In today’s competitive travel landscape, offering affordable and flexible flight itineraries is crucial to maximize revenue as an OTA. Trip Ninja’s SmartFlights API provides powerful solutions that helps do just that. Using SmartFlights allows you to create more cost-effective itineraries  with your existing flight content sources and optimize markups for your revenue or conversion goals.

The best part? Integration is easy. Below, we've provided a brief overview of how you can enhance your flight offerings in under a month.
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Why Choose SmartFlights API for Your OTA?

• Revenue Optimization: Trip Ninja’s FareStructure and Virtual Interlining features leverage advanced machine learning to generate cheaper itineraries, helping you increase margins while offering savings to travellers. This leads to both revenue growth and an improved customer experience.
•  Seamless Integration with Existing Content:The SmartFlights API works with your current content sources—whether GDS, NDC, or LCC—without requiring changes to your existing infrastructure. You can easily toggle between content sources to find the most cost-effective itineraries while maximizing the value of your negotiated fares.
• Full Control with Admin Panel: Gain access to Trip Ninja’s Admin Panel, which offers 24/7 monitoring and control over key settings such as risk parameters, markups, and performance metrics, ensuring flexibility and precision in your operations.

The Step-by-Step Integration Process

Step 1: Initial Consultation & Business Case

Before integrating, we start with a consultation to understand your OTA's specific needs and goals. This helps us identify the best way to utilize our SmartFlights API.

• Determine Fit: Assess how features like FareStructure or Virtual Interlining align with your current operations.
• Identify Opportunities: Analyze potential revenue uplift through improved multi-city and interlining search capabilities.

Step 2: Technical Readiness & Setup

Once the consultation is complete, we provide detailed technical documentation to guide your team through the integration process.

• API Documentation: Our easy-to-follow API documentation provides all the necessary code snippets and details on how to set up endpoints.
• Sandbox Environment: Test the integration in a sandbox environment, ensuring your team is comfortable with the setup and functionalities before going live

Step 3: Tailored Support During Integration

Throughout the integration, our technical support team is available to assist with any issues, from initial setup to testing and certification.

• Dedicated Support: A Trip Ninja expert will be assigned to your team for weekly check-ins to go over questions, discuss best practices, and ensure the project stays on track.
• Custom Slack Channel: We set up a dedicated Slack channel for quick communication, allowing seamless collaboration between your team and ours.
•  Admin Panel & Customization: The Admin Panel allows you to track integration progress and certify once your team has completed the API calls. The panel also lets you input custom risk parameters and manage revenue through our Revenue Management Engine.
• Testing & Debugging: Together, we’ll test your implementation and resolve any issues to reduce friction and ensure a smooth transition to live operations.

Step 4: Going Live & Post-Integration Support

Once the system is live, we will continue to provide support and insights into optimizing the platform’s performance.

• Monitor Performance: Post-integration, we’ll provide analytics to monitor performance and ensure the system is delivering the expected results.
• Continuous Updates: As we release new features and improvements, your OTA will receive updates to keep you at the forefront of travel technology.

Benefits of our API Integration

• Boost Revenue Per Search: By using our API, you can offer more competitive, cost-effective itineraries, especially for multi-city trips. FareStructure alone can reduce costs by up to 30%.
• Leverage Existing Content: Our solution works with your existing content sources, so there’s no need to purchase new inventory. ourAPI optimizes your current assets, making them work harder for you.
• Flexible and Scalable: Whether you’re a large OTA with complex content or just starting, our API is designed to meet your specific needs. Our solutions are fully customizable, giving you control over itinerary configurations.

Real-World Example: Success Story

Webjet: Improving Multi-City Revenue with our API

Webjet, one of our premier clients, has seen incredible success since integrating our API. By implementing our FareStructure feature, Webjet has increased its revenue per search by 125%. Read the full case study.

‍How to Get Started

Ready to take your OTA to the next level? Getting started with our API is simple.

• Request a Demo: Want to see how our API works? Request a demo with our team and experience the difference for yourself.
• Contact Our Team: Schedule a consultation to discuss how we can enhance your current systems.
• Access Our API Documentation: Get an overview of the technical setup and start exploring the possibilities in our sandbox environment.