Travel marketplace development company
A marketplace has to keep several groups happy at the same time. Travelers want to find something worth booking and pay without a struggle. Suppliers want full calendars and on-time payouts. You want your share of every booking without handing 15 to 25% to an OTA. As an online travel marketplace development company, COAX Software builds platforms where all three sides meet, transact, and come back.
Industry leaders we work with
What our travel marketplace development covers
A dashboard for every role
A traveler, a host, a coach operator, and your admin team each open the platform for different reasons. We give each role its own workspace and tools. Driven Connect, for example, runs on four separate roles that share one booking system.
Supplier onboarding and verification
Vendors abandon registration when the process feels tedious. We craft streamlined digital intake that gathers credentials, validates profiles, and efficiently activates storefronts. Across our platform, merchant validation operates at 100% precision.
Quotes, tenders, and custom requests
Group trips and coach hires rarely have a fixed price. Buyers describe what they need, suppliers send offers, and the buyer picks one. Distance, emissions, and tax get calculated automatically along the way.
Payments, payouts, and commissions
Money in a marketplace moves in three directions at once. We set up split payments, scheduled supplier payouts, multi-currency support, and markup rules your team can change on its own, using Stripe, PayPal, or Flywire.
Resale and secondary markets
A non-refundable hotel booking still has value when plans fall through. We build resale flows that list, verify, and transfer reservations between guests, with the payment side handled in the same step.
Multi-supplier inventory and discovery
Hotels, tours, and activities often come from different sources with different formats. We pull them into one searchable catalog through APIs such as Nezasa, Katanox, and HyperGuest. Quiz-style discovery and Mapbox maps then help travelers find trips they’d actually enjoy.
Booking formats that fit your offer
Some trips leave on a fixed date with limited seats. Others can be booked any day of the year, and some get paid off in installments. Your marketplace can support all of these side by side.
CRM and support automation
Every booking can trigger the right message at the right time. We stream order data into HubSpot and Freshchat, so confirmations, reminders, and support tickets happen without anyone tracking orders by hand.
Shape the business model
We start with how money and value move through your platform.
Who sells, who buys, and how you earn on each booking.
Cancellation, refund, and dispute rules get written down early.
Deliverable: marketplace model, role and permission map
Plan the supply side
Travel marketplace development only makes sense with listings to sell.
We decide which suppliers to bring in first and how they’ll join.
Onboarding steps and listing standards are drafted.
Deliverable: supplier onboarding flow, listing guidelines
Design the core transaction
Booking, payment, payout, and cancellation have to work as one chain.
Each step is mapped for every role involved.
Payment providers and payout schedules are chosen.
Deliverable: transaction flow, payment architecture
Build the first version
The MVP covers one region, category, or traveler segment.
Releases ship every sprint so you can click through progress.
Real suppliers test the onboarding before launch.
Deliverable: working MVP, sprint demos
Launch and seed
The first suppliers go live, and the first bookings come in.
We track sign-ups, conversion, and payout timing closely.
Rough edges get fixed while volumes are still small.
Deliverable: live marketplace, launch metrics
Grow the network
Once the core holds, the marketplace widens.
New regions, supplier types, and partners join in phases.
White-label versions can follow for regional partners.
Deliverable: growth roadmap, performance dashboard
Results from our online travel marketplace development company
400+
Coach and minibus operators onboarded to Driven Connect
99.7%
User verification accuracy on Re:Plan
Under 30 s
To complete a booking, payment, and brokerage on Re:Plan
5
Major payment providers integrated on Re:Plan
3
Currencies with local payouts on Re:Plan: GBP, EUR, and USD
5+ years
Our ongoing partnership with Re:Plan
Our travel marketplace development stack
Why marketplace founders trust us with their platform
Why choose COAX Software as your online travel marketplace development company?
We’ve built both sides before
Getting suppliers on board is a different job from getting travelers to book, and most platforms struggle with one of them. We’ve designed onboarding for 400+ coach operators, and booking flows for travelers on the same platform.
Payments get serious attention
Most marketplace complaints start with money: late payouts, failed refunds, confusing fees. On Re:Plan, we moved the whole payment system to Stripe without a single service interruption and added local payouts in three currencies.
Rules for your model
Few marketplaces sell at a fixed price. For instance, Driven Connect buyers request quotes and operators compete for the job, while Re:Plan guests resell hotel reservations. We build the booking logic around your offer, whether that’s tenders, resale, or something else.
The platform belongs to you
You own the code, the commission rules, and the pricing logic. Change a fee, add a supplier type, or launch in a new city whenever the business is ready.
FAQ
The traveler pays once, and the platform splits the money automatically: your commission stays with you, and the supplier’s share goes out on a set payout schedule. We use providers like Stripe, PayPal, and Flywire, and card data never touches your servers.
COAX Software does. As an online travel marketplace development company, we’ve built a coach hire marketplace with 400+ operators, a hotel reservation resale platform, and a booking marketplace for experiential spaces. Each one connects buyers, suppliers, and your admin team in a single system.
COAX Software provides them from the first business model workshop through launch and growth. Our travel marketplace development covers supplier onboarding, booking logic, split payments, payouts, and the dashboards each role needs. We also stay on after launch to add regions, suppliers, and features.
COAX Software is one, with travel, transport, and logistics as its main industries. We’re an online travel marketplace development company with ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 27001 certification, a 4.9/5 Clutch rating, and GBTA membership. Our clients own the full code of every platform we build.
Most projects fall between $30,000 and $150,000, depending on the number of roles, integrations, and payment flows. We offer fixed price for a defined scope, time and materials for an evolving roadmap, or a dedicated team on a monthly retainer. Our pre-sales team can give you an estimate once we understand your model.
COAX Software can. We start with how your marketplace earns money and which suppliers you need first, then build the booking, payment, and payout flow around that. Re:Plan is a good example of the work an online travel marketplace development company should be able to show: verified users, transactions in under 30 seconds, and payouts in three currencies.
Usually, yes. Launching in one region or category lets you prove that suppliers will join and travelers will book before you spend on the full feature set. Every later phase then builds on real numbers.
What we’ll do next?
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Contact you within 24 hours
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Clarify your expectations, business objectives, and project requirements
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Develop and accept a proposal
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After that, we can start our partnership
