Discounts

You can provide discounts and special offers for tourists booking your selfoperated services. A discount is a reductions to the basic prices of booked services.

With GP Travel Enterprise you can create and use the following types of discounts:

• Supplier discount: is offered by a service supplier. This discount is calculated from the net price.

• Tour operator discount: a discount that you provide to your clients. The discount is calculated from the gross price; the commission that you receive from the supplier is calculated from the net price of the service.

When creating a discount in GP Travel Enterprise, the following parameters are considered:

• The period when the discount is active

• Target audience (The number and type of tourists)

• Conditions and amount of the discount

• Calculation basis

Creating New Discounts
To create a new discount,

1. Open the profile of the required accommodation.

2. On the Prices tab, in the Discounts group, click Create. The New discount window appears:

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   In the New discount window, locate mouse pointer into the Name box and type the name of the discount plan.

4. Select the visualization icon to display on Search results page.

5. For self-operated hotels, in the Discount period group set the period when the discount is active.

6. For self-operated hotels, in the Discount on group specify for which room, allocation and meal types, as well as for which guests types the discount is available.

7. For self-operated hotels, in the Discount on groupspecify if discount is applicable to each Membership level and device type, is there is any limits of citizenship.

8. For both self-operated products, in the Discount conditions and calculation basis group, set the terms and conditions upon which the discount is applied. You can select the following types:

   1. Free nights (days): every night with a certain index number is offered at a lower price. For instance, if you set a 100% discount for every 7th night, then a tourist that books a room for the 7 days, only pays for 6 nights.

   2. Discount for following nights (days): a discount for accommodation is applied after tourists stays for several nights at the hotel. For instance, a 10% discount is provided for every night after the 9th night.

   3. Discount for the cheapest nights in the range (for hotels only): the discount on the room rate is calculated from the cost of the cheapest night in the period. For example, if a tourist books a room for 3 nights, and the first night costs 50 EUR, the second - 40 EUR, and the third - 30 EUR, then the price of the third night (30 EUR) is used for the calculation of the discount.
      The discount can be applied either once or for an unlimited number of times as a tourist complies with the requirements of the hotel staying.

9. For self-operated hotels specify the basis of the discount calculation. The discount can be calculated from the cost of:

• Accommodation + meals

• Accommodation only

• Meals only.

10. Click Save.

Rules for discount Calculation
A discount amount for each travel service depends on the type of the discount (supplier’s discount or tour operator’s discount), by the terms specified when the discount is created, and also on method of calculation of the basic service price (type of a used price list).

Let’s study the following examples of the discounts calculation rules.

When using the Pensionate price list, meals are included in the accommodation price. In view of that, the discount, based on the "Accommodation + meals" calculation, is applied to the hotels with the Pensionate price-lists in most cases.

Calculating discounts for the Pensionate price-list
When using the Pensionate price list, meals are included in the accommodation price. In view of that, the discount, based on the "Accommodation + meals" calculation, is applied to the hotels with the Pensionate price-lists in most cases.

Calculating discounts for the Hotel price-list
In the Hotel price-list the board and accommodation prices are set separately.

Calculating supplier’s discount
Assume that the supplier offers a double room with a 10 per cent discount - at the price of 1 000 EUR. The commission of the tour operator is 20%.

We should calculate the room price for the tourists and the amount to be paid to the supplier.

Calculating tour operator’s discount
Assume that the supplier offers a double room at 1 000 EUR with no discounts, but the tour operator provides a tourist with a 25% discount at his own expense. The tour operator’s commission here is 20%.

We need to estimate the room price for a tourist and the amount due to be paid to the supplier.

As we see, such a great discount costs only 50 EUR to the tour operator.

If two discounts (the tour operator’s discount and supplier’s one) are added to the tariff, and the Apply first discount that was found rule is enabled, then the calculation is based on the first discount found according to one of the schemes described above.

If the Apply all discounts rule is enabled when the discounts are added to the tariff, the final price of the service is calculated according to the following scheme:

• Supplier’s price for a double room: 1 000 EUR

• Supplier’s discount for a double room: 10%

• Commission to the tour operator: 20%

• Tour operator’s discount for a double room: 25%

Discount calculation: