Release note 16.2

Sales guidance and customised rankings

With B2B, distributors now have the option to create advanced filters to highlight certain products or categories of products in B2B search engine results.

The selection of products highlighted is decided via the combined addition of criteria and rankings on these products.

Distributors can now therefore guide their sales with a specific display (coloured in blue on the screenshot below) by highlighting certain products that match the travel agent’s search.

For example, you can highlight an exclusive offer with fantastic value for money for a given destination and ensure it appears within the first few search results, even if it has a higher base price than the other initial search results.

Improvements to the Koedia/H-Résa source

We’ve added features to fine-tune the integration of the Koedia/H-Résa source, including :

  • Improved destination autocompletion.
  • Improvements to the way board and pricing conditions are displayed on B2B and within Hotels and Dynamic Packages booking processes.
  • When a hotel is sold by just one supplier, their logo will appear on the list of results.
  • Added option to widen or narrow the accuracy of searches by specifying a distance from the city centre and filtering results with a slider (just like the price slider) on the results page.

Improvements to Fluo insurance comparisons

The Fluo widget can now be added to the booking confirmation page. The widget shows a comparison of the user’s coverage and the insurance on offer in a table.

By clicking on it, the user will be redirected to a dedicated Fluo interface for the distributor, allowing them to proceed to paying for the insurance once their booking has been completed. The insurance offered by Fluo has no relation to the insurance packages displayed on the quote page. The price is calculated using their own tariff grid.

B2B Optimisation

Improvements to the deliverability of emails when sending product sheets via the ‘Send by email’ button.

Added configuration to reduce the minimum and maximum amount of passengers (adults, children, babies) on Transport, Hotel, Flight + Hotel search forms.

Improvements to the back office

Optimised performance when displaying lists.

Optimised performance of fast searches.

Added field for searching for a distributor booking by customer invoice number.

Automatic sending of travel documents :

  • The ways of automatically sending travel documents are changing. You now have the option to enable status changes for bookings to ‘complete’ when updating or adding travel documents. As such, the process of sending travel documents is now 100% automatic.
  • You can also reserve approving the completeness of a booking until a manual intervention, which will trigger the documents being sent to the end customer.

Added payment system to Pledg

The Pledg system is an integrable B2B and B2C module, interfacing seamlessly with your PSP to advance funds for customers who usually vouch for the entire group. In B2B or B2C, just one payment enters your system and Pledg takes care of the payment recovery mechanism for all members of the group.

Optimization of internal production

Optimised pre-package cache update calculation methods and the addition of Open-Jaw flight caches. The latter makes it possible to increase the number of cache availabilities for pre-packaged products.

Added technical checks to entered promotions (the ‘duration’ field, in particular) in order to reduce data-entry errors and make this feature more reliable.

Improvements in the booking process

In the case of partially completed bookings (keepbookings), we’ve added a table to the business confirmation email with tariff information for various parts of the package, including those that aren’t booked yet and therefore don’t appear on the back-office booking.

Improved document generation features and PDF contracts.

Improvements
in transport proposals

You now have the option to improve your flight offers to customers, including Flights, Dynamic Packages and Pre-Packages, by enriching source flight results with flights with baggage included. From now on, the same flights will appear with and without baggage included on the list of results from the Amadeus source.

New partners

Parc Astérix, 35km north of Paris and just 15 minutes from Charles de Gaulle Airport, the site offers a mixture of 47 attractions and shows staged within 6 different worlds. Stay in the heart of the park in one of their hotels, La Cité Suspendue and Les Trois Hiboux.

Bey Tours is a tour operator specialising in organising seaside holidays, tourist and cultural tours and weekends away in Turkey. Bey Tours also charters lots of direct flights to Antalya.