Solutions For OTAs · ancillary revenue on traffic you already have

The visa sale is already happening. It just isn't yours.

Your customer books a flight, then goes looking for the entry document that flight needs. Today that search ends on a site you have never heard of, at a price you would never charge. Put the visa on your own confirmation page and take a share of the fee on every application.

A share of the $39 service fee on every application No cost of goods and no refund exposure Your stack never holds a passport scan
farebound.co.uk/bookings/FBU-88214
F Booking confirmed FBU-88214
LHR → DXB Fri 12 Sep 21:40 Economy · 2 bags
DXB → BOM Sat 13 Sep 08:05 4 h 25 stop in Dubai
2 travelers · Priya Raghavan, Daniel Okafor $1,024.60 paid
Entry document needed
Both passports need an India e-Tourist visa
Your Dubai stop does not require one. The visa must be approved before boarding on 12 September.
India e-Tourist visa · consular feeat cost $25.00 × 2
SimpleVisa service feeyour share is in this line $39.00 × 2
Total $128.00
Add visas to this booking
Filed and supported by SimpleVisa. Your brand stays on the page.

The same card sits on the confirmation page, in the confirmation email and in manage-my-booking. It is the highest-intent moment you own, and most OTAs leave it blank.

The leak

Every traveler who needs a document goes and finds one.

The purchase happens either way. The only open question is whether it happens on a page with your name on it, and whether anyone in your company can see it when it does.

Where it goes

Into a search box

Your confirmation email says nothing about entry documents, so the traveler types the destination and the word visa into Google. The first things they see are ads.

What it costs them

Whatever the first ad charges

Intermediaries commonly charge a large multiple of the government fee. US Customs and Border Protection publishes a standing warning that it works with no third-party ESTA site and cannot vouch for what those sites charge or how they handle a passport.

Who hears about it

Your support inbox

A week later the traveler cannot name the site they used. They can name the company that sold them the flight, and that is who gets the email about the charge, the missing approval and the refund.

None of it appears in your ancillary report, because none of it ran through you. The cost lands in support volume and in the reviews your brand team reads on Monday.

Two places to attach it

Sell it inside the flow, or sell it after the booking.

Most OTAs end up running both. One catches the traveler while their card is still out; the other catches everyone who was not ready to think about paperwork on the day they booked.

In the booking flow

Requirements and checkout on your own pages

A requirements check on the passenger step for the exact passport and route being booked, then a visa checkout the traveler never leaves your site for. It is a script tag and a div, and it reads the itinerary you already have.

How the booking flow works →
After the booking

A visa storefront on your own address

A hosted checkout at visa.yourbrand.com, linked from the confirmation email, manage-my-booking and the pre-trip reminder. Nothing to build and nothing to release: the brand studio sets the logo, colours and typeface, and it is live the same day.

See the post-booking route →

Both run on the same platform and report into the same console, so you can turn the storefront on this month and add the in-flow components whenever your release train has room. The component library is documented under Elements, the storefront branding under white label, and both endpoints under the API reference.

Revenue share

A $39 service fee, shared, on traffic you have already paid for.

Every application carries a $39 service fee on top of the consular fee. Your share of it is set in your agreement and rises with volume. The consular fee itself is passed through at cost, so the traveler pays the government exactly what the government asks.

$39
Service fee on every application, shared with you
$0
Cost of goods, inventory and integration
400
Travel storefronts already running on SimpleVisa

How the money moves

1

The traveler pays us

On Revenue share SimpleVisa is merchant of record. The charge, the refund and the chargeback sit on our licence.

2

We do the work

Document validation, government submission, chasing the traveler whose photo came back rejected, and live chat when they ask where their visa is.

3

You get a statement

Your share closes into a statement with the per-order detail behind it: traveler, document, nationality, destination and the split.

"We like their professional team and easy to integrate API. After several years of partnership, we are very pleased with the service and revenue generated."

Stefan Born · Director Ancillaries, Etraveli
What your team can see

An ancillary line nobody can report on does not last.

Commercial needs attach rate, finance needs a statement it can invoice against, CS needs to answer a traveler without emailing us. All three sign into the same console, and seats are free.

One screen for every order and every payout

Every application your storefronts and components produce lands in one list, filterable by route, brand and channel, exportable for any month. Statuses update live, so the question "where is this application" stops being an email to us.

Look inside the partner console →
Every application with its status and government reference
Attach rate by route, by storefront and by channel
Statements with the per-order detail behind every number
Free seats for commercial, CS and finance, with roles

Your security review stays short

Passport images and biometric photos go straight from the traveler to us. Your booking system holds a route, a name and an email address, which is what it held before you added visas. There is no new data store for legal to sign off.

Read the trust center →
Travelers upload passports and photos directly to us
Your systems carry a route, a name and an email address
EU-hosted, minimal retention, member of Alliance GDPR
Security posture and subprocessors published, always current
Questions

What commercial teams ask first.

If yours is not here, book a demo and bring the awkward one.

What do we earn on an application?

The service fee is $39 on top of the consular fee. Your share of it is agreed up front and rises with volume, and it applies to every application, including the ones a traveler starts on the storefront three weeks after booking. Consular fees are passed through at cost and never marked up.

Who talks to the traveler when something goes wrong?

We do. On Revenue share SimpleVisa is the merchant of record, so refunds and chargebacks come to us, and the traveler reaches our live chat from the application they filed. Your CS team can still see the whole file in the console.

Which destinations can you actually process?

Requirement data covers 190+ destinations, transit stops included, which is where thinner tools quietly fail. 80+ destinations are processed end to end today.

Can we be the merchant of record instead?

Yes, on the Platform licence: $5,000 a month minimum drawn down against $12 per application, running on your gateway and under your brand. Most OTAs start on Revenue share and move once the volume makes that arithmetic work.

See what the visa moment is worth on your routes.

Create an account and the storefront, the sandbox keys and the console open in minutes. Or send your top international routes to a demo and we will come back with the volume and the share.