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Accounts

Wink Agent connects you with travel inventory worldwide. This article steps you through creating and manging your travel agent accounts on Wink.

Create account

Once you are authenticated, you will be redirected to your accounts page that shows you all your travel agent accounts.

Click the Create new account button to continue. You will be redirected to our account creation page.

Fill in all required fields.

  1. Name The name of your account. This does not need to be your real name but will be something users see when looking at your WinkLinks page or when suppliers want to connect with you directly.
  2. Entity type Whether you are a company or individual. Mostly used to determine how you are eligible to receive funds.
  3. Type Choose a type that applies best to your account. e.g. Influencer
  4. Description Write a description for your account. This will be seen on your WinkLinks page and when suppliers want to connect with you directly.
  5. Website Enter your main website. This can be your IG account URL or company website. It should be the place you do most of your online work. Suppliers will go to these links when they determine whether to connect with you.
  6. City Where are you based?

Payment terms

Registered travel agents who integrate with us, using our API, have the option to take payment and disburse those funds to our properties.

  1. I want to take payment Travel agent takes responsibility for collecting funds.
  2. I want to pay hotels Travel agent is responsible for paying hotels.

Hotels that want to connect directly with you will see a warning and have to click to acknowledge, that Wink is not responsible for paying hotels, in order to establish a relationship with your account.

Property acknowledge TA relationship
What hotels see and have to acknowledge before connecting directly with you when you take payment.

Agreement

  1. Agreement Accept our affiliate agreement and payment terms to continue.
  2. Click the Save button.

Congratulations 🎉 …you’ve created your first affiliate account on Wink.

Manage

Travel agent account
Travel agent account entry

Once created, you can customize your account further by filling in your address and adding a profile picture to your account.

  1. Click on your new travel agent account. This will take you to your account dashboard.
  2. Click on Account > Profile in the top navigation bar.
  3. On the Profile page, you will be able to update your existing profile and add additional information to it.

Managers

You can invite other users to help manage your travel agent account. Once a user accepts your invite, they will have full access to your account with the exception of payment. You will always be the only one in charge of the funds that you own.

  1. Select the travel agent account you want to work with from the accounts page.
  2. Click on Account > Managers in the top navigation bar.
  3. Add the e-mail of the user you want to make into an account manager.
  4. Click the Invite link next to the email.

Wink will send the user an email to accept or reject your invitation.

Notifications

At times, we want to get in touch with you. When that happens, you will see the bell in the top right corner change. To read what we sent you:

  1. Click on Account > Notifications in the top navigation bar.
  2. You will see new and past notifications.
  3. Choose to Mark as read or Delete the notifications once you’ve read them.

API

Travel agents are still considered affiliates. Developers who want to manage Affiliates can head over to Developers > API > Affiliate.

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