Tern

What is Tern?

Tern is a travel agency platform for independent advisors, agencies, hosts and suppliers that runs proposals, itineraries, bookings and back office in one place. The vendor describes it as one platform to run your travel business.

Key features of Tern

• Proposals and itineraries: build trip proposals and a traveler experience portal.
• Tern AI: an AI assistant, with an unlimited AI Notetaker in every plan.
• Hotels by Tern: a curated hotel library with commission within 7 days of checkout, per the vendor.
• Back office: reconciliation, invoicing and payments.
• Commission reconciliation: track commissions across hosts and suppliers.
• Marketing and mobile: an email marketing suite and an advisor mobile app in open beta.

How Tern works

Advisors build proposals and book travel, while agencies run the back office and share resources through Business in a Box. Hosts get commission rollups and credential management. Individual advisors can start migrating the same day, per the vendor.

Who uses Tern?

Tern serves independent advisors, agencies, hosts and suppliers. The vendor says it works with a wide range of consortia and host relationships, which can vary.

Tern pricing

Tern does not list prices on its homepage; a Start free trial button leads to signup and the trial length is not stated. An unlimited AI Notetaker is included in every plan.

Tern integrations

Tern names no third-party integrations on its homepage and says consortium and host support can vary, so confirm your setup with its team.

Tern alternatives

TravelJoy is a CRM and itinerary tool built for travel advisors. Salesforce Sales Cloud, HubSpot CRM, Zoho CRM and Pipedrive are general CRMs that lack travel-specific proposals, supplier commissions and itineraries. Tern is built for travel.