On the Company settings tab, you can personalize the look of the system so that it complies with your brand and identity as well as configure the localization preferences, links with external applications, and notifications.
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UI
You can configure the branding elements to adjust the layout of the platform so that it complies with your corporate design. You can give the system a new name, select the color scheme, change the system header and the icons used in the system.
UI settings
To customize the system interface,
On the Navigation menu, point to Company Profile, and click Settings. The UI tab appears:
At the bottom of the tab, click Edit to switch to the editing mode.
Fill in the required data. The fields you should fill in mandatory are marked with the asterisk (*).
The areas marked in the figure above imply the following customization:
Specify the title of the system and the welcoming text, displayed on the Log in page.
Get your custom log in URL and specify the log out URL, to which a user will be redirected after logging out. See more at Configuring Company URL.
Set the color schema, the menu and the footer colors.
Change the images and icons used in the system. See more at Uploading Images and Icons.
Configure preferences for locations. see more at Setting preferences for Locations.
Configure preferences for localization. see more at Setting preferences for Localization.
Configuring Company URL
By default the system will be located on some internal URL (either IP address like 123.123.123.1 or full address like www.travel-expresso.com/b2b/pages/ common/login.jsf?orgId=1111111&affId=2222222). This address will be shown within your company profile settings as depicted on the figure below:
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In order to link this address to your domain (e.g. www.abc-travel.com, please contact support team for assistance. You will be given server IP address that you need to configure within your domain settings, after that support team will link it with your account within the system.
Additionally you can decide to what page should system redirect after logging out. You can either specify here your login URL or set URL of your official web site or whatever you want.
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Uploading Images and Icons
In the Look and Feel group, you can change the images and icons used in the system (for example, the system header, the icons for services and payment statuses, availability icons, etc.). You can customize images and icons either using the downloadable archive of ready-made images or by uploading your own
set of images.
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To upload a new set of images,
On the Navigation menu, point to Company Profile, and click Settings.
Within the UI page, In the Look and Feel group, click download sample.
The archive of default images will be downloaded to your computer.
Extract files from this archive to local folder and make modifications to the images that you want to change.
Please make sure that during these modifications the images remain of the same size, name and extension as the sample images.Save your set of images in one directory and include them into one archive. If you want you can also locate them to some local server (if you have any). Then come back to the system to upload the set of images to it.
To upload the set of images from your local server
Locate mouse pointer into the Images URL text box and enter the location of the images on the Internet.
Click Upload.
4. To upload the images from your computer,
In the Upload file group, click Add.
Browse to the archive you want to upload.
Click Open.
Click Upload.
5. Click Save.
As a result, the new branding will be applied to your account. In order to have it refreshed, please, log out from your current session and log in again and you’ll see the result.
Setting Preferences for Locations
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On the Navigation bar, point to Company profile and click Settings.
On the UI tab, click Preferences for locations to expand the bar.
In the Preferences for locations group, specify the following:
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Specify the look of the search form for destinations: a text box or a drop-down. When the search form is displayed as a text box, after you type a character the system will display the list of suggestions containing the defined characters.  |
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Specify whether to display the cities and regions in separate blocks or together. The output for the respective options will look as follows:
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Specify the way the destinations are displayed in drop-downs. The output for the respective options will look as follows:  |
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Specify the distance to search for the airports in case there is no airport in the region under search. Then in case there are no airports in the destination you search for, the results will display the airports located nearby at a specified distance. |
Setting Preferences for Localization
You can specify the set of languages for working in the system. In case a page is localized, you can select a language to view the page in:
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The set of available languages is configured in the Preferences for localization group. To configure the preferences for localization,
On the Navigation menu, point to Company profile and click Settings.
On the Settings page, on the UI tab, click Preferences for localization to expand the form:
3. Select the languages of your choice.
4. Click Save.
Pay attention however that the quality translation is guaranteed only for English and Russian. In case you want to translate the system into the language, which is not in the list, please contact the support team.
For further information on localization, please click Multilingual description.
API
You can integrate the system with multiple external applications used within your company – for example, accounting system, CRM or ERP solutions, etc. GP Travel Enterprise has internal standard API which enables this integration.
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To get access to API,
On the Navigation menu, point to Company Profile, and click Settings.
On the Settings page, click API.
On the API tab, click Edit to switch to editing mode.
Generate your API key and configure all necessary settings.
Click Save.
Note that interaction with system can happen in different ways:
Either in API mode – when external application sends requests to the system and gets information from it or transfers some information via API (e.g. every 5 minutes external application can GET actual list of today’s reservations).
Or in EXPORT mode – when system automatically pushes some changes to external application (e.g. once the reservation is created – it is immediately pushed to external application).
For more information on API implementation and methods, click
to the right of the generated API key. The Access to API window appears:
Follow these links to read detailed technical documentation about API.
Generating API key
The most important part of API configuration is your “API Key”. This is the secure number that assures that only authorized developers can access your account via API.
Please, do NOT share this key with nobody else, otherwise there’s the risk of unauthorized access to your application that might be very harmful!
To generate API key,
On the Navigation bar, point to Company profile and click Settings.
On the Settings page, click API.
On the API tab, click Edit to switch to editing mode.
Click Generate. Under the API-key label, the sequence of digits and letters appears.
Click Save.
Give this API key for developers of external application that needs to be connected with your account.
Exporting Data to External Applications
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On the API tab, select the Export data to external applications check box.
After you select the check box, the
symbol appears. Click it to expand the Export configurations form.
In the Export configurations form, fill in the required data:
Name: the name of the external system.
URL: the address of the web-service of external system in the web thatcan accept information in the format being supported by the system.
Methods: the information to be sent to an external system. You can select several or all variants.
Format: the format to send the information in.
Protocol: ways of sending the information.
4. Click Save.
If needed, you can specify several external applications. Click and repeat the procedure.