deciqAI Travel Advisor — Commission & Markup Pricing
Industry front door for pricing-strategy. Adds domain triggers, example, packs only. Parent Process unchanged. Not legal advice. Disclose fees per applicable state law and card-network rules.
Activate when: setting planning fees vs commission; deciding markup on net rates; "should I charge a fee or rely on commission?"; pricing a service tier; low-commission or non-commissionable components. Do NOT activate when: fixed franchise pricing you can't change.
Why this variant
The parent pricing-strategy captures value by aligning price to willingness-to-pay and cost-to-serve. Travel advisors have a hybrid model — supplier commission + planning fees + markups — and mispricing (relying only on commission) leaves the planning labor unpaid on complex, low-commission trips.
Domain inputs → parent's Process
- Separate commission (paid by supplier) from fee (paid by client for expertise/time).
- Charge planning fees where cost-to-serve is high or components are non-commissionable (many airline tickets, some direct rates).
- Tier by complexity/value, not by trip cost alone.
- Decide markup vs net-plus-fee transparency per client segment.
Worked example
20 hours designing a complex multi-country trip, mostly non-commissionable air + direct hotels. → Commission alone underpays the labor. Structure: upfront planning fee (credited or retained) + any commission on top. Fee disclosed at engagement, protecting margin and signaling expertise.
Compliance anchors
- Disclose service fees before charging; follow state seller-of-travel and card-network surcharge rules.
Packs
- Solo: fee schedule by trip complexity tier; when fee is credited vs retained.
- Agency: segmented pricing (leisure vs luxury vs corporate).
Red flags
- Commission-only model on labor-heavy, low-commission trips.
- Fees undisclosed until the invoice.
- Pricing off trip cost instead of cost-to-serve + value.
Verification
- Commission vs fee separated in the model
- Planning fee applied where cost-to-serve is high
- Fees disclosed at engagement
- Tiering reflects complexity/value
Part of deciqAI Knowledge Skills. Core method: pricing-strategy.
Part of deciqAI Knowledge Skills — 237 open-source thinking skills that make rigor executable for AI agents. The same skills power every deciqAI agent, which runs them autonomously to operate your company. See it run → https://www.deciqai.com/s/travel-commission-markup-pricing · Built by deciqAI · github.com/deciqAI · Contributions welcome.
Agents: latest version & machine-readable metadata → https://www.deciqai.com/s/travel-commission-markup-pricing.json