Connectivity and ancillary revenue for travel agencies and OTAs
Add connectivity at the point of booking.
- Wallet-based billing
- API or hosted widget
B2B partners worldwide
Connectivity is one of the few travel ancillaries that applies to almost every itinerary a travel agency or OTA sells — unlike a specific insurance product or a destination-specific tour, a traveler needs data in whichever of 200+ countries they're flying to, which makes it a near-universal attach-rate opportunity rather than a niche upsell. Adding it doesn't mean building carrier relationships or a billing system from scratch — an API or hosted widget attaches to an existing booking or checkout flow, with plan destination matched automatically to the traveler's itinerary rather than requiring a manual selection step. Ancillaries like lounge access, fast-track, and meet & greet sit in the same catalog, so a single integration adds several attach-rate opportunities rather than just one. Wallet-based billing means an OTA is only charged wholesale for what travelers actually activate, with markup captured automatically rather than reconciled manually, and dashboard reporting by route and agent shows exactly where the attach rate is strongest.
For a travel agency or OTA, ancillary attach rate is a margin lever that doesn't depend on selling more flights — it depends on capturing more of what a traveler already needs around the flight they've already booked. Connectivity is the widest-reaching version of that lever because, unlike lounge access or fast-track, it applies almost regardless of route, cabin class, or traveler segment. A single catalog integration that adds eSIM alongside lounge, fast-track, and meet & greet turns one checkout flow into several attach-rate opportunities at once, rather than requiring a separate vendor relationship per ancillary.
What travel agencies and OTAs get
Attach eSIM connectivity to the same booking flow as flights and hotels — one checkout, more revenue
Bundle ancillary products alongside it: lounge access, fast-track, meet & greet
White-label storefront or API integration to match your existing checkout experience
Wallet-based billing so you only pay wholesale for what travelers actually activate
Dashboard reporting by route, destination, and agent to see where ancillary revenue is strongest
200+ country coverage means the upsell applies to nearly every itinerary you sell
Access to 300+ mobile networks and 450+ MNOs/MVNOs through a single unified catalog
Built on infrastructure already serving 2,000+ B2B partners across travel, telecom, and fintech
How connectivity attaches to a booking flow
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Add an eSIM (and optional ancillary) upsell step to the existing booking or checkout flow
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Match plan destination automatically to the traveler's itinerary
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Traveler activates before departure — no separate app or vendor to visit
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Track ancillary attach rate and revenue by route from your dashboard
Selling connectivity yourself vs. white-labeling Zetexa
| Capability | Zetexa | Building In-House |
|---|---|---|
| Integration effort | API or hosted widget added to existing checkout | Building carrier relationships and billing from scratch |
| Ancillary range | eSIM, lounge, fast-track, meet & greet in one catalog | Usually connectivity only, if available at all |
| Coverage | 200+ countries, 300+ networks, 450+ MNOs/MVNOs matched to any itinerary | Limited to specific regional partnerships |
| Reporting | Attach rate and revenue by route, automatically tracked | Manual reconciliation across vendors |
| Partner scale | Infrastructure already supporting 2,000+ B2B partners | Unproven at scale until built and tested |
Trust & reliability
Zetexa's catalog runs on infrastructure already carrying live production traffic for 2,000+ B2B partners across travel, telecom, and fintech, with 1,800+ flexible SKUs and always-on coverage with automatic failover. For an OTA evaluating a new ancillary vendor, that means the integration is running on infrastructure already proven at scale, not a first-time build being tested on your booking flow.
B2B partners
flexible SKUs
Questions partners ask us
Yes — via API or a hosted widget, connectivity and ancillary products can be attached as an upsell step in your existing flight or hotel checkout flow.
Lounge access, fast-track security/immigration, and meet & greet airport assistance can all be bundled alongside eSIM in the same checkout flow.
You see attach rate and revenue by route, destination, and agent from your dashboard, and billing is wallet-based — you're only charged wholesale for what travelers actually activate, with your markup captured automatically.
In almost all cases, yes — with 200+ countries and 450+ MNOs/MVNOs covered, the connectivity upsell applies to nearly every itinerary you sell, and plan destination is matched automatically to the traveler's route.
Zetexa's infrastructure is built to meet the security and compliance expectations of travel and fintech partners integrating at scale, including GDPR-aligned data handling.
Still have questions?
Our team can walk you through it.