TripJack API integration: GDS and LCC fares without your own IATA

What TripJack is

TripJack is a business-to-business travel platform from India that consolidates air and hotel inventory for its registered agent network. Agents book through TripJack's own portal by default; the API exposes the same content programmatically, which is what makes your own booking website possible. In practice that means domestic and international flights, including low-cost carriers that never appear in a classic GDS screen, and hotel content, all billed through the single TripJack account you already settle.

For an agency that wants online sales but does not hold IATA accreditation, this is the shortest credible route: TripJack carries the airline relationships and ticketing capability, and your website becomes the storefront. The general engineering pattern is described on our flight API integration page; below is what is specific to a TripJack build.

What access requires

Everything starts with your own commercial relationship with TripJack. You register as their agent, complete their onboarding and ask for API access; TripJack decides what to enable and on what terms. We come in once credentials exist, or in parallel while you wait, since scoping and design do not need live keys. Expect the usual consolidator pattern: a test environment first, a certification pass on your booking flow, then production keys, with bookings funded from your agency balance or credit line. [TO CONFIRM: TripJack's current API onboarding steps for your account type]

We are a technology vendor only. We do not provide TripJack accounts, we do not resell their inventory and we have no say in their commercial terms.

What we build on the TripJack API

• Flight search with fare families, baggage and refundability visible before selection, across full-service and LCC results
• Review and re-validation so the fare shown is re-priced immediately before payment, which is where careless integrations lose money
• Booking and ticketing with passenger details, SSRs and PNR write-back into your own database, not just TripJack's records
• Hotel search and booking where your account includes hotel content, with cancellation policies shown before confirmation
• Cancellation and amendment requests raised from your admin panel, with refund status tracked to closure
• Markup and convenience-fee rules by route, carrier type or customer group, applied server-side so they cannot be bypassed

The destination for these flows is up to you: a consumer site with your payment gateway, a B2B portal where sub-agents hold wallets and book under your rates, or a packaged flight booking whitelabel when speed to launch matters more than custom design. If you already run a website, the API can be added to it rather than rebuilding from zero.

Why LCC content changes the build

A large share of Indian domestic capacity flies on low-cost carriers, and LCC bookings behave differently from GDS bookings: fares are held for less time, ancillaries like baggage and seats are sold as add-ons, and post-booking changes follow airline-specific rules. A TripJack integration done properly treats these as first-class cases, holding the traveller's selection, pricing ancillaries honestly and failing gracefully when a fare disappears mid-checkout. We design the checkout around these realities rather than pretending every airline behaves like a GDS carrier; the same discipline applies to any flight booking engine we build.

TripJack or TBO?

Agencies ask us this constantly, and the honest answer is that both are established Indian consolidator platforms with agent networks in the tens of thousands, and the right choice is account-specific, not brand-specific. The differences that actually matter are the ones on your own quote sheets:

Technically, we integrate both, and a growing number of portals run both at once and let the engine pick the better fare per search. If you are undecided, book a scoping call: we will look at your routes, volumes and terms and tell you which order to integrate them in, including the option of starting with one and adding the second later. See also our TBO API integration page for that platform's specifics.

Process and what affects the timeline

1. 01

   Scoping call

   Routes, volumes, product type and what your TripJack account has enabled. Written scope and fixed quote follow.

2. 02

   Design and sandbox build

   Search, checkout and admin flows built against the test environment while your production access is processed.

3. 03

   Certification and controlled launch

   Supplier-side checks completed, production keys switched in, and a set of monitored live bookings before full traffic.

4. 04

   Support

   Monitoring, API-change maintenance and booking investigations under an optional monthly plan.

Timeline is driven less by code and more by three things: how quickly TripJack enables your API access, whether hotels ship in phase one or later, and whether we are extending an existing site or building a new portal. Each of those is stated explicitly in the scope so the schedule has no hidden supplier-side waiting time.

Trademark and independence note

TripJack is a trademark of its owner. Globitude Travels & Tech is an independent integrator: we are not affiliated with, endorsed by or in partnership with TripJack, and we do not sell TripJack access or inventory. Platform descriptions here come from public information and integration experience; verify current products and terms with TripJack directly before making commercial decisions.