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Ship It Live · travel sprint
Trips searched, booked and paid for, in 30 days.
Tours, stays and experiences sold directly, with the deposit taken and the itinerary in the traveller's pocket.
Quick answer
A travel booking app can be designed, built and taking bookings in 30 days for a fixed $2,500, covering inventory and availability, search and filters, the booking and payment flow, itineraries and traveller details. Live GDS or airline inventory integration depends on your provider contract and is quoted separately.
The plan
Day one to day 30, written down.
You get this schedule before you commit, not after. If a phase slips, that is mine to absorb — the price and the date were agreed before anything started.
- 1
Days 1–3
Scope lock
What you sell, how availability really works, and your rate and cancellation rules. Travel pricing has more exceptions than any other vertical, so this is a long conversation.
- 2
Days 4–12
Design
Search results and the trip or room page — the pair that sells — then the booking flow and the operator views.
- 3
Days 13–24
Build
Inventory, availability engine, booking and payments. Double-booking protection and date maths get tested hard, because both fail quietly.
- 4
Days 25–28
Book real trips
Real bookings through real dates, including the awkward ones — cross-month stays, group changes, cancellations inside the window.
- 5
Days 29–30
Launch
Payments live, your inventory published, and the team trained on the dashboard.
What $2,500 gets you
Everything needed to launch — nothing padding the invoice.
Who books this
Built for
Tour operators taking bookings by email and spreadsheet
Hotels and lodges paying 15–20% to booking platforms
Travel startups with supply lined up and nowhere to sell it
The honest part
When 30 days is the wrong answer.
A fixed deadline only works when the scope genuinely fits inside it. These are the cases where I will tell you so rather than take the booking.
GDS, airline or channel-manager integration — Amadeus, Sabre and similar. Technically feasible, contractually slow, and outside my control, so it is quoted only once your access is confirmed.
Aggregating other operators' inventory with individual payouts. That is the marketplace sprint, and I will point you there.
Dynamic pricing engines that reprice against demand and competitors, which is a data product rather than a booking flow.
Questions
Before you book
Yes, for your own inventory with your own rates. The month covers search, availability, booking, payments and itineraries. What sits outside is live airline or GDS inventory, which is a contract question before it is a build one.
Other sprints
30 days from now, this could be live.
A 30-minute call decides whether the scope fits. If it doesn't, I'll tell you what would.