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High-performance travel search and caching technology

Deliver fast, responsive holiday search across large supply sets, with results in under 300ms on average

Fast travel search across large supply sets

DealFinder is intuitive’s high-performance travel search and caching technology for Tour Operators and OTAs. It powers fast, broad search across large travel supply sets, returning results in under 300ms on average so customers can search flexibly and refine options quickly.

DealFinder pre-builds combinations across suppliers, dates, durations and passenger options, reducing the need to calculate every possible result during each search. It is a standalone product that connects with an existing reservation or booking system through a single API.

 

Quick, accurate search gets harder as choice grows

Search complexity

Providing customers with fast, accurate search results across thousands of hotels, multiple airlines, dates and durations is difficult. Querying supplier systems repeatedly for every search gets slower as choice and traffic increase. Peak booking periods make it worse, exactly when the most customers are searching.

Commercial impact

Slower or less accurate search directly affects the customer experience. A poorer experience means lower conversion and fewer bookings. Businesses that solve this well turn broad, flexible search into a genuine commercial advantage rather than a technical constraint.

What DealFinder means for your search experience

Faster search

Average search performance under 300ms lets customers search, filter and refine holiday options without long waits between interactions.

Broader discovery

Customers can start with a destination, theme or flexible dates, then narrow billions of package combinations using relevant filters.

Scalable performance

DealFinder has been load-tested at 100 requests per second on a single server and can scale horizontally as search demand grows.

Support conversion

Faster, more responsive search creates a better customer experience and helps reduce friction between initial search and booking.

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"Reducing the time it takes to deliver holiday search results to our customers from an average of 8 seconds to 300ms creates a significantly better user experience. Having intuitive handle the heavy-lifting of importing and packaging millions of cached prices has dramatically reduced the developer and infrastructure resource required to deliver and manage this on an ongoing basis."
Tom BugejaChief Executive Officer @ Mercury Holidays

Broad search that customers can refine quickly

Customers can search precisely or begin broadly using a theme, region or flexible date range, then narrow the results using relevant filters.

Filters can include price, star rating, meal basis, facilities, reviews, destination, airport and duration. Results can also be ordered using built-in profiles or custom logic, helping you prioritise the properties you most want customers to see.

Broad search

How DealFinder works

From prepared travel data to fast search and onward booking, DealFinder fits into your existing booking journey in three clear stages.

1
Prepare

Travel supply data is prepared and pre-built into searchable combinations across suppliers, dates, durations and pricing rules.

2
Search

DealFinder serves results through a fast API, returning combinations in milliseconds rather than querying every supplier live.

3
Book

Once a customer selects an option, the booking journey continues through your existing reservation system as normal.

Built to work with your existing travel technology

Standalone integration

DealFinder is a standalone product designed to connect with existing reservation or booking systems through a single API. It can work with flight and accommodation supply imported through supplier APIs, file extracts or other agreed methods.

Control relevance and performance

Use built-in sort profiles or custom logic to prioritise results by price, review score or your commercial priorities. DealFinder’s speed and breadth are powered by travel-specific caching technology. This can help surface seasonal products, support margin priorities or default to price or rating.

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Built for Tour Operators, Online Travel Agents

DealFinder is designed for travel businesses managing large supply sets, dynamic packaging and growing online search demand.

Tour Operators

DealFinder helps Tour Operators deliver fast, flexible search across large combinations of flights, hotels, dates and durations, supporting dynamic package journeys as supply and traffic grow.

Online Travel Agents

DealFinder helps OTAs keep search responsive across large supply sets and high online search volumes, even as more destinations, suppliers and filters are added.

Explore DealFinder in more detail

Guides and insights on travel search performance and caching technology

Frequently asked questions (FAQs)

Everything you need to know about DealFinder’s travel search and caching technology.

What is DealFinder?

DealFinder is intuitive's high-performance travel search and caching technology, built to power fast, broad search across large travel supply sets for Tour Operators and OTAs.

Who is DealFinder for? DealFinder is a strong fit for Tour Operators and OTAs selling dynamic packages, especially as supply and traffic grow and search complexity increases.
Can it work with any reservation system? Yes. DealFinder is a standalone product from intuitive, designed to work with any reservation or booking system through a single API. It does not require iVector.
How fast can it return results? DealFinder delivers average search performance under 300ms, including across large and complex combinations of supply.
What kinds of travel search does it support? DealFinder supports both precise and exploratory search. Customers who know exactly what they want can search directly. Others can start broad and narrow results using filters such as star rating, meal basis, facilities, price, review ratings, destination, airport and duration.
How is DealFinder integrated? DealFinder integrates through a single, modern API, sitting behind your existing search and booking journey. Supplier data is imported through APIs, file extracts or other agreed methods. The booking flow continues through your existing reservation system once a customer selects an option.
How does DealFinder relate to caching? DealFinder is powered by purpose-built caching technology, which pre-builds combinations of supply so search doesn't rely on calculating everything in real time. The detailed mechanics of how the cache is built and maintained live on our dedicated Caching capability page.

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