booking flow and multi-country OTAs processing thousands of transactions per day.

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Solo agencies & OTAs

Launch a fully-branded portal without a tech team. Pre-integrated suppliers, white-label storefront, simple admin and payment gateway included. Most solo agencies go live in under three weeks and start booking the same day.

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Mid-market host agencies

Run a B2C site and a B2B sub-agent portal from one platform. Onboard sub-agents with KYC, set commission tiers per agent, manage credit limits and view per-agent sales from a clean host-agency dashboard.

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Multi-country OTAs

Multi-currency, multi-language, multi-tenant by design. Localised fares, taxes and payment methods per market with consolidated reporting at HQ. Same engine across web, mobile, agent portal and partner APIs.

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DMCs & tour operators

Hotel contracting, allotments, transfer management, supplier extranet and ground operations from one suite. Distribute your DMC inventory to OTA partners through a unified XML/JSON API.

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Corporate travel programs

Approval workflows, travel policy enforcement, expense and invoice management, cost-centre tagging and real-time spend reporting. Built for finance, HR and operations leaders.

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Gift card & loyalty brands

Branded gift store, B2B corporate gifting portal and earn-and-burn loyalty program on a single connected backbone. Plug into the same wallet your travel customers already use.

Implementation

Your roadmap from kickoff to live

The same proven path we’ve walked with thousands of customers. Most go from signed contract to first revenue in 14-21 days.

  1. 01
    Discovery & scoping (Day 1-3)

    A 30-60 minute call to understand your travel business, target markets and supplier preferences. We map your roadmap to our modules and produce a clean scope document - including any custom work and where it’ll add weeks to the timeline.

  2. 02
    Sandbox keys (within 24 hours)

    You receive sandbox API keys within one business day. The sandbox runs on the same code as production with realistic test data, so what your team builds and tests there will work the same way in production.

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    Branding & supplier wiring (Week 1-2)

    Domain, logo, colours, store-listing copy, payment gateway, currencies and supplier credentials all get wired in by our delivery team. Customers can have engineers integrating in parallel while branding work continues.

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    UAT & soft launch (Week 2-3)

    UAT sign-off, soft launch with a few sub-agents or a limited audience, then full release. Your dedicated success manager stays with you for 30 days post-launch to handle the edge cases that only appear under real traffic.

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    Scale & iterate (Month 2 onward)

    Standard support takes over with success-manager access on demand. Monthly platform releases land automatically. As your traffic grows you layer in additional modules - AI agents, mobile apps, payments - on the same connected core.

Hidden operating cost

The hidden operating cost of running travel technology yourself

Building it yourself looks cheaper on Day 1 and starts looking expensive by Quarter 3. Here’s why almost every team eventually moves to a platform.

The seductive part of building your own travel platform is that the initial scope feels containable. You need flight search, hotel search, a checkout flow and a booking confirmation page. Estimate three engineers for six months and you have an MVP. The trap is that the MVP isn’t the expensive part. The expensive part is the next eighteen months of maintaining supplier connections, handling regulatory changes, supporting refunds and cancellations across edge cases, and answering customer questions about why their voucher hasn’t arrived.

Travel-tech operations cost scales linearly with booking volume on a homegrown stack. Every new supplier is an integration project. Every regulatory change in a new market is a code release. Every booking edge case eventually becomes a finance reconciliation ticket. Your engineering team becomes a maintenance team. Your roadmap stops being about competitive features and starts being about keeping the lights on. Six quarters in, the calculation that made build-it-yourself look attractive has completely flipped.

A purpose-built platform changes the calculation by socialising those operational costs across hundreds of customers. The supplier integration we did last year benefits every customer who needs that supplier this year. The regulatory patch we shipped to handle a new tax regime applies to every customer in that market. The fraud rule we tuned based on patterns across 50 million API calls is available to every customer the day we ship it. None of that is true on a homegrown stack.

adivaha® runs the platform as a continuously improving asset on behalf of our customers. Releases land monthly. Supplier coverage grows quarterly. Compliance updates ship as soon as the regulator publishes them. Your team focuses on the parts of your business that are actually unique to your customers - brand, audience, market positioning, supplier negotiations - rather than the parts that look the same as every other travel business’s plumbing.

GTM motions

Three go-to-market motions For API Owners supports

Which motion fits your business depends less on company size and more on how you reach travelers.

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Direct-to-consumer

Branded storefront on your own domain selling direct to travelers. Marketing-driven traffic, paid acquisition funnels, loyalty programs to drive repeat. Most B2C OTAs run this motion.

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Through agent network

You hold the supplier relationships and inventory; sub-agents resell under your brand or theirs. KYC onboarding, credit limits, commission tiers, per-agent reporting all built in.

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API to partners

You aggregate supplier content and re-distribute via API to OTA partners and travel apps. Webhooks, OpenAPI spec, SDKs in five languages. Same backend powers your direct site and partner connections.

Most established travel businesses end up running two or three of these motions in parallel. The platform supports that out of the box - same supplier pool, same admin, same reconciliation, but with separate fare displays, separate branding and separate access control per motion. You don’t have to pick one path on Day 1.

Partnerships

Partnered with the suppliers and standards travel runs on

Direct partnerships with the GDS systems, hotel bedbanks and payment networks that handle the majority of travel transactions globally.

Our partnership network is the foundation of the platform. We hold an Amadeus Global CAP Licence with direct PCC provisioning, are recognised as an integration partner with Sabre and Travelport, and ship pre-integrated connections to Hotelbeds, Expedia, Agoda, RateHawk, GRN, Bridgify and dozens more bedbanks. Customers benefit from these relationships from Day 1 - no separate supplier negotiations, no waiting in line for credentials.

On the quality side, the platform carries an ISO 9001:2015 certification covering both platform development and customer delivery processes. Application security follows OWASP standards with annual third-party penetration testing. Payment processing flows through PCI-compliant tokenisation. Webhook payloads carry HMAC signatures. SSO and granular role-based access control are available on enterprise plans.

Operationally we commit to a 99.9% monthly uptime SLA for paid plans, with credit-back guarantees on enterprise contracts and Slack-channel access for direct support. The platform processes 50 million+ API calls per month at sub-second median latency, with per-key observability surfaced in every customer’s dashboard. None of these credentials are unusual by enterprise SaaS standards - but they’re relatively rare in travel-tech, and that’s exactly the point.

Engineering choices

Five engineering decisions you’ll appreciate later

The platform-level choices that look small at evaluation time and pay back over years of running production traffic.

1. A normalised search response across every supplier. Whether the result comes from Amadeus, Sabre, an LCC partner or a hotel bedbank, your storefront sees the same shape. No supplier-specific code paths in your app, no edge cases you discover only when a new supplier ships a different format.

2. Idempotent booking confirmations from Day 1. Double-clicks, network retries and webhook redelivery never create duplicate tickets. Booking IDs are deterministic on the server. Your reconciliation always matches your customer-facing confirmations - even when something glitches mid-transaction.

3. Audit logs on every change, attributable to a user or token. Compliance teams stop asking for special exports. Disputes get resolved with the actual record of what happened. The audit log is part of the platform, not a paid add-on bolted on for enterprise customers.

4. Webhook delivery with retries, signatures and dead-letter queue. When your endpoint goes down, our retries don’t lose events. When you finally come back online, we replay the queue. HMAC signatures let you verify every payload is genuine before processing.

5. Sandbox identical to production at the code level. Not a stripped-down preview environment. Same code, same logic, same edge-case behaviour - only with test supplier credentials and isolated payment routing. What you build in sandbox works in production unchanged.

Why adivaha

Production-ready - out of the box

Documented APIs, sandbox keys, SDKs in PHP, Node, Python, Go and .NET, plus 24x7 support - so engineering teams can ship in days, not months.

  • Stable REST + legacy XML where required
  • Per-key logs, traces and rate-limit dashboards
  • Sandbox with realistic test data
  • Webhooks for booking events and refunds
  • Multi-supplier mapping & failover
50M+API calls / month
99.9%uptime SLA
Sub-secmedian latency
5+SDK languages
Capabilities

Capabilities enabled through For API Owners

Stable REST + XML

Versioned REST endpoints plus legacy XML where suppliers require it.

Sandbox first

Full sandbox keys with realistic test data before going live.

SDKs in 5 languages

Official SDKs for PHP, Node, Python, Go and .NET.

Per-key dashboards

Logs, traces, rate-limit usage and error rates per API key.

Webhooks

Booking-event and refund webhooks with HMAC signatures.

Integrations

Pre-built supplier connectivity

Skip months of integration work. Plug into the partners that power most of the travel industry.

FAQs

Frequently asked questions

More questions? See the full FAQ or contact us.

Is there a sandbox environment?

Yes - every account gets sandbox keys with realistic test data so you can build and verify the full booking flow before going live.

What rate limits apply?

Default plans get 60 RPS with bursting up to 200 RPS; enterprise plans negotiate dedicated capacity.

What SDKs are available?

Official SDKs cover PHP, Node, Python, Go and .NET. The REST contract is OpenAPI-described, so you can also generate clients for any language.

How are bookings settled?

One adivaha® escrow covers every supplier. Customer payments land in your gateway, your markup stays with you, supplier costs draw from the escrow.

What support is included?

All plans include standard support; enterprise plans add SLAs, a named account manager and 24x7 emergency response.

Can I use my own supplier contracts?

Yes. You can plug in your own contracts alongside adivaha's supplier pool, with mark-ups and rules per supplier and per market.

Do I need engineering resources?

No - For API Owners ships with a full admin and templates. Engineering is only needed for deep customisation or custom supplier integrations.