Your Booking Reconciliation Agent Finds Fare Errors While You Sell
The AgentWorks Booking Reconciliation Agent takes the three-way comparison off your operations manager and your senior advisors: the GDS report on one screen, the supplier confirmation in an inbox, your own booking record in a third system. The agent lines them up for every trip, chases the supplier when something does not match, and hands your people a short list of real discrepancies to decide on, so they can stay on the phone with travelers and corporate accounts instead of on hold with a supplier's accounting desk.
What it takes off your plate
Ask any agency owner how reconciliation works today and the answer sounds the same. Somebody exports the GDS report. Somebody else digs out the supplier confirmations, some in email, some in a portal, some as a PDF attached to a reply chain. Then a person compares fare, taxes and fees against what was booked and what the client was charged, trip by trip, because none of those systems talk to each other.
The trouble is timing. A tax that changed after ticketing, a hotel that billed a different room category, a transfer charged twice: these surface weeks later, when the statement arrives. By then the traveler is home, the corporate account has already coded the expense, and the correction turns into an awkward call. Clients get overcharged, and the agency quietly absorbs undercharges it never notices. Month-end close becomes a week of the operations manager doing nothing else, and the advisors who get pulled in to explain their own bookings stop selling while they do it.
What the Booking Reconciliation Agent does, step by step
The Booking Reconciliation Agent starts with the communication that usually stalls the whole process.
- Chases the missing paperwork. When a booking has no supplier confirmation on file, the agent emails the hotel, operator or car rental desk for it, follows up when there is no reply, and logs every request on the booking.
- Asks suppliers to correct what does not match. If a confirmation shows a different rate, room type or date than the booking, the agent writes to the supplier with the booking reference and the expected figure and asks for a corrected confirmation or an explanation.
- Tells the advisor, not the traveler. When a discrepancy affects what the client paid, the agent sends the advisor who owns the trip a short note: what was booked, what was charged, what the supplier says. The advisor decides what the traveler hears and when.
- Pulls the records together. The agent reads the GDS report from Amadeus or Sabre, the supplier confirmations, and your internal booking record, and matches them segment by segment on confirmation number, traveler name and dates.
- Compares fare, taxes and fees. Each line is checked against the others. Matches are marked reconciled. Differences are sorted into fare, tax, fee or commission, with the source document attached.
- Checks the client charge. The agent compares what the traveler or corporate account was charged in Stripe against the reconciled total and flags any overcharge or undercharge for review.
- Builds the reconciliation report. Before month-end, not during it, the operations manager gets one report: reconciled trips, open discrepancies, supplier replies still outstanding.
Refunds, supplier disputes and any change to what a client is billed stay with your people. The agent assembles the evidence; a person makes the call.
Where the work is recorded
An agent that cannot record its results is a chatbot. The Booking Reconciliation Agent writes everything where your team already looks.
On the trip record in your CRM, the next morning an advisor sees every email sent to the supplier, every reply received, and the status of each segment: reconciled, waiting on supplier, or needs a decision. If a traveler calls about a charge, whoever picks up the phone sees the whole thread and continues from the exact point the agent reached.
In the booking system and your accounting ledger, reconciled trips are marked, discrepancies carry their source documents, and the month-end report sits in Google Docs ready for the owner to review. If you already use a sibling agent for changes, the Reservation Changes Agent pricing every change before you call feeds the same trip record, so a change fee is explained before reconciliation ever questions it. The same goes for the checks in cleaner itineraries when every segment is checked: segments validated at booking are the easiest ones to reconcile later.
What your people do instead
Your advisors stay with the traveler in front of them: the couple planning a honeymoon, the corporate travel manager with a team leaving next week, the inquiry that came in this morning. They answer the questions that build loyalty instead of explaining a fee they only learned about from a statement.
Your operations manager stops living inside spreadsheets at month-end. Their time goes to the decisions that matter: which supplier keeps billing wrong, which corporate account needs a credit, which discrepancy is worth disputing. Customer service and client satisfaction are the human job. The AgentWorks Booking Reconciliation Agent keeps the confirmations, the comparisons and the supplier follow-ups moving around them.
Find out where to start
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