Table of Contents

Overview

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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Tours can be AM/PM, single of Multi-day tours. 

Setting up Tours once fundamental setup done

Tour Definitions

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Link the Services that are purchased if a customer purchases this Tour

To define the Services used on a tour

1. Lunches have a Special type of "Lunch" - you will need a different service for Adult and Child Lunches
   
   1. If they are invoiced by the supplier separately then they will need to be "Buy and Sell"
2. Accommodation have a special type of "Accommodation" - You will need a separate service for every accommodation option (eg single room, double room, triple share etc).
3. Once you have linked the supplier to the service - you will see the services listed on the supplier

Special pricing and Agent Tour Codes

Fundamental Setup

Setting up Branches

Branches are setup on the Host Company and used to limit visibility of users and enhance reporting in the system.  They are not required but might be used if the business operates a single ABN with multiple trading names.

See Host Company (your business/s)

Setting up Destinations

Destinations are used to group tours onto vehicles. 

All customers going to the same destination will be in the destination list for that date and may be grouped onto vehicles or travel independently depending on the booking.

see Shuttle Destinations/wiki/spaces/MYSF/pages/33055005

Setting up Suppliers

Setting up Suppliers

Suppliers are paid for services they provide to a tour - it may be a lunch or tickets for entry or accommodation

First Setup the Company as a Creditor.

Then enter Services for that Creditor

Setting up Menus for Meals

When will a tour be picked up and from where

Tours often pickup from known destinations (known as route stops)

From where - Flag a company as a Stop

If the vehicle might pickup from a stop (hotel, railway station etc) then it needs to be defined as a stop.  

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To enable to Route stop on the company card - turn it on in the Host Company

When - The proposed route is a series of stops

The route has the number of minutes after starting that each stop will be reached if it is to be visited.

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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.

The times vehicles depart on the Proposed Route

Vehicles start at a particular time and carry tours.

Normally they travel around the proposed route picking up travellers - then heads off to the destination.

AM / PM Tours vs full day / multi-day tours

Half day tours have a setting of AM or PM on the Tour to group in planner.  So the sale of a tour code will result in the correct destination and also time.

Vehicles depart at different times based on the Tours (AM/PM/Full day)

Bus Routes show the times different vehicles depart from the base - and the Route they follow.  

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Using the departure time and the route the system knows the expected pickup time to put on the booking

Setting up Prices for Tours

Standard prices are on the Tour Definition  

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Note that Agent commissions may affect final sales prices

Tour Promotions - Bonus Tours

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

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The result of the lookup will put them into a stack on the same screen (see nav at bottom of screen).

Tour Promotions - Commissions

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

Closing Tour Dates

An individual tour can be closed for a date

All tours can be closed for a date

Tours can already exist for these days = this simply closes new tours being saved for these dates

Tours can also be moved from other dates to a closed date

Only future dates are shown.

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Managing Vehicles

To setup the Buses see Setting up Vehicle Assets for Hire.

Managing Drivers

Drivers are an Employee in the system that have the flag set as "Bus Driver"

Driver Rosters

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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1. Required = number of bus runs requiring a driver
2. Rostered = Number of drivers "Working"
3. Assigned = Number of drivers "Assigned" to runs

Fill in the Roster

The grid is respected when attempting to roster drivers on vehicles

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Details on the employee so they appear on the roster

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

Wholesale Agents

Wholesale Agents sell tours and can be nominated on the booking.  Normally they pay in arrears for the tour.

Debtors with a BPM role of "Booking Agent" - see BPM Role/wiki/spaces/SI/pages/33054890

Agent contacts are optional - and are contacts on the Debtor

Concierge

Is simply noted on the booking and not a role

Hotel

Sub agent

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

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