busfinder integration for your website

EBA direct brings busfinder.com’s fare and booking functionality to your website. This page is intended for agencies and individuals who will be implementing the integration on a bus company’s website, and it describes the technical requirements and the integration process.

Implementation of Integration

Our integration is embedded on the website via a script, and we provide the integration design. The subpage should not be narrower than 992px; otherwise, the less functional responsive view will be loaded.

In the following sections, you’ll find the integration code as well as a few compiled “best practices” for integration.

Here are a few websites that already have the integration online:

1. Create a new subpage (“blank page”) on your website, e.g., “/bus-online-buchen”

2. Insert the following code:

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After that, a “Bus” message should appear, indicating that the integration could not be found (“Oops”).

3. Please send us the link to this subpage at partner@busfinder.com, and we will activate the integration.

Your customers will love your booking integration.
We recommend the following steps to make your integration stand out:

Online Offer Instead of Online Booking

Customers will also use the integration to find out an approximate price for their planned trip in advance so they can share it with their travel group. The term “quote” is well-established here—the fact that the bus can then be booked online is just an added bonus.

Prominent placement and multiple links on the website

With every online offering, you save money and provide your customers with exceptional service. Showcase this innovation right on the homepage and/or as a separate menu item. Also, capture the attention of customers looking for a bus wherever they might end up. For example: on the fleet page, on a group travel page, or in the footer at the bottom.

Enabling the input assistant for optimized route planning

The input assistance feature on the integration should be enabled. This guides customers step by step through the route planning process. Please contact us if this is not the case for you.

Let your customers know about your new service, for example,

In your company email signature: “New: Book a bus online” (+link)
in the newsletter

Make Room for Integration

and dedicate an entire subpage on your website to it. Remove “sidebars,” teaser images, and sliders from this page. On the integration page, customers should focus solely on getting a bus quote and, if necessary, booking the bus. Of course, you can promote this page elsewhere with images and text and include links to it.

Estimate how many people request quotes and make reservations

Your website administrator will certainly be happy to assist you with this. We will provide you with the quote and booking statistics. We will soon have enough data to let you know how well your customers are responding to the service compared to other companies.

Choose an appropriate introductory text for the integration

When encountering new features or unexpected pages (such as our form), customers read short texts carefully and follow the instructions. We recommend the following text as a basis for your customized introduction:

Plan your itinerary, get quotes, and book online if needed
With our new service, you can plan your custom itinerary and get quotes instantly. Of course, you can also conveniently book your COMPANY NAME bus online.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us by email or phone.

Train all your customer-facing employees on busfinder

If you don’t generally use busfinder.com for your calculations, be prepared for customers to compare the prices in your “manual” quote with those generated automatically on your website, and have appropriate responses ready. Be sure to communicate this carefully considered position to your employees as well. For example, if the online quote is cheaper, a suitable explanation would be: “This price is only valid for online bookings because it saves us work.”

If you have any questions, please contact partner@busfinder.com.

Do you still have any questions about?

In our Help Center, we have summarized and answered other questions that are regularly asked by bus companies.

Why is access to the online market important?busfinder2025-10-29T07:32:24+00:00

Why is access to the online market important?

In the medium and long term, customers will always book where they can compare different offers in real time via a transparent service description and book immediately. This has already been seen in booking behaviour in travel, and this trend will undoubtedly continue in rental traffic.

We have full order books for rental transport – why is busfinder still a solution for me?busfinder2025-10-29T07:32:24+00:00

We have full order books for rental transport – why is busfinder still a solution for me?

Full order books are merely a snapshot from the perspective of the bus companies offering the service. Conversely, for customers making bookings, this means enormous difficulties in obtaining an offer at all in a reasonable time and with reasonable effort. In most cases, the bus companies offering services are also unable to process the high demand quickly and in a structured manner for the benefit of customers due to acute staff shortages. Customers’ desire for digitalization is also increasingly becoming a prerequisite for sustainable business success in all sectors. The aim of the bus companies offering the service must therefore be to automate internal processes and offer customers a good level of service. This is the only way to maintain customer satisfaction and demand in the medium and long term.

Is registration on busfinder really free of charge?busfinder2025-10-29T07:32:24+00:00

Is registration on busfinder really free of charge?

In our “Starter Package” you can register completely free of charge, you will receive comprehensive training and you can make your products available for online booking in rental and travel traffic – this is also absolutely free of charge in this case. If you subsequently provide buses for hire and travel products for online booking on busfinder.com, there are no monthly system or maintenance fees – even for internal use. Only booking commissions are charged for online bookings via busfinder.com. We would be happy to discuss all the details with you in a personal appointment.