Elkanio Nucleus: the B2B travel portal and booking platform for agency networks
Build, manage and scale your agency network. Nucleus gives a master agency a branded B2B travel portal to distribute flights, hotels, activities, insurance, visa, cab, bus, ferry and cruise to sub-agents and corporate clients, with markup and credit control at every tier.
Distribution is an administrative burden
Distributing travel content to hundreds of sub-agencies means juggling different credit limits, layered markups, supplier incentives and ledgers that never quite match. Most B2B portal software was built for one agency, not a network.
The Nucleus hierarchy engine
Nucleus is built around a multi-tier architecture. The master agency distributes inventory to B2B, B2B2B and corporate sub-agents through a fast, branded portal, with credit managed automatically and a rules engine that prices every segment for every tier.
What Nucleus does.
Markup & rules engine
Set markup rules by airline, cabin, destination, supplier, product or agency tier. Percentage or flat, per currency, with effective dates. Sub-agencies add their own markup within limits you set.
360° agency management
White-labelled dashboards for your distributors with their own users, branding and reports. Rules, prices and credit cascade down the chain; each tier sees only its own network.
Global inventory dashboard
Agents search GDS, NDC and LCC flights, bedbank and contracted hotels, cabs and every other vertical on one screen, with results filterable by supplier and commission.
Credit, deposits & wallets
Credit limits, floating deposits and prepaid wallets per agency. Bookings draw on the balance live, low-balance alerts go out automatically and access follows the payment status held in Vector.
Roles, queues & approvals
Roles and permissions for owners, supervisors and counter staff. High-value or over-limit bookings can be held in a queue for approval before ticketing.
Statements & sales reports
Sales, ledger and commission statements per agency and per tier, scheduled or on demand, using the same numbers Vector reconciles and Cortex analyses.
From setup to steady state.
- 1
Load your supply
Switch on suppliers through Synapse and load your own contracts in Nexus. Everything appears in one search.
- 2
Build the network
Create tiers, invite agencies, set credit and deposits, and apply each agency’s branding.
- 3
Set the rules
Markups, commissions, fare visibility and approval thresholds per tier, with effective dates.
- 4
Sell and settle
Agents book across nine verticals. Statements, invoices and reconciliation flow to Vector automatically.
Vector integration
Synchronised with the mid-office for automated invoicing, BSP reconciliation and tax calculation, including GST for India.
Sub-agent APIs
Optionally let top-tier sub-agencies consume your aggregated feed through secured endpoints to power their own platforms.
What a B2B travel portal must do
A B2B travel portal is only useful if it runs the commercial side of your network, not just the search box. Nucleus covers all four.
Onboard sub-agents
Invite agencies, set their users and roles, and place each one in the right tier of your network.
Run credit and wallets
Credit limits, deposits and prepaid wallets per agency, with bookings drawing on the balance live.
Price per agent
Markups and commissions per tier, supplier, product or agency, with sub-agents adding their own within your limits.
Search every fare in one place
Your private and negotiated fares beside GDS, NDC and LCC content, plus hotels and the other verticals, on one screen.
A white-label B2B travel portal on your domain
Nucleus runs on your own domain with your logo and colours, so your agents book with your brand, not ours. You can also give the sub-agencies you choose white-labelled dashboards of their own, with their users, branding and reports.
Weighing a white-label portal against building one in-house? Read white-label B2B portal vs building your own.
One hierarchy, every tier priced and controlled.
Rules, credit and branding cascade from the master agency down. Each tier sees only its own network, its own balance and its own prices.
- 1
Master agency
Owns supply, contracts, markups and the brand. Sees every booking and every ledger.
- 2
Sub-agencies
Branded workspaces with their own credit limits, deposits, users and reports.
- 3
Sub-sub-agencies & corporates
Further tiers and corporate accounts inherit rules from above and can carry their own.
Nine verticals, switched on for your agents.
B2B travel portal vs booking engine vs travel API
The three terms get used interchangeably, but they solve different problems. Many networks run all three on one platform.
B2B travel portal
A branded website your sub-agents and corporate clients log in to. It carries tiers, markups, credit and statements. This is Nucleus.
Booking engine
The search, price and book flow inside a portal or a consumer website. Nucleus has one for agents; Nova is the consumer-facing version.
Nova B2C booking engineTravel API
Supply and booking as an API for your own developers and front ends, with no portal on top. Every Elkanio product runs on it.
Synapse unified travel APIThinking about replacing the engine you run today? See the operator playbook for changing your booking engine.
Trusted by travel businesses including
- Raviwo Alliance Aerticket India
- B2B Travel Agency
- Rezlive
- Loyalty Caravan
- Biyaheko
- Aerticket Sweden
- Aerticket Denmark
- Sharaf Travel
Where Nucleus fits.
Nucleus 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.
Nucleus 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 Nucleus.
What is Elkanio Nucleus?
Nucleus is a B2B travel portal and booking platform for agencies, consolidators and TMCs. It gives a master agency a branded portal to distribute flights, hotels and other verticals to sub-agents and corporate clients, with markup rules, credit limits and wallets managed centrally.
What is a B2B travel portal?
A B2B travel portal is the booking website a consolidator or master agency gives to the sub-agents and corporate clients it supplies. Agents log in, search flights, hotels and other products at the prices you set, book against their credit or wallet, and download documents and statements.
Is Nucleus a white-label B2B travel portal?
Yes. Nucleus runs on your own domain with your logo and colours, so agents book under your brand. Sub-agencies you choose can also receive white-labelled dashboards of their own.
Does Nucleus support multi-tier sub-agent hierarchies?
Yes. Nucleus is built around a multi-tier architecture: master agency, sub-agencies, sub-sub-agencies and corporate accounts, each with their own credit, deposits, markups and reporting.
How are markups and commissions controlled in Nucleus?
A rules engine prices every segment per tier. Rules can be set by supplier, airline, cabin, destination, product or agency, as a percentage or flat amount, per currency and with effective dates, and sub-agencies can add their own markup on top within limits you set.
How does Nucleus handle credit and payments for sub-agents?
Each agency has a credit limit, deposits and a prepaid wallet. Bookings draw on the balance in real time, low-balance alerts go out automatically, and access is restored as soon as a payment is recorded in Vector.
Which suppliers can I connect to Nucleus?
Supply comes through Synapse, the unified travel API: GDS, NDC and LCC flights, bedbank hotels, and activities, insurance, visa, cab, bus, ferry and cruise. Your own negotiated fares and contracted rates are loaded in Nexus and appear in the same search. Which suppliers you switch on depends on your markets and your own supplier agreements.
Does Nucleus handle GST and BSP for India?
Yes, through Vector, the mid-office Nucleus is synchronised with. Bookings flow into automated invoicing, BSP reconciliation and tax calculation, including GST for India.
How long does it take to launch a B2B travel portal on Nucleus?
It depends on your scope, so we plan the launch in phases rather than promise a date: discovery of your tiers, markups and credit model; a sandbox to configure and test; connecting supply and your own contracts; then training your desk and going live. The timeline is agreed with you after discovery.
Ready to run B2B distribution on one platform?
Take control of your inventory, your agency network and your margins. See how consolidators and agency networks run on Nucleus.