Guides for travel agents
Plain answers to the questions agents ask before they open an online travel business: what to sell, how customers pay and how markup works.
All guides
Operators and DMCs
Free* reservation software for tour, transfer and activity operators
Free* reservation software for operators and DMC partners: live seat inventory, vehicles and drivers, quotations, walk-in bookings and your own agents.
Updated 26 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
Leads
How travel agents get customer requests from the Idea Holiday marketplace
How customer trip requests on ideaholiday.com reach travel agents: how requests are matched to agents, how an agent accepts, and how marketplace bookings are paid.
Updated 26 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
Travel CRM
A free travel CRM for agents: your own customers, branded quotes and invoices
How travel agents can use the Idea Holiday marketplace at ideaholiday.com as a free CRM for their own customers: quotes, share links, invoices, vouchers and a free plan.
Updated 26 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
White label
Building a white-label travel business: the pieces you need
A checklist of what a white-label travel business needs: verification, inventory, a branded website, payments, pricing, invoices, cancellations and an API option.
Updated 26 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
Fixed fares
Fixed-departure fares: how travel agents search, book and cancel them
How fixed-departure (FD) fares work for travel agents: availability by sector, search, booking with a PNR, per-passenger prices, infants and cancellation requests.
Updated 26 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
Booking API
Hold a hotel room and pay later: how hotel holds work in the Partner API
How a travel agent can hold a refundable hotel room without paying, confirm it before the pay-by time or release it, and what each step costs, in the Partner API.
Updated 26 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
Booking API
From test key to live: a checklist for integrating the Partner API
A step-by-step checklist for moving a travel API integration from a test key to live bookings: access, keys, IP lock, idempotency, webhooks and the first live booking.
Updated 26 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
Booking API
One hotel API or many supplier integrations: what to weigh
Six questions that help a travel business choose between one hotel API and several supplier integrations, with how the Idea Holiday hotel API answers each.
Updated 26 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
Booking API
One API for flights, hotels and fixed fares: what a single integration gives you
What one Idea Holiday Partner API key gives a travel business: 700+ airlines, 10M+ hotels and fixed fares from 500+ suppliers, with one format, one wallet and webhooks.
Updated 26 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
Free trial
The 7-day free trial of an agent website: what you get and what happens after
What the 7-day free trial of an Idea Holiday agent website includes, who can use it, what still costs money, what to try during it and what happens when it ends.
Updated 26 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
Sub-agents
Letting your own sub-agents book on your website: wallets, markup and cancellations
How optional sub-agent booking works on an agent website: the wallet you run, a separate markup, cancellations, statements and online top-ups on your own gateway.
Updated 26 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
Payments
Taking customer payments on your own Cashfree or Razorpay account
How an agent website takes payments on your own Cashfree or Razorpay account: setup, test keys, webhooks, the wallet flow and what happens when a booking is refused.
Updated 26 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
Invoices and tax
GST invoices for your website customers: how they work for travel agents
How GST invoices and credit notes work on an Idea Holiday agent website: who can switch them on, what the customer pays, and what happens when a booking is cancelled.
Updated 26 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
Pricing
How travel agents add markup safely on their own website
How markup works on an agent website: set per product, hidden from customers, reduced by the booking fee, and protected when you offer a promo code or cancel a booking.
Updated 26 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
Booking API
What a travel booking API costs: how the charges are built
How the cost of the Idea Holiday Partner API is built for hotels and flights: a setup fee, a fee on each confirmed booking, and the supplier price from your wallet.
Updated 26 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
Choosing a channel
Own website or a listing on someone else's platform: what travel agents should ask
Four questions that decide whether your own booking website suits your agency better than selling through someone else's platform, with what a website gives you.
Updated 26 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
Getting started
How to start an online travel agency in India
A practical guide for travel agents in India: what you need to open your own booking website, how it sells flights, hotels and fixed fares, and the free 7-day trial.
Updated 26 Oct 2026 · 5 min read