Netsemantics has created an integrated software platform nsTravel™ ERP-CRM + nsHub™ + nsTIS™ for automating the back office, front office online reservations and CRM operations:
1. nsTravel backoffice
- Management of inventory (contracted – own products) and wholesalers channel management (XML in Sources consolidation)
- Charter Management and their connection to packages
- Package design and costing
• Accounts Receivable - Accounts Payable
- Price Catalogs
- Sales Invoicing and Cost Control
- Funds management (treasury, checks, bank accounts, credit cards)
- Booking management for
- Packages and multi participatory excursions
- Hotels
- Tickets (air, boat)
- Rental cars
- Transfers
- GDS Interfaces (Amadeus, Galileo, Sabre, Worldspan etc.) for
importing issued tickets
- BSP Reconciliation
- Document management – Microsoft Outlook Integration
- Financial Management
- General Ledger
- Cost Centers
- Fixed Assets
- Automated Issue of Checks
- Payment proposal
- Open items monitoring
- Debt collection
- Work in an integrated environment, where all users can work on the
same application and use one unified database which contains all the
necessary information for the daily operations.
- Single data entry, since data entered in the system (either static
data or pricing and availability) serves both the Back Office and the
Front Office Functions.
- Automatic pricing policy management, by mass updating sales pricelists
based on the purchase prices.
- Flexible design of packages and multi participatory excursions
- Flexible design of the departures of charter flights that are
connected to the travel packages.
- Automation of the communication with suppliers for vouchers, rooming
lists, confirmations etc
- Reduction of the manuscript work, since the Back Office system
contains pre-configured business flows, automate invoice and travel
documents preparation and electronic transmission to customers and data
entry to supplier’s platforms as well.
- Reduction of the points of failure due to human error, since the Back
Office system enables logical, functional and managerial controls that
minimize the possibility of improper data entry.
- Τhe automation of the accounting entries along with multiple report
controls, eliminate the possibility of mistakes from the users.
- Reduction of internal control time, since the information is readily
available to all relevant departments.
- The open items monitoring tool gives the ability to automatically
combine the receivements and payments with invoices using FIFO rules or
manually relating them.
- The MIS module gives the management team the ability of exporting
multi-level and multi dimensional information for all types of business
activity in order to take the right decisions at the right time.
2. nsHub XML consolidation and electronic distribution - XML API
- Consolidation and mapping of travel products (Air tickets, Hotels,
Cars, Excursions, Transfers, Cruises) of third party on line suppliers
& GDS (XML in)
- Integration and mapping of third-party products with your own products
- Disposal of company’s inventory in the Β2Β & Β2C channels,
according to the company’s commercial policy (XML Web services API)
- Automatic registration of bookings into suppliers platforms
- Automatic bidirectional communication with nsTravel back office for
booking download and management and commercial policy upload
- Creation of a distribution hub hosted in data center so as to ensure
the quality of service.
- The interconnection of the CRM processes with the Travel Portal
through XML web services API. So CRM becomes a valuable tool through
which the company ensures the live communication with the customer.
3. Platform for Online Reservations – Internet Booking Engine (nsTIS™)
The nsTIS™ subsystem is directly linked to the nsHub XML API for
incorporating the features of nsHub described above and consists of the
following:
- B2B platform:
- The booking engines subsystem for receiving bookings from Β2Β
customers for:
- Hotel,
- Transfer,
- Excursion,
- Rent a Car,
- Cruises,
- Packages,
- Air tickets etc.
- The B2B partners information subsystem, for the bookings they have
submitted, their status, their financial details and ability to cancel
them.
- Support of various payment types and integration with payment gateways
- B2C platform:
- Booking engines for the above products
- Integration with CMS for customizing the appearance of B2C travel
portal.
- Integration with Social media platforms
- Integration of the B2C site with nsTravel CRM subsystem for managing
the relationship with prospect and existing customers
- Support of various payment types and integration with payment gateways
- B2E (Business to Employee) platform:
- Booking engines for the above products accessible from the company’s
sales staff
4. nsTravel CRM
- Subscription to newsletters
- Document Template design
- Customer profiling and segmentation
- Design and run of marketing campaigns, with dynamic creation of lists
based on the data of Back office & CRM
- Workflow for communication with customers
- Management of Loyalty programs
- Management of service requests and complaints
- Dynamic questionnaires
- CRM & Google analytics integration. The ability to integrate data
from the Google analytics to the data of CRM&ERP helps the company
to evaluate the effectiveness of its online presence.
The automation of business processes that is achieved through the unified platform has as purpose:
- The reduction of the operational costs.
- The increase of sales.
- The automation of the daily work of the staff.
- The better information flow and coordination of the departments.
- The more effective information of the management team, for taking the right decisions at the right time.