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Refer it.
Resell it.
Or carry it as your own.

SkyPartner is how travel management companies offer airline GST recovery to their corporate clients. Three commercial models, configured to the relationship: a referral fee if you just want the introduction, a reseller margin if you want to own the conversation, or a full white-label if you want it to look like yours. We run the engine. You choose how visible we are.

Enterprise TMCs Regional TMCs Online travel platforms Corporate booking tools + consultancies
The opportunity

Your corporate clients are
losing ITC every quarter.
You’re the one they’d trust to fix it.

The corporate client of an average mid-sized Indian TMC leaks roughly ₹2–5% of their annual airline spend in unrecovered GST credit. They don’t know it. You’re already inside the relationship. SkyPartner turns that gap into a new revenue line, shaped to whatever role you want to play in the conversation.

Per ₹5 Cr client ₹ 21 L typical recoverable ITC, leaking annually with no recon
Your share of that 12–70% of the retention fee, depending on whether you refer, resell, or white-label
Time to launch 1–3 weeks from agreement to first client live, depending on the model
01, You already have the trust

They flew with you. They’ll listen to you.

Your client trusts you with their travel program because you’ve earned it over years. GST recovery sits adjacent to booking: same data, same finance contact, same cycle. You don’t need a new pitch; you need a new product line.

02, The need is real, the providers are wrong

GST recovery as a standalone is a hard sell

Generic GST tools ask CFOs to buy yet another platform. Travel-specific recovery is a different conversation: specific, quantified, with the data they’re already sharing with you. SkyPartner lets you have that conversation natively.

03, Margin you don’t have to fight for

Revenue defended by outcome, not by airline commissions

You’re not pricing booking margin against airline commissions. You’re earning against measurable ITC recovery on your client’s books, whether as a referral fee, a reseller margin, or full retention under white-label. The math justifies itself every quarter regardless of which model you pick.

The economics

One mid-sized client.
The math, with nothing hidden.

A worked example for a single corporate client of yours. A 50,000-invoice-per-year travel program, ₹5 crore annual airline spend, typical recovery profile, sold under the reseller model. Your numbers will differ. The structure won’t.

ILLUSTRATIVE CLIENT / ANNUAL ECONOMICS Reseller model
Recoverable ITC delivered ITC actually landed in client books, per year. The number your client cares about.
₹ 21,25,000/ yr
Your fee to client Priced as 18% of recovered credit. Many partners price higher; some flat-fee. Your call.
₹ 3,82,500/ yr
TraCarta’s per-invoice fee Back-end, paid by you. 50,000 invoices at our SkyPartner rate, transparent, tier-aligned.
₹ 1,12,500/ yr
Your margin Annual contribution per client. Roughly 70% of fee, retained.
₹ 2,70,000/ yr
Reseller math above. Referral pays you an introduction fee on the same revenue; lighter margin, zero delivery effort. White-label keeps the full retention with you, less a back-end engine fee; higher per-client contribution, more support lift. We’ll size the right model with you on the partnership call.
Launch timeline

Days, not months, depending on the model.

Referral partners can be live the same week we sign. Reseller and white-label take longer because there’s more to set up. Below: the three timelines, side by side.

Week 1

Referral, live immediately

Sign the partnership agreement. We share a referral link and a partner contact at TraCarta. Your first introduction can happen the next day. No technical setup on your side.

Week 1–2

Reseller, first client live

We brief your team on the offer, the pricing structure, and the support escalation path. You name TraCarta as your technology partner in your collateral. First corporate client onboarded within two weeks of agreement.

Week 2–3

White-label, first client live

Brand integration: your logo and colours on the SharePoint workspace; senders configured for your domain; non-compete terms agreed in writing. One pilot client, full cycle, end-to-end in your brand. You sign off before any client sees it.

Who owns what · white-label model

The hardest model spelled out plainly.

The reason most white-label partnerships fail isn’t product. It’s ownership creep, the vendor that quietly shows up in front of your client. We’ve built the white-label tier of SkyPartner to make that impossible. Here is what belongs to whom, explicitly, when a partner runs in full white-label. Under referral and reseller, the lines are different and softer; we’ll walk you through them on the call.

You (TMC)
Your client
TraCarta
Client relationship
Owned Yours, exclusively. We never contact your client.
Belongs here They are your client. Always.
, No relationship. No outreach. Ever.
Client data
Controlled You decide what flows in and out.
Owned Their books, their records. Their property.
Processes Stored, encrypted, returned. Never repurposed.
Brand & pricing
Owned Your brand on every surface. Your pricing.
, Sees only your brand. Pays only your invoice.
, Invisible. Back-end relationship with you only.
Engine & uptime
Configures You choose the modules, the cadence, the limits.
, Experiences the outcome, not the engine.
Operated We run it. We carry the SLA. We backstop you.
Partner questions

What a TMC leadership team would ask.

Will TraCarta ever sell directly to our clients?

Under the white-label model, no, that’s a contractual non-compete on your covered accounts. Under reseller, we won’t pursue your named accounts without your consent, but the protection is softer because the engagement names us. Under referral, you’re bringing us the introduction, so the question doesn’t arise the same way; we agree case-by-case on what “your account” means.

Can we run different models for different clients?

Yes, and most partners do. A long-standing strategic corporate might be a white-label engagement; a new client they just won might be a reseller deal; a referral from outside their TMC roster sits on the referral track. One partnership contract covers all three; you just tag each engagement at the start.

What happens if our client leaves us for another TMC?

Their data leaves with them, formatted however they need. We don’t hold it hostage. If they move to a TMC that also runs SkyPartner, the engine continues uninterrupted under the new partnership. If they move elsewhere, we hand over a clean migration package on your instruction.

How do support escalations work?

Under reseller and white-label, your team handles tier-1 in your brand. For anything that needs engine-level visibility, failed sync, edge-case verdict, regulatory question, you escalate to our partner channel. Under referral, we handle everything; you just stay in the loop on the relationship.

What reporting do we get for our own management?

A partner dashboard, scoped to whatever you can see in your model. Reseller and white-label partners see client-level activity, recovery delivered, margin contribution, support incidents. Referral partners see the engagement health for accounts they introduced, plus the recurring fee earned. All drillable, all exportable, all reconciled monthly.

We already have a GST recovery product. Can SkyPartner layer on top?

Often yes. If your existing product handles general-purpose ITC, SkyPartner can specialise in the airline category specifically, sitting alongside, not replacing. We’ve done this with two partners already. The integration approach depends on your stack; the partnership math still works under any of the three models.

A one-hour call

Let’s do the numbers on your roster.

Send us a rough shape of your corporate book: account count, average airline spend, your typical pricing model. We’ll come back with what SkyPartner would mean as a revenue line for you, plus a partnership outline. One call. No paperwork until you want it.

Open a partnership conversation