Easy to integrate, standalone cache technology that will deliver Tour Operators and OTAs the fastest and broadest search capabilities for their website with any search returned instantly.

The uniqueness is in the sum of all its parts. This includes the speed and breadth of search and filtering, supplier validation and certification, relevancy of the cache data, incremental updates to ensure accuracy and the modern, lean API.

Each new version of the DealFinder is released only when a rigorous load test has been performed.  Across a broad range of searches – and under load – we will deliver 95th percentile search performance under 300ms.

The DealFinder works by storing costs only and calculating prices on the fly. In order to do this we will need an extract or file of your margin rules to import which is combined with the supplier costs. 

There are no limitations to the suppliers that DealFinder can work with, however we need to validate the supplier caching capabilities for all new suppliers first.  Some suppliers provide specific extracts from their systems that we can import.  Others permit us to ‘scan’ their regular search API and we have a specific module that allows us to flexibly simulate the searches required to build up the cache. We are continually adding new suppliers to meet our customer and the market requirements ensuring that their content is reflected fully and accurately in DealFinder.

DealFinder completes a full cache rebuild overnight with low-latency supplier cost updates scheduled during the day to coincide with peak search and selling periods. There are no real limits imposed by DealFinder for the frequency of cache updates, this will however depend on the supplier’s capabilities.

Typically with flight costs being more volatile, cache updates can be as often as every two hours.

Hotel cache refreshes will depend a lot on the capability of the suppliers and the method of populating the cache. Typically updates are scheduled once a day.

In all cases, we will use the credentials provided by your supplier to access their product, rates and availability.

We automatically run availability and pricing checks for each supplier at the end of each cache build. These “self-certification” tests compare cache data in DealFinder with the live supplier API to check for accuracy.

Health-check reports are generated and distributed to your business. The reports have a summary of the test, but all the details of the individual completed tests which compare cache results for properties, flights, routes, dates, durations and cost variations.

Accuracy of cache results for hotels is generally in the 95% range, somewhat depending on the supplier, without any considerable deterioration throughout the day.

The DealFinder uses  the concept of profiles – and these are used to sort the results.  There are standard profiles for sorting by price and by review score.  In addition to the standard profiles you can provide one or more “bestseller” profiles that allow us to return the hotels that you most want to put in front of your customer.  There must be at least one profile provided, but we can support an unlimited number.

This is handled within the DealFinder engine automatically.  However, it essentially runs the multiple room requests in parallel and collates the results.

The GDS provides cache files that can be imported into DealFinder reflecting your credentials. We are working with and have validated cache files for Amadeus and Travelport. We have not received a request to import files directly from an airline that supports an NDC API but it would follow the normal supplier validation process. 

The majority of the data that is required is static (for example airports, hotels and property facilities) and can be retrieved from your reservation system or technology provider as lists or csv extracts.

No, we only need to link your internal property identifier to the supplier identifiers.