Elkanio Nova: the B2C travel booking engine for your brand
Launch a consumer booking site and mobile experience under your own brand. Nova combines fast, cached search across nine verticals with a checkout designed to finish, and it runs on the same supply, pricing and finance as your B2B business.
Speed and trust decide B2C
Consumers leave when a search is slow, a price changes at payment or an error appears mid-flow. Building and maintaining a consumer engine on top of many supplier APIs is a large, permanent engineering cost.
The Nova conversion path
Nova sits on Synapse, so search is cached, price-honest and normalised across suppliers. The front end is responsive out of the box or fully headless, and every step from results to payment is built to reduce drop-off.
What Nova does.
Responsive, white-label or headless
Use the default theme with your brand, colours and domain, or build your own interface on the booking APIs. Mobile, tablet and desktop from one codebase.
Multi-currency checkout
Cards, digital wallets and localised bank transfers through PCI-DSS compliant third-party gateways. Prices shown and charged in the traveller’s currency; card data tokenised, never stored by Elkanio.
Ancillary cross-sell in the flow
Baggage, meals and seats from the airline, plus insurance, transfers and activities, offered at the right step of the booking rather than on a separate page.
Fast, price-honest results
Synapse caching returns availability quickly and refreshes prices so what the traveller sees is what the supplier confirms. Filters, sorting and fare families are consistent across sources.
Traveller accounts & trip management
Saved travellers and documents, trip history, e-tickets and vouchers, plus eligible self-service changes and cancellation requests, with notifications handled by Pulse.
Promotions, SEO & analytics
Promo codes and campaign rules, destination and route landing pages with structured data, deep links, and analytics tags that feed conversion funnels in Cortex.
From setup to steady state.
- 1
Brand it
Theme, domain, languages and currencies. Or go headless and keep your own front end.
- 2
Connect supply
Choose the verticals and suppliers to sell, including your own Nexus contracts.
- 3
Set pricing and payments
Markups, promo codes, payment gateways and currencies per market.
- 4
Launch and optimise
Watch funnels in Cortex, keep travellers with Pulse and Quantum, add verticals as you grow.
Air content
GDS, NDC and LCC fares in one result set, with fare families, seat maps and ancillaries where the airline provides them.
Hotels, deduplicated
Bedbank and directly contracted rates merged into one property view, so the traveller compares rooms, not suppliers.
Whole-trip baskets
Activities, insurance, visa, cab, bus, ferry and cruise sold alongside the flight and hotel in one checkout.
Where Nova fits.
Nova is part of these solution packages. Each combines a few products for one kind of travel business or one business need.
One of 12 products on a single core.
Nova shares its data model, supplier connectivity and customer records with every other Elkanio product. Start with one, add the next without an integration project.
See the full platformQuestions about Nova.
What is Elkanio Nova?
Nova is a white-label B2C travel booking engine. It gives travel brands a consumer-facing website and mobile experience for flights, hotels and ancillaries, connected to the same supply as the rest of the Elkanio platform.
Can we customise the Nova front end?
Nova ships with a responsive default theme and can also be used headless, so your team can build a fully custom interface on top of the booking engine and APIs.
Which payment methods does Nova support?
Nova integrates with PCI-DSS compliant third-party payment gateways and supports cards, digital wallets and localised bank transfers across currencies. Card data is tokenised by the gateway and never stored by Elkanio.
Which travel products can a Nova site sell?
Flights from GDS, NDC and LCC sources, hotels from bedbanks and your own Nexus contracts, plus activities, insurance, visa, cab, bus, ferry and cruise, all in one basket.
Can travellers manage bookings themselves on Nova?
Yes. Travellers get accounts with saved travellers, trip history, documents and eligible self-service changes and cancellation requests, with Pulse handling the notifications.
Ready to sell direct to travellers?
Bring your brand and your markets. We will show Nova on your routes and walk through the launch plan.