Cruise commissions, supplier dimensions, agent splits, and printed payout checks with a stub that lists every guest. Built specifically for cruise, tour, and package travel agencies switching from QuickBooks Desktop.
Free 30-Day TrialA $5,000 cruise that earns you $400 commission with an 80/20 split to the agent meant: create the booking invoice, create a second fake "commission invoice," receive payment from the customer, then cut a payment to the agent. Four steps per trip. Repeat fifty times a week.
When the end-of-month payout to your independent contractor covers twelve guests' trips, QuickBooks prints a check with a blank stub. Every month you'd handwrite or type up an attachment listing what the check covered. The accounting software left that to you.
At sale time. Logs commission earned. Posts the journal entry.
When the supplier check clears. Cash hits the bank.
Monthly. The itemized check stub prints alongside the check.
Booking date isn't pay date. Pay date isn't receipt date. BizBooks Pro keeps the three timestamps separate so your monthly reports show what actually happened when — not a smashed-together version of reality forced by software that wouldn't separate them.
Drop the supplier's confirmation PDF or a phone photo of it into the form. AI vision extracts the supplier name, guest, travel dates, gross trip cost, commissionable amount, and commission earned. Three to six seconds. Every field stays editable for review.
Every independent contractor stores their current commission tier. New bookings pick up the agent's tier automatically. When a top performer crosses into a higher tier mid-year, one checkbox retroactively applies the new rate to all that agent's unpaid bookings — and never touches the bookings already paid.
Click "Post Payout & Print Check." Your check prints on the pre-printed business check stock you already use, with the voucher stub printing alongside. The stub names every booking on the run: travel date, guest, supplier, commission, agent percent, and payout. Hand it to the IC. They have a complete record without a single line of typing.
Travel-month filtered reports built around the questions agency owners actually run every month.
Bring 6+ years of QB history with you. Standard import phases handle the chart of accounts, customers, vendors, opening balances, and transactions. Then the travel-specific synthesis utility reconstructs proper Travel Bookings records from your imported journal entries — so historical activity shows up correctly in the new reports.
When you add an IC, BizBooks Pro offers to auto-create a matching 1099-NEC vendor record and link the two. Every commission check you cut through Pay Commissions then automatically lands on that vendor's transaction history. Year-end, the 1099 Summary report rolls up every IC's annual total without reconciliation work.
This vertical wasn't built in isolation. It was designed in active conversation with a small agency owner who'd been running QuickBooks Desktop for 6.5 years and was tired of the workarounds. Every workflow on this page came out of a real complaint about QB — and stayed in the product only after she ran her live books through it for a quarter and confirmed it operated the way she does.
BizBooks Pro's complete feature set sits under the travel-specific front door: multi-currency, bank-feed reconciliation, AI-assisted transaction categorization, a custom report builder, batch invoicing, audit logs, and everything else a serious small-business accounting platform needs. The Travel Agency Vertical is a focused workflow shell on top — not a stripped-down version of the app.
No. The Travel Agency Vertical is a feature flag inside the standard BizBooks Pro application that turns on travel-specific screens. Pro tier and above ship with it active by default. There's no separate installer, no separate subscription, and no separate data store.
Four lines at the booking save: Debit Commissions Receivable for the full commission amount, Credit Commission Income for the same amount, Debit Agent Commissions Expense for the IC's share, and Credit Commissions Payable for the IC's share. Receiving commission posts a second JE (Debit Bank or Undeposited Funds, Credit Commissions Receivable). Paying the IC posts a third JE (Debit Commissions Payable, Credit Bank). Clean three-event double-entry.
Those go through standard BizBooks Pro invoicing exactly like any other small business. The Travel Bookings module is purely for the commission side of the operation — fees, retainers, and any other revenue stream uses the regular invoice flow.
Receive each booking individually with the deposit account set to Undeposited Funds. Then on the dashboard, click Deposit Undeposited Funds and pick the receipts that came in on the same supplier check. One bank deposit posts equal to the supplier's check total. Each individual booking still tracks separately for the agent payout report. Your bank statement reconciles cleanly.
Yes — that's a first-class workflow, not an afterthought. Standard QB Desktop migration handles chart of accounts, customers, vendors, opening balances, and transactions. Then the travel-specific synthesis utility reconstructs Travel Bookings records from imported commission JEs so historical activity surfaces in the new reports.
The migration flow lets you bulk-mark synthesized historical bookings as Paid, which removes them from the Pay Commissions outstanding list. Going forward, all commission payouts run through BizBooks Pro and build the proper payout-run history.
Not really. The General Ledger, Income Statement, Balance Sheet, AR Aging, and 1099 reports all behave the way every standard accounting platform produces them. The travel-specific screens are operational conveniences for you, the agency owner — not new financial statement structures your CPA has to figure out.
Yes. Check printing supports the three standard US business check stock layouts (top, middle, bottom) with adjustable field positions. The Print Alignment Test page lets you calibrate to your specific stock in one pass. After that, every check — including IC commission payouts — lines up correctly.
The Travel Agency Vertical is included free on BizBooks Pro's Pro tier and higher. There is no per-booking fee, no add-on subscription, and no separate license. You pay the standard Pro annual price and the entire vertical is unlocked.
Free for 30 days. Full Travel Agency Vertical. Bring your QB Desktop history along.