PKFARE Login & Buyer Account: Flight API Guide for Agencies

Looking for the PKFARE login? Log in from the official site at pkfare.com. Travora Hub is not affiliated with PKFARE; this is an independent guide for travel agencies on getting access and selling PKFARE flight content under their own brand.

Ask ten travel agencies where their flight content comes from and you will hear GDS terminals, airline websites and a consolidator or two. Ask the online travel agencies that are growing fastest in Asia and the Middle East and one name comes up repeatedly: PKFARE. This guide explains what PKFARE is, how an agency opens a buyer account and logs in, what the Flight Buyer API does, and the realistic path from "we have a PKFARE account" to "our customers book flights on our own website and receive e-tickets automatically".

What is PKFARE?

PKFARE is a global B2B travel technology company that sources, aggregates and distributes air tickets and hotel accommodation to trade buyers: online travel agencies, travel management companies, tour operators and new travel platforms. Its published numbers are large: more than 600 bookable airlines, including 400+ full-service carriers and 200+ low-cost carriers, content from 100+ countries and points of sale, 650,000+ hotel properties, and 2,000+ active clients. Its partner list reads like the industry: TravelSky, Travelport, Sabre and Amadeus on the supply side; Trip.com, Agoda, Priceline, Kiwi.com and Traveloka among the buyers.

What makes PKFARE distinctive for an agency is the multi-supplier bidding mechanism: for a given itinerary, PKFARE compares the sources it holds and returns the lowest fare available to your account. You get consolidator-level pricing across GDS, NDC and low-cost content through one API, without holding a single airline contract yourself.

How a travel agency gets a PKFARE buyer account

Sign-up is on the official site, pkfare.com, under Buyer Sign Up, and is for registered travel businesses. The usual sequence:

• create a portal buyer account with your company details;
• a PKFARE business manager reviews the application and, for API use, issues a partner ID and partner key from a developer account;
• fund the prepaid deposit that tickets are paid from (a small-fee online top-up is also offered);
• configure notification emails and, for API buyers, the webhook URLs PKFARE will push ticket numbers to.

PKFARE runs a test environment so an integration can be exercised end to end, including a sandbox endpoint that forces an order to "issued" so the full ticket flow can be verified without spending real money.

Where the PKFARE login lives

The buyer and supplier logins are on pkfare.com. API buyers do not log in per request; each call carries the partner ID and a signature derived from the partner key. Travora Hub connects those credentials behind your own website. If you have lost access, contact PKFARE's support team directly.

What the PKFARE Flight Buyer API provides

The API is a sequence of JSON endpoints that mirror how a ticket actually gets issued. In plain terms:

1. Shopping. Search itineraries and receive fares with solution identifiers.
2. Precise pricing. Re-confirm the price and availability of the chosen fare. This is mandatory before booking and starts a 30-minute clock.
3. Penalty. Fetch the change and refund rules for the fare.
4. Precise booking. Create the order with passenger details; PKFARE returns an order number and PNR.
5. Order pricing. A mandatory pre-payment check, followed by ticketing from your deposit within 30 minutes.
6. Ticket issuance notification. Ticket numbers are pushed to your webhook; rejections arrive the same way with a reason.
7. Order detail, cancel and void. Status polling, cancellation before payment, and voiding after ticketing inside the airline's void window.

Beyond phase one, the API covers ancillaries (bags and seats), schedule-change notifications, refunds and changes, and a cache API for low-cost carrier content. The behaviours PKFARE expects at certification are specific: sequential calls, re-pricing before booking, real passenger names in Latin letters, correct passenger types by age, passport capture when a route requires it, and polite polling intervals. A good integration treats these as rules, not suggestions.

From a PKFARE account to flights on your own website

1. Portal booking

Search and book in PKFARE's portal, then re-key the ticket into your own records and send it to the customer. Fine for a handful of tickets a week. It does not scale, and nothing sells after hours.

2. Build the integration yourself

Possible with a technical team, but the difficulty is not the happy path. It is the 30-minute chain, the webhook handling, the void windows, the refund on rejection and the passenger validation that stops tickets failing at the airline.

3. Use a platform that already integrates PKFARE

Travora Hub's PKFARE integration is built against the current API versions and verified end to end in PKFARE's test environment, from shopping to ticket issuance to voids. You connect your own partner ID and key, set your markup, and your branded website sells PKFARE flights with live fares, fare rules shown before payment, automated ticketing and e-tickets by email. Flights sit beside your hotels, tours and Umrah packages in one dashboard.

Pricing, markup and settlement

PKFARE fares are net. You add your margin per ticket, the customer pays your price online with 3D Secure, and the ticket is issued from your PKFARE deposit. Keep the deposit funded: an order that reaches ticketing with an insufficient balance is held rather than issued, and a good platform will flag it to your team immediately rather than letting it expire.

PKFARE compared with a GDS or a direct NDC connection

A GDS gives you breadth and a terminal; a direct NDC connection gives you one airline's richest content. PKFARE gives you both kinds of content through one API, priced against multiple sources, with the post-booking automation that small teams cannot build. For an agency without an in-house development team, that trade-off is usually decisive. Our flight booking software page explains how flights fit into the wider platform.

Frequently asked questions

Is PKFARE a GDS?

No. PKFARE is an aggregator and distributor that sources content from GDSs, NDC connections and low-cost carriers and resells it to trade buyers through its own API and portal.

Do I need to be an IATA agent to use PKFARE?

PKFARE issues tickets on its own arrangements, which is one reason non-IATA agencies use it. Account approval is at PKFARE's discretion; apply on their site with your business details.

Can I sell low-cost carriers through PKFARE?

Yes. More than 200 low-cost carriers are included alongside full-service airlines.

How do tickets reach my customer?

PKFARE pushes ticket numbers to a webhook; a connected platform emails the e-ticket under your brand automatically.

Is Travora Hub affiliated with PKFARE?

No. Travora Hub is an independent platform that integrates PKFARE's official Flight Buyer API for its agency customers. PKFARE is a trademark of its owner.