Flight, hotel, tour and appointment booking — with real-time search, payments that hold and release correctly, refunds, supplier and GDS integration, and an admin panel your team can actually run. Not a template, and not a first attempt: a live multi-GDS platform already runs in production. Remote, worldwide.
A booking engine is an integration problem wearing a website — the screens are the easy part. Here's the kind of system I build, with the hard parts done right.
Live search and booking across GDS providers like Amadeus, Sabre and Travelport, plus direct supplier feeds — the exact system I've already built and maintain.
One search across several suppliers, normalised into a single result — deduped, sorted, with failover when a supplier is slow or down.
Availability calendars, time slots, capacity limits and seasonal pricing for tour operators and experience providers.
Room-type availability, rate plans, date-range logic and overbooking protection for hotels, rentals and property managers.
Slot-based scheduling with staff, resources and calendars — for clinics, salons, rentals and any business that books time.
Back-office booking with per-agent markup, credit limits, roles and reporting — the operations layer behind a travel business.
The parts nobody demos are the parts that matter. Every build ships with the hard, unglamorous pieces that make a booking correct, paid for, and honoured.
Booking engines are where generic developers get expensive — they discover the edge cases live, after launch, at your cost. I've already met them:
Which suppliers, which markets, which currencies. We name what's in — and what isn't — so the quote is honest.
The search flow, the money flow and the data model — agreed before a line of code, because this is where cost hides.
Connect suppliers, normalise their data, and build search, booking and payment with previews as we go.
Price drift, timeouts, failed payments, refunds and supplier outages — not just the happy path.
Deploy, monitor real bookings, and stay on to add suppliers and features as you grow.
Two write-ups that show how I approach booking engines — the architecture, and the honest cost.
How one engine talks to Amadeus, Sabre, Travelport and direct feeds at once — normalisation, fan-out search, price drift, failover and refunds.
The levers that actually set the price — suppliers, search, money movement and the edge cases — so you can size your own build.
Tell me what you want people to book and which suppliers you need — a rough idea is enough. You'll get an honest scope and a clear quote, with no pressure.