Currencies API use case: Travel & hospitality - Use Case

Travel and Hospitality Services

Travel and hospitality platforms serve customers who book and pay across currencies. Accurate exchange rates help ensure that prices for flights, hotels, and services stay consistent from search to booking. Reliable FX data reduces confusion, avoids pricing gaps, and helps international travelers trust what they see before they pay.

Your challenge

Travel and hospitality pricing often spans long booking journeys and multiple currencies.

Exchange rates can change between search, booking, and payment, creating differences between displayed prices and final charges. When FX data is delayed or inconsistent, platforms risk confusing customers, increasing booking abandonment, and dealing with disputes over unexpected price changes. Managing accurate, transparent pricing across currencies becomes especially difficult during periods of high demand or market volatility.

Price changes during the booking journey

Inconsistent FX rates across systems

Customer confusion and lost trust

Limited visibility into FX impact on revenue

Difficulty handling global demand peaks

How Does FinFeedAPI Solve It?

Use one reliable FX source for pricing decisions

FinFeedAPI’s Currencies API provides exchange rates derived from high-quality market data. Pricing engines can use the same FX rates across listings, carts, and settlement logic to stay consistent.

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Before vs After FinFeedAPI

Accounting workflow	Before	After (with Currencies API)
FX rate source	Multiple FX providers across systems.	One consistent FX source with a defined methodology.
Price consistency across regions	Same product priced differently without clear reason.	Prices stay aligned across regions.
Speed of price updates	FX updates lag behind pricing rules.	Faster FX updates keep prices current.
Cross-border price comparison	Buyers struggle to compare offers fairly.	Prices reflect real market FX, making comparisons clearer.
Scaling to new markets	Each new country adds FX complexity.	Broad currency coverage simplifies global expansion.
FX-driven price changes	Hard to explain why prices shifted.	Historical FX data explains past price changes.
Operational overhead	Manual fixes for FX mismatches.	Fewer mismatches and less manual work.
Pricing trust	Users question price fairness.	More transparent and predictable pricing.

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FAQ: Accounting & Financial Reporting & Currencies API

Why do pricing engines struggle with multiple currencies?

Currencies change all the time, while prices need to stay stable and fair. FinFeedAPI provides reliable exchange rates that help pricing engines adjust prices without creating gaps between regions or listings.

How do exchange rate delays affect cross-border marketplaces?

Delayed FX rates lead to outdated prices. With FinFeedAPI, marketplaces can refresh prices more often using up-to-date exchange rates, reducing stale or misleading listings.

What causes the same product to have different prices in different countries?

This usually happens when FX rates come from different sources or update at different times. FinFeedAPI helps prevent this by offering one consistent FX source for all pricing logic.

How can marketplaces compare offers fairly across currencies?

Fair comparison requires accurate conversion. FinFeedAPI provides market-based exchange rates so prices reflect real currency values, making comparisons clearer for buyers and sellers.

Can FinFeedAPI support dynamic pricing across regions?

Why do users lose trust when prices change unexpectedly?

Unexpected changes feel unfair or confusing. Using consistent FX data from FinFeedAPI helps keep prices predictable and easier to understand.

How can platforms explain why prices changed yesterday or last week?

Historical exchange rates from FinFeedAPI allow teams to review past prices and explain how FX movement affected them.

Is it better to update FX rates frequently or use cached values?

Cached values are simpler but risk being outdated. FinFeedAPI gives platforms the flexibility to update rates as often as needed without overcomplicating systems.

How does FX data affect marketplace growth in new countries?

Expanding into new regions increases FX complexity. FinFeedAPI simplifies this by supporting many currencies through one API.

Can pricing engines reuse FX data across pricing, checkout, and reporting?

Yes. FinFeedAPI allows platforms to use the same exchange rates across pricing engines, checkout systems, and analytics, reducing mismatches and manual fixes.