New customer driven enhancements provide further significant tour operating benefits in latest version of Sell-It Suite.

Commenting on the version, Mark Bradbury, SVP of Global Sales stated, “Version 5 demonstrates RWA’s ongoing commitment to the product family and to providing tour operators, wholesalers and airlines with the capabilities necessary to sell flexibly, service efficiently and manage effectively.”

Version 5 contains the following new features and enhancements to existing functionality:

User Group and Product Related Discounts and Vouchers

The discount functionality in Version 4 has been significantly enhanced with new Discounts functionality in Version 5. The new version includes the ability to create

• Discount Rules
  
  
  
  • A discount amount - % or fixed
    
  • The channels/web site for which the discount is applicable
    
  • The discount period - booking and travel date ranges
    
  • The product types for which the discount applies
    
  • A specific origin or destination for which the discount is applicable
    
  • A Marketing Type for which the discount is applicable.
  
  
• Categories of users which define:
  
  
  • A group of users e.g. "Valued clients"
    
  • One or more discount rules applicable to that category
  
  
• Voucher codes and the group of users for which the voucher code is applicable

Cancellation and Amendment Automation

Sell-It's Booking Manager now automatically calculates the applicable cancellation or amendment charges due when a booking is changed. The calculation is based on the cancellation and amendment policies defined in the appropriate product contract set up in Inventory Manager. Policy calculations include per person and per night charges based on a percentage of the booking value or a fixed fee and include the ability to vary these based on the number of days after booking or before departure that the change is made.

Super White Labels

RWA has taken the concept of "white label" web sites a major step further with the introduction of a "super white label" capability in version 5. This enables travel companies to quickly produce a web site which has its own unique product offers and pricing, all built from within the one common inventory database. The first super white label site to be launched is Kulula Travel's Sunbreaks Holidays which makes available special offers packaging Kulula flights with Southern Sun properties under a special deal agreement.

Rate Cutovers

Hotel contracts may specify a different rate for a 3rd adult sharing a room with two other adults. Sell-It's Inventory Manager has also been enhanced to support the concept of a "rate cutover" as the party make-up changes providing support for these and other pricing models.

Multiple Child Age Bands and Pricing

Sell-It's Inventory and Bookings Managers now support contracts which have different prices and occupancy rules for younger and older children e.g. children and teenagers. The child age bands are defined at the contract level (with overrides on a room basis if required). Room occupancy rules can be defined using both child age bands. The Bookings Manager and Sell-It Online have also been enhanced to support the new pricing models.

Complex Commission Profiles

The agent commission capabilities in Sell-It have been enhanced to support complex commission profiles. These profiles contain information on the commission levels to be paid for defined categories of products. Standard categories e.g. "Transport", "Accommodation" and "Ground Products" are supplied with the system and can be used as defined or Sell-It users can also define their own additional categories. This enables commission rates to be established for quite specific sets of product inventory if desired. Commission levels for each category can vary by both booking and travel date range.

Balance Payments Online

Sell-It Online has been enhanced as part of RWA's ongoing customer self service initiative to enable direct customers and travel agents to make an online payment for the balance due (or any other amount) on a holiday. The holiday can have originally been booked online or via the call centre.

Multi-Language Support In Sell-It Online

Sell-It Online now fully supports multiple languages and a complete translation into Italian is ready for launch.

Additional Forms Of Payment

In addition to supporting all major debit and credit cards, Sell-It now allows agents to report settlement via other payment methods, for example EFT.

Automated Cost Adjustment For Supplier Reconciliation

When invoices come in from a supplier and are entered into the system, Sell-It's Finance Manager will automatically adjust the costs in the supplier purchase ledger and appropriate booking to match the invoice provided the variations are within specified tolerances.

Further Marketing and MIS Reports

We continue to add further marketing and management information reports into Sell-It. Examples added into Version 5 include: Top X reports which report on e.g. the top x agents by sales value over a period, top x agents by destination bookings, top x agents by passenger volumes; Accommodation Sales Analysis reports which reports on monthly sales by property; Supplier Sales Analysis which reports on monthly sales by supplier; Low Inventory and Stop Sell reports; Brochure Pricing report giving nightly rates by period for one or more specific properties.

Enhanced Web Services

RWA continues to extend the functionality of Sell-It XML Gateway which now supports the full amendment or cancellation of a booking using web services. Amendment and cancellation penalties are automatically applied in accordance with the policies set up in the appropriate product contracts.

Additional Supplier Links

Version 5 includes optional connectivity to a number of payment service providers including iVeri and Consorzio. We also have links through to Navitaire, Kulula and 1time flight systems.

Context Sensitive Online Help

Context sensitive online help menus with full implementation for our Inventory Manager.

Performance Enhancements

Version 5 includes further performance enhancements for inventory search and pricing and package building. We have also added performance tuning capabilities in our Sell-It XML Gateway.

About Sell-It Suite

Sell-It Suite is a family of solutions developed by RWA specifically for tour operators, wholesalers and airlines wishing to sell product offers combining product inventory from a variety of sources through a variety of online channels. It includes a complete reservation system (Sell-It Reservator), an Internet Booking Engine (Sell-It Online) and 3rd party product distribution capability (Sell-It XML Gateway). Sell-It Suite supports inventory from a variety of sources, dynamic packaging and pricing and sale through multiple channels.

Sell-It Reservator is a powerful, modern travel reservation and management system providing industry leading flexible inventory management with dynamic pricing and packaging capabilities. The product comprises of 4 applications: Inventory Manager, Bookings Manager, Finance Manager and System Manager.

Sell-It Online provides award winning online searching, browsing and booking functionality. Its robust, reliable online booking engine enables agencies or direct customers to book with confidence. Sell-It Online can be quickly incorporated into existing web sites and work in conjunction with existing reservation and content management systems.

Sell-It XML Gateway provides an XML and web services based capability for the sale, distribution and booking of products loaded or accessible via Sell-It Reservator. As described in this Press Release, the latest version of the product also provides a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) for providing new, flexible deployment options for Sell-It Suite customers.

For further information see: www.sell-it-suite.com

About RWA Ltd.
RWA Ltd. is one of the UK’s leading travel technology and solutions companies specialising in travel reservation and management systems. The Sell-It Suite family of solutions is a product of the combination of RWA’s many years of experience working with Tour Operators and the high level of technical expertise gained through work with the largest companies in both the Travel and Finance industry sectors.