The travel marketplace platform

Every journey, one home.

Wanora is the platform behind white-label country travel marketplaces. One core carries the reservations, the storefronts, the loyalty, the partner tools and the payments — so a market puts its whole self online under its own brand. One platform. Every kind of booking. Endless places to belong.

route · one triplive
reserve online→ settle on arrival
6+
Booking categories
4
Booking models
Split
Pay-a-fee, settle on site
1
Core, many markets
The platform

One platform
beneath many marketplaces.

Most travel booking is fragmented — a room here, a driver there, a tour somewhere else, each with its own site, its own checkout, its own trust problem. Wanora replaces the scramble with a single platform a market can stand up as its own branded marketplace. Guests browse and reserve in one place. Hosts list once. Operators run a business, not a stack.

Stays

Hotels, villas, cabins, homestays.

Experiences

Tours, dives, treks, lessons.

Transport

Drivers, transfers, rides.

Wellness

Spas, retreats, healing.

Dining

Supper clubs, tables, tastings.

Rentals

Bikes, boards, gear, kit.

Events

Festivals, matches, shows.

Nightlife

Clubs, bars, late tables.

Cruises

Day sails, charters, ferries.

Retreats

Yoga, wilderness, escapes.

+ your categories

Template-based — add more, any market.

Six shipping today. More whenever a market needs them — the category model is data, not code.

What it does

Everything a market needs
to run — in one platform.

Not a booking widget bolted onto a website. A complete platform: the reservation core, the storefronts, the loyalty layer, the money model, and the API that ties it all together — with room to grow into whatever a market asks for next.

01

Reserve online, settle on arrival

Guests pay a small reservation fee to lock the booking; the balance is settled directly with the host at the destination. Lower friction for guests, no online-payment burden for hosts, and two clean revenue lines for the operator.

02

White-label, multi-tenant

Every deployment carries its own name, theme, legal pages, and tax rules. A marketplace that looks like it was built for one market — because it was. Nothing about the brand is borrowed.

03

One core, every market

Nothing is hardcoded to a country. Stand up a new national marketplace from configuration — the governing law, the privacy baseline, the currency, the categories — not a rebuild.

04

A fleet of front doors

Many region- and category-specific storefronts can feed a single marketplace, each tuned to how people actually search — all canonicalizing back to one master catalogue, so reach never fragments the core.

05

Headless by design

A clean API contract means storefronts, partner sites, and future channels all read from one source of truth, each authenticated as itself. Build anywhere; the core stays honest.

06

Built for real money

Multiple payment gateways, commission and fee logic on both revenue streams, tax that freezes onto every invoice at issuance, and an audit trail running the whole way through.

07

Speaks every market

Multi-language and multi-currency down to date, number, and price formats — so a guest anywhere reads a marketplace that feels native, not translated.

08

Live availability

Real-time calendars and reservation holds across every model — date ranges, per-person and per-vehicle slots — so two guests never land on the same seat.

09

Capture demand, not just bookings

Listings can reserve or enquire — or both. Interest that isn't ready to check out is captured as a lead and routed straight to the host, so nothing walks away unanswered.

10

Trust & anti-abuse

Verification, bot defence, and token-scoped access sit under every booking, so a marketplace scales reach without inviting fraud through the front door.

and it keeps growing

New capabilities land on one core and reach every market at once. The platform is a foundation, not a finished list.

The ecosystem

More than an engine.
The whole platform.

The reservation core is only the middle of it. Around it sits everything a marketplace actually needs to live: the guest storefronts, a loyalty layer that spans the network, the tools hosts run their listings with, and the money-and-audit console operators trust. One core, many surfaces.

Guest marketplace
market.example/ stays / a-cliff-top-guesthouse
A cliff-top guesthouse
Stays · a coastline
Reserve your stay
■ reservation feesettle on arrival ■
Reservation fee — onlinea little
Pay the host — on arrivalthe balance
You lock it now forthe fee only
Reserve
One wallet, one tier
across the whole network
Current tierNext tier
Earn on every reservation, anywhere in the network — and spend it anywhere too.
Moonstone
from sign-up
Sapphire
1.25× rate
Ruby
1.5× rate
Diamond
2× rate
Your listings
host workspace
Cliff-top guesthouse
Stays · reserve + enquire
calendar heldlive
Dawn surf lesson
Experiences · per person
2 slots leftlive
Well-kept van + driver
Transport · per vehicle
new requeston hold
New reservation · calendar held
Money, tax & audit
Revenue stream 01Guest reservation fee
Revenue stream 02Partner commission
Tax frozen at issuance Multi-gateway Full audit trail
Layer 01

Guest marketplace

Rich, category-aware booking pages with the split-payment flow built in — one search, one reserve, every kind of trip.

Layer 02

A fleet of front doors

Region- and category-scoped storefronts that meet searchers in their own words and canonicalize back to one core.

Layer 03

Network loyalty

One wallet and one tier earned across the whole network — points on every reservation, spendable anywhere in it.

Layer 04

Partner tools

Hosts list once and manage availability, reservations, and enquiries — with no payment integration to build.

Layer 05

Operator console

Commission, fees, tax that freezes onto every invoice, and a complete audit trail — the money side, handled.

Roadmap
Layer 06

Master hub

A federation layer above every per-country platform, aggregating the whole fleet of marketplaces into one view.

The model

A booking, start to finish.

The split-payment flow is the quiet idea that makes the whole thing work in places where card-on-file everywhere isn't the norm.

Step 01

Discover & reserve

A traveller finds a listing — through any storefront — and reserves it with a small fee that locks it in.

Step 02

Confirmed instantly

Guest and host are both notified, the calendar is held, and the reservation is real — no waiting, no back-and-forth.

Step 03

Settle at the destination

The balance is paid directly to the host on arrival. The guest travels light; the host keeps their own terms.

The split, illustrated

A little now, the rest on arrival.

The reservation fee moves online to lock the booking. The balance never touches the platform — it travels with the guest and settles hand-to-hand with the host at the door.

Revenue stream 01

Guest reservation fee

A small fee charged on top of the host's price to secure the booking online — never carved out of what the host earns.

Revenue stream 02

Partner commission

A per-booking commission from the host, configurable platform-wide and per partner. Two clean lines, one flow.

Why it works

The whole of a place,
bookable.

Picture a coastline. A cliff-top guesthouse, a driver with a well-kept van, a dawn surf lesson, a spa tucked in the palms, a supper club that seats twelve. Today, each is a phone number and a hope. On Wanora they're one search, one reserve, one trusted flow — and the traveller arrives with everything already sorted.

For travellers

One place they can trust

Everything a destination offers, reserved in a flow that feels the same every time — instead of a dozen inboxes and guesses.

For hosts

List once, no payment tech

A guesthouse or a solo guide gets real online reservations without touching a payment integration — and settles on their own terms, on site.

For operators

A marketplace out of the box

The branding, the money model, the loyalty, the reach, and the compliance are already built. What's left is the market itself.

Reach

Meet travellers
where they search.

People don't search for a platform — they search for a place and a thing. Wanora fans out into many focused storefronts, each scoped to a region and a category and speaking the exact words a searcher used, then hands every booking to the same trusted core.

region × category exact-match intent canonical → one core shared inventory shared guest identity
Built to last

Owned infrastructure,
serious by default.

The kind of foundation that matters when a marketplace is handling other people's money, other people's bookings, and other people's data.

Compliance-ready

Privacy baselines such as GDPR and a national data-protection act come built in — and bend to whatever each market's law requires.

Self-hosted & resilient

Its own private network, database, and object storage; automatic certificates; and backups that are proven with real restore drills, not assumed.

Multi-gateway payments

More than one payment provider, for both the guest fee and the partner commission — so a market isn't hostage to a single processor.

Auditable, no lock-in

Settings, money, and admin actions are traceable; the whole stack is yours to run. Configuration, not captivity.

Every journey,
one home.

Wanora is how a market puts its whole self online — and how a traveller finds a place to belong. If you're building the marketplace a country deserves, let's talk.

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