The new look and feel for the menu bar and the help pages has now rolled to live.
Please provide us with feedback on these changes. We think they make the software easier to use and provide more help getting you started with TravelManager.
Thanks for all of your feedback in making these imrpovements possible.
regards
Mike
We had lots of feedback with regard to the route optimisation functionality that we rolled out last week. We are very excited about some of the ideas that you had for this type of functionality and will start development on a number of them over the coming weeks.
One that we particularly liked is the ability to see the route on a map, get the directions, see the distances between the way points and then calculate the fuel consumption for that particular journey so that you could work out home much that route would cost to run for a tendered service.
So thats the first idea were going to be working on 
Many thanks for all of your ideas – they are very informative.
Mike
We have listened to your feedback and made some changes to the top bar menu system and to the help pages. These changes will be rolling out this evening.
We hope these changes make it easier to find all the functionality within TravelManager.
Regards
Mike
We have now completed the first phase of the route optimisation module and will be rolling out the functionality this evening. In this phase you can enter in a number of postcodes in any order and choose the start and end locations.
There are 2 possible scenarios to choose from.
[1] The start and end locations are the same and therefore the route is circular
[2] The start and end locations are different and therefore the route is linear / one way.
Once you tell it what type of route you require, the application will provide you with the shortest route.
During tests we have found the accuracy to be around 97% and 100 locations takes less that 10 seconds to calculate and report back the results.
See the following screenshot for an example (click on the image to zoom in):-
How do you want to use this functionality? Let us know and we will see if we can help.
Regards
Mike
(www.travel-manager.co.uk)
Its nice to get good feedback from our customers. Here are a couple of quotes we received from existing customers over the past couple of weeks:-
“Many many thanks! This is Super! It is going to make such a difference to the way we currently work!”
- Stephanie MacDonald, Glasgow
“We cant imaging working without it now!”
- John, Gloucester
“We have been extremely impressed with the way your company has responded to our requests for changes and updates to your travel manager software. We are sure this is the way forward with software being written for operators by operators as requested.
We have seen many changes over the past few months and feel that this is soon going to be the only product on the market to consider. I know of no other company that will respond in the way that you and your team do.”
- Graham Harris, Oxford
If you want to see what is making these operators talk about our service this way then visit our website for a no obligation 30 day
Regards
Mike
One of the things that differentiates us as a business is our total commitment to “listen”. Many businesses tell you they do it but we actually deliver upon it.
We took your feedback and ideas from the Coach & Bus Live 2007 show and have been working hard on how best to deliver many if not all of them.
As a small family run business, your feedback (good and bad) is the lifeblood of our organization .
If we are not delivering what you want then we have no reason to be in business.
Keep your ideas and feedback coming – we thrive on them
Regards
Mike
We are working on some new functionality which will enable you to put in a number of postcodes and it will provide you with the quickest / shortest route. This type of functionality is useful for all sorts of situations and not just the bus and coach industry.
We have had requests from everyone from estate agents (wanting to know the best route for putting up / taking down for sale signs) to couriers and bus / coach operators wanting to know how to generate the best / most appropriate route between multiple destinations.
We are currently in the planning phase and will be developing this functionality within the month.
Regards
Mike
Thank you for everyone who visited us at the Coach & Bus Live 2007 show this week. We thoroughly enjoyed talking to each and every one of you. We learnt a lot from the event and have taken all of your feedback and requests on board and look forward to developing the functionality for you over the coming weeks and months.
Some of the requests we received were:-
We have taken a note of all of your requests and will add them to the workstack for planning and development where possible over the coming weeks and months.
We have already started development of the first item – distances on multi-pickup routes – as this was an item that a number of your requested and look forward to bringing you this functionality very soon.
If you think we have missed some of your request let us know and we will add them to the list.
Again – thank your for your encourage and we look forward to your continued support.
Regards
Mike
We have now rolled out the defect sheet functionality to live! This is 7 days earlier than initially planned but we thought you couldn’t wait any longer
Let us know what you think of this functionality.
Regards
Mike
(www.travel-manager.co.uk)
We have now gone into the testing phase for the “Vehicle Defect” module. A screenshot is show below (click on the image for a larger view). We anticipate rolling this functionality out within the next 7-10 days.
Regards
Mike