Tern
AI NativeIntroducing the next generation of travel technology for advisors & suppliers.
Est 2023|Valuation $65M|Raised $17M
Introducing the next generation of travel technology for advisors & suppliers.
Published Jun 25, 2026
Tern’s website lists a Case Studies navigation element, though full case-study details were not fully accessed in this research run.
Tern added bookable content via a project that enables search → quote → booking within the platform. This extends the product from itinerary and CRM capabilities into transactional workflows. From a critical perspective, transacting on behalf of customers increases operational and compliance complexity (supplier content accuracy, booking errors, chargebacks, and support burden).
Vendor documentation indicates insurance integrations were published as live recently. The breadth and depth of these integrations and their effects on advisor professional liability exposure were not independently evaluated in this research.
Claims about funding, bookings volume, and adoption are primarily self-reported via company communications and social posts; these should be treated as directional in the absence of independently verifiable audit traces.
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Tern is a B2B SaaS platform designed for travel advisors, agencies, and host agencies to manage core workflows in a single system: client CRM, proposals/itineraries, booking and payment-adjacent workflows, and back-office capabilities such as commission reconciliation and reporting. Tern describes itself as an integrated operating system intended to consolidate workflows and reduce administrative overhead, with the goal of supporting advisor sales and agency scaling through improved data.
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You require a bundled website/landing-page builder included in the core subscription. Some advisors prefer vendors that include simple site/landing-page tooling as part of the base offering; evaluate whether that capability is a procurement requirement.
Your sales motion is heavily group-travel and depends on a specific lump-sum pricing workflow. At least one user reported this as a limitation; validate your quoting model with a pilot.
You need independently validated security certifications (for example, a vendor-provided SOC 2 Type II report). Tern documents infrastructure-level controls but does not publicly publish company-level SOC 2 Type II evidence in the reviewed resources.
Your procurement process depends on a broad set of third-party review coverage. If procurement requires extensive review counts on platforms such as G2 or TrustRadius, Tern may have limited publicly accessible footprint in those review aggregators.
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