Suppliers and buyers both benefit with access to curated content for travel documents and collateral production
Dallas, TX – October 22, 2019 – TourConnect, the travel trade partner management platform, and Didgigo, the Australian-based bespoke travel document provider, are pleased to announce an industry-leading digital content partnership. Read More
TourConnect’s new partnerships will eliminate manual data entry into tour operator booking systems
Dallas, TX – September 4, 2019 – TourConnect is pleased to announce integrations with Tourplan, Toogo, and Tour32. The integration between TourConnect and these booking systems means tour operator clients will no longer have to manually load annual rates for the hotels and tours they sell.
It is critically important to have the correct information on a rate contract for both the buyer and the supplier. Unfortunately, when information like pick-up times or locations change, or an error in pricing is sent an update needs to be sent. These updates are generally always important for a buyer to receive and TourConnect helps suppliers to quickly make the necessary updates and send the updated rate contracts to their buyers.
However, these updates can be disruptive to a buyers current process. It takes time for the update to be reviewed and the information modified in the necessary booking systems. While we made it extremely easy for suppliers to send updates we wanted to make it just as easy for buyers to quickly determine what changes have been made. Today we are releasing our Rate Comparison Tool. With this powerful new feature of Rate Management, users can now compare two TourConnect format rate contracts.
Empowering Contracting Managers
Mid-year rate corrections or a new annual rate agreement – it doesn’t matter. You can compare both to know what has changed since the last rate contract you received from that supplier. This powerful tool will help you to prioritize the effort necessary to get the correct information into your booking system.
Manage multiple locations? This is a Distribution Managers dream tool.
Many of our customers who operate hotels or tours in multiple destinations often have each location manage the changes in annual rates. It is then forwarded on to a corporate distribution manager to send to their buyers and agents. If this sounds like you, then you’re going to love this new tool. This new tool can now save a ton of time in reviewing changes from year to year and needing to amend and/or update rates mid-year. You’ll be able to focus on the changes, ensure they are accurate and quickly hit the send button with confidence.
We’ve seen a record number of rates exchanged using the TourConnect platform.
Buyers are quickly seeing the value of managing all of their rates they receive from their suppliers on TourConnect. Suppliers are equally seeing how easy it is to send out all of their rates with a single click to all of their buyers. What’s more impactful is that suppliers can quickly fix any errors or update important rate information without having to search through several rate documents making updates and determining who to send the updates to all over again.
We are constantly adding features and functionality to the TourConnect’s Rate Management and today is another yet another reason we’re seeing so much excitement from buyers and suppliers alike.
In case you missed it, we recently released In-App Messaging, and its been a great feature for our users to send messages to other TourConnect users they are connected with. However, there were a couple limitations – it was 1-to-1 messaging and it was limited to only other TourConnect users. We all know the value of communication and the benefits it can offer – but lets be honest, it is hard to always be on top of it and it isn’t always necessary for every message to be a custom message. Who has time to copy-and-paste too.
Today, we’re excited to release enhancements to our messaging tool. First, you can now select multiple connections to receive the same message without having to copy-and-paste. Simply choose the connections who should receive your message, hit send and we’ll take it from there and send them your message.
We know not all of your partners have TourConnect accounts (they should be though right? Send them an invite) and the limit this creates in having a single place to message all of your partners. For this reason, we’ve also added the ability to send the messages to email addresses. This all-in-one solution helps streamline your communications from a single platform and save you and your team time, hassle, and gives you peace of mind that your partners are getting the messages they should be.
Benefits of Using TourConnect Messaging
Our new messaging tool is available to all of our users today. If you are on our free accounts, you can message up to 20 partners at a time. Upgrade to our Connected Plan to select all the partners you need to.
TourConnect has a really diverse customer base. We have companies from well over 100+ countries – ranging from single owner/operator tours or small B&Bs, to ITOs, and large multi-national corporations. And one item that holds true across all is their need to continually be organized and efficient with their time. As we continue to grow the TourConnect platform, we’re focused on ways in which we can drive efficiency across our entire customer base. This is why we’ve added an Internal Notes feature to our Contract Management Tool.
Whether you are a supplier sending your rates, or a buyer using TourConnect to manage all of your static rate agreements, it is important to be able to record information for you and your team’s eyes only. These may be reasons why the commission rate is what it is or a note from a conversation during a trade event about this years rates.
These notes stay throughout the lifecycle of the contract and will always be available when it comes time to readdress the rates – during loading time or before the next round of rate updates. Its a great way to keep the right information in a logical and sharable place – for you and your entire team.
To learn more about our Rate Management tool and how it can help drive efficiency for you and your team register to attend one of our upcoming webinars.