Enhancements
Accounting
Pay Suppliers Enhancements
Softrip has made many changes to the Pay Suppliers screen within this release. We did our own internal testing of this screen and found many areas that were inconsistent with how the forms and grids all interacted, as well as many defects reported recently by a variety of customers. Softrip went through a large revamp of this screen to clean this process up and make sure all user interactions and automatic interactions are working as expected. We tested over 35 use cases of the various processes and searches within the screen to be sure that these processes are now working as expected.
Why it’s important:
Paying Suppliers is one of the main functions of the Softrip Accounting system. By improving the quality of this screen, it will help efficiencies and frustrations within the accounting departments.
Who it affects:
Anyone using Accounting Next → Pay Suppliers
Groups
Added Weekdays to Service Edit Form
The weekdays field has now been added to the Groups Service Edit Form within the costing screen. This will allow the users to enter in which weekdays the service is valid for within the given group. This is especially important for Optional services so that the tour operator is able to inform the passengers if they are able to choose which date to take this optional service.
Why it’s important:
Allows for giving the ability to choose which date an optional service can be selected during the booking process. If this is left blank, the passengers must take it on the “On Day” that it it set up. Otherwise, based on the days of the week it is valid for, the reservation system will give a dropdown for the user to select which day they want to take this service.
Who it affects:
Anyone using Groups Next
Export Rooming List to use Custom Rooming List
The Export Rooming List link in the Group Summary page of Next will now function a bit differently. This link has been going to an empty document/report. The changes made will now be the following:
If the operator has a Custom Rooming List built in the system
The link will render this rooming list as an Excel spreadsheet
If the operator does not have a Custom Rooming List built in the system
The link will not display for any users to avoid confusion
Why it’s important:
Making these changes will cause less confusion due to not linking to a bad report. This will also allow for the operator’s custom list to be exported so that they are giving the relevant information to the internal users and group leaders for their groups
Who it affects:
Anyone using Groups Next who has a Custom Rooming List
Reservations
Softrip Payments Country selection updates
The new Country dropdown selector that was introduced for Softrip Payments in 2024.13 has had some additional updates made to it. These changes are meant to make the UI easier to work with. The 2 changes being made to this are:
Countries will now be in alphabetical order by Name
The system will read the “Default Country” setting on the Brands setup to determine which country the dropdown will default to. If no Default Country is specified, it will default to United States.
Why it’s important:
These changes will make it much easier and faster for the end user to make a payment. They will not need to search through the list to find the country they are looking for. This setting change also is more consistent with the other screens in the system (Passenger Page, CRM pages) that already use this setting so that a default country can be set on the Brand level
Who it affects:
Anyone using Softrip Payments on Reservations Next
Added Brand and Currency filter to Product Search
Softrip has added new filters to the Product Search screen for Brand and Currency. This is to allow for filtering based on these 2 fields so that the user can search for only specific Products relevant to the selected Brand and Currency. The logic of how it will default and how it will display is outlined below:
If making a New Reservation
Filters will default based on the current brand/currency set on the session
If no session values are set, default to 1st option in each dropdown
If External User
Hide the Brand/Currency selection completely as they are logged in to a specific brand and we don’t want them to see the list of other brands
If modifying an Existing Reservation
Filters will default based on the cart/reservation’s values
Dropdowns will be disabled/read-only so the user cannot change them on an existing reservation
If External User
Hide the Brand/Currency selection completely as they are logged in to a specific brand and we don’t want them to see the list of other brands
Why it’s important:
This allows for operators with more than 1 brand to filter down the results based on the brand and/or currency that they are trying to make a sale in. This is especially important in the case where the Product is set to sell at different currencies to be sure that the search results include the pricing for the correct currency.
Who it affects:
Reservations Next users
NDC Fares in Reservations Next
Added support for shopping and booking NDC Fares for both Amadeus and Sabre within Reservations Next. This includes displaying an NDC logo within the air results and cart of a reservation, as well as a confirmation popup requiring the user to confirm that they are booking an NDC airfare option.
Why it’s important:
Keeps Softrip and their customers up to date on the competitive rates and nature of air
Who it affects:
Reservations Next with Air
Due to setup and implementation needs, please contact Softrip if interested in starting this project
Resolved
Accounting
Groups
Resolved issue of the Cost Summary within Groups showing the total cost of Htl/Cru items using the local currency instead of the quote/selling currency
Marketing
Segmentation by Contact will now filter on the Territory directly of agents rather than try a dynamic lookup to avoid confusion
Product
Fixed issue where the user could not add new departure dates without a Pricing Profile being present
Reservations
Resolved issues around the ability to book pre/post nights with Pending Air - Next Only
Resolved problem with percentage based insurance premiums not updating correctly when the total price of the reservation updates - Next Only