Travel Manager



We’ve been pretty quiet on the blog the last few weeks because there’s some major updates under development. Apart from some minor bug fixes the developers have been busy working on a total redesign of how a Private Hire / Charter Quote or Booking is entered into TravelManager.

Key feature requests such as the support of mutliple days, movements and vehicles is now included. So the software will have the flexibility to enter any type of scenario e.g.

1)   An over the road booking where there’s multiple days and detailed day by day itinerary.

2)   Large shuttle service for a conference with multiple vehicles

3)   Unusual services such as a full day service following by an evening with a different driver and/or vehicle

4)   And more.

*Here’s a few screenshots to give you an idea of what will be live in a couple of weeks.

New Quote Entry Details Section Major Update – New Quote / Booking Entry Design (Coming Soon)

New Details Section

New Quote Entry Movements Section Locations Tab Major Update – New Quote / Booking Entry Design (Coming Soon)

Locations Tab in the New Movements Section

New Quote Entry Movements Section Comments Major Update – New Quote / Booking Entry Design (Coming Soon)

Comments tab in the new Movements Section

New Quote Entry Movements Section Fees Major Update – New Quote / Booking Entry Design (Coming Soon)

Fees tab in the new Movements Section

Regards,

Eamonn

eamonn Major Update – New Quote / Booking Entry Design (Coming Soon)

We’re fortune enough to work with a diverse group of Bus and Coach companies ranging from 1 vehicle businesses to 1,000+ vehicle business. Not only do we work with different size of operations our TravelManager users are geographically spread from areas as far as Australia to Iceland as well from Asia to North America so we really get a global perspective on the industry.

A key area for all customers is how then can become more efficient in managing the large amount of administration that occurs during the booking of a Bus or Coach. The client communication such as emails, phone calls, quotations, confirmations, contracts etc are all time consuming and critical in converting leads and providing good customer service.

So over the last few weeks we’ve been documenting all the feedback and building a really strong process to implement in TravelManager factoring all the different states of a quote from “New” right until Invoicing and Payment.

I think we have it cracked by giving our users the facility to track the status of every Charter/Private Hire and an email template engine to create multiple emails for every step of the booking process.

**Here’s a couple of screenshots for some of new features rolling next week.

Email Template Convert more leads with Email Templates in TravelManager

Email Template Engine adding default File attachments and Labels

*This feature allows users to create multiple email templates with the ability to label, associate with a “Status” of a quote and select files that will be attached by default e.g Terms & Conditions PDF or a Company Overview PDF etc

HTML Email Template Custom Fields Convert more leads with Email Templates in TravelManager

Create your own HTML Email Templates

*This new feature gives you the ability to create you’re own email templates so you can send nicely designed / styled emails with your logos and branding. Really helps your correspondence stand out from your competitors.

Regards,

Eamonn

eamonn Convert more leads with Email Templates in TravelManager

We’re testing some of the new features at the moment on the Beta server and if we’re happy with the results I think we’ll push out an early rollout next Tuesday rather than wait until the usual Saturday update!!!