For travel agencies
Hotel supply you can search, book and stand behind
An agency wins on speed and trust: quote fast, book exactly what you quoted, and answer for it when plans change. HotelByte puts every connected supplier behind one B2B platform — one search lays their net rates side by side, so you source cheaper — and sellers compare and book in one place, every quote carrying the terms that back it.
What you are buying
Stai API — a B2B hotel distribution platform, plus optional API access. Give your sellers one login and they can search upstream supply, send quotes, place bookings and run after-sales — over aggregated inventory from every connected upstream supplier (Dida, Hotelbeds, Tourmind, Yalago, TBO, Juniper, ...). Live rates, terms attached to every quote.
- One search lays net rates from every connected upstream side by side — competition works on your buying price — with taxes and cancellation policy in the result.
- Quotes go out ready for the customer, with total payable amounts and terms riding along.
- Two-phase booking: "accepted" and "supplier-confirmed" are different states, and after-sales references stay on file.
- The wallet keeps books across currencies, so reconciliation stops being manual.
- Optional add-ons: API, MCP, white-label, Lookout price intelligence — see below.
Where the price advantage comes from
Your buying price sets your margin — and software is a cost too. In a thin-margin trade, both ends need to be lean. The price advantage is not a slogan: five visible mechanisms, each demonstrable on the spot.
Every connected upstream bids in one search
Same hotel, same dates: net rates from every connected source laid side by side in a single search. Competition works on your buying price — opening wholesaler accounts one by one never gets you this density.
Wholesale net rates
Upstreams supply at wholesale net rates: what you see is the price before your own pricing. What you add on top is your commercial decision.
The spread stays visible
Every quote carries its source and tax breakdown. Where a price comes from is traceable — and explainable to your customers.
Hear it first when a price is wrong
Lookout watches key hotels on a schedule: parity breaks and upstream gaps surface before your customers or competitors find them.
Software is a cost too
Thin margins demand visible software spend: the platform is a self-serve subscription per account and runs in the browser — no implementation fee, no open-ended rollout. Only the API route needs a technical team.
The advantage is a mechanism, not a promise — search, evidence, price watching. Run the sandbox on the hotels you actually sell and compare against your current buying prices, line by line.
Which one are you
Selling yourself: one platform for your whole team
Sellers compare, book and run after-sales in one place — and the manager sees orders and books.
- Accounts per seller, each responsible for their own orders.
- Quoting, booking and after-sales close inside one interface.
- No engineering needed; browser login and go.
Serving a downstream network: white-label resale
Run the platform under your own brand for sub-agents or corporate customers, with price rules, credit and data layered per customer.
- Under white label, the platform carries your brand, not ours.
- Prices and rules configured per customer.
- Multi-level books reconciled inside the wallet system.
Pain points and answers
One or two upstreams, opaque margins
Selling from a single wholesaler means selling at whatever margin they leave you. When a customer finds a lower public price, that conversation is hard to win.
With HotelByte
Compare every connected supplier in one search and pick the source that fits the sale — not the only one you have.
Pricing by hand, quotes out of date
Sellers hop between supplier portals, copy rates into documents, and send a quote built half an hour ago. By the time the customer confirms, the rate has moved.
With HotelByte
Quotes are rebuilt from live search in minutes, with total payable amounts, taxes and cancellation terms attached.
Bookings without a confirmation state
Orders submitted into a portal come back as "received" — the room is only really held once the supplier confirms. Ambiguity here becomes a guest standing at the desk without a room.
With HotelByte
Two-phase booking distinguishes an accepted request from a supplier-confirmed booking, and keeps the references support will need.
After-sales with no paper trail
A date change, cancellation or refund turns into back-and-forth: which policy applied, what did the supplier answer, who approved the refund.
With HotelByte
Policy, supplier responses and order status stay on one trail, and TraceSight keeps the path from quote to after-sales inspectable.
Capabilities
A shelf that spans the market
Dida, Hotelbeds, Tourmind, Yalago, TBO, Juniper and more — one login, one search, one booking workflow over all of them.
- Live rates and availability across suppliers.
- Hotel and room identity normalized before release.
- Failures and latency visible, not hidden.
Your brand, your customers
The platform can run under your brand for staff and sub-agents, with price rules and access scoped per customer.
- White-label the platform for your network.
- Per-customer price rules and account boundaries.
- One wallet across buyers, sellers and currencies.
AI beside your sellers
The same supply layer speaks MCP, so AI assistants can search, quote and pre-draft bookings for your sellers to review — not a black box.
- MCP tool surface for AI agents.
- Quotes that carry their evidence envelope.
- Human confirmation kept in the loop.
How the partnership gets done
See the demo
Walk search, quoting, booking and after-sales in the public demo.
Sandbox validation
Use the hotels and destinations you actually sell; test quoting, booking and one after-sales case.
Step-by-step: the sandbox verification guide →Commercial and compliance alignment
Agree on the engagement model, settlement currencies and terms, invoicing and entity requirements — the items under "Requirements to line up", one by one.
Go live
Platform accounts are usable on day one; the API path follows an integration plan.
Which products you are likely to need
One core; the rest are add-ons by your network and route.
Stai API
Every agency · core
The main surface for selling: search, compare, quote, orders, after-sales, books.
White-label & customer system
With sub-agents or corporate clients
The platform under your own brand for the network, with layered price rules, credit and data.
System integration (API)
With an engineering team
The same supply and booking capabilities inside your own systems through one API.
MCP / AI distribution interface
When you want AI assisting sellers
Agents search, quote and pre-draft bookings for human review — not a black box.
Lookout price intelligence
When you watch key hotels
Track key hotels across channels on a schedule; catch gaps before customers do.
Requirements to line up
Each item is confirmed during the commercial stage and governed by the contract.
Contracting entity and accounts
You contract as a company. The platform opens customers and accounts in a hierarchy, with permissions and data isolated by boundary — who sees what is fixed from day one.
Settlement and wallet
Settlement runs per buyer, seller and currency, multi-currency supported. Available currencies, credit terms and limits are confirmed commercially.
Invoicing and tax
Invoicing and tax handling follow the commercial arrangement of the contracting entity’s jurisdiction, as agreed in the contract.
Supply availability
Upstream supplier activation depends on their commercial authorization and market scope; the sandbox stage checks each item against your hotel list — what works and what does not yet gets said up front.
Questions buyers ask
We are a small agency. Is this for us?
The platform is account-based and needs no engineering. Start by validating the hotels you actually sell in a sandbox.
How is this different from opening wholesaler accounts directly?
You still trade with suppliers under their commercial terms; what changes is that they all sit behind one interface, with terms, taxes and failure modes staying visible.
Can we test before committing?
Yes — the public demo first, then a scoped sandbox evaluation with your own scenarios.
How can we verify the price advantage?
Run the sandbox on the hotels you actually sell and compare against your current buying prices, line by line. The spread and its source are visible in the evidence attached to each quote.
How is the software priced?
The platform is a self-serve subscription per account, opened online; the public demo is free. API integration is scoped separately at the commercial stage.