In short
A travel booking panel price has two parts: the software and the running costs around it. TravelBookingPanel licences cost $1,599 (Starter), $2,999 (Agency) or $4,999 (Enterprise), paid once, with no monthly fee or booking commission. Hosting, supplier and GDS fees, payment-gateway charges, domain and content are paid separately to those providers.
Key takeaways
- Travel software is usually sold as a one-time licence, a monthly rental or a fee per booking — and some providers combine them.
- Compare options over at least three years, not on the first invoice.
- Hosting, supplier and GDS fees, gateway fees, domain, SSL and content cost money whichever software you choose.
- Extra modules, B2B features, languages and custom work are the usual reasons a quote rises.
- TravelBookingPanel licences are $1,599, $2,999 or $4,999, paid once, with full source code.
How much does a travel booking panel cost?
There is no single market price for travel booking software, because providers charge in different ways and include different things. What you can do is break every quote into the same parts and compare like with like. The number that matters is the total over the years you expect to use the system, not the first invoice.
For reference, TravelBookingPanel is sold on a one-time licence: Starter $1,599, Agency $2,999 and Enterprise $4,999, each with full source code. That is the software. Everything a live agency needs around it — servers, supplier access, payment processing — is billed by the companies that provide it.
The common pricing models for travel booking software
- One-time licence. You pay once and keep using the software. Updates and support may be included for a period, for life or charged separately, so read the terms.
- Monthly rental (subscription). A recurring fee, sometimes with a setup charge. Easier to start, but the cost never stops, and the service usually ends when the payments do.
- Per-booking commission or transaction fee. A charge on each ticket or booking. Light when volumes are low, heavier as you grow, and it gives the provider a share of every sale.
Custom development is a fourth route: building a platform with your own team or a hired agency. Travel portal development cost on that path depends on scope and the team’s rates, and it includes supplier integration and maintenance work that a ready-made panel has already done.
What pushes a travel booking panel price up or down
- Modules. Flights alone take less to deliver than flights, hotels, tours, Umrah and visa together.
- B2B features. An agent portal with wallets, credit and per-agent pricing adds a lot of logic. The B2B travel portal guide explains what is involved.
- Languages and currencies. Right-to-left layouts and multi-currency pricing take extra work.
- Supplier integrations. Each additional GDS, NDC source or bed bank is a separate integration to build and maintain.
- Branding and design. Removing all third-party branding or adding premium themes is usually priced higher.
- Custom work. Features built for you alone are normally quoted separately or kept for top tiers.
- Support level. Email support, priority support and a dedicated technical contact cost different amounts to provide.
Travel booking panel price over three years: licence vs rental
The clearest way to compare pricing models is to total them over the same period. The table uses our real Agency licence price against a hypothetical monthly rental. The rental figures — a $500 setup fee and $250 a month — are round-number assumptions for illustration only, not any provider’s actual price. Replace both columns with the quotes you receive.
| Cost item | One-time licence (TravelBookingPanel Agency) | Monthly rental (hypothetical assumption) |
|---|---|---|
| Upfront fee | $2,999 licence | $500 setup (assumed) |
| Recurring software fee | None | $250 per month (assumed) |
| Software fees, year 1 | $2,999 | $3,500 |
| Software fees, year 2 | $0 | $3,000 |
| Software fees, year 3 | $0 | $3,000 |
| Commission on bookings | None | None assumed (some providers charge one) |
| Hosting, supplier, gateway, domain and content | Paid separately | Paid separately, or partly bundled — check |
| Three-year software total | $2,999 | $9,500 |
Two cautions apply. First, a rental may include hosting that the licence column does not, so add your own hosting estimate to the licence side for a fair comparison. Second, if a rental also charges a commission per booking, that cost grows with your sales and can outweigh the monthly fee. Re-run the table at the booking volumes you expect.
Costs that sit outside any licence
These apply whichever software you choose. Budget for them separately from the travel booking panel price.
- Hosting. A server or cloud account to run the panel, plus backups and monitoring. The cost depends on traffic and the host you choose.
- Supplier and GDS fees. GDS providers, NDC aggregators and bed banks set their own commercial terms, which can include setup charges, per-booking or per-segment fees, minimum volumes or deposits. These are agreed directly between your agency and the supplier.
- Payment-gateway fees. Card gateways typically charge a percentage and/or a fixed amount per transaction, and sometimes setup or monthly fees. Bank transfers carry their own bank charges.
- Card-security compliance. Taking card payments brings PCI DSS obligations. A gateway’s hosted payment page keeps card data off your server and reduces the work involved.
- Domain and SSL. Annual domain registration, and an SSL certificate if your host does not provide one.
- Content. Destination pages, photography, tour descriptions and translations, written in-house or commissioned.
- Accreditation. Issuing airline tickets on your own account typically requires IATA accreditation and BSP settlement, often with a bank guarantee or bond; many agencies ticket through a consolidator instead.
- People. Staff time for bookings, suppliers and customer service, and developer time if you plan to customise the source code.
Budgeting your first year
A simple way to avoid surprises is to build the first-year budget in the order the money actually leaves the business:
- Software. The licence, or the setup fee and first months of a rental.
- Supplier onboarding. Any deposits, guarantees or setup charges your GDS, NDC and hotel suppliers ask for before credentials are issued.
- Payments. Gateway setup and the expected per-transaction fees at your forecast volume.
- Infrastructure. Hosting, domain, SSL, backups and business email.
- Launch content. Destination pages, tour descriptions, photography and any translations.
- Marketing. Search, social and partner activity to bring the first travellers and agents to the site.
- Contingency. A reserve for currency movements, refunds and the work you did not foresee.
Laid out this way, the software is usually one line among several, which is why the cheapest licence is not always the cheapest launch.
Pricing pitfalls to watch for
- Comparing year-one prices only. A low monthly fee looks cheap until you multiply it by the years you plan to trade.
- Unclear update terms. Ask whether updates are included, for how long, and what a major new version costs.
- Hidden per-booking charges. Look for transaction fees, technology fees or revenue shares in the contract itself, not only on the pricing page.
- Bundled supplier access. A quote that “includes” flights and hotels may mean you are booking through the provider’s supplier accounts, with their margin built in.
- Ignoring exit costs. Find out what it costs to export your data and leave, and whether the site survives if you stop paying.
- Forgetting cash flow. Deposits and guarantees requested by suppliers or for BSP can be a significant commitment in their own right. Plan for them alongside the software.
How TravelBookingPanel prices its panel
TravelBookingPanel uses one pricing model: a one-time licence with full source code, no monthly fee and no commission on bookings.
- Starter — $1,599. Flights, hotels, tours and visa modules; branded customer website; admin back office; mobile-friendly, SEO-ready pages; full source code; standard installation; email support.
- Agency — $2,999. Everything in Starter, plus the B2B agent portal with wallets, Umrah package builder, Arabic RTL and multi-language, multi-currency pricing, advanced markup rules, lifetime updates and priority support.
- Enterprise — $4,999. Everything in Agency, plus credit limits and multi-level agents, custom feature development, removal of all third-party branding, premium themes, a dedicated technical contact and priority installation.
Hosting, supplier and gateway fees are separate and paid directly to those providers, under contracts in your name. If ownership matters to you beyond cost, the white-label guide covers branding, data and code.
Next steps
Collect your quotes, put each one into the three-year table above, and add your own estimates for hosting, supplier and gateway fees. Then check the plan details on the pricing page, read what the software does in the travel booking panel guide, or contact us with questions about your set-up.