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Sabre Red 360 vs TicketingHub

Sabre Red 360 logo

Sabre Red 360

Travel

Agency booking workspace over the Sabre GDS for air, hotel, car and rail

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
TicketingHub logo

TicketingHub

Travel

Ticketing and booking for tours and attractions with no subscription, only a percentage per booking

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Sabre Red 360 the commercial deal is a multi-year segment volume commitment, so an agency that moves bookings to airline direct connects can end up paying shortfall penalties on volume it no longer books through Sabre.; TicketingHub the 3 per cent applies to cash and walk-up sales recorded in the system, not only to online bookings, which operators frequently miss and which makes on-site revenue more expensive than expected.
  • They diverge on capability: Sabre Red 360 covers Graphical and cryptic modes, TicketingHub covers No monthly fee.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Sabre Red 360 and TicketingHub actually diverge.

Attributes where Sabre Red 360 and TicketingHub differ
AttributeSabre Red 360TicketingHub
Pricing modelquotePer booking, 3 per cent of booking value
PlatformsWindows, WebWeb, iOS, Android

Identical on both: starting price (On request), free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Travel).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Sabre Red 360

  • Graphical and cryptic modes
  • Air shopping and ticketing
  • Red App Centre
  • Queue management
  • Multi-content hotel
  • Automation scripting

Only in TicketingHub

  • No monthly fee
  • Ticket scanning
  • Walk-up sales
  • Booking widget
  • OTA connections
  • Session and capacity management
  • Reporting
  • Multi-currency and language

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Sabre Red 360

  • A retail agency whose consultants work by cryptic entry and will not accept a forms-only booking toolnot TicketingHub
  • A TMC that needs queue-driven ticketing and quality control across thousands of daily PNRsnot TicketingHub
  • A consolidator negotiating a segment incentive deal and wanting the agent desktop bundled innot TicketingHub
  • An agency adding NDC airline content without abandoning its existing GDS servicing workflownot TicketingHub

TicketingHub

  • A seasonal walking tour company that closes for four winter months and refuses to pay a subscription through themnot Sabre Red 360
  • A small attraction wanting door scanning and online booking in one systemnot Sabre Red 360
  • A transport operator selling timed boarding tickets with capacity limitsnot Sabre Red 360
  • A new experience business unwilling to commit to fixed software cost before it has volumenot Sabre Red 360

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Sabre Red 360

  • The commercial deal is a multi-year segment volume commitment, so an agency that moves bookings to airline direct connects can end up paying shortfall penalties on volume it no longer books through Sabre.
  • NDC content behaves differently from classic EDIFACT content inside the workspace, and servicing an NDC order often means leaving the normal exchange and refund workflow.
  • Cryptic entries remain necessary for a meaningful set of tasks, so training a new consultant to productive speed takes months rather than days.
  • It is a desktop-weighted product on Windows, which makes it awkward for agencies running fully remote or Mac-based teams without virtual desktop infrastructure.
  • Pricing is never published and is entangled with incentive economics, so two agencies of similar size can be on materially different terms with no visibility of each other.

TicketingHub

  • The 3 per cent applies to cash and walk-up sales recorded in the system, not only to online bookings, which operators frequently miss and which makes on-site revenue more expensive than expected.
  • At meaningful volume the model is expensive: a hundred thousand pounds of ticket revenue costs three thousand pounds a year, well above what a subscription platform with a lower booking fee would charge.
  • The 3 per cent excludes card processing, so the total take on each ticket is materially higher than the headline rate implies.
  • Enterprise discounts exist but are negotiated privately, so the published price is not the price for anyone with scale and there is no way to benchmark what a good deal looks like.
  • The product is a ticketing engine rather than an operations platform, with limited resource scheduling, customer relationship tooling and reseller management compared with the larger competitors.

Pricing, plan by plan

Sabre Red 360

On request
  • Sabre Red 360$undefined/year
    • Typically bundled into a GDS segment agreement
    • Segment incentive payments to the agency
    • Volume commitments and multi-year terms

TicketingHub

On request
  • Standard$undefined/month
    • No monthly fee and no setup fee
    • 3% taken on every successful booking
    • Applies to website, OTA, card, cash and walk-up sales

Which should you pick?

Choose Sabre Red 360 if

  • You need graphical and cryptic modes.
  • You work on Windows, Web.
  • You also want air shopping and ticketing.
Sabre Red 360 review

Choose TicketingHub if

  • You need no monthly fee.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android.
  • You also want ticket scanning.
TicketingHub review

Questions people ask

Is Sabre Red 360 or TicketingHub better?
Neither clearly leads. Sabre Red 360 starts at On request and TicketingHub at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Sabre Red 360 or TicketingHub?
Sabre Red 360 starts at On request and TicketingHub at On request.
Does Sabre Red 360 or TicketingHub run on more platforms?
Sabre Red 360 runs on Windows, Web. TicketingHub runs on Web, iOS, Android.
What is Sabre Red 360 best used for?
Sabre Red 360 is most often used for a retail agency whose consultants work by cryptic entry and will not accept a forms-only booking tool, a tmc that needs queue-driven ticketing and quality control across thousands of daily pnrs, a consolidator negotiating a segment incentive deal and wanting the agent desktop bundled in, an agency adding ndc airline content without abandoning its existing gds servicing workflow. Of those, a retail agency whose consultants work by cryptic entry and will not accept a forms-only booking tool and a tmc that needs queue-driven ticketing and quality control across thousands of daily pnrs are not what TicketingHub is typically brought in for.
What can Sabre Red 360 do that TicketingHub cannot?
Sabre Red 360 covers Graphical and cryptic modes, Air shopping and ticketing, Red App Centre, Queue management. TicketingHub covers No monthly fee, Ticket scanning, Walk-up sales, Booking widget.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Sabre Red 360: Do we pay a licence fee for Sabre Red 360?

Usually not directly. It is bundled into a GDS segment agreement in which Sabre pays your agency incentives per segment, so the negotiation is over volume commitments and incentive rates.

TicketingHub: What does TicketingHub cost?

There is no subscription. It takes 3 per cent of every successful booking, plus your card processing separately.

Sabre Red 360: Can corporates buy it to book their own travel?

No. It is an agent workspace. Corporates buy a TMC or an online booking tool such as GetThere, Egencia or TravelPerk instead.

TicketingHub: Does the 3 per cent apply to cash sales?

Yes. It applies across the board, including cash and in-person walk-up sales entered into the system, which is the detail most operators overlook.

Sabre Red 360: Does it handle NDC?

Yes, Sabre distributes NDC offers from a growing airline list, but servicing NDC orders follows a separate flow from classic GDS bookings.

TicketingHub: At what volume does a subscription platform become cheaper?

Roughly once ticket revenue passes about fifty thousand pounds a year, where 3 per cent begins to exceed a typical monthly subscription plus a lower booking fee.

TicketingHub: Can I negotiate the rate?

Yes for high volume. Enterprise rates are available but are not published, so you will need to ask directly.

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