B2C

If your solution will purchase tickets/make reservations, you'll be an Online Travel Agency (OTA):

• If you’re selling tickets in the U.S., do you have ARC certification?
• If you’re selling tickets outside the U.S., do you have IATA BSP certification?
• If you’re based in the U.S., does your state require additional legal accreditations? For example, in California, you must register as a Seller of Travel before you begin business operations.
• Will you have your own call center to support post-booking needs (refunds, exchanges) or will you outsource the fulfillment and servicing of bookings?

If not, you'll be a Meta Search Engine or Non-Booking App:

• Have you established media or affiliate partnerships?
• Have you developed your referral strategy? For example, a consumer shops on your app, but is then linked to an OTA to process payment and complete the booking.
• Do you have a projected API volume forecast?

B2B

If you plan to sell your solution to Travel Agencies or Corporations:

• Will the IP rights of your solution belong to your travel agency partner 100%? 
  If so, you may access our APIs as their contractor as long as they are a Sabre Connected agency. Have the travel agency contact their existing Sabre Account Director or sign a subscriber agreement to become a Sabre Connected agency.
• Do you plan to resell your solution to other travel agencies or corporations? 
  If so, you may be a candidate for our Sabre Authorized Developer Program. Fill out a questionnaire to be contacted.
• Do you plan to sell your solution as an app for travel agents to download and use within their point of sale? (i.e. Sabre Red Workspace)
  If so, you may be a candidate to be a Sabre Red App Provider. Fill out an application to be contacted.

If you plan to sell your solution to Travel Suppliers (Airlines, Hoteliers, Car rental Companies, etc):

Suppliers (airlines, hoteliers, car rental companies, etc) typically initiate the relationship with Sabre in order to gain access to our APIs. They can later assign a Sabre Authorized Developer to work on a project on their behalf.

What about Sabre Airline Solutions® and Sabre Hospitality Solutions®?

• Sabre Airline Solutions does not have an environment for 3rd parties to test in, so you must work directly with the airline in order to gain access to their partition. For more information about this process for a Sabre-hosted carrier, please submit a contact form.
• Sabre Hospitality Solutions does not have an environment for 3rd parties to test in, but we hope to make various hotel APIs publicly available for testing in the future. For more information, please submit a contact form.