Still parsing travel emails

This is a follow-up post to "Parsing travel e-mails", written back in early 2019. Five years later, AI has entered the scene and one would expect there to be new and fancy parsing solutions out there. And maybe the existing ones have changed, hopefully for the better. Let's have a look. LMGTFY A simple search …

So, what is funnel.travel for, really?

Platform applications There's an inherent difficulty describing use cases for platform-type applications. If an application can be extended and configured using a plugin ecosystem, it can do whatever those plugins allow it to do. I personally like the example of WordPress, which can be so many things. funnel.travel doesn't have the same pull as WordPress, …

New features big and small

It's been a while since the last post, but not for lack of work going into funnel.travel. So here's a round-up post highlighting some recent changes. Configuration: Process bookings from It might seem like just a small, additional setting on the modifier and consumer extensions, but this one is a game-changer. Limit the processing of …

Keeping an eye on booking data quality

funnel.travel has always had a mechanism to check that fundamental data fields are properly populated. These are: ParticipantsProviders (aka vendors)Destinations The participant check is redundant if the account is set up to use an external profile system (see e.g. Integrating Umbrella Faces), and is automatically disabled with such a configuration. False positives Recently, a funnel.travel …

funnel.travel: a game-changing middleware for booking data

Interview with Simon Niederberger Simon Niederberger is an outstanding software engineer. After all, he designed both Umbrella.net and Umbrella Faces. His new project funnel.travel, a state-of-the art middleware for booking data, is designed to revolutionize the management of travel information. Each booking platform tends to have its own, proprietary data format. Unifying data from several …