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Overview

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This document covers the setup required to run bus tours.  Tour definitions, Special Pricing, Agents, Agent Tour Codes, Branches, Destinations, Suppliers, Services, Hotels, Routes, Schedules, Tour Pricing, Promotions, Drivers, Driver Rosters, Commissions, Drivers Leave, Concierges

Summary

A vehicle travelling to a destination may carry people who have purchased different tours and have different inclusions in their journey.

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Then enter Services for that Creditor

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When will a tour be picked up and from where

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As not all stops are visited each time many stops may share the same time.

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Note the "On Demand Only" flag indicates that the vehicle only visits if there are bookings to pickup - otherwise it will not be visited.

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When a tour operator is offered bonus tours - the reference must be the same on the booking

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If two bookings with the same reference are created - the pricing will use the promotion and the booking will appear in the list of bookings that used the promotion

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When a Tour operator is offered a discounted price for the Tour

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Managing Vehicles

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Tour Operators drivers are very skilled and hence a roster a long time in advance is useful.  This roster is manually updated in advance

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All Active Employees that are drivers will appear in the grid.

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  • If a driver is not flagged as Working they will not appear as an available driver when assigning drivers

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Details on the employee so they appear on the roster

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Some Employees will be on Leave or Unavailable

All leave and unavailability (unpaid leave) is configured from the person card by entering a leave record

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Wholesale Agents

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Debtors with a BPM role of "Booking Agent" - see BPM Role

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Agent contacts are optional - and are contacts on the Debtor

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Concierge

Is simply noted on the booking and not a role

Hotel

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Sub agent

is a smart list based on previous sub agents for that booking agent only.

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