Ask ChatGPT, Claude or Grok for “a 15-day Umrah from Hyderabad in March under ₹1.2 lakh” and, until now, you got one of two things: a polite paragraph of general advice, or a list stitched together from old web pages with prices nobody could confirm. Pilgrims deserve better than a guess. So we built a direct line from AI assistants to Searchumrah’s live catalogue.
The short answer
The Searchumrah AI connector is a free, public Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. Any AI assistant that supports MCP can connect to it and search live Umrah packages from verified travel agencies — by departure city, month, budget, trip length, hotel distance to the Haram and star rating — then open full package and agency details, and get a prefilled checkout link to book on searchumrah.com. No API key and no sign-up are needed to search. Pilgrims and agencies who want more can connect their Searchumrah account (signing in on searchumrah.com, never in the chat): pilgrims can book, check status and cancel, agencies can run their bookings, packages and coupons — every change only after a yes in the chat.
The connector address is https://searchumrah.com/api/mcp. Setup guides for every major assistant, the full tool reference and a live playground are on the Searchumrah developer portal.
What is MCP, in one paragraph
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that lets an AI assistant call an outside service as a “tool” while it answers you. Instead of guessing from what it read on the internet months ago, the assistant asks the service directly and gets today’s answer. ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, VS Code and the major AI developer APIs all speak it. Searchumrah now does too.
What an assistant can do with it today
- Search Umrah packages (
search_packages) — Search live Umrah packages from verified travel agencies on Searchumrah. - Get package details (
get_package) — Full details of one Umrah package: price, dates, hotels and their distance to the Haram, inclusions, seats left, the agency, and whether it can be booked right now. - Get agency profile (
get_agency) — Profile of one verified Umrah travel agency: verification tier, location, pilgrim rating and review count, how long it has been on Searchumrah, and its currently listed packages.. - List departure cities (
list_departure_cities) — Departure cities that currently have live Umrah packages, with how many, most inventory first. - Get a checkout link (
get_checkout_link) — Turn a chosen package into a prefilled searchumrah.com checkout link for the pilgrim's party, with an INDICATIVE total. - How to ask an agency (
ask_agency) — For a pilgrim who wants to ask an agency a question.
Every result carries the package’s own link on searchumrah.com. The assistant finds and compares; you open the page, read the full itinerary and book there.
How to use it — for pilgrims
- Open your assistant’s connector settings (in Claude: Settings → Connectors; in ChatGPT: developer mode under Apps & Connectors). The step-by-step guides cover each one.
- Add a custom connector named Searchumrah with the URL
https://searchumrah.com/api/mcp. No password, no API key. - Ask in your own words: the city you fly from, the month, your budget, how many days, how close to the Haram you want to stay.
- Open the links it gives you and book on Searchumrah, with buyer protection.
The rules we built it on
- Same truth as the website. Every search runs the exact query searchumrah.com runs: same fair ranking, same prices, same verification gate. An assistant can never see a package or agency the website hides.
- Verified agencies only. An agency appears only after Searchumrah has verified it. Unverified, deactivated or draft listings do not exist as far as the public connector is concerned.
- Nothing changes without your yes. A booking, a cancellation, a price, a coupon — every change is prepared first and read back to you. It happens only after you say yes, using a single-use confirmation that expires in 10 minutes and works only for the assistant that prepared it.
- The same rules as the website. An action taken through an assistant runs the same code as the website: the same prices, coupons, seat checks, cancellation policy, plan rules and notifications. If the price or the booking changed after you saw it, nothing happens and you are shown the new state.
- You sign in on our page, not in the chat. There is no slash command and no login message. You sign in on searchumrah.com with your email code and approve each permission; the assistant gets a short-lived, revocable key for this connector only — never your password, code or session.
- Your account decides your tools. A pilgrim account gets pilgrim tools and an agency account gets agency tools — never the other side’s. Each assistant can do only what you approved, and another person’s booking or another agency’s data reads as if it does not exist.
- Never payment, passports or payouts. No assistant can take payment, see or enter passport details, issue refunds or change payout bank details. Those happen only on searchumrah.com, behind its secure forms and buyer protection.
- Personal details stay on Searchumrah. Agency phone numbers and emails are never returned to pilgrims’ assistants, and an agency’s assistant never sees pilgrims’ names, phone numbers, passports or the notes they wrote. Leads reach agencies through Searchumrah and are never resold.
- Everything is on record. Every action an assistant completes is listed in your Account settings with the assistant’s name and time. Disconnect it there and its access stops at once.
- Free and open. No key, no sign-up and no per-call fee to search. Fair-use limits apply per network and per account so the service stays fast and safe for everyone.
Why it matters for travel agencies
- Pilgrims are asking AI first. More pilgrims now start with “find me an Umrah package from Hyderabad in March” typed into an AI assistant instead of a search box. The connector puts your live packages into that answer.
- Zero extra work. There is nothing to set up. Every published package on your verified Searchumrah profile is already searchable by AI assistants, with your price, hotels and rating exactly as you listed them.
- Fair, not pay-to-win. Assistants get the same fair ranking as the website: soonest departures first, one package per agency per round, then rating, rewards and live offers. A good listing wins, not a big budget.
- The booking stays yours. A booking an assistant makes for a pilgrim arrives in your dashboard as a normal request, with the same WhatsApp and email alert, for you to confirm.
- Run your agency from the chat. Connect your own agency account and ask “what needs my attention today?”, “how many bookings on my December package?”, “confirm SU-001042”, “raise the 4-sharing price to ₹92,000” or “copy this package for January” — each change only after your yes.
If you run an Umrah agency and are not on Searchumrah yet, list your agency. Once we have verified you, your packages are in the answer too.
Update, 1 October 2026: signed-in pilgrims are live
Connect your Searchumrah account to your assistant and it can do the rest of the journey with you. As a pilgrim: book a package for your party (a request the agency confirms), see where each booking stands and exactly what the agency needs from you, cancel or ask to cancel, and keep favourites. As an agency: see your bookings, enquiries, package performance and GST summary, confirm or decline bookings, change prices and cut-offs, copy a package to new dates, publish it and run coupons. Nothing changes until you say yes in the chat. You sign in on searchumrah.com with your usual email code; the assistant never sees it, never sees passports, never takes payment, and you can see everything it did — and disconnect it — in Account settings.
To use it, add the signed-in address https://searchumrah.com/api/mcp/user instead. Your assistant opens a Searchumrah page where you sign in with your email code and choose what to allow. On top of every search tool, it can then use:
- My bookings (
get_my_bookings) — The signed-in pilgrim's Searchumrah bookings, newest first: reference, package, agency, departure, status, amount, visa-document progress and a link to the booking page. - Booking status (
get_booking_status) — One of the pilgrim's bookings in detail: where it stands (agency confirmation, payment, visa documents, departure), WHAT THE PILGRIM NEEDS TO DO NEXT (e.g. - My saved travellers (
get_my_travellers) — The pilgrim's name, their verified mobile (masked) and the travellers they saved on Searchumrah (name, age, relationship) with an id each. - My favourites (
list_favorites) — The packages the pilgrim saved to their Searchumrah favourites, with links.. - Save to favourites (
save_favorite) — Save a package to the pilgrim's Searchumrah favourites so they can compare it later on searchumrah.com/favorites. - Remove from favourites (
remove_favorite) — Remove a package from the pilgrim's favourites. - Prepare a booking (
prepare_booking) — Prepare a booking REQUEST for a package — nothing is booked yet. - Prepare a cancellation (
prepare_cancellation) — Prepare cancelling one of the pilgrim's bookings — nothing changes yet.
Choosing a package also got easier for everyone, signed in or not: ask the assistant to book it and it returns a prefilled checkout link for your party and room, with an indicative total. One thing has not changed: confirming and paying always happens on Searchumrah, where the price is computed by us and your payment can be held by RBI-authorised Razorpay until you travel. An assistant can prepare a booking; only you can make it. The illustrated guide walks through every step.
Update, 1 October 2026 (evening): book, cancel and run an agency from the chat
Add one URL — searchumrah.com/api/mcp/user — as a connector in ChatGPT or Claude. There is no slash command and no "login" message: when you add it, your assistant opens searchumrah.com, you sign in with your email code and press Allow. After that you just talk to it ("packages from Mumbai in March under ₹90,000 near the Haram", "how many pending bookings do I have?"). You stay connected for 30 days of use.
A signed-in pilgrim can now book: tell the assistant the package, how many of you are travelling and which room, and it reads back the exact total — coupon and rewards applied — and books only after you say yes. That booking is a request the agency confirms, exactly like one made on the website; you pay afterwards on Searchumrah. Ask “what is the status of my booking?” and it tells you whether the agency has confirmed, and if they need passport details, which traveller is missing what — with the secure link to add them. You can cancel, or ask to cancel, the same way.
Agencies can connect their own account too, and ask what needs their attention, how many bookings a package has, how many enquiries came in, or whether last month's GST is in order — and confirm bookings, change prices and booking cut-offs, copy a package to new dates, publish it or run a coupon. Every change, for pilgrims and agencies alike, happens only after a yes in the chat, and every completed action is listed in Account settings. No assistant can take payment, see passports, issue refunds or change payout details.
Run an agency? We wrote up what a working day looks like with the assistant doing the legwork: run your Umrah agency from ChatGPT or Claude.