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COMPARISON
Travelgenix vs a website with a bolt-on booking engine
The common route: a website from one supplier, a booking engine embedded from another, and the two never quite agree. Here is what that costs you, and the cleaner way to keep the site you have.
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Your customer reads about a holiday on a page that looks like you, then clicks to book and lands in a system that does not. The enquiry goes to a different inbox, the price on the page drifts from the price in the engine, and every change needs two vendors. It works, until it is the reason you lose the booking.
How they compare
TRAVELGENIX
SITE PLUS BOLT-ON ENGINE
Customer journey
One site, one brand, from search to confirmation.
The booking step jumps to a different system, often with a different look.
Supplier reach
200 suppliers through one connection.
Whatever the engine supports, with your own contracts arranged separately.
Content and offers
Destination content, offers and bookable pages together.
Content on the site, availability in the engine, kept in step by hand.
Customer data
One record across website, bookings and mid office.
Two systems, two records, reconciled in a spreadsheet.
Design control
Your brand on every step.
Engine pages styled within the engine’s limits.
Search visibility
Bookable pages indexed on your own domain.
Booking pages often on the engine’s domain or hidden behind scripts.
Changing a price or offer
Once.
In the engine, then again on the site.
Vendors to manage
One.
Two, plus whoever connects them.
Cost
One plan.
Site, engine, integration and upkeep, each billed separately.
Support
One UK team.
Two help desks, each pointing at the other.
If you love the website you already have
You do not have to rebuild it. Travelgenix widgets drop search, booking, offers and reviews into the site you already run, with the same supplier network and the same mid office behind them. That is the bolt-on done properly: one platform, one record, your existing pages. Ask us about the widget route at the demo.
Questions people ask
Can I keep my current website and add booking to it?
Yes. Travelgenix widgets add live search, booking, offers and reviews to the site you already have, all connected to the same platform and mid office.
Why does a separate booking engine hurt the customer journey?
The customer moves from your pages into another system, often with a different design and domain. Every handover is a place to lose them.
Does a bolt-on engine affect my search rankings?
Often. Booking pages that live on the engine’s domain or load inside scripts are hard for search engines to index, so your bookable content earns you nothing.
How do I keep prices in sync between a site and an engine?
On a two-system set-up, by hand. On Travelgenix the page and the price come from the same place, so there is nothing to sync.
What happens when something goes wrong?
With two vendors, each can point at the other. Travelgenix is one platform with one UK support team.
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