Real-time inventory and commission reporting

Purpose

1.1. Deliver precise, up-to-the-minute inventory status and commission figures for every airline ticket sold, reserved, or refunded.
1.2. Consolidate data from GDS/CRS, booking engines, and financial systems for actionable, unified reporting.
1.3. Enable dynamic commission calculation and instant alerts on inventory or revenue changes, improving decision-making and compliance.
1.4. Facilitate secure, automated sharing of summarized reports with management, partners, or regulatory bodies.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. New booking, modification, or cancellation in the reservation system.
2.2. Ticket status update (e.g., issued, voided, refunded) in GDS/CRS.
2.3. Daily or hourly scheduled data sync.
2.4. Receipt of payment or invoice matching in finance system.
2.5. Manual trigger by authorized staff for ad-hoc reports.

Platform Variants

3.1. Amadeus
- API: Self-Service APIs (Order Management, Reporting); set up webhook for order status changed.
- Sample: Configure API key, endpoint subscription for booking events.

3.2. Sabre
- API: CreateItinerary, RetrieveItinerary, AirTicket, SyncItinerary; configure for status polling or event notifications.
- Sample: Integrate REST endpoints and activate notification service.

3.3. Travelport
- API: Universal API – Air Segment, Booking, and Reporting endpoints; event-based triggers for booking activity.
- Sample: Register API client and subscribe to activity events.

3.4. Galileo
- API: Booking and PNR event API; monitor for ticketing updates.
- Sample: Set up push notifications for inventory changes.

3.5. Worldspan
- API: Direct Access—PNR and Ticket Report APIs; pull/sync periodically.
- Sample: Schedule hourly data pulls via API credentials.

3.6. Salesforce
- Feature/Setting: Reports & Dashboards API; schedule or trigger via custom object changes.
- Sample: Configure workflow rules to invoke API export.

3.7. Microsoft Dynamics 365
- Feature/Setting: Power Automate flow using Common Data Service triggers from booking data.
- Sample: Flow triggers on record modifications in bookings module.

3.8. SAP Concur
- API: Travel Request and Expense Reporting APIs; event triggers for travel status change.
- Sample: Endpoint for webhook notifications on booking submission.

3.9. Oracle NetSuite
- API: SuiteAnalytics Reporting, event scripts to detect booking/commission changes.
- Sample: Script deployment on relevant NetSuite objects.

3.10. QuickBooks Online
- API: Invoices and Transactions API; triggers on invoice creation linked to ticket sales.
- Sample: Monitor new records in sales receipts.

3.11. Zoho Books
- API: Sales Order and Invoice API; trigger reports on new/updated entries.
- Sample: Configure webhook on Sales Orders.

3.12. Stripe
- API: PaymentIntent and Invoice events; triggers on successful airline ticket payments.
- Sample: Webhook for “invoice.paid” and “checkout.session.completed.”

3.13. Slack
- Feature/Setting: Incoming Webhooks/API to send updates on inventory/commission changes.
- Sample: Send JSON payload to channel on report completion.

3.14. Google Sheets
- Feature/Setting: Google Sheets API with triggers for adding/updating rows with new sales or commission data.
- Sample: Script trigger on receiving booking update.

3.15. Microsoft Excel Online
- Feature/Setting: Graph API; auto-update sheets when inventory/commission is refreshed.
- Sample: Flow triggers to Excel table row insert.

3.16. Power BI
- Feature/Setting: Data refresh API, push rows to dataset for real-time dashboards.
- Sample: API endpoint invoked with new booking/commission data.

3.17. Tableau
- Feature/Setting: REST API for Data Source refresh; automated extract updates from sales data.
- Sample: Schedule POST trigger on ticket sale.

3.18. HubSpot
- API: Deal Pipeline and Custom Properties; triggers on deal closed/ticket booked.
- Sample: Workflow webhook on pipeline movement.

3.19. AWS Lambda
- Feature/Setting: Invoke serverless code on S3 upload or API event.
- Sample: Trigger computes commission and pushes report.

3.20. Azure Logic Apps
- Feature/Setting: Monitor APIs or scheduled triggers to fetch/report inventory and commission.
- Sample: HTTP trigger on booking update event.

3.21. Monday.com
- API: Board & Item triggers; update boards with real-time inventory and commission info.
- Sample: Push booking data via mutation API on ticket event.

3.22. Asana
- Feature/Setting: Task creation via Webhook/API; log tasks for each new booking requiring review.
- Sample: Endpoint for new booking event.

Benefits

4.1. Ensures immediate, consolidated visibility into inventory and financial status.
4.2. Reduces risk of overbooking or missed commission opportunities.
4.3. Streamlines reporting for audits and compliance.
4.4. Drives faster decisions and partner or management alignment via automated, reliable delivery.
4.5. Frees staff from manual reporting, allowing focus on sales and customer service.