After sales

Post-Booking, After-Sales and Ancillaries

The part of travel that costs the most operational time: changes, cancellations, refunds and everything a traveller adds after booking.

Most booking engines are built for the sale and leave everything afterwards to email and supplier portals. That is where travel businesses lose margin and staff hours. Aerobit models the whole post-booking lifecycle inside the platform.

After-sales workflows

Cancellations, voids and refunds follow their own rules and their own supplier interactions. Each one shows the figures before anything is confirmed and leaves a record your finance and operations teams can rely on.

  • Cancel an unticketed hold, or void a ticket while it is still voidable, with the airline charge and the refund shown as a quote first
  • Quotes are fixed and expire after 15 minutes, so the amount a traveller accepts is the amount that is processed
  • Refunds where the airline allows automated refunds, and a staff-priced request for everything else, accepted or declined by the customer before staff act
  • Wallet refunds credited automatically; card refunds can be held for staff review
  • Guest travellers verify with a one-time code sent to the booking email
  • Every action recorded against the booking

Date changes and name corrections are handled by your team as assisted requests today. Fully automated reissue is not part of the platform yet.

Ancillaries, before and after booking

Paid extras are part of the margin, not an afterthought. Baggage, seats and other services are priced and sold through the same rules engine as the base product.

  • Baggage and seat selection where the supplier supports it
  • Paid services presented with the fare they belong to
  • Agents see the extras on a booking in the portal; selling extras after booking depends on the supplier

Fewer manual operations

Automating the routine cases lets your team spend its time on the exceptions that genuinely need a human, which is where most of the cost of after-sales actually sits.

Why after-sales quietly costs the most

The economics of a travel business are decided after the sale. A booking that cancels badly costs staff time, a refund that is not tracked costs cash, and a change done in a supplier portal leaves no record for finance. Multiply that by volume and after-sales becomes the largest controllable cost in the operation.

Modelling these flows inside the platform turns them from individual rescues into repeatable processes.

The ancillaries worth selling

Ancillaries are where thin air margins recover, and where low-cost content makes most of its money. They are handled as part of the product rather than as a bolt-on.

  • Baggage, including additional and pre-paid allowances
  • Seat selection where the supplier exposes a seat map
  • Meals and other paid services offered by the carrier
  • Extras added after the original booking is made

What your team stops doing manually

When cancellation rules, refund calculations and ticket states live in the platform, the routine cases resolve without a specialist. Your experienced staff spend their time on the genuinely difficult exceptions, which is where their judgement is worth paying for.

Post-Booking and After-Sales FAQs

Does Aerobit handle cancellations and refunds, not just bookings?

Cancellation, void and refund are built into the platform. The traveller or agent sees a quote with the airline charge and the refund before confirming, and an unclear supplier outcome is held for verification rather than repeated or refunded. Date changes and name corrections are handled by your team as assisted requests; automated reissue is not available yet.

Can ancillaries be added after the booking is made?

It depends on the supplier. Baggage, seats and meals are sold during booking where the carrier exposes them, including a seat map for seat selection. Adding extras to an existing booking is supported where the supplier allows it; ask us what applies to your suppliers.

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