In all of our excitment we forgot to post the location of Chauffuer Manager 
You can find it at www.chauffeurmanager.com
Feel free to sign up and have a play.
Regards
Mike
In all of our excitment we forgot to post the location of Chauffuer Manager
You can find it at www.chauffeurmanager.com
Feel free to sign up and have a play.
Regards
Mike
We are close to being code complete and tested on ChauffeurManager, our solution for the chauffeur market. We will be launching the solution on Monday 1st September.
If you are in the chauffeur industry and have outsourced drivers, or do a lot of airport / corporate work then get in contact and we will be able to get you up and running on a 30 day free trial starting 1st September.
Regards
Mike
As mentioned previously, we are currently in the development phase of the online tours booking facility. We are looking to launch this functionality on 5th July 2008. This will enable you to publish your tours not only your own website but also on our website and on any other website through our unique widget.
We will also start advertising your tours on your behalf through our aggregator site during July at no additional cost.
We anticipate that this site will be the largest online coach tours aggregator site by the end of the year – if you want to be one of the first operatorsto take advantage of this unique opportunity of free advertising and increase customer traffic from Google etc.. then we recommend that you enter your tour information into the tours module before 5th July.
Regards
Mike
The prestigous International Motorcoach Group (www.imgcoach.com) is now using TravelManager for its quotation engine online. IMG has nearly 60 members in North America operating over 7000 vehicles providing over a million charters / private hires per annum.
TravelManager is working closely with IMG and our US partners uTrack (www.utrack.com) on taking their online prescence to the next level.
If you want to know more
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Mike
We are busy working on a “Getting Started” section for TravelManager which will include a number of “How To’s” and tutorials on getting the best out of TravelManager.
We received feedback from a number of you which didnt know that certain pieces of functionality were now available – so we thought it time to add to the team and focus on training and tutorials.
So with that we would like to welcome Megan to the team. She is our newest recruit and will be focusing on the tutorials and training guides for the next couple of months.
If there are specific “How To” guides that you would like to see then please dont hesitate to contact us.
Regards
Mike
The Vehicle and Driver Assignment functionality has now been released to the live service. You can find the functionality under Employee -> Vehicle / Driver Assignment.
This functionality can save you significant time and energy when allocating drivers and vehicles to service contracts and private hire work so do take the time to have a play with it when you are next logged in.
As always your feedback is greatly appreciated.
Regards
Mike
Further to my post yesterday. The bulk edit facility will also alert you as to which jobs do not have drivers or vehicles assigned (See the screenshot below)
You can also filter in ascending / descending order on any of the columns and you can move the columns around to fit in with how you want the information to be presented. So for example if you want the information shown with the drivers name first and you want to group all of the drivers work together you can do just that with 2 mouse clicks. (See screenshot below)
Likewise if you want to order by Job (so you group all services together and private hires together) you can (see screenshot below)
Regards
Mike
This morning we rolled out a number of new pieces of functionality which ca be seen from within the Account Information section of MyAccount.
In the screenshot above (click on it to see a larger image) you can choose your “Out of Hours” / “SMS Alert” mobile number (See icon No. 1). This is the number that all SMS alerts get sent to .
You can then choose the times of the day where it is acceptable for you to receive an SMS alert (See icon No. 3). In this example we have chosen the times to be between 9am and 5pm.
Any quote which comes from your website using the online quoting widget will then alert you if it comes in between these times. If the quote comes in outside of these times then it is stored up and an SMS is sent the following day at the time set in the “Alert Time Period (Start)” field.
You continue to receive email alerts at the exact time that the quote is sent.
You can also now set your default VAT / Sales Tax rate (See icon 2) – which will be used on all Private Hire / Chauffeur quotes given. You can change these tax rates on each quote from hereon in – so work for charities or private hire work can be given a zero tax rate and chauffeur services can use the standard 17.5% VAT rate in the UK.
We have also made some cosmetic improvements to the quoting tool (on the “Create Quick Job” for now) which auto updates the quote price as the form is being filled in (See icon 1 in the screenshot below). We have also changed the layout of the journey times to accommodate the three main journey types (Single Trip, Return Trip where the vehicles comes back for the return pickup and Return Trip where the vehicle stays for the duration of the trip) – See icon 2 in the following screenshot.
Depending on which journey type you choose the time / date fields are accessible or not (See icon 3 in following screenshot)
We hope you enjoy these new features as much as we enjoyed developing them.
As always, if you need any help in using these new tools just give us a call on 01452 417 567 or drop me an email at mike@travel-manager.co.uk
Regards
Mike
We currently have the online quoting widget in development. This allows you to add a customer facing quoting facility to your website or even within emails that you send out by just adding a couple of lines of text. It takes no more than 5 mins to set up and allows your customers to self-serve 24/7.
We will moving this into testing within the next couple of weeks with a view to launching it towards the end of the month / beginning of next month.
Regards
Mike