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Travel software development services

Travel software development services

Booking, distribution and trip systems built by senior LATAM engineers who work your hours and plan releases around your booking season, not around a sprint calendar.

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Who we are

Distribution is the hard part, and it is where we work

Most travel software problems are not booking flow problems. They are distribution problems: content that disagrees between channels, a connection that certifies slowly, a search bill that grows faster than bookings.

FusionHit builds booking and distribution systems with senior engineers across Latin America who have worked with supplier connections, caching and the reconciliation behind a sale. They work US Central and Eastern hours, so a disruption day or a failed connection is handled while your customers are still travelling.

FusionHit team designing a travel booking experience \
WHAT WE BUILD

Travel systems we build

The systems our clients bring us most often, each one built around the inventory, the channels and the traveller behind them.

Booking engines and portals

Search, availability, pricing and checkout for B2C and B2B, built for the conversion rate rather than for a demo.

Supplier and distribution connections

GDS, direct carrier, bedbank and DMC connections, plus the normalization that makes different content comparable.

Inventory and product management

Rates, allotments, packages and rules, in one place instead of in each channel.

Traveller and trip apps

Itineraries, documents, changes and disruption updates, in the app people open at the airport.

Payments, settlement and fraud

Multiple currencies and methods, chargebacks, and the reconciliation between what was sold and what was paid.

Agent and corporate tools

Mid office, policy, approvals and reporting for agencies and travel managers.

Revenue and demand analytics

Look to book, conversion, margin by channel and demand patterns, reported on your own data.

Replatforming and modernization

Moving off a booking platform that has stopped keeping up, without losing a season.

WHO WE BUILD FOR

The travel companies we build software for

Different inventory, different distribution. These are the ones our engineers already know how to work with.

Online travel agencies

Search and conversion at scale, where every extra second of search costs money twice.

Tour operators and DMCs

Packaging, allotments and operations, where the product is assembled rather than resold.

Travel management companies

Policy, approvals, duty of care and reporting for corporate travellers.

Hotels and groups

Direct booking, rate parity and the systems around a property management system.

Car rental and ground transport

Fleet, availability and pickup flows tied to physical assets.

Travel technology companies

Product companies that need senior engineering capacity on a roadmap their customers depend on.

DISTRIBUTION

What connecting to travel distribution actually involves

Partner badges tell you a vendor has an account. This is what the connection work behind them actually takes.

What it covers
What it takes
GDS connections

Air, hotel and car content from Amadeus, Sabre or Travelport.

A certification process with test environments and a queue that you do not control, so the calendar is set by the provider. Plan the connection as its own workstream, not as a sprint task.

NDC and direct carrier connections

Offers and orders straight from the airline rather than through a legacy message.

A different order model from the one your system probably has today, running beside GDS content rather than replacing it, plus servicing flows for changes and refunds.

Bedbanks, DMCs and direct suppliers

The rest of the content: hotels, activities and transfers.

Mapping and deduplication so the same hotel from three sources is one product, and a quality process for content that arrives inconsistent.

Search cost and look to book

How much each search costs you before anybody books.

Caching with a policy for how stale is acceptable, rate limits per supplier, and measuring cost per booking rather than per request.

Rate parity and channel management

The same product, priced consistently across every channel.

One source of truth for rates and rules, and alerting when a channel drifts, because the fix is a business decision made quickly, not a quarterly report.

Payments, settlement and chargebacks

Taking money in several currencies and reconciling it with what was sold.

Card-not-present fraud rules tuned to travel patterns, settlement reconciliation against supplier statements, and a chargeback process with the evidence attached.

GDS connections

What it covers

Air, hotel and car content from Amadeus, Sabre or Travelport.

What it takes

A certification process with test environments and a queue that you do not control, so the calendar is set by the provider. Plan the connection as its own workstream, not as a sprint task.

NDC and direct carrier connections

What it covers

Offers and orders straight from the airline rather than through a legacy message.

What it takes

A different order model from the one your system probably has today, running beside GDS content rather than replacing it, plus servicing flows for changes and refunds.

Bedbanks, DMCs and direct suppliers

What it covers

The rest of the content: hotels, activities and transfers.

What it takes

Mapping and deduplication so the same hotel from three sources is one product, and a quality process for content that arrives inconsistent.

Search cost and look to book

What it covers

How much each search costs you before anybody books.

What it takes

Caching with a policy for how stale is acceptable, rate limits per supplier, and measuring cost per booking rather than per request.

Rate parity and channel management

What it covers

The same product, priced consistently across every channel.

What it takes

One source of truth for rates and rules, and alerting when a channel drifts, because the fix is a business decision made quickly, not a quarterly report.

Payments, settlement and chargebacks

What it covers

Taking money in several currencies and reconciling it with what was sold.

What it takes

Card-not-present fraud rules tuned to travel patterns, settlement reconciliation against supplier statements, and a chargeback process with the evidence attached.

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OUR PROCESS

How a travel build runs

01

Discovery

Inventory, channels, suppliers and the manual work your team does today, turned into a scope with acceptance criteria.

02

Architecture and connection plan

Which connections happen when, given certification calendars you do not control, and where content gets normalized.

03

Build

Sprints with a demo every week, in repositories under your organization.

04

Testing and acceptance

Automated tests, load testing against your booking peaks, and your own acceptance with the team that sells.

05

Launch and support

Release planned around your booking season, then a support window written into the agreement.

TIMELINE AND COST

What it takes to build, by system

Vendors answer this with 'it depends'. Here is what it depends on, by the kind of system, so you arrive at the first call knowing what to expect.

Typical timeline to first release
What drives the cost
Supplier or GDS connection

3-6 months

Certification calendar on the provider's side, content types, and how much normalization your model needs.

Booking engine or portal

4-7 months

Product types, pricing and packaging rules, payments, and how many supplier sources feed search.

Traveller or trip app

3-5 months

Offline behaviour, documents, notifications, and the systems the itinerary is assembled from.

Agent or corporate tooling

4-6 months

Policy and approval rules, reporting, and integrations with the booking and finance systems.

Payments and reconciliation

3-5 months

Currencies and methods, fraud rules, supplier settlement formats, and chargeback handling.

Replatforming

6-12 months

Connections to rebuild, content migration, and how much can run in parallel before cutover.

Supplier or GDS connection

Typical timeline to first release

3-6 months

What drives the cost

Certification calendar on the provider's side, content types, and how much normalization your model needs.

Booking engine or portal

Typical timeline to first release

4-7 months

What drives the cost

Product types, pricing and packaging rules, payments, and how many supplier sources feed search.

Traveller or trip app

Typical timeline to first release

3-5 months

What drives the cost

Offline behaviour, documents, notifications, and the systems the itinerary is assembled from.

Agent or corporate tooling

Typical timeline to first release

4-6 months

What drives the cost

Policy and approval rules, reporting, and integrations with the booking and finance systems.

Payments and reconciliation

Typical timeline to first release

3-5 months

What drives the cost

Currencies and methods, fraud rules, supplier settlement formats, and chargeback handling.

Replatforming

Typical timeline to first release

6-12 months

What drives the cost

Connections to rebuild, content migration, and how much can run in parallel before cutover.

Why FusionHit

Why travel companies build with FusionHit

  • Awake when travel goes wrong

    Engineers on US Central and Eastern time, so a disruption day, a failed connection or a payment issue is handled while it is still happening.

  • Releases planned around your season

    Freeze windows and load testing agreed before your booking peak, because an outage during a spike is revenue you do not get back.

  • Senior engineering talent

    Vetted nearshore engineers with production experience in booking, distribution and payment systems.

  • Integrated partnership

    One delivery lead accountable to you, working in your tools and reporting in writing every week.

FusionHit senior nearshore engineers working with a US client team
CASE STUDIES

Booking and operations platforms we have worked on

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HOW WE ENGAGE

Three ways to work with us

Pick the model that fits how your team runs. Plenty of clients start with one and move to another as the roadmap grows.

Staff augmentation

Senior engineers added to your existing team, under your direction. Best when you have a technical lead and need capacity or a specific skill.

Dedicated development teams

A stable team that works only on your product, with a lead on our side. Best when you want a whole workstream owned without hiring a manager for it.

Software development outsourcing

A defined scope delivered end to end under our management, for a fixed price and date. Best when the scope is clear and you want one number and one date.

TECHNOLOGY EXPERTISE

Stacks our travel teams work in

The technologies behind the booking and distribution systems we build and maintain.

Backend

Frontend

Mobile

Cloud and DevOps

Data

Distribution

  • • GDS APIs
  • • NDC and direct connects
  • • Bedbank APIs
  • • Payment providers
MORE INDUSTRIES

Other industries we build for

The same engineering standards, applied to the rules each industry runs under.

Retail

Commerce and store platforms sized for a peak season before it arrives.

Logistics

Systems that run around the clock, from warehouse to last mile.

SaaS

Multi-tenant products, platform rebuilds and the engineering behind a growing subscription business.

Fintech

Payments, lending, banking and wealth platforms built inside your compliance perimeter.

Insurance

Policy, quoting and claims platforms for carriers, MGAs and brokers.

Healthcare

Clinical, patient and revenue systems built around HIPAA and the workflows clinicians use.

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FAQ

FAQs about our travel software development services

01

How much does travel software development cost?
It depends on the system. A supplier connection is a different project from a booking engine. The table on this page gives the ranges we see by system type, and after discovery you get a written scope with the cost by milestone. Senior LATAM rates typically run 30-50% below equivalent US rates.
02

How long does travel software development take?
Typically 3-6 months for a supplier or GDS connection, 4-7 months for a booking engine, 3-5 months for a traveller app and 6-12 months for a replatform. Discovery gives you the real number for your case.
03

Can you integrate with Amadeus, Sabre or Travelport?
Yes. The part to plan for is certification: the provider controls the calendar and the test environments, so we scope a connection as its own workstream with its own dates rather than as a task inside a sprint.
04

Do you work with NDC?
Yes, and usually alongside existing GDS content rather than instead of it. The work that gets underestimated is the order model and the servicing flows for changes and refunds, not the initial shopping call.
05

How do you keep search costs under control?
By treating cost per booking as a metric from the start: caching with an explicit policy on how stale is acceptable, rate limits per supplier, and monitoring look to book so a change in behaviour shows up before the invoice does.
06

What do you do about our booking season?
Freeze windows and load testing are agreed before the peak, tested against your own numbers from last season plus your growth plan, and anything shipping close to it has a tested rollback.
07

Can you work with our existing booking platform instead of replacing it?
Yes, and often that is the right answer for a season or two. We build around it with a clear boundary, which also makes an eventual replatform easier because the connections are already yours.
08

Who owns the code and the intellectual property?
You do. The work lives in repositories and cloud accounts under your organization, and the contract assigns all intellectual property to you from the first commit.
09

Do you handle payments and chargebacks?
Yes. Multiple currencies and methods, fraud rules tuned to travel patterns rather than generic ecommerce ones, settlement reconciliation against supplier statements, and a chargeback process with the evidence attached.
10

Do we hire your engineers or do you deliver the project?
Either. You can add senior engineers to your own team, have a dedicated team own the workstream with a lead on our side, or hand us a defined scope for a fixed price and date. The three models are linked above.

Ready to fix the part of distribution that is costing you?

Tell us what you sell and where your content comes from, and we will come back with a scope and a plan.

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