If you run a hotel, a travel app, an agency or a service that serves travellers, your customers are already asking what to do while they are in town. Selling tours answers that question and adds a revenue line, but building relationships with dozens of operators is slow. A tour API solves it: connect once, sell tours from many operators and earn a commission on each booking.
Who it is for
- Hotels and resorts
- Offer day trips at the front desk or in your app, and earn on every booking.
- Travel apps and websites
- Add tours to your product with a few API calls, under your brand.
- Agencies and agents
- Book for clients across many operators from one place.
- Fintech and POS agents
- Offer tours to your customers without handling card details.
How it works
- Create a partner account. Confirm your email and add your company details.
- Build in the sandbox. Use a test key, with pretend payments, to try search, quote and booking.
- Get approved for live. A person on our team reviews your account, then you create a live key.
- Sell. Search tours, ask for a quote, create a booking and send the guest to the checkout page. They pay, and you earn.
How you earn
Each operator sets the commission for each tour they let partners sell, and the API shows it before you sell. Your dashboard shows your earnings, what is payable and what has been paid.
What the API gives you
- Live availability: the seats left for each start time
- Quotes: an exact price for a date, time and party before you book
- Idempotency: retry a booking safely, and the guest is never charged twice
- Signed webhooks: booking created, confirmed, cancelled, completed and no-show events sent to your server, each signed with your own secret
- Sandbox: build and test without real money
Safety and trust
Guests pay on our checkout page, so you never handle card details. Cancellation policies and refunds follow the rules shown on each tour, and operators are reviewed by a person before their tours go on sale.
Getting started
| Step | Where |
|---|---|
| Create your account | /partner/signup |
| Read the quickstart | /developers |
| Learn about the programme | /partners |
Ideas for different partners
- A hotel
- Add a “Things to do” page with live tours and give the front desk a tablet to book guests in seconds.
- A travel app
- Show tours by destination and date, and send guests to the checkout page to pay.
- An agency
- Search across operators and book for clients from your dashboard.
Tips for a successful launch
- Start in the sandbox and test search, quote and booking
- Add a webhook endpoint so your system knows about every change
- Show the cancellation policy to your customers
- Ask us for help: we are glad to talk through your plans
Frequently asked questions
How much commission can I earn?
Each operator sets the commission per tour. You can see it in the API before you sell.
Do I handle payments?
No. The guest pays on our checkout page, so you never handle card details.
Can I test before going live?
Yes. A sandbox key lets you build with pretend payments.
