Services · Mobile app development · Travel agency apps
Codeeo takes on travel agency app development in Los Angeles for retail agencies, tour packagers, cruise specialists and community agencies serving the city's many language groups. We build apps that search air and hotels through your GDS and wholesalers, send quotes a client can approve on their phone, collect deposits, keep every itinerary current and track cancellations and refunds, all inside the disclosure rules California sets for sellers of travel.
California asks more of travel sellers than most states. Registration with the Attorney General, restitution fund notices, strict consumer privacy rights and all-in pricing rules all touch the screens a traveler sees. We treat them as product requirements, written into the design rather than bolted on before launch.
200+ companies across the US and the UAEFrom a first store to a listed developer
What the app can include
Agencies in Los Angeles sell a wide spread of trips: long haul flights out of LAX to Asia, the Pacific and Latin America, cruises from the terminals at San Pedro and Long Beach, Mexico getaways, Europe tours and multi-city family visits. Many serve a single community in its own language, whether Korean, Chinese, Tagalog, Armenian, Persian or Spanish, and their clients expect quotes in that language and a human on the other end of a message. Others handle travel for film, television and music productions, where crews and schedules change at short notice. The modules below are the ones these agencies ask for most. Each one connects to the same booking record, so a quote, a payment, a schedule change and a refund all sit together. Clients see a simple app; advisors see the detail they need to sell and service each trip. We start with the flow that costs your staff the most time and grow from there.
Quote templates, payment reminders and itinerary screens in English and the languages your clients speak, including right to left layouts for Persian. Advisors write notes in either language and the client approves the quote on their phone with one tap. Supplier descriptions stay in English unless you choose to translate them.
Community clients approve quotes without a phone call to explain them.
GDS and NDC search tuned for complex itineraries: open jaws, stopovers in Asia, multi-city family trips and consolidator fares where your contracts allow them. Advisors compare options side by side and keep fare rules attached to each option, so change and cancellation terms are clear before the client pays.
Complex long haul trips priced in minutes, not hours.
Cruise bookings from San Pedro or Long Beach combined with pre-cruise hotel nights and port transfers, or fly-cruise packages departing elsewhere. Deposit and final payment dates follow each cruise line's schedule, with reminders sent automatically to the client.
Cruise balances arrive on time, without manual tracking.
Your California registration number and the restitution fund wording the program requires appear on quotes, terms, receipts and marketing screens. The text lives in the admin, so your team updates it at renewal without a developer or an app release.
Required notices appear everywhere the law expects them.
Airfares show the full price including mandatory taxes and fees, as federal rules require, and hotel and package prices include mandatory charges in the headline figure in line with California's honest pricing law. Optional extras are shown as options, not surprises at checkout.
The price on the first screen is the price paid.
Bookings grouped by production, with crew lists, call sheets for travel dates, cost codes and approver workflows. Coordinators rebook a crew member in a few taps when a shoot moves, and accounts teams see spend per production in a report they can export.
Crew moves tracked against the production that pays.
Card payments through Apple Pay and Google Pay, deposits, scheduled balances and per traveler payments for family groups. Card entry runs on a PCI DSS validated processor, so tokens rather than card numbers sit in your database. Payment status shows next to each booking for advisors and finance.
Your team stops keying card numbers by hand.
Airline schedule changes are flagged against affected bookings, and the client is asked to accept the new flight or request a refund. If they decline a significantly changed or cancelled flight, the app tracks the refund owed under DOT rules by whoever is merchant of record.
No refund is forgotten when schedules shift.
California residents can ask to know, correct or delete their data and to opt out of its sale or sharing. The app includes request forms, identity checks, a log of each request and handling for opt out signals, so you can answer within the required periods.
Privacy requests handled through a record, not an inbox.
Many Los Angeles clients travel to see family abroad, often with several generations on one booking and a mix of passports. The app stores each traveler's documents securely, flags passport expiry against travel dates and lets one family member pay or approve for the rest. Repeat trips to the same destination can be quoted again from last year's booking in a few taps.
Families rebook the annual trip home in minutes.
Who this is for
A booking app pays off when it removes repeated manual work: retyping quotes, chasing balances, explaining changes by phone. In Los Angeles that work often looks different depending on the clients you serve. A community agency spends its time translating and reassuring. A cruise specialist spends it on payment schedules. A production coordinator spends it rebooking crews. Travel booking app development in Los Angeles should start with whichever of these is draining your team. Agencies that serve more than one of these groups usually launch for the largest one first, then extend the same platform to the others.
You serve Korean, Chinese, Filipino, Armenian, Iranian or Latino families, often across generations, and your reputation rests on personal service. The app keeps that personal touch: messages go to the advisor the family knows, quotes arrive in their language and older travelers can see their trip without downloading attachments. Younger family members can pay or approve on behalf of parents. Advisors can also post trip updates to a whole family at once.
The relationship stays with your advisor; the app removes the paperwork around it.
You sell a high volume of cruises and escorted tours with fixed payment dates. We build supplier specific deposit schedules, a calendar of balances due, upsells for pre-cruise hotels and transfers, and reminders that go out before final payment deadlines rather than after them. Group sailings for clubs and churches get their own booking pages and per cabin payments.
Coordinators book crews, talent and equipment travel against a production budget, with changes daily. We build production level grouping, approvals, cost codes and fast rebooking, and keep traveler preferences on file so the right seat and room type are requested every time. Per diem and policy limits can be shown to coordinators before they confirm a booking.
Your current booking site is a supplier's white label product that cannot show your markup logic, your California notices or your client history. We replace it with an app and console you own, migrate the client records you are entitled to keep and connect your existing supplier contracts. Your branding replaces the supplier's on every screen your clients see.
Migration planning starts in discovery so no client history is lost.
How we work together
Most agencies start with a fixed scope first release, then move to monthly support to keep supplier connections, notices and app store builds up to date. Production travel desks with steady change requests sometimes prefer a small dedicated team. Codeeo has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US, with a team of 80+ across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, and is rated 4.7 from 23 Google reviews. Our travel app developers for Los Angeles clients work remotely, with reviews by video call and a written summary after each one.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
iOS and Android apps, a web console for advisors and finance, and cloud hosting chosen around your supplier connections and data needs. Language files and legal notices are kept outside the code so your team can edit them. Supplier connectors run as separate services, so one supplier's outage does not stop the rest of the app from taking bookings.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
A client app, an advisor console and the supplier connections behind them.
Clients get quotes, payments, itineraries and messages. Advisors get search across your GDS and wholesalers, a quote builder, payment tracking and refund handling. Behind both sit the supplier connections, the payment processor and the settings for California notices and privacy requests. Discovery decides which of these launch first and which follow, based on where your staff lose the most time. Most agencies launch with fewer modules than they first imagine and add more once clients are using the app.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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