Linkway® Travel Enhancements Since Autumn 2001
Many existing features have been enhanceed, find out more by following the links below:
- Bookings
- Accommodation
- Tour Stocks
- Client
- Supplier
- Fees
- Cruise Module
- Sales Ledger
- Purchase Ledger
- BSP
- Accounts Export (To third party application)
- Vouchers
- General
Bookings Top
- Full Tours Module - For Tour Operators who want to build a 'sale from stock' system (enhanced Tour Search and improved Pricing mechanism) Show me a screen
- Transport booking element - commonly used as part of Tours Module but may be used independently for improved analyses of Rail, Coach and other transport elements. Note that transport elements can be 'open' i.e. with unrestricted dates and times of travel.
- Transfers booking element - commonly used as part of Tours Module but may be used independently
- Ticket only bookings - no money, no sale just the production of a ticket Show me a screen
- Currency option at time of booking.
- Car Hire booking element facility Show me a screen
- Agency Booking Type - (Explanation)
- Package booking elements - These are a set of screens optimized for a retail / telesales environment and covers, flight, hotel, transfers, transport. The integration to Viewdata and GDS has been improved through the 'import' feature
- XML Interface - Based on the latest technology for sharing information between systems (e.g. to and from a web site).
- Extra 'Find Booking' criteria. (Flight No/Hotel/Ship/Tour)
- Facility to record Destination contact details for a booking.
- Facility to record general destination for a booking.
- Integration of Document stock (Travellers cheques/Currency/etc) to miscellaneous booking.
- Record cost centre for commercial bookings
- Charter Cruise Booking
- Facility to calculate booking price and commission ex-VAT (if required)
- Ability to maintain Invoice and Itinerary textural descriptions
- Re-Import of GDS download file to a booking.
- Booking cancellation, allowing client refunds and supplier commission re-allocation
- Add geographic area to Insurance policies. Filter Insurance policies on insurance booking by area
- New booking summary screen. Shows summary of booking elements, sales and purchase ledger transactions
Accommodation Top
- Additional Information URL 'hot-jump' - Where additional resources describing accommodation exist as html files these can be accessed in a single click defined by management
- Accommodation stocks by accommodation/date
- Full maintenance/entry screen
- Availability search screens
- Fully integrated into Accommodation Booking
Tour Stocks Top
- Tour stocks by Tour/Date
- Full maintenance/entry screen
- Availability search screens (including mixed tour and flight availability)
- Fully integrated into Tour booking
Client Top
- Major structural change to cater for very high volume telesales and retail environments and to provide the user with a efficient links to information and management with a greater degree of information.
- Abbreviated 'passenger' details
- Multiple Passport
- Mark Clients 'inactive'- removes clients from (inactive client identifier) certain types of search
- Automatic Password allocation - verify (web or telephone) users and thus ease credit card reuse.
- Parameterized client find - This is a separate concept to 'Lead' and non Lead passengers and facilitates rapid input where there is no desire to collect detailed passenger information beyond minimal details.
- Associated client updates - Where Mr Jones and the five little Jones's have been added via a booking they carry much duplicated information from Mr Jones (all the addresses are the same). This allows for one change to (optionally) ripple through the associate records.
- 'Insert key' function to downshift addresses
- Improved management information screens - Instant Pop-outs to Financial Management, Analysis, Notes, Bookings, Additional Passports
- Batched cash payments for commercials and agencies Show me a screen
- Enhancements to Client Accounting including: Batch Payment, Payment Allocation, Journal Entry, Credit entry, Payment Entry, Invoice Entry
- Additional Document/Passport info due to US Immigration changes
- Facility to Mail-shot (Email/Post) via selective Mail-merge screen
- Additional Document/Passport info due to US Immigration changes
- Multi level Agent commission facility
- Facility to maintain Client Bank details
- Facility to record Brochure details per client
- Facility for Client Profiling
Supplier Top
- New Supplier Payment Terms Show me a screen
- Cancellation Terms (contains a default set, Supplier and own Tour specific values) Show me a screen
- Batch Remittances (allowing Reprint)
- Purchase / Nominal ledger Interface
- Enhancements to Supplier Accounting including: Batch Payment, Payment Allocation, Journal Entry, Credit entry, Payment Entry, Invoice Entry, Consolidation/Payment by Supplier Group
Fees Show me a screen | Top
- By Client
- By Transaction
- By Value
- By Percentage
- VATable
Cruise Module Top
- Cabin stocks, including integration to Cruise Booking
- Facility to grade cabins by Ship Cruise Itineraries by Ship and Date
- Charter Cruises
- Extra 'Find Booking' criteria (Flight No/Hotel/Ship/Tour)
- Ports maintenance. New facility to set up and maintain port codes
- Facility to maintain Port Codes separately to Airport codes
- Held by Ship and Sailing date.
- Individual cabin entry or entry for a whole ship
- Maintenance screen to allow release back to stock
- Availability search Screen
- Fully Integrated into Charter Cruise Booking screen
- Cabins maintained at Ship level
- Facility to Grade cabins by Ship
- Cruise Itineraries by Ship/Date/Cruise no.
- Multiple port/itinerary leg definition
- Multiple sailing date entry for an Itinerary
Sales Ledger Top
- Facility for Batch Payment
- Allow Payment Allocation
- Manual Journal Entry
- Manual Credit entry
- Manual Payment Entry
- Manual Invoice Entry
Purchase Ledger Top
- Allow Payment Allocation
- Manual Journal Entry
- Manual Credit entry
- Manual Payment Entry
- Manual Invoice Entry
- Allow for Consolidation/Payment by Supplier Group
BSP Top
- Support new British Airways BSP commission structure
- Allow entry of BSP Adjustments
- Report to audit/track missing BSP/Galileo tickets
Accounts Export (To third party application) Top
- Extended flexibility of accounting export. More parameters added to give greater 'User configurability'
- Facility to export accounts to 'Quickbooks'
- Facility to export payment details to Diners Club via EDI
- Multi currency export
Vouchers Top
- Selectively print Cruise Vouchers (time and date stamped)
- Selectively print Car Hire Vouchers (time and date stamped)
- Selectively print Transfer Vouchers (time and date stamped)
General Top
- Enhancements to non mouse directed input
- Hot Key Jump to ... (F4)
- Proper (F12)
- Refresh (F5)
- Increased diary events (now totalling over 50 automatic triggers that can be used) Show me a screen
- Emailing of Invoices (independent of Crystal reports) Show me a screen
- Site Control Maintenance now form based (in its own program) Show me a screen
- Enhancements to Viewdata (Multicom and TTSS) imports
- Enhancements to Galileo, Worldspan and Amadeus imports
- Animated Agency logo may now be used in Linkway Travel
- Pre-logon screen to choose database, used to switch to training database for instance Show me a screen
- Facility to selectively print Cruise Vouchers (time and date stamped)
- Facility to selectively print Car Hire (time and date stamped)
- Facility to selectively print Transfer (time and date stamped)
- Facility to record Destination contact details for a booking
- Facility to Mail-shot (Email/Post) via selective Mail-merge screen Show me a screen
- Ability to maintain Invoice and Itinerary textural descriptions
- Multi level Agent commission facility
- Facility to record general destination for a booking
- New online manual released Show me
- Support new British Airways BSP commission structure
- Allow entry of BSP Adjustments
- Report to audit/track missing Galileo tickets
- Extended flexibility of accounting export
- Facility to export payment details to Diners Club via EDI
- Facility to maintain Client bank details
- Fully integrated multi-currency ledger
- Integration of Document stock (Travellers cheques/Currency/etc) to Miscellaneous Booking
- Facility to calculate booking price and commission ex-VAT
- Facility to record brochure details per client
- Added cost centre for Commercial Bookings
- Facility for Client Profiling Data filtering for Company/Branch/Department
- Re-Import of GDS file
- Insurance by geographic area
- Introduction of Franchisee/Agent data filters
- General enhancements to booking credit to allow client refunds and supplier commission re-allocation
- Integrated 'Excel' spreadsheets and DOS batch files
- Facility to maintain supplier cancellation terms
- Introduction of Client based booking fee structure
- Fully integrated Accommodation stocks
- Fully Integrated Tour stocks
- Data filtering for Company/Branch/Department. Allows for multi company installation
- Data filtering for Franchisee/Agent. Restricted functionality for Franchisee/Agents.
- Switching of databases via Application login. Introduced the ability to change database at login time to point to a training database.
- Integrated 'Excel' spreadsheets and DOS batch files. Allow double click on .xls or .bat files
- Facility to maintain supplier cancellation terms. New Maintenance screen to allow cancellation terms by Supplier (or Tour) as an amount or percentage
- Introduction of Client based booking fee structure. Supports fixed fees or percentage of booking total
