With GP Travel Enterprise you can not only sell separate travel products (e.g. accommodation, flights, transfers, etc.) but combine them and distribute as travel packages. Depending on the peculiarities of the packaged products, in GP Travel Enterprise we single out Dynamic Packages and Complex Tours.
Dynamic Package stands for the combination of travel services distributed as one product entity. The constituent services are not fixed - you can choose and combine them to meet your specific needs (e.g. replace one component with another).
Complex Tour stands for the packaged travel product usually consisting of several components with fixed itinerary. The constituent services cannot be changed and replaced since the program of a complex tour is predefined.
Let us have a closer look at the process of creating packaged products.
Creating a New Dynamic Package or Complex Tour
The process of creating packaged products includes several steps:
Specifying general information about the product;
Specifying destinations;
Setting itinerary.
Let us dwell on each step and examine the peculiarities you may face.
General Information
To create a new Dynamic Package or Complex Tour,
Go to the Self-operated products menu and click Complex Tours and
Packages:
A Complex tours and packages page appears. On the Complex tours and packages page, click Create.
A New complex tour or dynamic package page appears:
On the New complex tour or dynamic package page, on the Info tab, specify the following information:
Name: locate mouse pointer into the Name bar and type the name of a complex tour or dynamic package which will be displayed on search results page.
Supplier: from the drop-down, select the service supplier.
Product variant: from the drop-down, select the type of the packaged product, either a complex tour or a dynamic package.
Short description: locate mouse pointer into the Short description box and enter the service description. This description will be displayed on search results page.
Description: locate mouse pointer into the Description box and enter the product description which will be displayed in separate window with tour/package details.
Tags: tags are used to configure sales parameters of a certain product to particular client groups. Locate mouse pointer into the Tags box and type an appropriate tag separating it from the previous one with a comma (e.g. type VIP to sell a complex tour or dynamic package for clients interested in special offers.) Please pay attention that in case you use tags to sell products to certain clients, you should add the same tag to the client's contract. For more information, please see Setting Tags.
Picture: With the help of the Picture group, you can upload photos or logos to display on search results page.
To upload a picture from your PC, use the Upload file form. In the Upload file form click Add, browse to the required picture and click Open. Then click Upload.
To upload a picture from an external web-link, use the Upload via link form. Click Upload via link to expand the form, locate mouse pointer into the bar and enter the required address, then click Upload.
Click Save.
Click the Destinations tab to proceed with configuration.
Setting Tags
By using tags you can manage access of certain groups of customers to products and rates. For example, by labeling certain products with the "private" tag you show them only to the customers that are interested in exclusive offers, while the standard offers with the "public" tag are available to all customers. You can create, edit and delete all tags, except for the default "public" tag.
There are certain restrictions to the tag names:
A tag name should consist of one or several words written in Latin characters.
A tag name can include maximum 500 characters.
If you use several tags, they should be separated with a comma.
Every new product or tariff has a “public” tag by default. This means that they are available for search and booking for all customers. However, you can create additional tags. In this case, if a products or a tariff
contains at least one additional tag along with the “public” tag, the conditions of the additional tag are applied to them.
For instance, if you add the “private” tag to the product, it is only displayed in search results for the customers that have access to the “private” products according to the contract. This means that the customer contract must contain either the “private” tag, or several tags, including the mentioned above, for example: the "public" and "private" tags. The product is unavailable for customers if the “private” tag is not included in their tag list.
Please remember, that in order to manage product availability through tags you should list them in the customer contract in the same way.
Destinations
On the Destinations tab, specify the destination(s) of a complex tour or dynamic package:
Click the Destinations tab. The following form appears:
To enter the destination manually, locate mouse pointer into the City box and type the destination. After you type three characters the system displays the list of suggestions containing the defined characters. The entries in the list are arranged by the alphabet. If you see the required destination in the list, click it - the rest of the name will be filled in automatically. In case you do nor see the required entry, type some more characters - it may appear later.
To select the required destination form the drop-down,
click Select from the list. The following form appears:
from the Country drop-down, select the required country.
from the City drop-down, select the required city.
In case you want to return to manual entering, click Add manually.
Click Add. The destination is added and displayed above the form: