Bookkeeping for Travel Agents: A Complete Guide for 2026
If you're a travel agent — whether you run your own agency or work as an independent advisor under a host agency — your bookkeeping is proba...
Tracking Travel Agent Commissions: 5 Mistakes That Cost You Money
Commission is the lifeblood of a travel agent's business. But tracking it accurately is harder than it looks — and small mistakes add up fas...
How to Reconcile a Travel Agency Bank Account in 10 Minutes
Bank reconciliation is the one bookkeeping task every travel agent knows they should do — and the one most of them avoid. It has a reputatio...
Setting Up a Chart of Accounts for a Travel Agency
Your chart of accounts is the skeleton of your bookkeeping system. Get it right and every transaction has an obvious home. Get it wrong and...
How to Handle Client Refunds and Supplier Clawbacks Without Losing Your Mind
Cancellations happen. A client breaks a leg two days before departure. A cruise line cancels a sailing. A hurricane rearranges the Caribbean...
How to Read a Profit & Loss Statement (Travel Agent Edition)
Your Profit & Loss statement (sometimes called a P&L, an income statement, or a statement of operations) is the single most importan...
The Complete Expense Tracking Guide for Independent Travel Advisors
Expense tracking is where most independent travel advisors either succeed or fail at bookkeeping. Succeed, and every business expense turns...
How to Separate Personal and Business Finances as a Travel Agent
If I had to give independent travel advisors ONE piece of bookkeeping advice, this would be it: separate your business finances from your pe...