Supplier Promotions Overview
Supplier Promotions provide users with the ability to associate promotions, such as 5th night free and early booking bonus promotions, to their suppliers.
The supplier promotions are different than marketing promotions in that Supplier Promotions are directly associated to the Supplier itself. These promotions are typically automatically applied and displayed in the reservation application as reservations are being created.
In order to access supplier promotions, users must first access the supplier itself. Then, they can access the supplier promotions screen using the navigation option on the screen.
Supplier Promotions vs Marketing Promotions
There are two types of promotions that are offered through Softrip: Supplier Promotions and Marketing Promotions.
Supplier Promotions
Supplier Promotions are defined as promotions that are offered by and provided from your suppliers.
Example
Hotel X is offering a fifth night free
Hotel Y is offering 20% off if passengers book during the month of August
These promotions are usually communicated to each company from the supplier itself.
Marketing Promotions
Marketing Promotions are discount codes that are manually entered into reservations. These Marketing Promotions are reductions and will show as a completely separate line item in the cart in reservations.
These promotions are typically set-up by the company and are communicated to the public by the company.
Example
Company X uses Softrip as their application. Company X decides they want to give $200 off to the first 100 passengers that book on Black Friday. They set-up this promotion in the Marketing subsystem under Promotions and then advertise this promotion to the public.
Supplier Promotions
The following fields are available to users when
Enter at least 3 characters of the Supplier ID you wish to search for. Use the wildcard "*" to search for similar items. Ex: Entering "t*" will find all items that begin with the letter "t".
Service ID
Enter at least 3 characters of the Service ID you wish to search for. Use the wildcard "*" to search for similar items. Ex: Entering "t*" will find all items that begin with the letter "t".
Amenity Type
Select the Amenity Type you want to search for.
ALTPRODUCTS / Used with the Package Amenities. In the description field, put a comma-delimited list of ProductCodes that are similar to this Product, or that you want to show as alternate Products to the user. These will show on the PackagePages.
CABINLAYOUT / Cabin Layout
DOCITINERARY / Additional information for Travel Documents Itinerary
GUIDE-ALTTOURS / Names of Alternate Tours this Guide is on
GUIDE-CONTRACT / Yes or No if Contract has been signed by Guide per Year. Ex. Y '06, N '07
GUIDE-DATES / Guide dates
GUIDE-DONOTASSIGN / Do not assign this guide.
GUIDE-INTEREST / Areas of Interest or Specialty of Guide
GUIDE-LANGUAGES / List of Languages spoken by Guide
GUIDE-MISC / Misc. Info on Guide
GUIDE-PROFILE / Profile with detailed description and image of Guide
GUIDE-RATING / Rating of Guide from 1-5, or P for Pending if new
GUIDE-TYPE / Local Guide, Tour Manager, Cruise Director or Local Host
HTLMAP / Map of the Hotel Location
MAPS / Map Image that will show on the Highlights and Itineraries pages
PKGADDINFO / Shows on the Hotels & Rates page. Should be in HTML-format. Part 2 of any extra text that you want to have shown on this page.
PKGALTHOTELS / Shows on the Hotels & Rates page underneath the Hotels table. Should be in HTML formatted text. If a cruise item, can be the image/description of the cabins.
PKGBACKGROUND / Background Image used for the header of the Package Page
PKGCRUDESC / The same as the PKGALTHOTELS, but for cruises. This amenity can use images to show the cabins, etc. or you can just use the Description field as a free-form description to show on the bottom of the Hotels list.
PKGDESCRIPTION / Description that will be shown on the Highlights web page
PKGHIGHLIGHTS / Package Includes section on Highlights page(Put HTML content in here)
PKGIMG / Images that will be shown on the Package display screens. If you would like it to be flash, just enter the name of the flash file in the Image field.
PKGNOTINCLUDED / Shows on the Hotels & Rates page. Should be in HTML-format. Any extra text that you want to have shown on this page.
PKGRATESIMG / Images that will be shown on the Package Rates display screens.
POPUP / Popup description for the Reservation system
RELATEDPROD / List of Product Codes to be displayed as 'Also Available'
SHIPPROFILE / Link to the profile of a cruise ship
Service Type
Select the Service Type you want to search for
Exclude Custom
Check to exclude custom service amenity entries
Grid
Supplier ID
A unique code for Supplier (from the Suppliers table). Click on the Search icon to the right to search for the Supplier you would like to use.
Amenities Type
The type of amenity that this is.
ALTPRODUCTS / Used with the Package Amenities. In the description field, put a comma-delimited list of ProductCodes that are similar to this Product, or that you want to show as alternate Products to the user. These will show on the PackagePages.
CABINLAYOUT / Cabin Layout
DOCITINERARY / Additional information for Travel Documents Itinerary
GUIDE-ALTTOURS / Names of Alternate Tours this Guide is on
GUIDE-CONTRACT / Yes or No if Contract has been signed by Guide per Year. Ex. Y '06, N '07
GUIDE-DATES / Guide dates
GUIDE-DONOTASSIGN / Do not assign this guide.
GUIDE-INTEREST / Areas of Interest or Specialty of Guide
GUIDE-LANGUAGES / List of Languages spoken by Guide
GUIDE-MISC / Misc. Info on Guide
GUIDE-PROFILE / Profile with detailed description and image of Guide
GUIDE-RATING / Rating of Guide from 1-5, or P for Pending if new
GUIDE-TYPE / Local Guide, Tour Manager, Cruise Director or Local Host
HTLMAP / Map of the Hotel Location
MAPS / Map Image that will show on the Highlights and Itineraries pages
PKGADDINFO / Shows on the Hotels & Rates page. Should be in HTML-format. Part 2 of any extra text that you want to have shown on this page.
PKGALTHOTELS / Shows on the Hotels & Rates page underneath the Hotels table. Should be in HTML formatted text. If a cruise item, can be the image/description of the cabins.
PKGBACKGROUND / Background Image used for the header of the Package Page
PKGCRUDESC / The same as the PKGALTHOTELS, but for cruises. This amenity can use images to show the cabins, etc. or you can just use the Description field as a free-form description to show on the bottom of the Hotels list.
PKGDESCRIPTION / Description that will be shown on the Highlights web page
PKGHIGHLIGHTS / Package Includes section on Highlights page(Put HTML content in here)
PKGIMG / Images that will be shown on the Package display screens. If you would like it to be flash, just enter the name of the flash file in the Image field.
PKGNOTINCLUDED / Shows on the Hotels & Rates page. Should be in HTML-format. Any extra text that you want to have shown on this page.
PKGRATESIMG / Images that will be shown on the Package Rates display screens.
POPUP / Popup description for the Reservation system
RELATEDPROD / List of Product Codes to be displayed as 'Also Available'
SHIPPROFILE / Link to the profile of a cruise ship
Service ID
Enter or search for The Service ID that this amenity is associated with. By selecting "0", this Description, Title, or Image will apply to all ServiceID's under this SupplierID. This is used if you want to have the same Itinerary for each plan or if you want the same images for each ProductCode in a Tour, etc. Also, wildcards are supported here. Entering *-A would apply to all Services ending in -A.
Seq Number
The Sequence number, or order by which you want each Amenity Type to be loaded. The SupplierID, ServiceID, and AmenitiesType combination cannot have duplicate Seq numbers. (Ex: SuppID = "TURGRE", ServID = "0", AmenitiesType = "ITINERARY" - Must have Sequence numbers of 0,1,2,etc...)
Image
The website or path associated with the image to be displayed with this amenity. If this image is clickable and you want to show a larger image on click, place a semicolon between the two images with the smaller image being the first path. Ex: /travel/greece-small.gif; /travel/greece-big.gif
Title
A short description of this amenity. If this is a type of PKGHIGHLIGHTS, the title is what will be shown at the top of the Highlights web page. Include <b> tags if you would like it bolded.
Description
A longer description of this amenity. If this is an itinerary, this is where the Itin Desc. would go. For a PKGHIGHLIGHTS type, enter the HTML content of how you would like it to appear on the web page. To Auto-Generate a template for the PKG Highligthts, click the "Generate Highlights" button. This will generate the Highlights based on the ProductCode and you can edit it later.