Agencia Global is an online portal where Travel Agents can access the lowest consolidator fares on the market. Agencia Global provides thousands of flexible fares on an easy to use platform, which allows agents to earn commission and add their own markup! Agencia Global’s full suite of products then completes the entire process for an agent, from fraud prevention, ticketing, and all necessary post ticketing support. Agencia Global is free to register and applies zero fees and zero markup on the fares sold through the platform.
Agencia Global is open to both agents working for travel agencies and independent travel agents. In order to register, the following information is required in addition to basic information about your agency:
Once you have submitted your application, Agencia Global’s team will review the information that you provided about your agency. This may take up to 1-2 business days.
Once your agency has been approved, a confirmation notice will be sent to the email address designated for the agency. A separate invitation email will be sent to the email address of your master agent, prompting them to create their account.
Master agents can manage agents operating as part of their agency from the Agents page.
To create a user account for a new agent, click the “Add Agent” button. You will be prompted to provide a name and an email for this agent, and to specify the permission level for this user. An invitation will be sent to provided email address, prompting them to create their account.
There are two permission levels within each agency on Agencia Global, “agents” and “master agents”.
Agents have the following permissions:
Master agents have all permissions afforded to regular agents, but are also able to do the following:
Master agent accounts should only be handed out to users within your organization who need to have access to this information (management, accounting, etc.). There must always be at least one master agent within an agency.
Currently, Agencia Global allows an agent to book up to 9 passengers on one PNR. Additional passengers must be reserved on a separate booking.
Currently, Agencia Global can facilitate multi-city flights for up to 5 different destinations for the same passengers. Additional flights must be reserved on a separate booking.
“Pub” or “Published Fares” refer to airline fares that are dictated by the airlines whereby discounting that fare is strictly prohibited. Travel agents can receive commission for many published fares. Travel agents may still add their own markup on top of this commission.
“Nets” or “Private Fares” are commonly referred to as consolidator fares, and are provided to consolidators and their sub-agents at a discounted rate. The agents or sub-agents are then allowed by the airline to add a profit margin to this net fare in order to make a profit. These fares are contract rates that Agencia Global makes available to your agency.
Agencia Global allows you to add a custom amount of markup to any type of fare, up to the maximum markup cap (typically double the total base fare). However, the type of fare will impact which merchant account this markup will charged on and resulting service fees.
Saving a quote bookmarks a search result for later reuse. A quote can be saved up to the intended departure date. However, saving a quote does not place any reservation on the seats and does not make any guarantee about the fare price. You can optionally register for fare alerts for your quote.
A hold reserves segments in the client’s name. A booking can be held up to 3 days or up to the airline's ticketing deadline, whichever comes first. After this period ends, it will be automatically cancelled.
After performing a flight search, select a fare for each segment of your search from the results table then click the “Save Quote” button next to the fare you wish to quote. You will have the option of providing some notes on your quote and registering it for fare alerts.
You can view and cancel quotes that you have saved in the quotes section of the Agencia Global website.
When saving a quote, you have the option of registering it for fare alerts. Fare alerts are daily emails sent to your inbox which include information on the lowest fare available for your saved quotes.
You can enable and disable fare alerts for each saved quote in the quotes section of the Agencia Global website.
After performing a flight search, select a fare for each segment of your search from the results table then click the “Book” button next to the fare you wish to hold. You must provide passenger information for each seat on the booking on the checkout page and specify your intended markup amount. Do not enter payment information, instead press the “hold booking” radio button. You will receive a confirmation email about the booking after submission.
Once a booking has been held, you can review and apply payment to the booking from the bookings section of the Agencia Global website. The hold will expire up to three days from the time of booking or shortly before the ticketing deadline of the fare, whichever is sooner. You must provide payment information before the hold expiry date or the reservation will automatically be cancelled.
The fare price of a booking may be subject to airline changes until the booking has been ticketed
You may have any number of bookings put on hold for different passengers and/or different itineraries.
Due to airline churning rules, Agencia Global does not allow having more than one similar booking on hold at a time. You may put a given booking on hold a maximum of two times, after which point you must apply payment to create another similar booking. Bookings are considered similar if they include the same passengers and at least one of the same flight segments departing on the same days.
When providing payment information for a fare, you should always provide your customer’s credit card information (i.e. the passenger or purchaser on the passenger’s behalf). In accordance with IATA resolution 890, Travel agents will not be authorized to use a personal or agency credit card to purchase fares, unless booking flights for themselves.
A link to the payment information form will display at the top of the booking itinerary page after the payment has been declined. Please attempt to provide corrected payment information assoon as possible in order to avoid cancellation of the booking.
The commissions offered for a fare are determined by the contracts held by Agencia Global and its affiliates with the airlines. These contracts may stipulate different commission rates for different itineraries, passenger types, and seating classes.
Agencia Global retains a small portion of the commission on a given fare, and provides the rest to the selling agency.
Commissions on airfare are considered payment for a service. As such, Agencia Global pays taxes on the commission it pays out. These taxes are paid by Agencia Global to the selling agency. The taxes are calculated based on the incorporation location of the selling agency. The selling agency should declare taxes received to the government accordingly.
No taxes are paid for markup applied by the selling agency, as this is considered an overpayment.
It is up to you to set your own rates. Ideally, set your markup as high as your client is willing to pay.
For net fares, most airlines allow some amount of markup to be charged on their merchant (typically up to the published fare price or 25% of the base fare). Markup up to this amount is not subject to service fees.
Markup in excess of the airline’s limit or on published fares will be charged on the Agencia Global merchant and will be subject to a service fee. If you wish to account for this fee in the final amount that you are quoting your client, use the “total markup” field instead of the “agency markup” field.
You may include payment for other services you provide into the markup applied to the fares, as long as the total remains within Agencia Global’s maximum markup limit (typically double the base fare).
You can modify the markup of bookings while they are on hold, but cannot make modifications after the payment information has been submitted. Please be sure that you have entered the correct amount for your desired markup before submitting.
If you wish to cancel the reservation and book it again, please contact us for assistance. Please note, a charge of $40.00 per ticket will be applied for each refund or reissue in addition to the carrier's penalties.
Agencia Global uses a range of fraud detection technology which is automatically applied to every booking, providing agencies with a layer of protection. Transactions that are deemed too risky will be blocked.
Unfortunately, for security reasons, we cannot disclose the nature or scope of the fraud detection algorithms, or what aspects of a particular booking were deemed risky. Blocked transactions will simply be reported as failed bookings.
Please note that responsibility for the authenticity of the transaction ultimately lies with the agent making the booking. In the event that a fraudulent transaction does slip through the system or a passenger disputes their credit card fees, any ensuing chargebacks will be debited from your agency through TIESS.
A PNR refers to a Passenger Name Record that is stored in the database of a computer reservation system (CRS) or a global distribution system (GDS) and consists of the personal information and itinerary for a passenger or group of passengers. A PNR number is the booking reference number with the airline.
The booking details page includes a button to download a PDF of the flight itinerary. Once tickets have been issued for the booking, the document will also include the e-ticket numbers for each passenger.
You should send the itinerary document to your customers via email or print.
Please contact us for assistance. Please note, a charge of $40.00 per ticket will be applied for each refund or reissue in addition to the carrier's penalties.
If we receive any change notifications from the airlines, we will notify you of any affected bookings by email. If you require assistance with a changed booking, please contact us.
Agencies can receive payment for fares sold by their agents by two different mechanisms:
The commission and markup for each fare sold during a billing period will be combined into an account statement.
TIESS (Travel Industry Exchange Settlement Solutions) facilitates the billing and settlement between travel industry suppliers and travel agencies. TIESS provides an efficient platform to distribute, validate, collect and process sales.
Agencia Global disburses payment and issues debits to agencies exclusively through the ties TIESS service. Your agency must have a TIESS and connect it to Agencia Global's TIESS account in order to use Agencia Global.
Account statements will be generated once per week. The primary agency email will be notified whenever payment statements are issued.
If you have any disputes with any of the information on a payment statement please contact our accounting department (accounting@agenciaglobal.com) as soon as possible.