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Best Travel Portal Features providing by eTravos

Get Registered Travel Website:
Starting from hassle-free documentation to launch your brand travel portal for accepting bookings.

Break Through Features:
Book 10000+ hotels rooms 3200+ bus operators tickets online. Access LCC and GDS airlines 372+ cities cabs and taxis online.

API Inventory:
Seamlessly integrate with industry leading travel api’s to run your business and better your customers.

Accept Payment Online:
Get an payment gate way and instantly accept net bankinng, credit and debit cards online.

Highly Secured :
eTravos travel solution works on robust security layer ensures each and every transaction are safe and success.

Market:
Drive Traffic and promote your travel online with promo and coupon codes auto-generated meta data and urls.

Alerts:
Immediately sms and email notify to user, agent, admin when the ticket is booked.

Multiple Website Designs:
Choose and customize from over 100 website templates and launch a beautiful travel portal.

Cross Browser Support :

Combined With Handfull model sentence structures to generate which looks.

Who can benefit from eTravos?

Travel Agents :
Take your business to the next level with your own travel portal.

Hospitality :
Leave phone behind… Get online.

Start-up Entrepreneurs :
Own your brand… Start your entrepreneurial journey – Sky is the limit.

Corporates :
An additional vertical… an additional revenue stream for You.

Ecommerce :
The new way to eCommerce is to Commerce.

Retail Stores :
Earn extra cash… Book travel tickets for your customers.

Senior Citizens :
It’s never too late… engage and earn cash from the comfort of your home.

Housewives:
Earn cash from the comfort of your home.

Students :
Your entrepreneurial journey begins here at eTravos.

Grocery Stores :
Book tickets for your customers & earn extra cash.

“smart travel platform – eTravos – which aims to power the India’s largest B2B Cloud Travel Portal Provider.”

India is on the cusp of a startup revolution. With a big investment push from corporate investors, corporate houses, celebrities and a range of favorable schemes by central/state government has positively created the euphoria of Start-up India Standup India.

The team at eTravos (powered by team i2Space lead by Founder & CEO Bhargava Vangapally) would love to share their journey that might help budding & experienced entrepreneurs alike.

The Story Before the Year 2013

Like most of the software companies in Hyderabad i2Space was into web development – specializing in custom travel portal development. We did that for years till one fine day the Founder & CEO realized that majority of the developers out of a total strength of almost 40 (peak strength during 2012) were engaged in fixing bugs or handling never ending change request. There was hardly any new development in sight because of the work load stress to the existing developers.

The Problem – Unable to Focus on New Development

During the period of 4 years i2Space has served 100+ domestic (India based) clients with their branded custom domain. Bhargava observed a pattern in the problems (support request) they were facing on a frequent basis.

A few pointers:

• Software Bugs – at times repeated due to carelessness.
• API consumption related changes due to updates in source API.
• UI changes.
• Payment Gateway related changes (Remove Existing PG, Add new PG etc.)

The above pattern persisted with the team and clients – a never-ending wild goose chase with clients support request. Our woes compounded as India is an extremely price sensitive market you literally need to keep on haggling with the client for support related payments!

SOS – To Our Rescue – A Multitenant SaaS

Bhargava build a team of 5 developers of i2Space and spearheaded the development of a Multi-tenant SaaS later launched with the brand name eTravos. For the uninitiated, Multi-tenant SaaS is software that can cater to the needs of similar workflow from a single code base & possibly a single database. After putting almost 2 years of hard work in development & testing we had a stable service named eTravos that has the ability to cater to the needs of 100s of clients from a single code base & 2 databases. Yes, this was challenging but we did it.

As of today eTravos has 9 services with rich set of configuration screens that it can signup new client within 15 minutes with his chosen set of services & UI themes. The client can start his business in a couple of days!

Optional information: The bookings of following services is supported by eTrvaos:

•         Bus
•         Cabs
•         Domestic Flight
•         International Flight
•         Hotels
•         Holiday Packages
•         Recharges
•         Bills Payment
•         Service Apartments

What We Did with eTravos?

Once eTravos was stable (almost a year ago) we started to migrate our existing clients on eTravos platform. Most of them were more than happy to use our shiny new service. We had a few new sign-ups as well. The time & resources we spend in support & maintenance was drastically reduced. Now we’ve a far smaller team with a better productivity than ever before.

Statistics Speaks for itself

Not to boast but in last 12 months we’ve the following figures:

• Number of clients = 135 clients
• Number of users (Site-Admins, Distributors, Agents) = 1528
• Turnover = INR 13021560
• Number of Bookings = 13611
• April 2016 – Monthly Turnover – INR 3700058
• April 2016 – Number of Bookings – 3308

With the current pace of growth we can reach a Monthly turnover of INR 10 Million by October 2016.

Smart use of Technology is the prime leverage to get ahead in your entrepreneurial journey. Never ignore it. Sometimes you need to pause, look back and start afresh to gain the desired results. Finally the perseverance pays. Happy Entrepreneurial Journey…